Annals of Emergency Medicine
Volume 54, Issue 6 , Pages 805-810.e7, December 2009

The Changing Profile of Patients Who Used Emergency Department Services in the United States: 1996 to 2005

  • K. Tom Xu, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Family and Community Medicine, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, Lubbock, TX
    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress for correspondence: K. Tom Xu, PhD, Department of Family and Community Medicine, School of Medicine, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, 3601 4th Street, MS 8143, Lubbock, TX 79430-8143; 806-743-6983, fax 806-743-3995
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  • Brian K. Nelson, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Emergency Medicine, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, Lubbock, TX
    • ,
  • Steven Berk, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Internal Medicine, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, Lubbock, TX

Received 29 October 2008; received in revised form 18 March 2009, 12 July 2009 and 21 July 2009; accepted 6 August 2009. published online 07 October 2009.

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 Funding and support: By Annals policy, all authors are required to disclose any and all commercial, financial, and other relationships in any way related to the subject of this article that might create any potential conflict of interest. The authors have stated that no such relationships exist. See the Manuscript Submission Agreement in this issue for examples of specific conflicts covered by this statement.

 Supervising editor: David L. Schriger, MD, MPH

 Author contributions: KTX and SB conceived the study. KTX and BKN performed data analyses. KTX, BKN, and SB contributed to the interpretation of the results and the writing of the article. KTX takes responsibility for the paper as a whole.

 Reprints not available from the authors.

 Publication date: Available online October 1, 2009.

PII: S0196-0644(09)01401-2

doi:10.1016/j.annemergmed.2009.08.004

Annals of Emergency Medicine
Volume 54, Issue 6 , Pages 805-810.e7, December 2009

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