Observed Behaviors of Subjects During Informed Consent for an Emergency Department Study

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 Supervising editors: Debra E. Houry, MD, MPH; Michael L. Callaham, MD

 Dr. Houry and Dr. Callaham were the supervising editors on this article. Dr. Hollander did not participate in the editorial review or decision to publish this article.

 Author contributions: JB was the principal investigator of the substudy. JB, RMS, FSS, EMD, and JEH were responsible for study design. JB, CFC, and JEH collected data. JB, CFC, RMS, FSS, EMD, and JEH analyzed and interpreted the data. JB, CFC, RMS, FSS, and EMD critically reviewed the article. JB supervised the first draft of the article. CFC and FSS wrote the article. FSS was overall statistician for the project. JEH was the overall study principal investigator, prepared the final article, and takes overall responsibility for the data. JEH takes responsibility for the paper as a whole.

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 Publication date: Available online November 20, 2009.

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PII: S0196-0644(09)01561-3

doi: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2009.09.023

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