Annals of Emergency Medicine
Volume 55, Issue 5 , Pages 464-472 , May 2010

External Validation of the San Francisco Syncope Rule in the Canadian Setting

  • Venkatesh Thiruganasambandamoorthy, MBBS, MSc

      Affiliations

    • Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress for correspondence: Venkatesh Thiruganasambandamoorthy, MBBS, MSc, Ottawa Health Research Institute, Clinical Epidemiology Unit, The Ottawa Hospital, Civic Campus, 1053 Carling Ave, 6th Floor, Rm F655, Ottawa, Ontario K1Y 4E9, Canada; 613-798-5555 ext. 17023, fax 613-761-5351
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  • Erik P. Hess, MD, MSc

      Affiliations

    • Department of Emergency Medicine, Division of Emergency Medicine Research, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, MN
    • ,
  • Abdullah Alreesi, MD, MSc

      Affiliations

    • Department of Emergency Medicine, Sultan Qaboos University Hospital, Muscat, Oman
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  • Jeffrey J. Perry, MD, MSc

      Affiliations

    • Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
    • Department of Epidemiology and Community Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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  • George A. Wells, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Epidemiology and Community Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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  • Ian G. Stiell, MD, MSc

      Affiliations

    • Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
    • Department of Epidemiology and Community Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Received 16 July 2009 ,Revised 24 September 2009 ,Accepted 1 October 2009.

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 Supervising editor: Allan B. Wolfson, MD

 Author contributions: VT conceived the idea for the study, applied for funding, and wrote the article. VT, GAW, and IGS analyzed the data. EPH, AA, and IGS contributed to the acquisition and interpretation of the data. EPH, AA, and JJP were involved in drafting the article. EPH, AA, JJP, GAW, and IGS revised the article for important content. JJP, GAW, and IGS contributed to the design of the study. IGS supervised the conduct of the study. VT takes responsibility for the paper as a whole.

 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. See the Manuscript Submission Agreement in this issue for examples of specific conflicts covered by this statement. This study was funded by a grant from the Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Ottawa. The authors declare no potential conflicts of interest.

 Publication date: Available online November 27, 2009.

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 Please see page 465 for the Editor's Capsule Summary of this article.

PII: S0196-0644(09)01619-9

doi: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2009.10.001

Annals of Emergency Medicine
Volume 55, Issue 5 , Pages 464-472 , May 2010

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