Annals of Emergency Medicine
Volume 56, Issue 2 , Pages 166-171 , August 2010

Attrition From Emergency Medicine Clinical Practice in the United States

Presented at the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine annual meeting, May 2009, New Orleans, LA.

  • Adit A. Ginde, MD, MPH

      Affiliations

    • Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Colorado Denver School of Medicine, Aurora, CO
    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress for correspondence: Adit A. Ginde, MD, MPH, Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Colorado Denver School of Medicine, 12401 E 17th Ave, B-215, Aurora, CO 80045; 720-848-6777, fax 720-848-7374
    • ,
  • Ashley F. Sullivan, MS, MPH

      Affiliations

    • Department of Emergency Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
    • ,
  • Carlos A. Camargo Jr., MD, DrPH

      Affiliations

    • Department of Emergency Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA

Received 3 September 2009 ,Revised 15 October 2009 ,Accepted 4 November 2009.

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 Supervising editor: Donald M. Yealy, MD

 Author contributions: AAG, AFS, and CAC conceived and designed the study. AAG provided statistical advice, acquired the data, and performed the analysis. All authors contributed to data interpretation, and AAG drafted the article. All authors contributed substantially to article revision and approved the final version. AAG 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. 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.

 Publication date: Available online December 24, 2009.

 Reprints not available from the authors.

 Please see page 167 for the Editor's Capsule Summary of this article.

PII: S0196-0644(09)01709-0

doi: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2009.11.002

Annals of Emergency Medicine
Volume 56, Issue 2 , Pages 166-171 , August 2010

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