Annals of Emergency Medicine
Volume 56, Issue 2 , Pages 142-149 , August 2010

Placing Emergency Care on the Global Agenda

  • Renee Hsia, MD, MSc

      Affiliations

    • Department of Emergency Medicine, Global Health Sciences, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress for correspondence: Renee Hsia, MD, MSc, Department of Emergency Medicine, University of California at San Francisco, San Francisco General Hospital, 1001 Potrero Ave, 1E21, San Francisco, CA 94110; 415-572-6779, fax 415-206-5818
    • ,
  • Junaid Razzak, MD, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Medicine, Section on Emergency Medicine, Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan
    • ,
  • Alexander C. Tsai, MD, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
    • ,
  • Jon Mark Hirshon, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD

Received 19 November 2008 ,Revised 26 November 2009 ,Accepted 11 January 2010.

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 Publication date: Available online February 6, 2010.

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doi: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2010.01.013

Annals of Emergency Medicine
Volume 56, Issue 2 , Pages 142-149 , August 2010

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