Annals of Emergency Medicine
Volume 56, Issue 1 , Pages 27-33, July 2010

Placing Physician Orders at Triage: The Effect on Length of Stay

  • Stephan Russ, MD, MPH

      Affiliations

    • Department of Emergency Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN
    • Department of Veterans Affairs, National Quality Scholars Fellowship Program, Tennessee Valley Healthcare System, Nashville, TN
    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress for correspondence: Stephan Russ, MD, MPH, Department of Emergency Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, 703 Oxford House, Nashville, TN 37232-4700; 615-936-1160, fax 615-936-1316
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  • Ian Jones, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Emergency Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN
    • ,
  • Dominik Aronsky, MD, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Emergency Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN
    • Department of Biomedical Informatics, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN
    • ,
  • Robert S. Dittus, MD, MPH

      Affiliations

    • Department of Medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine and Center for Health Services Research, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN
    • Department of Veterans Affairs, National Quality Scholars Fellowship Program, Tennessee Valley Healthcare System, Nashville, TN
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  • Corey M. Slovis, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Emergency Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN

Received 30 October 2009; received in revised form 30 December 2009 and 28 January 2010; accepted 3 February 2010. published online 17 March 2010.

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 Please see page 28 for the Editor's Capsule Summary of this article.

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 Supervising editor: Donald M. Yealy, MD

 Author contributions: SR and RSD conceived and designed the study. SR performed the data analysis and statistics and drafted the initial article. IJ and DA created the data collection systems. IJ, DA, and CMS contributed substantially to data collection systems revision. IJ and CMS implemented the described intervention. SR 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. Dr. Russ was supported by the Department of Veterans Affairs Office of Academic Affiliations, with resources of the VA–Tennessee Valley Healthcare System, Nashville, TN.

 Publication date: Available online March 16, 2010.

 Reprints not available from the authors.

PII: S0196-0644(10)00119-8

doi:10.1016/j.annemergmed.2010.02.006

Annals of Emergency Medicine
Volume 56, Issue 1 , Pages 27-33, July 2010

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