Annals of Emergency Medicine
Volume 59, Issue 1 , Pages 35-41 , January 2012

Hospital Admission Decision for Patients With Community-Acquired Pneumonia: Variability Among Physicians in an Emergency Department

Presented as an abstract at the American Thoracic Society International Conference, May 2010, New Orleans, LA; and the Society of Academic Emergency Medicine Conference, June 2010, Phoenix, AZ.

  • Nathan C. Dean, MD

      Affiliations

    • Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Division at Intermountain Medical Center and the University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress for correspondence: Nathan C. Dean, MD
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  • Jason P. Jones, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Kaiser Permanente Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
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  • Dominik Aronsky, MD, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Vanderbilt Hospital Department of Biomedical Informatics and Emergency Medicine, Nashville, TN
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  • Samuel Brown, MD, MS

      Affiliations

    • Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Division at Intermountain Medical Center and the University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
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  • Caroline G. Vines, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Emergency Medicine at the University of Utah, Salt Lake CIty, UT
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  • Barbara E. Jones, MD

      Affiliations

    • Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Division at Intermountain Medical Center and the University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
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  • Todd Allen, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Emergency Medicine at the University of Utah, Salt Lake CIty, UT
    • Department of Emergency Medicine at LDS Hospital and Intermountain Medical Center, Salt Lake City, UT

Received 25 January 2011 ,Revised 11 July 2011 ,Accepted 25 July 2011.

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 Supervising editor: Gregory J. Moran, MD

 Author contributions: NCD was involved in all aspects of this study. JPJ performed the statistical analysis. DA conceived the original idea for this study and laid the groundwork for it and has reviewed the data, conclusions, and article extensively. SB and BEJ worked extensively to develop the ED pneumonia database. SB, CGV, BEJ, and TA revised the article. CGV and TA played important roles in interpreting the data and presented the work at the Society of Academic Emergency Medicine Conference. NCD 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 as per ICMJE conflict of interest guidelines (see www.icmje.org). This work was supported by a grant from the Deseret Foundation, Salt Lake City, UT. Dr. Brown received NIH career development grant 5K23GM094465.

 Publication date: Available online September 10, 2011.

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PII: S0196-0644(11)01404-1

doi: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2011.07.032

Annals of Emergency Medicine
Volume 59, Issue 1 , Pages 35-41 , January 2012

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