Annals of Emergency Medicine
Volume 33, Issue 5 , Pages 500-509 , May 1999

Prospective, Randomized Trial of Template-assisted Versus Undirected Written Recording of Physician Records in the Emergency Department

Presented at the Texas College of Emergency Physicians Annual Meeting, Galveston, TX, April 1998, and the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL, May 1998.

Received 13 July 1998 ,Revised 7 January 1999 ,Accepted 18 January 1999.

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Annals of Emergency Medicine
Volume 33, Issue 5 , Pages 500-509 , May 1999

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