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Injury Type, Injury Severity, and Repeat Occurrence of Alcohol-Related Trauma in Adolescents
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 1994-04)
Statistical Methodology: III. Receiver Operating Characteristic (ROC) Curves
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 1997-08)
Measures including sensitivity, specificity, and positive and negative predictive values have been traditionally used to assess a diagnostic test's ability to detect the presence or absence of disease. Receiver operating ...
Emergency Physician Treatment of Acute Stroke with Recombinant Tissue Plasminogen Activator: A Retrospective Analysis
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 1999-06)
Stroke teams are advocated for the rapid treatment of patients who have acute ischemic stroke (AIS) with recombinant tissue plasminogen activator (rt-PA). An alternate model uses existing ED resources with specialist ...
Research Fundamentals: I. Getting from Hypothesis to Manuscript: An Overview of the Skills Required for Success in Research
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 1998-09)
This is the first in a series of articles developed by members of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine (SAEM) Research Committee. The purpose of this series is to describe a stepwise approach to research, from the ...
Extracorporeal Resuscitation of Cardiac Arrest
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 1999-07)
Objective: Extracorporeal support of heart and lung function (venoarterial perfusion) during cardiac arrest (ECPR) has been advocated as a means of improving survival following cardiac arrest. The authors retrospectively ...
Supporting Emergency Medicine Research: Developing the Infrastructure
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 1998-02)
The long-term goals of developing research within the specialty of emergency medicine (EM) include the following: 1) to continue to improve the quality and quantity of EM research in order to ultimately improve emergency ...
Inter-rater agreement of paramedic rhythm labeling
(Elsevier, 1993-11)
Study hypothesis:Substantial inter-rater agreement is present in the labeling by paramedics of ventricular fibrillation and asystolic rhythms.Design:Prospective, cross-sectional study.Type of participants:One hundred five ...
163 pages, $59.95SJA Sclafani, Radiology of Trauma, JB Lippincott Co (1991).
(Elsevier, 1993-11)
Rural motor vehicle crash mortality: The role of crash severity and medical resources
(Elsevier, 1992-12)
We did a retrospective case control study to examine the relationship between the risk of dying for Michigan motor vehicle crash (MVC) drivers and the type of county (rural/nonrural) of crash occurrence, while adjusting ...
Safety assessment of high-dose narcotic analgesia for emergency department procedures
(Elsevier, 1993-09)
Study objective:To evaluate the safety of high-dose IV narcotics in patients requiring analgesia for painful emergency department procedures.Design:Prospective multicenter clinical trial.Setting:Five adult urban EDs.Methods ...