aEmergency Department, Morristown Memorial Hospital, 100 Madison Avenue, Morristown, NJ 07960, USA
bDepartment of Surgery, University of Maryland Medical School, 419 West Redwood Street, Suite 280, Baltimore, MD 21201-1734, USA
cAtlantic Quality Institute, Atlantic Health System, 325 Columbia Turnpike, Florham Park, NJ 07932, USA
Correspondence to Donald W. Alves, MD, 6E Slatehearth Court, Owings Mills, MD 21117, USA.
Tel: +1 410 581 8725; fax: +1 410 581 8725;
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These results were presented at the SAEM Mid-Atlantic Regional Conference, Charlotte, North Carolina, USA, March 2001, and at the Atlantic Health System Research Day, Morristown, NJ, June 2001.
Reprint requests to John R. Allegra, MD, PhD, Emergency Department, Box 8, Morristown Memorial Hospital, 100 Madison Avenue, Morristown, NJ 07962, USA.
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