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.
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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.
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