American Heart Journal
Volume 147, Issue 1 , Pages 35-41 , January 2004

Patients with chest pain calling 9-1-1 or self-transporting to reach definitive care: which mode is quicker?

  • Caroline B Hutchings, MStat

      Affiliations

    • Intermountain Injury Control Research Center, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
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  • N.Clay Mann, PhD, MS

      Affiliations

    • Intermountain Injury Control Research Center, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
    • Department of Emergency Medicine, Oregon Health Sciences University, Portland, Ore, USA
    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests: N. Clay Mann, PhD, MS, Intermountain Injury Control Research Center, 615 Arapeen Drive, Suite 202, Salt Lake City, Utah 84108-1284, USA.
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  • Mohamud Daya, MD, MS

      Affiliations

    • Department of Emergency Medicine, Oregon Health Sciences University, Portland, Ore, USA
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  • Jon Jui, MD, MPH

      Affiliations

    • Department of Emergency Medicine, Oregon Health Sciences University, Portland, Ore, USA
    • ,
  • Robert Goldberg, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Cardiology, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Mass, USA
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  • Lawton Cooper, MD, MPH

      Affiliations

    • National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, Washington, DC, USA
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  • David C Goff Jr, MD, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Public Health Sciences and Internal Medicine, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC, USA
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  • Carol Cornell, PhD

      Affiliations

    • School of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Ala, USA
    • ,
  • Rapid Early Action for Coronary Treatment (REACT) Study

Received 5 February 2003 ,Accepted 18 June 2003.

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☆ Supported by cooperative agreements U01-HL-53141, U01-HL-53412, U01-HL-53149, U01-HL-53155, U01-HL-53211, and U01-HL-53135 from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, Bethesda, Md.

☆☆ The authors are solely responsible for the content of the article, and the opinions do not necessarily represent the views of any listed funding source.

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doi: 10.1016/S0002-8703(03)00510-6

American Heart Journal
Volume 147, Issue 1 , Pages 35-41 , January 2004

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