American Heart Journal
Volume 152, Issue 4 , Pages 648-660 , October 2006

The impact of emergency department structure and care processes in delivering care for non–ST-segment elevation acute coronary syndromes

  • Rajendra H. Mehta, MD, MS

      Affiliations

    • Duke Clinical Research Institute, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC
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  • L. Kristin Newby, MD, MHS

      Affiliations

    • Duke Clinical Research Institute, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorrespondence: L. Kristin Newby, MD, MHS, PO Box 17969, Durham, NC 27715-7969.
    • ,
  • Yogin Patel, MD, MBA

      Affiliations

    • Duke Clinical Research Institute, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC
    • ,
  • James W. Hoekstra, MD

      Affiliations

    • Wake Forest University Health Sciences, Winston-Salem, NC
    • ,
  • Chadwick D. Miller, MD

      Affiliations

    • Wake Forest University Health Sciences, Winston-Salem, NC
    • ,
  • Anita Y. Chen, MS

      Affiliations

    • Duke Clinical Research Institute, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC
    • ,
  • Barbara L. Lytle, MS

      Affiliations

    • Duke Clinical Research Institute, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC
    • ,
  • Deborah B. Diercks, MD

      Affiliations

    • University of California Davis Medical Center, Sacramento, CA
    • ,
  • Richard L. Summers, MD

      Affiliations

    • University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, MS
    • ,
  • Gerard X. Brogan, MD

      Affiliations

    • North Shore LIJ Health System, Plainview, NY
    • ,
  • W. Frank Peacock, MD

      Affiliations

    • Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH
    • ,
  • Charles V. Pollack Jr, MD, MA

      Affiliations

    • University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Pennsylvania Hospital, Philadelphia, PA
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  • Matthew T. Roe, MD, MHS

      Affiliations

    • Duke Clinical Research Institute, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC
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  • Eric D. Peterson, MD, MPH

      Affiliations

    • Duke Clinical Research Institute, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC
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  • E. Magnus Ohman, MD

      Affiliations

    • University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, NC
    • ,
  • W. Brian Gibler, MD

      Affiliations

    • University of Cincinnati School of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH
    • ,
  • for the CRUSADE Investigators

Received 20 December 2005 ,Accepted 10 April 2006.

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 CRUSADE is funded by the Schering-Plough Corporation, Kenilworth, NJ. Bristol-Myers Squibb/Sanofi-Aventis Pharmaceuticals Partnership, New York, NY and Paris, France, provides additional funding support. Millennium Pharmaceuticals, Inc, Cambridge, MA also provided funding for this work.

PII: S0002-8703(06)00344-9

doi: 10.1016/j.ahj.2006.04.015

American Heart Journal
Volume 152, Issue 4 , Pages 648-660 , October 2006

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