This manuscript is a component of the 2011 Academic Emergency Medicine Consensus Conference entitled “Interventions to Assure Quality in the Crowded Emergency Department (ED)” held in Boston, MA.
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Emergency Medicine—Quality Indicators: the United Kingdom Perspective
Article first published online: 13 DEC 2011
DOI: 10.1111/j.1553-2712.2011.01223.x
© 2011 by the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine
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Academic Emergency Medicine
Special Issue: Proceedings of the 2011 AEM Consenus Conference: Interventions to Assure Quality in the Crowded Emergency Department Guest Editors: James R. Miner, MD Manish N. Shah, MD, MPH
Volume 18, Issue 12, pages 1239–1241, December 2011
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Heyworth, J. (2011), Emergency Medicine—Quality Indicators: the United Kingdom Perspective. Academic Emergency Medicine, 18: 1239–1241. doi: 10.1111/j.1553-2712.2011.01223.x
Funding for this conference was made possible (in part) by 1R13HS020139-01 from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ). The views expressed in written conference materials or publications and by speakers and moderators do not necessarily reflect the official policies of the Department of Health and Human Services, nor does mention of trade names, commercial practices, or organizations imply endorsement by the U.S. Government. This issue of Academic Emergency Medicine is funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
The authors have no potential conflicts of interest to disclose.
Supervising Editor: James Miner, MD.
Publication History
- Issue published online: 13 DEC 2011
- Article first published online: 13 DEC 2011
- Received August 15, 2011; accepted August 16, 2011.
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