Impact of the Four-Hour Rule in Western Australian hospitals: Trend analysis of a large record linkage study 2002-2013

• Hanh Ngo,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Emergency Medicine, University of Western Australia, Nedlands, Perth, WA, Australia

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• Roberto Forero ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: r.forero@unsw.edu.au

  Affiliations Simpson Centre for Health Services Research, UNSW Australia, SWS Clinical School, Liverpool, Sydney, NSW, Australia, Ingham Institute for Applied Research. Liverpool Hospital, Liverpool, Sydney, NSW, Australia

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• David Mountain,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Emergency Medicine, University of Western Australia, Nedlands, Perth, WA, Australia, Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, Nedlands, Perth, WA, Australia, Australasian College for Emergency Medicine, West Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia

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• Daniel Fatovich,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Australasian College for Emergency Medicine, West Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia, Royal Perth Hospital, Perth, WA, Australia, Centre for Clinical Research in Emergency, University of Western Australia, Nedlands, Perth, WA, Australia

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• Wing Nicola Man,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Simpson Centre for Health Services Research, UNSW Australia, SWS Clinical School, Liverpool, Sydney, NSW, Australia, Ingham Institute for Applied Research. Liverpool Hospital, Liverpool, Sydney, NSW, Australia

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• Peter Sprivulis,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Emergency Medicine, University of Western Australia, Nedlands, Perth, WA, Australia, Australasian College for Emergency Medicine, West Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia

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• Mohammed Mohsin,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Psychiatry Research and Teaching Unit, SWSLHD, NSW Health, Liverpool, Sydney, NSW, Australia, School of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, UNSW, Kensington, Sydney, NSW, Australia

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• Sam Toloo,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Public Health and Social Work, Queensland University of Technology, Kelvin Grove, Brisbane, QLD, Australia

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• Antonio Celenza,

  Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Emergency Medicine, University of Western Australia, Nedlands, Perth, WA, Australia, Australasian College for Emergency Medicine, West Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia

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• Gerard Fitzgerald,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Australasian College for Emergency Medicine, West Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia, School of Public Health and Social Work, Queensland University of Technology, Kelvin Grove, Brisbane, QLD, Australia

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• Sally McCarthy,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Australasian College for Emergency Medicine, West Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia, Emergency Care Institute, NSW Agency for Clinical Innovation, Chatswood, Sydney, NSW, Australia, Prince of Wales Clinical School, UNSW, Randwick, Sydney, NSW Australia

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• Ken Hillman,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Simpson Centre for Health Services Research, UNSW Australia, SWS Clinical School, Liverpool, Sydney, NSW, Australia, Ingham Institute for Applied Research. Liverpool Hospital, Liverpool, Sydney, NSW, Australia

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• on behalf of the Four-Hour Rule Partnership Grant

  ¶Membership of the Four Hour Rule Partnership Grant list is available in S1 Acknowledgments.

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