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☆Data set: The Nationwide Emergency Department Sample used for analysis is publicly available and was previously de-identified by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.
☆☆Financial Support: ALS is supported by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholar Program.
★Disclosures/conflicts of interest: No authors have conflicts of interest to report.
★★Prior Presentation: A poster for this study was presented at the American College of Emergency Physicians Scientific Assembly in Denver Colorado October 2012.