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. 2025 Feb;32(2):165-168.
doi: 10.1111/acem.15010. Epub 2024 Sep 2.

Number needed to call in emergency care research: Postenrollment follow-up data from a multicenter prospective syncope study

Wachira Wongtanasarasin  1   2 , Daniel K Nishijima  2 , Nancy Wood  3 , John DeAngelis  3 , Alan Storrow  4 , Jonathan Schimmel  5 , Nataly Beltre  6 , Dana Sacco  6 , Marc A Probst  6
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Number needed to call in emergency care research: Postenrollment follow-up data from a multicenter prospective syncope study

Wachira Wongtanasarasin et al. Acad Emerg Med. 2025 Feb.
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Conflict of interest statement

MP is currently supported by an R01 grant from the NIH/NHLBI (R01HL149680) and received a one‐time research donation from Roche Diagnostics in 2023. The other authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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Kaplan–Meier cumulative incidence of completed survey responses. The numbers of patients at risk after zero, three, six, 12, and 14 survey attempts are shown below the cumulative curve.
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