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The presence of companions during emergency department evaluation and its impact on perceptions of clinician–patient communication
1 Center for Behavioral Cardiovascular Health, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, USA 2 Department of Emergency Medicine, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, USA Correspondence to ...
BMJ4d
The ethical dilemma of emergency department patients with low-risk chest pain
Correspondence to Dr Nella W Hendley, Department of Emergency Medicine, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC 27157, USA; chendley{at}wakehealth.edu Millions of patients present to US EDs ...
BMJ5d
Improving the delivery of analgesia to children in pain
Objectives—To improve the time taken for children arriving to the accident and emergency (A&E) department in pain to receive analgesia. Delivery within 30 minutes of triage was taken as an achievable ...
BMJ4d
Head home: a prospective cohort study of a nurse-led paediatric head injury clinical decision tool at a district general hospital
Objectives To assess if a nurse-led application of a paediatric head injury clinical decision tool would be safe compared with current practice. Methods All paediatric (<17 years) patients with head ...
BMJ4d
Use of emergency observation and assessment wards: a systematic literature review
Emergency Medicine Research Group, Centre for Primary Health Care Studies, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK Correspondence to: Dr M Cooke, Emergency Medicine Research Group, Centre for Primary ...
BMJ5d
Positive predictive value of stroke identification by ambulance clinicians in North East England: a service evaluation
Introduction/background Accurate prehospital identification of patients who had an acute stroke enables rapid conveyance to specialist units for time-dependent ...
BMJ3d
A randomised controlled trial to determine the effectiveness of double Tubigrip in grade 1 and 2 (mild to moderate) ankle sprains
Objective—To compare functional outcome in patients with acute grade 1 or 2 (mild to moderate) lateral ankle sprains randomised to treatment with or without a double tubigrip bandage (DTG).
BMJ5d
The emergency medicine taskforce: an interim report
Correspondence to Professor Geoffrey Hughes, Emergency Department, Royal Adelaide Hospital, North Terrace, Adelaide, SA 5000, Australia; cchdhb{at}yahoo.com Speak it loudly and speak it clearly: the ...
BMJ4d
Dexmedetomidine in the emergency department: assessing safety and effectiveness in difficult-to-sedate acute behavioural disturbance
1 Discipline of Clinical Pharmacology, University of Newcastle, Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia 2 Department of Clinical Toxicology and Pharmacology, Calvary Mater Newcastle, Waratah, New South ...
BMJ6d
Level of training and experience in physicians performing interhospital transfers of adult patients in the internal medicine department
Aim: To establish the level of training doctors who participate in interhospital transfers in Denmark. Methods: A questionnaire was sent to every hospital department in Denmark with acute internal ...
BMJ4d
"See and Treat": spreading like wildfire? A qualitative study into factors affecting its introduction and spread
Objectives: The aim of this paper was to explore key factors that influenced the spread of "See and Treat" in a range of accident and emergency (A&E) departments. Methods: The study adopted a ...
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The Strategic Health Authorities’ Emergency Services Review
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