Background and aims: How far is too far? Recent government policy and demographic growth have led to role changes within the professions in emergency care. Healthcare professionals have extended and ...

Introduction The optimal management strategy for patients with head injury admitted to a non-specialist hospital is uncertain. The aim of this study was to evaluate the outcomes of victims of head ...

Correspondence to Dr Lindy-Lee Folscher, Division of Emergency Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Parktown, Gauteng, South Africa, P.O. Box 1889, Heidelberg 1438, ...

Objectives A major cause for concern about increasing ED visits is that ED care is expensive. Recent research suggests that ED resource consumption is affected by patients’ health status, varies ...

Background Patient experience is positively associated with both clinical effectiveness and patient safety and should be a priority for emergency care providers. While both quantitative and ...

Defining research priorities in a specialty as broad as emergency medicine is a significant challenge. In order to fund and complete the most important research projects, it is imperative that we ...

Department of Emergency Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan Correspondence to: Dr Zui-Shen Yen Department of Emergency Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital, No.7, ...

2 Department of Emergency Medicine, Chang Gung University and Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Tao-Yuan, Taiwan 3 Department of Emergency Medicine, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan 4 Graduate ...

Background Haemorrhage is a major cause of mortality and morbidity following both military and civilian trauma. Haemostatic dressings may offer effective haemorrhage control as part of prehospital ...

Background The Stroke 90 Project was implemented to reduce delays to stroke thrombolysis and involved 7 hospitals and 2 ambulance services in the Avon, Gloucester, Wiltshire and Somerset regional ...

4 David A Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA Correspondence to Dr P D Patterson, Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, ...

2 Department of Medicine, Unit of Clinical Epidemiology, Karolinska Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden Correspondence to: Jean-Luc af Geijerstam Department of Medicine N4:01, Unit of Clinical Epidemiology, ...