3 Trauma Audit and Research Network, Health Sciences Research Group, Manchester Academic Health Sciences Centre, University of Manchester, Salford Royal Hospital, Salford, UK 4 Emergency Medicine ...

Correspondence to Dr Helen Riess, Empathy and Relational Science Program, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts 02114, USA; HRiess{at}Partners.Org While many believe some people are ...

Correspondence to Dr Ellen J Weber, Department of Emergency Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94131, USA; ellen.weber{at}ucsf.edu One of the hallmarks of an emergency ...

Background Medical imaging use has increased progressively, prompting discussions about its clinical impact. Interventions to reduce low-value imaging have had varying success, as they generally do ...

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Background Older patients’ attendances at EDs are rising. There are concerns that these individuals have prolonged stays, which have been shown to be associated with adverse clinical outcomes. We ...

Objectives Diverting patients away from the emergency department (ED) has been proposed as a solution for mitigating overcrowding. This systematic review examined the impact of interventions designed ...

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Background Increasing demand and crowding in emergency departments (EDs) remain persistent challenges for healthcare systems worldwide. A portion of these visits is avoidable, indicating they could ...

1 Department of Paediatric Medicine, Kandang Kerbau Women's and Children’s Hospital, Singapore 2 Department of Children’s Emergency, Kandang Kerbau Women's and Children’s Hospital, Singapore 3 ...

A shortcut review of the literature was conducted to determine whether manual pressure augmentation improves the outcome from cardiac arrest. A total of nine publications were screened by title and ...

Correspondence to Leszek Pstras, Nalecz Institute of Biocybernetics and Biomedical Engineering, Polish Academy of Sciences, Ks. Trojdena 4, Warsaw 02-109, Poland; lpstras{at}ibib.waw.pl If you wish to ...