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 ...

Triage is a process that is critical to the effective management of modern emergency departments. Triage systems aim, not only to ensure clinical justice for the patient, but also to provide an ...

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 ...

Introduction Emergency department (ED) crowding is recognised as a major public health problem. While there is agreement that ED crowding harms patients, there is less agreement about the best way to ...

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 ...

Objective To synthesise the existing literature on the roles that emergency medical services (EMS) play in unplanned, urgent and emergency care for older people with dementia (OPWD), to define these ...

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, ...

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, ...