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Emergency Medicine Journal 2007;24:115-117; doi:10.1136/emj.2006.038018
© 2007 BMJ Publishing Group Ltd and the College of Emergency Medicine.

SOCRATES

SOCRATES episode II (synopsis of cochrane reviews applicable to emergency services episode II): the return of the series II

P Gilligan1, J Lee2, A Khan3, P Jennings4, J Cooper5, D Hegarty6, G Lumsden5, D Godden4, A Pountney4, B Wilson4, M Shepherd7, L Allonby-Neve4, C Mehigan4, E Kidney4, A Broderick1, S Carr1, S Wilson8, J O’Sullivan9

1 Beaumont Hospital, Dublin, Ireland
2 York Hospital, York, UK
3 Bradford Royal Infirmary, Bradford, UK
4 The Yorkshire Rotation, Yorkshire, UK
5 St James’s University Hospital, Leeds, UK
6 Ballymun, Dublin, Ireland
7 Pinderfield Hospital, Wakefield, UK
8 Bristol, UK(
9 Mater Hospital, Dublin, Ireland

Correspondence to:
Correspondence to:
P Gilligan
Beaumont Hospital, Beaumont Road, Dublin D9, Ireland; peadargilligan@beaumont.ie

Accepted 2 May 2006

The first 150 words of the full text of this article appear below.


"Sir William Osler (1849–1919) said,
In science credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to the man to whom the idea first occurs"

The desire to provide the highest possible level of care to all our patients is one of the primary motivations of emergency physicians. The scope of our practice is such that we need to be aware of the developments in most other specialties. The Cochrane Database continues to provide the world with rigorous analysis of research and thus gives us the opportunity to use this information in the best interests of our patients.

In this synopsis Of Cochrane Reviews applicable to emergency services (SOCRATES), we will look at the reviews that we found in our assessment of the output of the Cochrane Heart Group.

METHODS

The method used to find and summarise the reviews is as described previously. We found eight reviews from the Cochrane . . . [Full text of this article]


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