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Best evidence topic reports

• Towards evidence based emergency medicine: best BETs from the Manchester Royal Infirmary (1 July, 2003)

  K Mackway-Jones
• Accuracy of negative dipstick urine analysis in ruling out urinary tract infection in adults (1 July, 2003)

  Nick Ohly, Stewart Teece
• Venous blood gas in adult patients with diabetic ketoacidosis (1 July, 2003)

  Ziauddin Hassan, Devasena M Subramonyam, Shobhan Thakore
• Antithrombotic treatment of below knee deep venous thrombosis (1 July, 2003)

  Kerstin Hogg, Andrew Ashton
• Buccal nitrates in left ventricular failure (1 July, 2003)

  Dhurga Gnanasegaram, Jon Argall
• Oral methionine compared with intravenous n-acetyl cysteine for paracetamol overdose (1 July, 2003)

  Walid Alsalim, Mohamed Fadel
• Clinical probability scoring and pulmonary embolism (1 July, 2003)

  Ged Brown, Kerstin Hogg
• Accuracy of combining clinical probability score and simpliRED d-dimer for diagnosis of pulmonary embolism

  (1 July, 2003)

  Russell Boyd, Kerstin Hogg
• IL D-dimer test in the diagnosis of pulmonary embolism

  (1 July, 2003)

  Kerstin Hogg, Russell Boyd
• Outpatient investigation of pulmonary embolism (1 July, 2003)

  Kerstin Hogg, Debbie Dawson
• Outpatient treatment of pulmonary embolism (1 July, 2003)

  Kerstin Hogg, Debbie Dawson
• Accumulator BET: a traumatic pleuritic chest pain (1 July, 2003)

  K Hogg, G Brown, K Mackway-Jones