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Original Articles

• Predicting patient arrivals to an accident and emergency department (23 March, 2009)

  S W M Au-Yeung, U Harder, E J McCoy, W J Knottenbelt
• Resuscitation tables: a useful tool in calculating pre-burns unit fluid requirements (23 March, 2009)

  A J Lindford, P Lim, B Klass, S Mackey, B S Dheansa, P M Gilbert
• Can the Ottawa knee rule be applied to children? A systematic review and meta-analysis of observational studies (23 March, 2009)

  D Vijayasankar, A A Boyle, P Atkinson
• Prediction of mortality in adult emergency department patients with sepsis (23 March, 2009)

  C Vorwerk, B Loryman, T J Coats, J A Stephenson, L D Gray, G Reddy, L Florence, N Butler
• Patients from care homes who attend the emergency department: could they be managed differently (23 March, 2009)

  L Carter, J Skinner, S Robinson
• Characteristics of frequent attenders in an emergency department: analysis of 1-year attendance data (23 March, 2009)

  L Moore, A Deehan, P Seed, R Jones
• Evaluation of a method for converting venous values of acid-base and oxygenation status to arterial values (23 March, 2009)

  M Toftegaard, S E Rees, S Andreassen
• Diagnosis of pyogenic liver abscess by abdominal ultrasonography in the emergency department (23 March, 2009)

  A C-M Lin, D Y Yeh, Y-H Hsu, C-C Wu, H Chang, T-N Jang, C-H Huang
• Ultrasound identification of landmarks preceding lumbar puncture: a pilot study (23 March, 2009)

  R M Ferre, T W Sweeney, T D Strout
• Feasibility of a structured 3-minute walk test as a clinical decision tool for patients presenting to the emergency department with acute dyspnoea (23 March, 2009)

  A M Pan, I G Stiell, C M Clement, J Acheson, S D Aaron
• Blunt abdominal trauma in children: how predictive is ALT for liver injury? (23 March, 2009)

  C A Bevan, C S Palmer, J R Sutcliffe, P Rao, S Gibikote, J Crameri