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Original Articles

• Evaluation of the risk assessment matrix: a mental health triage tool (22 December, 2008)

  A S Patel, A Harrison, W Bruce-Jones
• Dose versus diagnosis: iatrogenic radiation exposure by multidetector computerised tomography in an academic emergency department with measurement of clinically actionable results and emergently treatable findings (22 December, 2008)

  J R Baskerville, J H Chang, M Viator, W Rutledge, R Miryala, K E Duval, T K Nishino
• Excessive use of force by police: a survey of academic emergency physicians (22 December, 2008)

  H R Hutson, D Anglin, P Rice, D N Kyriacou, M Guirguis, J Strote
• Protocol compliance and time management in blunt trauma resuscitation (22 December, 2008)

  W R Spanjersberg, E A Bergs, N Mushkudiani, M Klimek, I B Schipper
• The utility of routine laboratory testing in hypoglycaemic emergency department patients (22 December, 2008)

  R Sinert, M Su, M Secko, S Zehtabchi
• The Prediction of Risk In Syncope using ECG characteristics (PRISE) pilot study: can heart rate variability be used to predict risk in patients presenting to the emergency department with syncope? (22 December, 2008)

  M E Bonney, M J Reed, A J Gray
• Is propofol a safe and effective sedative for relocating hip prostheses? (22 December, 2008)

  N Mathieu, L Jones, A Harris, A Hudson, C McLauchlan, P Riou, G Lloyd
• Door to relocation time for dislocated hip prosthesis: multicentre comparison of emergency department procedural sedation versus theatre-based general anaesthesia (22 December, 2008)

  J Gagg, L Jones, G Shingler, N Bothma, H Simpkins, S Gill, J Benger, G Lloyd
• Paediatric distal radial fracture manipulation: multicentre analysis of process times (22 December, 2008)

  L Mitchell, E Archer, S Middleton, A Maclean, L Jones, J Benger, G Lloyd
• Can age-based estimates of weight be safely used when resuscitating children? (22 December, 2008)

  J M Sandell, S C Charman