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Original Articles

• Randomised controlled trial of single, subacromial injection of methylprednisolone in patients with persistent, post-traumatic impingment of the shoulder (1 May, 2003)

  J J McInerney, J Dias, S Durham, A Evans
• National audit of emergency department child protection procedures (1 May, 2003)

  W King, C Reid
• Cervical spine injuries to children under 11: should we use radiography more selectively in their initial assessment? (1 May, 2003)

  P J E Smart, P J Hardy, D M G Buckley, J M Somers, N J Broderick, K E Halliday, L Williams
• “Why haven’t you taken any pain killers?” A patient focused study of the walking wounded in an urban emergency department (1 May, 2003)

  M F Nicol, D Ashton-Cleary
• Stress and coping in accident and emergency senior house officers (1 May, 2003)

  S McPherson, R Hale, P Richardson, A Obholzer
• Use of, and outputs from, an assault patient questionnaire within accident and emergency departments on Merseyside (1 May, 2003)

  C A Young, J P Douglass
• How to get on a SpR rotation in emergency medicine (and make the most of it) (1 May, 2003)

  G Lloyd, I O’Sullivan, N Rawlinson, C Mann, A Harris
• Descriptive epidemiology of adult critical care transfers from the emergency department (1 May, 2003)

  A Gray, S Gill, M Airey, R Williams
• Crush syndrome patients after the Marmara earthquake (1 May, 2003)

  O Demirkiran, Y Dikmen, T Utku, S Urkmez
• Fasciotomy in crush injury resulting from prolonged pressure in an earthquake in Turkey (1 May, 2003)

  H Duman, Y Kulahci, M Sengezer
• Barking up the wrong tree? A survey of dog bite wound management (1 May, 2003)

  M R Smith, A Walker, J Brenchley