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Original Articles

• Can mortality rates for patients who die within the emergency department, within 30 days of discharge from the emergency department, or within 30 days of admission from the emergency department be easily measured? (20 July, 2006)

  M Baker, M Clancy
• The association between domestic violence and self harm in emergency medicine patients (20 July, 2006)

  A Boyle, P Jones, S Lloyd
• Early stroke care in Italy—a steep way ahead: an observational study (20 July, 2006)

  G Citerio, D Galli, A Pesenti
• Review of a paediatric emergency department observation unit (20 July, 2006)

  I Levett, K Berry, I Wacogne
• Five years of poisons information on the internet: the UK experience of TOXBASE (20 July, 2006)

  D N Bateman, A M Good
• The significance of post-traumatic amnesia as a risk factor in the development of olfactory dysfunction following head injury (20 July, 2006)

  I J Swann, B Bauza-Rodriguez, R Currans, J Riley, V Shukla
• Agreement between arterial and central venous values for pH, bicarbonate, base excess, and lactate (20 July, 2006)

  P Middleton, A-M Kelly, J Brown, M Robertson
• How accurate are the references in Emergency Medical Journal?

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  U Y Raja, J G Cooper
• Correcting the anion gap for hypoalbuminaemia does not improve detection of hyperlactataemia (20 July, 2006)

  C H Dinh, R Ng, A Grandinetti, A Joffe, D C Chow
• Meta-analysis of plethysmography and rheography in the diagnosis of deep vein thrombosis (20 July, 2006)

  T Locker, S Goodacre, F Sampson, A Webster, A J Sutton
• Oxygen alert cards and controlled oxygen: preventing emergency admissions at risk of hypercapnic acidosis receiving high inspired oxygen concentrations in ambulances and A&E departments (20 July, 2006)

  B Gooptu, L Ward, S O Ansari, C D Eraut, D Law, A G Davison