Table of contents

Original articles

• Reliability and validity of an Italian four-level emergency triage system (28 June, 2010)

  Nicola Parenti, Roberta Manfredi, Maria Letizia Bacchi Reggiani, Diego Sangiorgi, Tiziano Lenzi
• Characteristics of medication overdose presentations to the ED: how do they differ from illicit drug overdose and self-harm cases? (28 June, 2010)

  Penny Buykx, Paul Dietze, Alison Ritter, Wendy Loxley
• Circadian and seasonal rhythms of acute upper gastrointestinal bleeding in Beijing (1 June, 2010)

  Tiekuan Du, Matthew R Lewin, Houli Wang, Xu Ji, Heather H Bohn, Tengda Xu, Lingjie Xu, Yanping Zhang, Yi Li
• Access block and overcrowding in emergency departments: an empirical analysis (28 June, 2010) Free

  Anthony Harris, Anurag Sharma
• Repeatability of the Manchester Triage System for children (1 June, 2010)

  M van Veen, V F M Teunen-van der Walle, E W Steyerberg, A H J van Meurs, M Ruige, T D Strout, J van der Lei, H A Moll
• Predictors of important neurological causes of dizziness among patients presenting to the emergency department (28 June, 2010)

  C S K Cheung, P S K Mak, K V Manley, J M Y Lam, A Y L Tsang, H M S Chan, T H Rainer, C A Graham
• Are routine repeat chest x-rays before leaving the trauma room useful? (1 April, 2010)

  M Lemmers, T P Saltzherr, L F M Beenen, K J Ponsen, J C Goslings
• Do emergency department attendances by homeless people increase in cold weather? (13 May, 2010)

  Alexander J Brown, Steve W Goodacre, Sue Cross
• Impact of a new daily rapid access medical clinic in a Scottish district general hospital (28 June, 2010)

  Ravi P Jamdar, D J Beckett, Karen Adamson, Casey Stewart
• Digital anaesthesia: one injection or two? (1 April, 2010)

  Beverley Cannon, Louisa Chan, Joanna S Rowlinson, Matthew Baker, Mike Clancy
• Do we really need 24-h observation for patients with minimal brain injury and small intracranial bleeding? The Bernese Trauma Unit Protocol (1 April, 2010)

  Benoit Schaller, Dimitrios Stergios Evangelopoulos, Christian Müller, Luca Martinolli, Marie Pierre Pouljadoff, Heinz Zimmermann, Aristomenis K Exadaktylos
• Is time to closure a factor in the occurrence of infection in traumatic wounds? A prospective cohort study in a Dutch level 1 trauma centre (28 June, 2010)

  Mark T M van den Baar, Job van der Palen, Marianne I Vroon, Paul Bertelink, Ron Hendrix