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Original articles

• Syncope in the emergency department of a large northern Italian hospital: incidence, efficacy of a short-stay observation ward and validation of the OESIL risk score (1 June, 2010)

  Filippo Numeroso, Gianluigi Mossini, Eleonora Spaggiari, Gianfranco Cervellin
• Outcome and cost of childhood brain injury following assault by young people (26 July, 2010)

  Claire T Lundy, Claire Woodthorpe, Tammy J Hedderly, Chris Chandler, Tunji Lasoye, David McCormick
• The additional use of end-tidal alveolar dead space fraction following D-dimer test to improve diagnostic accuracy for pulmonary embolism in the emergency department (26 August, 2010)

  Young Hoon Yoon, Sung Woo Lee, Dong Min Jung, Sung Woo Moon, Jan Kurt Horn, Yun-Sik Hong
• Ischaemia modified albumin cannot be used for rapid exclusion of acute coronary syndrome (13 May, 2010)

  Richard Ming-Hui Lin, Daniel M Fatovich, Jonathan M Grasko, Samuel D Vasikaran
• Organisational influences on the activity of chest pain units during the ESCAPE trial: a case study (1 June, 2010)

  Michael Macintosh, Steve Goodacre, Angela Carter
• Utility of a bedside acoustic cardiographic model to predict elevated left ventricular filling pressure (1 June, 2010)

  Sean P Collins, Michael C Kontos, Andrew D Michaels, Michel Zuber, Peter Kipfer, Christine Attenhofer Jost, Marcus Roos, Paul Jamshidi, Paul Erne, Christopher J Lindsell
• The role of health and non-health-related factors in repeat emergency department visits in an elderly urban population (26 June, 2010)

  Corina Naughton, Jonathan Drennan, Pearl Treacy, Gerard Fealy, Margaret Kilkenny, Felicity Johnson, Michelle Butler
• Effect of 24-h alcohol licensing on emergency departments: the South Yorkshire experience (14 May, 2010)

  Lucy A Jones, Steve Goodacre