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Original articles

• Simulating the use of re-prioritisation as a wait-reduction strategy in an emergency department (10 November, 2010)

  Jane Coughlan, Julie Eatock, Nayna Patel
• Deliberate self-harm patients in the emergency department: factors associated with repeated self-harm among 1524 patients (12 November, 2010)

  Katarina Bilén, Carin Ottosson, Maaret Castrén, Sari Ponzer, Carina Ursing, Pentti Ranta, Karin Ekdahl, Hans Pettersson
• Validation of the Taiwan triage and acuity scale: a new computerised five-level triage system (12 November, 2010)

  Chip-Jin Ng, Zui-Shen Yen, Jeffrey Che-Hung Tsai, Li Chin Chen, Shou Ju Lin, Yiing Yiing Sang, Jih-Chang Chen, TTAS national working group
• Associations of the Emergency Severity Index triage categories with patients' vital signs at triage: a prospective observational study (15 November, 2010)

  Ineke van der Wulp, Hebe A A Rullmann, Luke P H Leenen, Henk F van Stel
• Procedural sedation and analgesia in a large UK Emergency Department: factors associated with complications (25 November, 2010)

  Keith G Jacques, Alistair Dewar, Alasdair Gray, Dean Kerslake, Alexis Leal, Fiona Lees
• Initial salivary α-amylase activity predicts malignant ventricular arrhythmias and short-term prognosis after ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (25 February, 2011) Free

  Ying-Sheng Shen, Chia-Meng Chan, Wei-Lung Chen, Jiann-Hwa Chen, Hsin-Yu Chang, Hsin Chu
• Disease severity prediction for nursing home-acquired pneumonia in the emergency department (11 January, 2011)

  S Y Man, C A Graham, S S W Chan, P S K Mak, A H Y Yu, C S K Cheung, P S Y Cheung, G Lui, N Lee, M Chan, M Ip, T H Rainer
• Allocation decisions and patient preferences in emergency medicine (10 January, 2011)

  Glenn Arendts, Kirsten Howard, John M Rose
• Mephedrone toxicity in a Scottish emergency department (23 December, 2010)

  Luke Regan, Mark Mitchelson, Catriona Macdonald