Table of contents

Original articles

• The ABC of handover: a qualitative study to develop a new tool for handover in the emergency department (3 January, 2012)

  Maisse Farhan, Ruth Brown, Maria Woloshynowych, Charles Vincent
• The ABC of handover: impact on shift handover in the emergency department (28 December, 2011)

  Maisse Farhan, Ruth Brown, Charles Vincent, Maria Woloshynowych
• Establishing an emergency department syndromic surveillance system to support the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games (25 February, 2012)

  Alex J Elliot, Helen E Hughes, Thomas C Hughes, Thomas E Locker, Tony Shannon, John Heyworth, Andy Wapling, Mike Catchpole, Sue Ibbotson, Brian McCloskey, Gillian E Smith
• Management of acute paracetamol (acetaminophen) toxicity: a standardised proforma improves risk assessment and overall risk stratification by emergency medicine doctors (7 February, 2012)

  David J McQuade, Srikanth Aknuri, Paul I Dargan, David M Wood
• Intervention to reduce C-reactive protein determination requests for acute infections at an emergency department (3 February, 2012) Free

  I S Santos, I M Benseñor, J B A Machado, L M G Fedeli, P A Lotufo
• C reactive protein, erythrocyte sedimentation rate, or both, in the diagnosis of atraumatic paediatric limb pain? (14 February, 2012)

  Sara Robinson, Paul Leonard
• How efficient can an emergency unit be? A perfect world model (14 February, 2012)

  Kesh Baboolal, Jeff D Griffiths, Vincent A Knight, Andrew V Nelson, Cheryl Voake, Janet E Williams
• Evaluating acute medical admissions through emergency departments in Hong Kong: can one adjust for case-mix variation? (2 March, 2012)

  T H Rainer, P Sollich, T Piotrowski, A C C Coolen, B Cheng, C A Graham
• Late presentations of minor head injury (20 January, 2012)

  Anna Barrow, John Ndikum, Tim Harris
• Emergency department management of undifferentiated abdominal pain with hyoscine butylbromide and paracetamol: a randomised control trial (3 February, 2012)

  Jennifer Remington-Hobbs, Gemma Petts, Tim Harris
• A retrospective analysis of cervical spine radiography in a specialist trauma unit for head injury (9 March, 2012)

  Alex Jan Baneke, Rachelle Shafei, Jonathan Costello