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Original articles

• A multicentre observational study to evaluate a new tool to assess emergency physicians' non-technical skills (15 June, 2012)

  Lynsey Flowerdew, Arran Gaunt, Jessica Spedding, Ajay Bhargava, Ruth Brown, Charles Vincent, Maria Woloshynowych
• Medium term outcome in Bell's palsy in children (4 July, 2012)

  Roisin McNamara, Jennifer Doyle, Mary Mc Kay, Peter Keenan, Franz E Babl
• Using systematic change management to improve emergency patients' access to specialist care: the Big Squeeze (29 June, 2012)

  Heidi Rafman, Siang Ngin Lim, Swee Chye Quek, Malcolm Mahadevan, Chanelle Lim, Aymeric Lim
• Validity of a computerised five-level emergency triage system for patients with acute ischaemic stroke (26 June, 2012)

  Sheng-Feng Sung, Ying-Chieh Huang, Cheung-Ter Ong, Wei Chen
• Reducing inappropriate emergency department attendances—a review of ambulance service attendances at a regional teaching hospital in Scotland (16 July, 2012)

  Gareth Gordon Patton, Shobhan Thakore
• Patient visits to the emergency department at a Norwegian university hospital: variations in patient gender and age, timing of visits, and patient acuity (26 June, 2012)

  Lars Petter Bjørnsen, Oddvar Uleberg, Jostein Dale
• The face arm speech test: does it encourage rapid recognition of important stroke warning symptoms? (4 July, 2012)

  Thompson G Robinson, Ann Reid, Victoria Joanna Haunton, Andrew Wilson, A Ross Naylor
• Transvaginal ultrasound probe contamination by the human papillomavirus in the emergency department (3 July, 2012)

  Shuk Ting Christine Ma, A C Yeung, Paul Kay Sheung Chan, Colin A Graham
• The accuracy of existing prehospital triage tools for injured children in England—an analysis using trauma registry data (15 June, 2012)

  Ronny Cheung, Antonella Ardolino, Thomas Lawrence, Omar Bouamra, Fiona Lecky, Kathleen Berry, Mark D Lyttle, Ian K Maconochie
• Documentation of neurovascular status in supracondylar fractures and the development of an assessment proforma (3 July, 2012)

  Alistair Ivan William Mayne, Daniel C Perry, Gareth Stables, Satish Dhotare, Colin E Bruce
• Transfer of patients with ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysm from general hospitals to specialist vascular centres: results of a Delphi consensus study (3 July, 2012)

  Robert J Hinchliffe, Tamsin Ribbons, Pinar Ulug, Janet T Powell
• Humanisation in the emergency department of an Italian hospital: new features and patient satisfaction (3 July, 2012) Free

  Emanuela Lovato, Davide Minniti, Marika Giacometti, Roberto Sacco, Alberto Piolatto, Bruno Barberis, Riccardo Papalia, Fabrizio Bert, Roberta Siliquini
• Alcohol: signs of improvement. The 2nd national Emergency Department survey of alcohol identification and intervention activity (9 August, 2012)

  Robert Patton, Pat O'Hara