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Original articles

• The sad truth about the SADPERSONS Scale: an evaluation of its clinical utility in self-harm patients (29 July, 2013)

  Kate Saunders, Fiona Brand, Karen Lascelles, Keith Hawton
• Comparison of intubation modalities in a simulated cardiac arrest with uninterrupted chest compressions (12 July, 2013)

  Navin Tandon, Matthew McCarthy, Brett Forehand, Jestin N Carlson
• THERM: the Resuscitation Management score. A prognostic tool to identify critically ill patients in the emergency department (3 July, 2013)

  G N Cattermole, E C H Liow, C A Graham, T H Rainer
• A population based study on the night-time effect in trauma care (28 June, 2013)

  Stefano Di Bartolomeo, Massimiliano Marino, Chiara Ventura, Susanna Trombetti, Rossana De Palma
• Effect of elevated serum alcohol level on the outcome of severely injured patients (12 July, 2013)

  Max J Scheyerer, Joel Dütschler, Adrian Billeter, Stefan M Zimmermann, Kai Sprengel, Clement M L Werner, Hans-Peter Simmen, Guido A Wanner
• Sustained health-economic effects after reorganisation of a Swiss hospital emergency centre: a cost comparison study (12 July, 2013)

  Klaus Eichler, Sascha Hess, Corinne Chmiel, Karin Bögli, Patrick Sidler, Oliver Senn, Thomas Rosemann, Urs Brügger
• Emergency department patient knowledge and physician communication regarding CT scans (14 July, 2013)

  Michael D Zwank, Marissa Leow, Christopher P Anderson
• An evaluation of the referral process in the emergency department (19 July, 2013)

  Susan J Croft, Jane Barnes, Clare Ginnis, Robin Chatters, Suzanne Mason
• Randomised trial comparing the recording ability of a novel, electronic emergency documentation system with the AHA paper cardiac arrest record (29 July, 2013)

  Eliot Grigg, Andrew Palmer, Jeffrey Grigg, Peter Oppenheimer, Tim Wu, Axel Roesler, Bala Nair, Brian Ross
• Long-term pain prevalence and health-related quality of life outcomes for patients enrolled in a ketamine versus morphine for prehospital traumatic pain randomised controlled trial (13 July, 2013) Free

  Paul A Jennings, Peter Cameron, Stephen Bernard, Tony Walker, Damien Jolley, Mark Fitzgerald, Kevin Masci