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Original articles

• Deriving a prediction rule for short stay admission in trauma patients admitted at a major trauma centre in Australia (13 February, 2013) Free

  Michael M Dinh, Kendall J Bein, Chris M Byrne, Belinda Gabbe, Rebecca Ivers
• Is air transport of stroke patients faster than ground transport? A prospective controlled observational study (6 February, 2013)

  Rasmus Hesselfeldt, Jesper Gyllenborg, Jacob Steinmetz, Hien Quoc Do, Julie Hejselbæk, Lars S Rasmussen
• Emergency focussed assessment with sonography in trauma (FAST) and haemodynamic stability (13 February, 2013)

  Zoë A Smith, Darryl Wood
• Midazolam for urethral catheterisation in female infants with suspected urinary tract infection: a case-control study (22 February, 2013)

  Itai Shavit, Liat Feraru, Dan Miron, Giora Weiser
• Modified TIMI risk score cannot be used to identify low-risk chest pain in the emergency department: a multicentre validation study (10 April, 2013)

  Stephen P J Macdonald, Yusuf Nagree, Daniel M Fatovich, Simon G A Brown
• The utility of copeptin in the emergency department as a predictor of adverse outcomes in non-ST-elevation acute coronary syndrome: the COPED-PAO study (31 January, 2013)

  Miquel Sánchez, Pere Llorens, Pablo Herrero, F Javier Martín-Sanchez, Pascual Piñera, Òscar Miró, on behalf of COPEP study investigators
• The prognostic performance of the predisposition, infection, response and organ failure (PIRO) classification in high-risk and low-risk emergency department sepsis populations: comparison with clinical judgement and sepsis category (14 February, 2013)

  Bas de Groot, Joost Lameijer, Ernie R J T de Deckere, Alice Vis
• Predictive factors of severe multilobar pneumonia and shock in patients with influenza (28 February, 2013)

  Susana Garcia Gutierrez, José Maria Quintana, Maretva Baricot, Amaia Bilbao, Alberto Capelastegui, Carlos Gustavo Cilla Eguiluz, Angela Domínguez, Jesús Castilla, Pere Godoy, Miguel Delgado-Rodríguez, Núria Soldevila, Jenaro Astray, José María Mayoral, Vicente Martín, Fernando González-Candelas, Juan Carlos Galán, Sonia Tamames, Ady Angélica Castro-Acosta, Olatz Garín, Tomás Pumarola, the CIBERESP Cases and Controls in Pandemic Influenza Working Group, Spain
• Atrial fibrillation in acute pulmonary embolism: prognostic considerations (24 January, 2013)

  Sérgio Nuno Craveiro Barra, Luís Vilardouro Paiva, Rui Providência, Andreia Fernandes, António Leitão Marques
• Assessing clinical reasoning using a script concordance test with electrocardiogram in an emergency medicine clerkship rotation (28 March, 2013)

  Caroline Boulouffe, Bruno Doucet, Xavier Muschart, Bernard Charlin, Dominique Vanpee
• Pattern and characteristics of ecstasy and related drug (ERD) presentations at two hospital emergency departments, Melbourne, Australia, 2008–2010 (12 February, 2013)

  Danielle Horyniak, Louisa Degenhardt, De Villiers Smit, Venita Munir, Jennifer Johnston, Craig Fry, Paul Dietze
• Accuracy of transcutaneous carbon dioxide monitoring in hypotensive patients (12 February, 2013)

  Jung-Youn Kim, Young-Hoon Yoon, Sung-Woo Lee, Sung-Hyuk Choi, Young-Duck Cho, Sang-Min Park