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Original articles

• Reduced overtriage and undertriage with a new triage system in an urban accident and emergency department in Botswana: a cohort study (13 February, 2013) Free

  Paul C Mullan, Susan B Torrey, Amit Chandra, Ngaire Caruso, Andrew Kestler
• Predictive factors for longer length of stay in an emergency department: a prospective multicentre study evaluating the impact of age, patient's clinical acuity and complexity, and care pathways (28 February, 2013)

  Enrique Casalino, Mathias Wargon, Anne Peroziello, Christophe Choquet, Christophe Leroy, Sebastien Beaune, Laurent Pereira, Julien Bernard, Jean-Claude Buzzi
• Performance of emergency physicians in point-of-care echocardiography following limited training (21 February, 2013)

  Aida Bustam, Muhaimin Noor Azhar, Ramesh Singh Veriah, Kulenthran Arumugam, Alexander Loch
• Changes to the cardiac biomarkers of non-elite athletes completing the 2009 London Marathon (19 March, 2013)

  Polly Baker, Sarah Louise Davies, Joanne Larkin, Daniel Moult, Sally Benton, Andrew Roberts, Timothy Harris
• Deriving the East Riding Elbow Rule (ER²): a maximally sensitive decision tool for elbow injury

  (8 February, 2013)

  David Arundel, Paul Williams, Will Townend
• The utility of Advanced Trauma Life Support (ATLS) clinical shock grading in assessment of trauma (19 March, 2013)

  Luke D Lawton, Sue Roncal, Elizabeth Leonard, Amanda Stack, Michael M Dinh, Christopher M Byrne, Jeffrey Petchell
• The impact of alcohol intoxication in patients admitted due to assault at an Australian major trauma centre: a trauma registry study from 1999 to 2009 (16 February, 2013)

  Michael M Dinh, Kendall J Bein, Susan Roncal, Alexandra L C Martiniuk, Soufiane Boufous
• Comparison of CPR outcome predictors between rhythmic abdominal compression and continuous chest compression CPR techniques (7 March, 2013)

  Ryan M Kammeyer, Michael S Pargett, Ann E Rundell
• The impact of social media on a major international emergency medicine conference (19 February, 2013)

  Andrew Neill, John J Cronin, Domhnall Brannigan, Ronan O'Sullivan, Mike Cadogan
• A specialist, second-tier response to out-of-hospital cardiac arrest: setting up TOPCAT2 (30 January, 2013)

  Scott Clarke, Richard M Lyon, Steven Short, Colin Crookston, Gareth R Clegg
• Describing and predicting frequent callers to an ambulance service: analysis of 1 year call data (14 February, 2013)

  Jason Scott, Annette Patricia Strickland, Karen Warner, Pamela Dawson
• Critical incident reporting in emergency medicine: results of the prehospital reports (24 January, 2013)

  Christian Hohenstein, Dorothea Hempel, Kerstin Schultheis, Oliver Lotter, Thomas Fleischmann