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Original articles

• Frequent users of US emergency departments: characteristics and opportunities for intervention (28 January, 2014) Free

  Deborah T Vinton, Roberta Capp, Sean P Rooks, Jean T Abbott, Adit A Ginde
• Comparison of chest compressions in the standing position beside a bed at knee level and the kneeling position: a non-randomised, single-blind, cross-over trial (16 April, 2013)

  Je Hyeok Oh, Chan Woong Kim, Sung Eun Kim, Sang Jin Lee, Dong Hoon Lee
• Can a media campaign change health service use in a population with stroke symptoms? Examination of the first Irish stroke awareness campaign (26 July, 2013)

  Lisa Mellon, Anne Hickey, Frank Doyle, Eamon Dolan, David Williams
• Too tall for the tape: the weight of schoolchildren who do not fit the Broselow tape (13 April, 2013)

  G N Cattermole, P Y M Leung, C A Graham, T H Rainer
• Using a mobile app and mobile workforce to validate data about emergency public health resources (10 May, 2013)

  Anna Marie Chang, Alison C Leung, Olivia Saynisch, Heather Griffis, Shawndra Hill, John C Hershey, Lance B Becker, David A Asch, Ariel Seidman, Raina Martha Merchant
• Shorter time until return of spontaneous circulation is the only independent factor for a good neurological outcome in patients with postcardiac arrest syndrome (2 May, 2013)

  Tomohide Komatsu, Kosaku Kinoshita, Atsushi Sakurai, Takashi Moriya, Junko Yamaguchi, Atsunori Sugita, Rikimaru Kogawa, Katsuhisa Tanjoh
• Career choices for emergency medicine: national surveys of graduates of 1993–2009 from all UK medical schools (10 April, 2013)

  Elena Svirko, Trevor Lambert, Lois Brand, Michael J Goldacre
• Evaluating the construct of triage acuity against a set of reference vignettes developed via modified Delphi method (24 April, 2013)

  Michèle Twomey, Lee A Wallis, Jonathan E Myers
• Patient expectations of minor injury care: a cross-sectional survey (10 April, 2013)

  Jack Whiteley, Steve Goodacre
• High rates of head injury among homeless and low-income housed men: a retrospective cohort study (27 April, 2013)

  Tomislav Svoboda, Jason T Ramsay
• Systemic antibiotics after incision and drainage of simple abscesses: a meta-analysis (18 May, 2013)

  Adam J Singer, Henry C Thode
• The value of the difference between ED and prehospital vital signs in predicting outcome in trauma (24 April, 2013)

  Stevan R Bruijns, Henry R Guly, Omar Bouamra, Fiona Lecky, Lee A Wallis
• Characteristics and outcomes of patients administered blood in the prehospital environment by a road based trauma response team (5 May, 2013)

  Daniel Bodnar, Stephen Rashford, Catherine Hurn, Jamie Quinn, Lachlan Parker, Katherine Isoardi, Sue Williams