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Original articles

• Decreased facial expression variability in patients with serious cardiopulmonary disease in the emergency care setting (14 July, 2014) Free

  Jeffrey A Kline, Dawn Neumann, Melissa A Haug, David J Kammer, Virginia A Krabill
• How do emergency physicians make discharge decisions? (17 September, 2013)

  Lisa A Calder, Trevor Arnason, Christian Vaillancourt, Jeffrey J Perry, Ian G Stiell, Alan J Forster
• Not all suffering is pain: sources of patients’ suffering in the emergency department call for improvements in communication from practitioners (23 December, 2013)

  Richard Body, Ergul Kaide, Sarah Kendal, Bernard Foex
• Characterising emergency department high-frequency users in a rural hospital (18 December, 2013)

  Thomas L Hardie, Carolee Polek, Erlinda Wheeler, Karen McCamant, Melinda Dixson, Robert Gailey, Karen Lafrak
• Development of the Rapid Assessment, Prioritisation and Referral Tool (RAPaRT) for multidisciplinary teams in emergency care settings (13 January, 2014)

  Steven M McPhail, Angela Vivanti, Kate Robinson
• CORKSCREW 2013 CORK study of children's realistic estimation of weight (19 February, 2014)

  Darko Skrobo, Gemma Kelleher
• Prehospital use of furosemide for the treatment of heart failure (4 April, 2014)

  Andy Pan, Ian G Stiell, Richard Dionne, Justin Maloney
• Classifying emergency 30-day readmissions in England using routine hospital data 2004–2010: what is the scope for reduction? (25 March, 2014)

  Ian Blunt, Martin Bardsley, Amy Grove, Aileen Clarke
• Identification of the optimum vagal manoeuvre technique for maximising vagal tone (5 June, 2014)

  Gavin Smith, Alicia Broek, David McD Taylor, Amee Morgans, Peter Cameron
• Admission via the emergency department in relation to mortality of adults hospitalised with community-acquired pneumonia: an analysis of the British Thoracic Society national community-acquired pneumonia audit (30 July, 2014)

  Chamira Rodrigo, Tricia M Mckeever, Mark Woodhead, Sally Welham, Wei Shen Lim