Table of contents

Original articles

• The association between prehospital care and in-hospital treatment decisions in acute stroke: a cohort study (7 October, 2013)

  James P Sheppard, Ruth M Mellor, Sheila Greenfield, Jonathan Mant, Tom Quinn, David Sandler, Don Sims, Satinder Singh, Matthew Ward, Richard J McManus
• Reducing delay to stroke thrombolysis—lessons learnt from the Stroke 90 Project (24 September, 2013)

  Jason Kendall, Dipankar Dutta, Elsa Brown
• Initial validation of the International Crowding Measure in Emergency Departments (ICMED) to measure emergency department crowding (5 September, 2013) Free

  Adrian Boyle, James Coleman, Yasmin Sultan, Vijayasankar Dhakshinamoorthy, Jacqueline O'Keeffe, Pramin Raut, Kathleen Beniuk
• The ‘who are all these people?’ study (11 October, 2013)

  Peadar Gilligan, Danny Joseph, Matthew Bartlett, Aoife Morris, Ajay Mahajan, Karen McHugh, Fiona Hillary, Patrick O'Kelly
• Emergency Care Handover (ECHO study) across care boundaries: the need for joint decision making and consideration of psychosocial history (11 September, 2013)

  Mark A Sujan, Peter Chessum, Michelle Rudd, Laurence Fitton, Matthew Inada-Kim, Peter Spurgeon, Matthew W Cooke
• Routine urinalysis in patients with a blunt abdominal trauma mechanism is not valuable to detect urogenital injury (16 September, 2013)

  Dominique C Olthof, Pieter Joosse, Cornelis H van der Vlies, Theo M de Reijke, J Carel Goslings
• Analysis of risk factors for death after blunt traumatic rupture of the thoracic aorta (4 September, 2013)

  Daniel Franzen, Michele Genoni
• Real time shift reporting by emergency physicians predicts overall ED performance (10 September, 2013)

  Nadia Husain, Kendall J Bein, Timothy C Green, Anne-Sophie Veillard, Michael M Dinh
• Is the ATLS classification of hypovolaemic shock appreciated in daily trauma care? An online-survey among 383 ATLS course directors and instructors (26 September, 2013)

  Manuel Mutschler, Marzellus Hoffmann, Christoph Wölfl, Matthias Münzberg, Inger Schipper, Thomas Paffrath, Bertil Bouillon, Marc Maegele
• Diagnosing paediatric myocarditis: what really matters (26 September, 2013)

  Shu-Ling Chong, Dianne Bautista, Angelina Su-Yin Ang
• Duplication of radiology imaging studies in the emergency department: what is the cost? (4 October, 2013)

  Achyut B Kamat, Stephanie Midgley, Katherine Kimbrell
• No gender-related bias in acute musculoskeletal pain management in the emergency department (11 October, 2013)

  Ofir Uri, Shlomo Elias, Eyal Behrbalk, Pinchas Halpern
• What is important to patients in wound management (4 October, 2013)

  Helen Keeton, Robert Crouch, Kate Lowe
• Epidemiology, management and outcome of paracetamol poisoning in an inner city emergency department (7 October, 2013)

  R Carroll, J Benger, K Bramley, S Williams, L Griffin, J Potokar, D Gunnell