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Original articles

• Prevalence, causes and consequences of compassion satisfaction and compassion fatigue in emergency care: a mixed-methods study of UK NHS Consultants (23 September, 2014) Free

  Sunil Dasan, Poonam Gohil, Victoria Cornelius, Cath Taylor
• HEART score and clinical gestalt have similar diagnostic accuracy for diagnosing ACS in an unselected population of patients with chest pain presenting in the ED (12 September, 2014)

  Anniek Visser, Albert Wolthuis, Rob Breedveld, Ewoud ter Avest
• Three-month outcome of patients with suspected acute coronary syndrome using point-of-care cardiac troponin-T testing compared with laboratory-based cardiac troponin-T testing: a randomised trial (26 September, 2014)

  Stephen Edward Asha, Andrew Cooke, Elizabeth Walter, James Weaver
• Admission glycaemia and its association with acute coronary syndrome in Emergency Department patients with chest pain (24 October, 2014)

  Logan S Gardner, Sallyanne Nguyen-Pham, Jaimi H Greenslade, William Parsonage, Michael D'Emden, Martin Than, Sally Aldous, Anthony Brown, Louise Cullen
• Glasgow Coma Scale is unreliable for the prediction of severe head injury in elderly trauma patients (3 October, 2014)

  A Kehoe, S Rennie, J E Smith
• Benztropine for the relief of acute non-traumatic neck pain (wry neck): a randomised trial (20 November, 2014)

  Stephen Edward Asha, Andrew Kerr, Keryn Jones, Ann McAlpine
• Guidelines for chest drain insertion may not prevent damage to abdominal viscera (21 November, 2014)

  J Bowness, P M Kilgour, S Whiten, I Parkin, J Mooney, P Driscoll
• Rapid and equivalent systemic bioavailability of the antidotes HI-6 and dicobalt edetate via the intraosseous and intravenous routes (20 November, 2014)

  Simon L Hill, Simon H L Thomas, Paul A Flecknell, Aurelie A Thomas, Chris M Morris, David Henderson, Michael Dunn, Peter G Blain
• Spectrum of patients intentionally poisoned with an emulsified concentrate pendimethalin herbicide (14 November, 2014)

  Jeongmi Moon, Byeongjo Chun
• The Mersey Burns App: evolving a model of validation (4 November, 2014)

  Jamie Barnes, Annie Duffy, Nathan Hamnett, Jane McPhail, Chris Seaton, Kayvan Shokrollahi, M Ian James, Paul McArthur, Rowan Pritchard Jones