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Original articles

• Lowering levels of bed occupancy is associated with decreased inhospital mortality and improved performance on the 4-hour target in a UK District General Hospital (17 September, 2015)

  D G Boden, A Agarwal, T Hussain, S J Martin, N Radford, M S Riyat, K So, Y Su, A Turvey, C I Whale
• A longitudinal study of well-being, confidence and competence in junior doctors and the impact of emergency medicine placements (3 September, 2015)

  Suzanne Mason, Colin O'Keeffe, Angela Carter, Chris Stride
• Beyond triage: the diagnostic accuracy of emergency department nursing staff risk assessment in patients with suspected acute coronary syndromes (11 September, 2015)

  Edward Watts Carlton, Ahmed Khattab, Kim Greaves
• Does the level of socioeconomic deprivation at the location of cardiac arrest in an English region influence the likelihood of receiving bystander-initiated cardiopulmonary resuscitation? (25 June, 2015)

  Lyle Moncur, Neil Ainsborough, Rajiv Ghose, Simon Peter Kendal, Marcus Salvatori, John Wright
• The development and evaluation of an evidence-based guideline programme to improve care in a paediatric emergency department (6 July, 2015)

  Ayobami T Akenroye, Anne M Stack
• Ultrasonography for the prediction of urological surgical intervention in patients with renal colic (15 July, 2015)

  Mark Taylor, Michael Y Woo, Paul Pageau, Matthew D F McInnes, James Watterson, Jesse Thompson, Jeffrey J Perry
• An external validation study of a clinical prediction rule for medical patients with suspected bacteraemia (5 August, 2015)

  Luke Eliot Hodgson, Nicholas Dragolea, Richard Venn, Borislav D Dimitrov, Lui G Forni
• Delays to initial reduction attempt are associated with higher failure rates in anterior shoulder dislocation: a retrospective analysis of factors affecting reduction failure (25 June, 2015)

  Avinash Kanji, Paul Atkinson, Jacqueline Fraser, David Lewis, Susan Benjamin
• Expectations and perceptions of care among victims of sexual assault who first seek care from emergency, primary care and gynaecological doctors (19 October, 2015)

  Céline Denis, Marie Seyller, Patrick Chariot
• Characteristics associated with sexual assaults at mass gatherings (27 August, 2015)

  Kari Sampsel, Justin Godbout, Tara Leach, Monica Taljaard, Lisa Calder