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Original articles

• Comparison of the International Crowding Measure in Emergency Departments (ICMED) and the National Emergency Department Overcrowding Score (NEDOCS) to measure emergency department crowding: pilot study (6 January, 2016) Free

  Adrian Boyle, Gary Abel, Pramin Raut, Richard Austin, Vijayasankar Dhakshinamoorthy, Ravi Ayyamuthu, Iona Murdoch, Joel Burton
• Parental perceptions of avoidability of their child's emergency department visit (6 August, 2015)

  Astha Singhal, Daniel J Caplan, Michael P Jones, Raymond A Kuthy, Elizabeth T Momany, Christopher T Buresh, Peter C Damiano
• The incremental value of stress testing in patients with acute chest pain beyond serial cardiac troponin testing (28 October, 2015)

  Sally Aldous, A Mark Richards, Louise Cullen, John W Pickering, Martin Than
• Can transcutaneous carbon dioxide pressure be a surrogate of blood gas samples for spontaneously breathing emergency patients? The ERNESTO experience (30 December, 2015)

  Nicolas Peschanski, Léa Garcia, Emilie Delasalle, Lynda Mzabi, Edwin Rouff, Sandrine Dautheville, Fayrouz Renai, Yann Kieffer, Guillaume Lefevre, Yonathan Freund, Patrick Ray
• Can paediatric early warning scores (PEWS) be used to guide the need for hospital admission and predict significant illness in children presenting to the emergency department? An assessment of PEWS diagnostic accuracy using sensitivity and specificity (3 November, 2015)

  Peter J Lillitos, Graeme Hadley, Ian Maconochie
• The test characteristics of physician clinical gestalt for determining the presence and severity of anaemia in patients seen at the emergency department of a tertiary referral hospital in Tanzania (26 November, 2015)

  Hendry Robert Sawe, Juma A Mfinanga, Victor Mwafongo, Teri A Reynolds, Michael S Runyon