TY - JOUR T1 - Research in an influenza pandemic JF - Emergency Medicine Journal JO - Emerg Med J SP - 349 LP - 349 DO - 10.1136/emermed-2012-201769 VL - 30 IS - 5 AU - Steve Goodacre AU - Darren Walter Y1 - 2013/05/01 UR - http://emj.bmj.com/content/30/5/349.abstract N2 - The 2009 H1N1 (swine) influenza pandemic was preceded by alarming predictions of high numbers of emergency department attendances.1 In the event, the pandemic was mild and the official view is that the emergency care system coped with the modest increase in demand.2 The next pandemic may be much more severe, if modelling predictions are borne out, and so we should guard against complacency.Patient management during a pandemic needs to be guided by high quality evidence.2 Although data can be extrapolated from other conditions and settings, there is no satisfactory substitute for data generated during a pandemic. However, this poses obvious problems, … ER -