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Nightclub deaths in the UK: a retrospective observational study of media reports with coroner verification

Methods We conducted a retrospective observational study using media reports and coroner verification to identify and characterise nightclub-related deaths in the UK between 2009 and 2024.
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A systematic mixed studies review of patient experiences in the ED

Background Understanding patient experiences is crucial to evaluating care quality in EDs. However, while previous reviews describe the determinants of ED patient experiences (ie, factors that ...
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Emergency department triage revisited

Triage is a process that is critical to the effective management of modern emergency departments. Triage systems aim, not only to ensure clinical justice for the patient, but also to provide an ...
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What health systems should learn from the Lebanon pager attack

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Evaluation of the impact of artificial intelligence-assisted image interpretation on the diagnostic performance of clinicians in identifying pneumothoraces on plain chest X-ray ...

Background Artificial intelligence (AI)-assisted image interpretation is a fast-developing area of clinical innovation. Most research to date has focused on the performance of AI-assisted algorithms ...
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Access to physician-based Helicopter Emergency Medical Services in the UK: a service analysis in 2024

Background Physician-based prehospital teams provide advanced critical care services in the UK (eg, prehospital anaesthesia). The last review of such teams in 2009, which included England, Wales and ...
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The minimum clinically significant difference in visual analogue scale pain score does not differ with severity of pain

Correspondence to: Professor Kelly, Department of Emergency Medicine, Western Hospital, Private Bag, Footscray, Vic 3011, Australia (Anne-Maree.Kelly{at}nwhcn.org.au) Objective—To determine whether ...
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Preoxygenation in prehospital critical care: a survey of HEMS practices in eight European countries

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Identification of the severe sepsis patient at triage: a prospective analysis of the Australasian Triage Scale

Correspondence to Dr Diane J Chamberlain, Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences, Flinders University, GPO, Box 2100, Adelaide, South Australia 5001, Australia; ...
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Medical patient boarding in the emergency department as a source of crowding and delay-related harm, impacting patient outcomes and the efficiency of urgent and emergency care

Background Previous studies have indicated that crowding within the emergency department (ED) is associated with longer lengths of stay in the ED and higher mortality. Boarding, the time patients ...
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The sepsis six and the severe sepsis resuscitation bundle: a prospective observational cohort study

Background Severe sepsis is likely to account for around 37 000 deaths annually in the UK. Five years after the international Surviving Sepsis Campaign (SSC) care bundles were published, care ...
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Automated titration of nasal high flow oxygen in the emergency department: a randomised controlled trial

2 Te Herenga Waka - Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand 3 University of Otago Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand Background When delivering nasal high flow (NHF) therapy in a ...