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Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2005 5:4
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Reporting of unintended events in an intensive care unit: comparison between staff and observer
In order to identify relevant targets for change, it is essential to know the reliability of incident staff reporting. The aim of this study is to compare the incidence and type of unintended events (UE) repor...
Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2005 5:3 -
Failure of a patient-centered intervention to substantially increase the identification and referral for-treatment of ambulatory emergency department patients with occult psychiatric conditions: a randomized trial [ISRCTN61514736]
We previously demonstrated that a computerized psychiatric screening interview (the PRIME-MD) can be used in the Emergency Department (ED) waiting room to identify patients with mental illness. In that trial, ...
Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2005 5:2 -
Factors influencing emergency medical readmission risk in a UK district general hospital: A prospective study
Over recent years increased emphasis has been given to performance monitoring of NHS hospitals, including overall number of hospital readmissions, which however are often sub-optimally adjusted for case-mix. W...
Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2005 5:1 -
Management of acute renal colic in the UK: a questionnaire survey
There is great variation in the Accident and Emergency workload and location of Urology services in UK hospitals. This study investigated the relationship of the initial management of acute renal colic with th...
Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2004 4:5 -
A report of dangerously high carbon monoxide levels within the passenger compartment of a snow-obstructed vehicle
We sought to determine how quickly carbon monoxide would accumulate in the passenger compartment of a snow-obstructed vehicle.
Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2004 4:4 -
Underweight is independently associated with mortality in post-operative and non-operative patients admitted to the intensive care unit: a retrospective study
Low and high body mass index (BMI) have been recently shown to be associated with increased and decreased mortality after ICU admission, respectively. The objective of this study was to determine the impact of...
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Beckman Access versus the Bayer ACS:180 and the Abbott AxSYM cardiac Troponin-I real-time immunoassays: an observational prospective study
Reliability of cardiac troponin-I assays under real-time conditions has not been previously well studied. Most large published cTnI trials have utilized protocols which required the freezing of serum (or plasm...
Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2004 4:2 -
Impact of disaster-related mortality on gross domestic product in the WHO African Region
Disaster-related mortality is a growing public health concern in the African Region. These deaths are hypothesized to have a significantly negative effect on per capita gross domestic product (GDP). The object...
Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2004 4:1 -
Bilateral asynchronous acute epidural hematoma : a case report
Bilateral extradural hematomas have only rarely been reported in the literature. Even rarer are cases where the hematomas develop sequentially, one after removal of the other. Among 187 cases of operated epidu...
Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2003 3:1 -
Patients with suspected acute coronary syndrome in a university hospital emergency department: an observational study
It is widely considered that improved diagnostics in suspected acute coronary syndrome (ACS) are needed. To help clarify the current situation and the improvement potential, we analyzed characteristics, dispos...
Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2002 2:1 -
Which treatment for low back pain? A factorial randomised controlled trial comparing intravenous analgesics with oral analgesics in the emergency department and a centrally acting muscle relaxant with placebo over three days [ISRCTN09719705]
About two thirds of adults suffer from backpain at some time during their life. In the emergency room many patients with acute back pain are treated with intravenous non-steroidal analgesics. Whether this trea...
Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2001 1:2 -
The CRASH trial protocol (Corticosteroid randomisation after significant head injury) [74459797]
Worldwide, millions of people are treated each year for significant head injury. A substantial proportion die, and many more are disabled. If short term corticosteroid infusion could be reliably shown to reduc...
Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2001 1:1
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