Skip to main content

Articles

Page 14 of 24

  1. Previous work has indicated that post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms, measured by the Clinician-Administered PTSD Scale (CAPS) within 60 days of trauma exposure, can reliably produce likelihood esti...

    Authors: Willem F. van der Mei, Anna C. Barbano, Andrew Ratanatharathorn, Richard A. Bryant, Douglas L. Delahanty, Terri A. deRoon-Cassini, Betty S. Lai, Sarah R. Lowe, Yutaka J. Matsuoka, Miranda Olff, Wei Qi, Ulrich Schnyder, Soraya Seedat, Ronald C. Kessler, Karestan C. Koenen and Arieh Y. Shalev
    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2020 20:16

    The Correction to this article has been published in BMC Emergency Medicine 2020 20:53

  2. Early prognostication in trauma patients is challenging, but particularly important. We wanted to explore the ability of copeptin, the C-terminal fragment of arginine vasopressin, to identify major trauma, def...

    Authors: Fulvio Salvo, Francesco Luppi, Davide M. Lucchesi, Simone Canovi, Stefano Franchini, Alessandra Polese, Francesca Santi, Laura Trabucco, Tommaso Fasano and Anna Maria Ferrari
    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2020 20:14
  3. Oxygen (O2) treatment has been a cornerstone in the treatment of patients with myocardial infarction. Recent studies, however, state that supplemental O2 therapy may have no effect or harmful effects in these pat...

    Authors: Arash Mokhtari, Mahin Akbarzadeh, David Sparv, Pallonji Bhiladvala, Håkan Arheden, David Erlinge and Ardavan Khoshnood
    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2020 20:12
  4. The health effects of war and armed conflict on casualties and mental health of those directly exposed has been well described, but few studies have explored the indirect health effects of violent events. This...

    Authors: Carla Makhlouf-Obermeyer, Eman Sharara, Ghada El-Eid and Eveline A. Hitti
    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2020 20:10
  5. The original article [1] contains an incorrect affiliation.

    Authors: Zohair A. Al Aseri, M. Owais Suriya, Hosam A. Hassan, Mujtaba Hasan, Shaffi Ahmed Sheikh, Adel Al Tamimi, Mashhoor Alshathri and Najeeb Khalid
    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2020 20:9

    The original article was published in BMC Emergency Medicine 2015 15:28

  6. Crowding in the emergency department (ED) is a safety concern, and pathways to bypass the ED have been introduced to reduce the time to definitive care. Conversely, a number of low-acuity patients in the ED co...

    Authors: Carl Magnusson, Johan Herlitz and Christer Axelsson
    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2020 20:7
  7. Paramedics are increasingly required to make complex decisions as to whether they should convey a patient to hospital or manage their condition at the scene. Dementia can be a significant barrier to the assess...

    Authors: Sarah Voss, Janet Brandling, Katherine Pollard, Hazel Taylor, Sarah Black, Marina Buswell, Richard Cheston, Sarah Cullum, Theresa Foster, Kim Kirby, Larissa Prothero, Sarah Purdy, Chris Solway and Jonathan Benger
    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2020 20:6
  8. Rapid sequence intubation (RSI) is used to secure the airway of stroke patients. Randomized controlled trial evidence exists to support the use of paramedic RSI for traumatic brain injury (TBI), but cannot nec...

    Authors: Pieter Francsois Fouche, Paul Andrew Jennings, Malcolm Boyle, Stephen Bernard and Karen Smith
    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2020 20:5
  9. The original article [1] contained a misspelling in first author, Baruch Berzon’s name which has since been corrected.

    Authors: Baruch Berzon, Michael Gleenberg, Joseph Offenbacher and Debra West
    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2020 20:4

    The original article was published in BMC Emergency Medicine 2019 19:70

  10. Within each of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the World Health Organization (WHO) has identified key emergency care (EC) interventions that, if implemented effectively, could ensure that the SDG tar...

    Authors: Martina Anto-Ocrah, Jeremy Cushman, Mechelle Sanders and Timothy De Ver Dye
    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2020 20:3
  11. Fever is a common symptom when patients present to Emergency Departments. It is unclear if the febrile response of bacteremic hemodialysis-dependent patients differs from bacteremic patients not receiving hemo...

    Authors: Sarah L. Weatherall, Alison B. Chambers and Leonard A. Mermel
    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2020 20:2
  12. Dispatch services (DS’s) form an integral part of emergency medical service (EMS) systems. The role of a dispatcher has also evolved into a crucial link in patient care delivery, particularly in dispatcher ass...

    Authors: Shawn Chieh Loong Lee, Desmond Renhao Mao, Yih Yng Ng, Benjamin Sieu-Hon Leong, Jirapong Supasaovapak, Faith Joan Gaerlan, Do Ngoc Son, Boon Yang Chia, Sang Do Shin, Chih-Hao Lin, G. V. Ramana Rao, Takahiro Hara and Marcus Eng Hock Ong
    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2020 20:1
  13. Previous systematic reviews have examined the effectiveness of interventions for frequent presenters to the Emergency Department (ED) but not the costs and cost-effectiveness of such interventions.

    Authors: Viola Korczak, Janani Shanthosh, Stephen Jan, Michael Dinh and Thomas Lung
    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2019 19:83
  14. Emergency ambulance services are integral to providing a service for those with unplanned urgent and life-threatening health conditions. However, high use of the service by a small minority of patients is a co...

    Authors: Helen A. Snooks, Ashrafunnesa Khanom, Robert Cole, Adrian Edwards, Bethan Mair Edwards, Bridie A. Evans, Theresa Foster, Rachael T. Fothergill, Carol P. Gripper, Chelsey Hampton, Ann John, Robin Petterson, Alison Porter, Andy Rosser and Jason Scott
    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2019 19:82
  15. The Irish ambulance services have traditionally transported all patients following an emergency (112/999) call, regardless of acuity, to an emergency department (ED). A proposal to introduce Treat and Referral...

    Authors: Brian Power, Gerard Bury and John Ryan
    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2019 19:81
  16. The Sydney Triage to Admission Risk Tool (START) is a validated clinical analytics tool designed to estimate the probability of in-patient admission based on Emergency Department triage characteristics.

    Authors: Anja Ebker-White, Kendall J. Bein, Saartje Berendsen Russell and Michael M. Dinh
    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2019 19:79
  17. Nigeria is ranked second highest in the rate of road accidents and other emergencies (Deaths, disabilities) among 193 countries of the world. There is therefore the need for analyzing Emergency Medical Rescue ...

    Authors: Peter Asaga Mac, Axel Kroeger and Philomena Ehi Airiohuodion
    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2019 19:78
  18. Diagnostic error occurs more frequently in the emergency department than in regular in-patient hospital care. We sought to characterise the nature of reported diagnostic error in hospital emergency departments...

    Authors: Faris Hussain, Alison Cooper, Andrew Carson-Stevens, Liam Donaldson, Peter Hibbert, Thomas Hughes and Adrian Edwards
    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2019 19:77
  19. Sepsis is a potential life threatening dysregulated immune response to an infection, which can result in multi-organ failure and death. Unfortunately, good prognostic markers are lacking in patients with suspe...

    Authors: Jan Willem Uffen, Patrick Oomen, Marieke de Regt, Jan Jelrik Oosterheert and Karin Kaasjager
    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2019 19:76
  20. Sepsis is a leading cause of death worldwide and a major challenge for physicians to predict and manage. Proenkephalin A 119–159 (penKid) is a reliable surrogate marker for the more unstable endogenous opioid ...

    Authors: Mari Rosenqvist, Kevin Bronton, Oliver Hartmann, Andreas Bergmann, Joachim Struck and Olle Melander
    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2019 19:75
  21. The rapid identification of deterioration in the pediatric population is complex, particularly in the emergency department (ED). A comprehensive multi-faceted Pediatric Early Warning System (PEWS) might maximi...

    Authors: Theresa McElroy, Erik N. Swartz, Kasra Hassani, Sina Waibel, Yasmin Tuff, Catherine Marshall, Richard Chan, David Wensley and Maureen O’Donnell
    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2019 19:74
  22. Maintaining highly effective cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) can be particularly difficult when artificial ventilation using a bag-valve-mask device, combined with chest compression have to be carried out ...

    Authors: Michał Ćwiertnia, Marek Kawecki, Tomasz Ilczak, Monika Mikulska, Mieczysław Dutka and Rafał Bobiński
    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2019 19:73
  23. Academic and non-academic emergency departments (EDs) are regularly compared in clinical operations benchmarking despite suggestion that the two groups may differ in their clinical operations characteristics. ...

    Authors: Martin A. Reznek, Sean S. Michael, Cathi A. Harbertson, James J. Scheulen and James J. Augustine
    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2019 19:72
  24. The diagnosis of pediatric pancreatitis has been increasing over the last 15 years but the etiology of this is uncertain. The population of pre-adolescent patients with pancreatitis in the emergency department...

    Authors: Melanie M. Randall, Sarah McDaniels, Kristina Kyle, Meina Michael, Julia Giacopuzzi and Lance A. Brown
    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2019 19:71
  25. Occult hemorrhagic shock secondary to uterine rupture represents a true obstetric emergency and can result in significant morbidity and mortality for both the patient and the fetus. Multiparity and prior cesar...

    Authors: Baruch Berzon, Michael Gleenberg, Joseph Offenbacher and Debra West
    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2019 19:70

    The Correction to this article has been published in BMC Emergency Medicine 2020 20:4

  26. The growing demand for elderly care often exceeds the ability of emergency department (ED) services to provide quality of care within reasonable time. The purpose of this systematic review is to assess the eff...

    Authors: Gijs Hesselink, Özcan Sir and Yvonne Schoon
    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2019 19:69
  27. The number of Global Emergency Medicine (GEM) Fellowship training programs are increasing worldwide. Despite the increasing number of GEM fellowships, there is not an agreed upon approach for assessment of GEM...

    Authors: Haiko Kurt Jahn, James Kwan, Gerard O’Reilly, Heike Geduld, Katherine Douglass, Andrea Tenner, Lee Wallis, Janis Tupesis and Hani O. Mowafi
    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2019 19:68
  28. Overcrowding in emergency departments (ED) is a major concern worldwide. To answer increasing health care demands, new models of care including advanced practice physiotherapists (APP) have been implemented in...

    Authors: E. Matifat, K. Perreault, J.-S. Roy, A. Aiken, E. Gagnon, M. Mequignon, V. Lowry, S. Décary, B. Hamelin, M. Ambrosio, N. Farley, D. Pelletier, L. Carlesso and F. Desmeules
    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2019 19:67
  29. Majority burn mortality prognostic scores were developed and validated in western populations. The primary objective of this study was to evaluate and identify possible risk factors which may be used to predic...

    Authors: Henry Tan Chor Lip, Mohamad Azim Md. Idris, Farrah-Hani Imran, Tuan Nur’ Azmah, Tan Jih Huei and Mathew Thomas
    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2019 19:66
  30. The Japan Coma Scale (JCS) score has been widely used to assess patients’ consciousness level in Japan. JCS scores are divided into four main categories: alert (0) and one-, two-, and three-digit codes based o...

    Authors: Tetsuya Yumoto, Hiromichi Naito, Takashi Yorifuji, Toshiyuki Aokage, Noritomo Fujisaki and Atsunori Nakao
    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2019 19:65
  31. Dispatched citizen responders are increasingly involved in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) resuscitation which can lead to severe stress. It is unknown which psychological assessment tools are most appro...

    Authors: Astrid Rolin Kragh, Fredrik Folke, Linn Andelius, Emma Slebsager Ries, Rasmus Vedby Rasmussen and Carolina Malta Hansen
    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2019 19:64
  32. To test if the 5-item compassion measure (a tool previously validated in the outpatient setting to measure patient assessment of clinician compassion) is a valid and reliable tool to quantify a distinct constr...

    Authors: Praveen Sabapathi, Michael B. Roberts, Brian M. Fuller, Michael A. Puskarich, Christopher W. Jones, J. Hope Kilgannon, Valerie Braz, Christina Creel-Bulos, Nathaniel Scott, Kristina L. Tester, Anthony Mazzarelli, Stephen Trzeciak and Brian W. Roberts
    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2019 19:63
  33. Emergency Department (ED) overcrowding adversely affects patients’ health, accessibility, and quality of healthcare systems for communities. Several studies have addressed this issue. This study aimed to condu...

    Authors: Hamid Reza Rasouli, Ali Aliakbar Esfahani and Mohsen Abbasi Farajzadeh
    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2019 19:62
  34. Hospitals must improve patient safety and quality continuously. Clinical quality registries can drive such improvement. Trauma registries code injuries according to the Abbreviated Injury Scale (AIS) and bench...

    Authors: Anna Bågenholm, Ina Lundberg, Bjørn Straume, Rune Sundset, Kristian Bartnes, Tor Ingebrigtsen and Trond Dehli
    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2019 19:61
  35. In France, patients with acute coronary syndromes (ACS) are usually transferred from remote hospitals to percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) centres in mobile intensive care units (MICUs) with on-board me...

    Authors: Sebastien Cassan, Mihaela Rata, Claire Vallenet, Philippe Fromage, Frederic Champly, Patrick Broin, Guillaume Peribois, Valerie Sierra, Cedric Lutz, Lionel Mangin, Dominique Savary, François-Xavier Ageron and Loic Belle
    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2019 19:60
  36. In disaster situations, the elderly are considered to be a particularly vulnerable population. Preparedness is the key to reduce post-disaster damage. There is limited research in middle-income countries on ho...

    Authors: Jiraporn Sri-on, Alissara Vanichkulbodee, Natchapon Sinsuwan, Rapeeporn Rojsaengroeng, Anucha Kamsom and Shan Woo Liu
    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2019 19:58
  37. The emergency department (ED) sensitive hospital standardized mortality ratio (ED-HSMR) measures risk-adjusted mortality for patients admitted to hospital with conditions for which ED care may improve health o...

    Authors: Simon Berthelot, Eddy S. Lang, Hude Quan and Henry T. Stelfox
    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2019 19:57
  38. Bleeding is an important cause of death in trauma victims. In 2010, the CRASH-2 study, a multicentre randomized control trial on the effect of tranexamic acid (TXA) administration to trauma patients with suspe...

    Authors: Alessandro Jachetti, Rose Berly Massénat, Nathalie Edema, Sophia C. Woolley, Guido Benedetti, Rafael Van Den Bergh and Miguel Trelles
    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2019 19:56
  39. The aim of this study was to evaluate the reliability and accuracy of documentation in FinnHEMS database, which is a nationwide helicopter emergency service (HEMS) clinical quality registry.

    Authors: A. Heino, T. Iirola, L. Raatiniemi, J. Nurmi, A. Olkinuora, P. Laukkanen-Nevala, I. Virkkunen and M. Tommila
    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2019 19:53
  40. Uncompleted emergency department care and against-medical-advice discharge represent relevant medical problems with impact on patient safety and potential medicolegal and socioeconomic consequences. They may a...

    Authors: Carolin Hoyer, Patrick Stein, Angelika Alonso, Michael Platten and Kristina Szabo
    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2019 19:52
  41. Recently, road traffic injuries (RTIs) have become a major health problem affecting health systems in many low- and middle-income countries. Regardless of whether an ambulance is available for evacuation, poli...

    Authors: Gift G. Lukumay, Anne H. Outwater, Dickson A. Mkoka, Menti L. Ndile and Britt-Inger Saveman
    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2019 19:51
  42. Recanalisation therapy in acute ischaemic stroke is highly time-sensitive, and requires early identification of eligible patients to ensure better outcomes. Thus, a number of clinical assessment tools have bee...

    Authors: Daria Antipova, Leila Eadie, Ashish Macaden and Philip Wilson
    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2019 19:49
  43. Overcrowding in emergency departments (EDs) is internationally recognized as one of the greatest challenges to healthcare provision. Numerous studies have highlighted the ill-effects of overcrowding, including...

    Authors: Andrea Strada, Francesca Bravi, Giorgia Valpiani, Roberto Bentivegna and Tiziano Carradori
    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2019 19:47

Annual Journal Metrics

  • 2022 Citation Impact
    2.5 - 2-year Impact Factor
    2.8 - 5-year Impact Factor
    1.266 - SNIP (Source Normalized Impact per Paper)
    0.795 - SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

    2023 Speed
    28 days submission to first editorial decision for all manuscripts (Median)
    164 days submission to accept (Median)

    2023 Usage 
    1,251,999 downloads
    586 Altmetric mentions 

Peer-review Terminology

  • The following summary describes the peer review process for this journal:

    Identity transparency: Single anonymized

    Reviewer interacts with: Editor

    Review information published: Review reports. Reviewer Identities reviewer opt in. Author/reviewer communication

    More information is available here

Sign up for article alerts and news from this journal