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Emergency Medicine Journal

Emergency Medicine Journal accepts submissions of a wide range of article types, including original research, reviews and image challenges. The Author Information section provides specific article ...
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Accuracy of major trauma triage using the MATTS tool: a cohort study

Introduction The Major Trauma Triage Study (‘MATTS’) triage tool was designed to identify patients with major trauma who could benefit from expedited care in specialist major trauma centres (MTCs). We ...
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Point-of-care ultrasound by trained emergency physicians versus radiologists for deep vein thrombosis diagnosis: a prospective blinded study on diagnostic accuracy and time ...

Objective This study aimed to evaluate the diagnostic accuracy and time-to-diagnosis of compression ultrasonography performed by emergency physicians compared with radiologist-performed Doppler ...
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Basis of the first Palestinian trauma registry: a multicentre retrospective chart review from the West Bank

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On the optimal sodium correction rate in hyponatraemia and clinical outcome: a meta-analysis

Background Hyponatraemia is associated with greater mortality in emergency patients. Therefore, the correction of low serum sodium levels remains an important field in clinical practice. Methods ...
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A systemic concern with arterial blood gas analysers in patients with increased temperatures that has the potential to adversely impact on patient care: an observational study

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Are rapid diagnostic tests reliable for the detection of malaria in the emergency department?

A short systematic review assessed the diagnostic accuracy of malaria rapid diagnostic tests in febrile adults from malaria-endemic regions. A database search of MEDLINE, EMBASE, Cochrane and Google ...
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Preinjury, injury and post-injury factors leading to death in children and young people who were victims of knife crime in England between 2019 and 2024: a review of the ...

Background Knife-related deaths in children present a serious public health challenge. This study reports the demographics and preinjury, injury and postinjury factors associated with death in ...
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From health literacy to emergency room: understanding the factors behind adult emergency visits

Background It is believed that low health literacy (HL) is associated with inappropriate use of emergency departments (ED). The volume of ED visits in Turkey continues to increase. This study aimed to ...
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Association of acute neurological symptoms with mortality in patients with heat-related illness: a nationwide study in Japan

Background and objective Heat-related illnesses can range from mild to severe, potentially causing death or disability. Central nervous system abnormalities are crucial clinical indicators, yet their ...
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Unlocking clinical narratives: how natural language processing and artificial intelligence can address data deficits and mitigate health inequities in urgent and emergency care

The Urgent and Emergency Care system generates a wealth of clinical information, but our ability to harness this for public health planning and to address health inequalities is constrained by ...
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Emergency medicine as risk management: a cognitive scaffold for safe decisions under uncertainty

Emergency medicine (EM) is often mischaracterised as symptom-based care, yet, in practice, it is the discipline of making time-critical decisions with incomplete information, under conditions where ...