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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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Lowering levels of bed occupancy is associated with decreased inhospital mortality and improved performance on the 4-hour target in a UK District General Hospital
Objective To evaluate whether there is an association between an intervention to reduce medical bed occupancy and performance on the 4-hour target and hospital mortality. Methods This before-and-after ...
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Test characteristics of clinical findings and clinical decision rules for the diagnosis of septic arthritis in children with ...
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Non-sterile gloves and dressing versus sterile gloves, dressings and drapes for suturing of traumatic wounds in the emergency department: a non-inferiority multicentre ...
Background Patients with traumatic wounds frequently present to the ED. Literature on whether to treat these wounds sterile or non-sterile is sparse. Non-sterile treatment has the advantage of saving ...
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Pulmonary embolism diagnosis and the D-dilemma
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Removing systolic blood pressure from the National Early Warning Score (NEWS) for mortality prediction: an observational study
Background Vital signs in triage are essential for effective risk stratification in the emergency department (ED). They are also increasingly used to calculate an early warning score at the time of ...
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Correspondence on “Factors associated with late hospital arrival in acute stroke patients of Bangladesh” by Iktidar et al
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Identifying and profiling prearrival characteristics of avoidable emergency department visits transported by paramedics: a cohort study using linked prehospital and hospital data
Background Increasing demand and crowding in emergency departments (EDs) remain persistent challenges for healthcare systems worldwide. A portion of these visits is avoidable, indicating they could ...
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Prevalence of serious bacterial infections and performance of inflammatory markers in febrile infants with and without proven viral illness
1 Department of Paediatric Medicine, Kandang Kerbau Women's and Children’s Hospital, Singapore 2 Department of Children’s Emergency, Kandang Kerbau Women's and Children’s Hospital, Singapore 3 ...
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“How long until I am seen, doc?” Modelling paediatric emergency department waiting times to make personalised predictions
Background ED patient wait times have been progressively increasing leading to patient dissatisfaction in ED. Managing patient expectations towards wait times in ED may be more effective at decreasing ...
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Valsalva manoeuvre using a syringe: physics and implications
Correspondence to Leszek Pstras, Nalecz Institute of Biocybernetics and Biomedical Engineering, Polish Academy of Sciences, Ks. Trojdena 4, Warsaw 02-109, Poland; lpstras{at}ibib.waw.pl The study by ...
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Commentary on ‘Reproducibility and clinical impact of the Manchester Triage System: insights from a multicentre vignette study’
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