An outline of the principles behind economic evaluation of emergency care.

Background The pain of renal colic, mediated in part by ureteral spasm and inflammation, is often severe and difficult to control. Salbutamol has been shown to cause ureteral relaxation, but its ...

3 Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University Medical Centre Goettingen, Göttingen, Germany Correspondence to PD Dr Christoph H R Wiese, Department of Anaesthesiology, University Medical Centre ...

Background Community violence is a substantial problem for the NHS. Information sharing of emergency department data with community safety partnerships (CSP) has been associated with substantial ...

A 67 year old woman taking a monoamine oxidase inhibitor (MAOI) presented to the accident and emergency department with an anaphylactic reaction to flucloxacillin. This case highlights the uncertainty ...

Are acute asthma presentations to the emergency department an opportunity for optimising long-term management? A qualitative study on beliefs and behaviours of healthcare professionals ...

3 Woman-Child Center, Academic Medical Center Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands 4 Department of Radiology, Emma Children's Hospital, Academic Medical Center Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands ...

Objectives: To describe the case mix, activity, and outcome for admissions to intensive care units (ICUs) from emergency departments (EDs). Design: An observational study using data from a high ...

Objective Non-urgent paediatric ED (PED) visits appear to contribute a large portion to the growing use of EDs globally. Several interventions have tried to curb repeated non-urgent attendances, but ...

2 Southampton Statistical Sciences Research Institute, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK Background A new pre-triage screening tool, Nature of Call (NoC), has been introduced into the ...

Correspondence to Dr Sheena E Ramsay, Research Department of Primary Care and Population Health, University College London (UCL), Royal Free Campus, Rowland Hill Street, London NW3 2PF, UK; ...

2 Institut de recherche interdisciplinaire sur les enjeux sociaux (IRIS), UMR 8156-997, UFR SMBH, Sorbonne Paris Cité, Université Paris 13, Paris, France Correspondence to Professor Patrick Chariot, ...