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Community emergency medicine: a service review of patients that sustain head injuries in the community—can early intervention ...
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Empathy can be taught and learned with evidence-based education

Correspondence to Dr Helen Riess, Empathy and Relational Science Program, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts 02114, USA; HRiess{at}Partners.Org While many believe some people are ...
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Critical care in the emergency department: introduction

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Diagnostic errors related to acute abdominal pain in the emergency department

5 Houston Veterans Affairs Center for Innovations in Quality, Effectiveness and Safety, Michael E. DeBakey Veterans Affairs Medical Center and Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA ...
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Dentures may be radiolucent

Correspondence to: Mr D R Strachan Department of Otolaryngology, Bradford Royal Infirmary, Duckworth Lane, Bradford BD9 6RJ, UK; drstrachanaol.com Diagnosing ingested dental prostheses can be ...
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Management of patients with suspected but unidentified poisoning in the emergency department: a joint Royal College of Emergency Medicine and National Poisons Information Service best practice ...
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Educating the ambulance technician, paramedic, and clinical supervisor: using factor analysis to inform the curriculum

Objectives: This project aims to use information about the desirable attributes of the ambulance technician, paramedic, and clinical supervisor to inform future curriculum development. Methods: Data ...
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When dispatcher assistance is not saving lives: assessment of process compliance, barriers and outcomes in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest in a metropolitan city in China

Background Several Chinese cities have implemented dispatcher-assisted cardiopulmonary resuscitation (DA-CPR), although out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) survival rates remain low. We aimed to ...
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Trends in the mortality of intra-abdominal infections in adults over 25 years in the USA, 1999–2021

6 Shaanxi Clinical Medical Research Center of Infectious Diseases, Xi'an, China Correspondence to Professor Kamran Samakar, Division of Upper GI and General Surgery, Department of Surgery, University ...
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The sad truth about the SADPERSONS Scale: an evaluation of its clinical utility in self-harm patients

Background The SADPERSONS Scale is commonly used as a screening tool for suicide risk in those who have self-harmed. It is also used to determine psychiatric treatment needs in those presenting to ...
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What causes adverse events in prehospital care? A human-factors approach

Ambulance Research Institute, Ambulance Service of New South Wales (ASNSW), Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Correspondence to Roger Price, Ambulance Research Institute, Ambulance Service of New ...
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Head home: a prospective cohort study of a nurse-led paediatric head injury clinical decision tool at a district general hospital

Objectives To assess if a nurse-led application of a paediatric head injury clinical decision tool would be safe compared with current practice. Methods All paediatric (<17 years) patients with head ...