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

Background National Institute for Health and Care Excellence guidelines used to triage patients with head injury to CT imaging are based on research conducted in populations presenting within 24 h of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

3 School of Nursing and Midwifery, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, Australia Correspondence to Gayle Elizabeth McLelland, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Monash University, PO BOx 527, ...

Methods: The study was based in one emergency department (ED) in the UK and took a generic qualitative approach. A stratified sample of nine experienced ED nurses were recruited for semi-structured ...

1 Abant Izzet Baysal University, Düzce Medical School, Department of Cardiology, Düzce, Turkey 2 Abant Izzet Baysal University, Izzet Baysal Medical School, Department of Cardiology, Düzce, Turkey ...

1 Department of Emergency Medicine, Southampton General Hospital, Southampton, UK 2 Department of Emergency Medicine, James Cook Hospital, Middlesborough, Middlesborough, UK This paper reviews the ...

South Central Ambulance Service NHS Trust (Hampshire Division), Otterbourne, UK Dr C D Deakin, South Central Ambulance Service NHS Trust, North Wing, Southern House, Sparrowgrove, Otterbourne, Hants ...