Background: Bleeding is the most frequent cause of preventable death after severe injury.
Coagulopathy associated with severe injury complicates the control of bleeding and is …

Objective To assess and compare the performance of triage systems for identifying high and
low-urgency patients in the emergency department (ED). Design Systematic review and …

Objectives: The aim of this study was to identify performance indicators thought to reflect the
quality of patient care in the emergency department. Methods: A three round accelerated …

OBJECTIVE: The purposes of this study were to estimate suicide rates up to 4 years after a
deliberate self-harm episode, to investigate time-period effects on the suicide rate over the …

Background: A quarter of all patients presenting to emergency departments are children.
Although there are several large, well-conducted studies on adults enabling accurate …

Cardiothoracic surgeons are faced with the dilemma that many clinical questions in their
daily practice to do not have universally agreed answers, but patients increasingly demand …

Objectives: This paper sought to evaluate whether high sensitivity troponin (hs-cTnT) can
immediately exclude acute myocardial infarction (AMI) at a novel 'rule out'cut-off …

The Manchester Triage System (MTS) is the most widely used triage system in the UK,
Europe and Australia, with tens of millions of patients being processed through hospital …

Objectives: To determine the effects of a brief psychological intervention (brief
psychodynamic interpersonal therapy) for patients after deliberate self poisoning compared …

OBJECTIVE: By exploiting video games technology, serious games strive to deliver
affordable, accessible and usable interactive virtual worlds, supporting applications in …