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Systematic review and meta-analysis of routine total body CT compared with selective CT in trauma patients
Background Full-body CT scanning is increasingly being used in the initial evaluation of severely injured patients. We sought to analyse the literature to determine the benefits of full-body scanning ...
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Development of hospital disaster resilience: conceptual framework and potential measurement
Objective Despite ‘hospital resilience’ gaining prominence in recent years, it remains poorly defined. This article aims to define hospital resilience, build a preliminary conceptual framework and ...
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Video laryngoscopy may improve the intubation outcomes in critically ill patients: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials ...
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Satisfaction, burnout and intention to stay of emergency nurses in Shanghai
Correspondence to Hui Jiang, Nursing Department of Shanghai East Hospital, Tongji University School of Medicine, No.1800, Yuntai Road, Pudong New Area, Shanghai, 200123,China; jianghuitest{at}163.com ...
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Multicentre cross-sectional study to assess nursing workload in Belgian emergency departments
Background Excessive workload in emergency departments (ED) negatively affects patient safety, often leading to missed critical tasks due to time constraints. The Workload Assessment of Nurses on ...
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Practitioner experiences of developing and implementing two UK ED-based hospital violence intervention programmes: a process evaluation
Background EDs can address modifiable risks of patients attending due to violence. Hospital-based violence intervention programmes (HVIPs) can reduce patients’ exposure to violence but can place ...
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Tricyclic antidepressant overdose: a review
1 Accident and Emergency Department, Ayr Hospital, Dalmellington Road, Ayr, Scotland 2 Accident and Emergency Department, Crosshouse Hospital, Kilmarnock Overdoses of tricyclic antidepressants are ...
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Observational research methods. Research design II: cohort, cross sectional, and case-control studies
Cohort, cross sectional, and case-control studies are collectively referred to as observational studies. Often these studies are the only practicable method of studying various problems, for example, ...
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Well-being interventions alone won’t heal
Burnout and stress are terms that are likely to resonate with those working in EDs across the UK and internationally. For many years, ED staff have dealt with high levels of stress with obvious ...
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Understanding cardiac arrest dispatch of physician-paramedic critical care prehospital teams: a survey-based evaluation
Background Appropriate dispatch of critical care teams to out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) has been identified as a research priority emergency care in the UK. The study aimed to understand the ...
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Factors influencing paramedic conveyance decisions when attending children with minor head injury: a qualitative study
Introduction Children with head injury are commonly transported to the ED by ambulance. However, most of those conveyed are deemed non-serious and are discharged at triage. Research is needed to ...
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Identifying the walk-in wounded: paediatric major trauma patients self-presenting to a paediatric major trauma centre
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