Correspondence to Dr James T Harnett, Emergency Department, University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, London, NW1 2BU, UK; j.harnett{at}nhs.net Background Methamphetamine is a ...

Objectives—To validate an accident and emergency (A&E) based approach to assisting early discharge or avoiding admission to acute hospital beds by means of two separate teams, one in hospital and the ...

Centre for Health Economics, Faculty of Business and Economics, Monash University, Australia Correspondence to Anthony Harris, Centre for Health Economics, Faculty of Business and Economics, Building ...

The sixth paper in this series discusses the design and principles of randomised controlled trials. This paper discusses various key features of RCT design, with particular emphasis on the validity of ...

Objective Bystander cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) improves survival and neurological outcomes. Nonetheless, many OHCA patients do not receive ...

1 Health Services Research, School of Health and Related Research, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK 2 Sheffield Health Economics Group, School of Health and Related Research, University of ...

What this study adds In an observational study of 2645 consecutive patients admitted with COPD exacerbation to 1 of 6 UK hospitals, 1027 had oxygen therapy at admission. In those treated with oxygen, ...

2 Collaboration for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care Northwest London, London, UK Correspondence to Dr Geva Greenfield, Department of Primary Care and Public Health, School of Public ...

This paper discusses the findings of a literature review of case based learning (CBL) from a multidisciplinary health science education perspective and attempts to draw comparisons with the available ...

Emergency Department, Lyell McEwin Hospital, Haydown Road, Elizabeth Vale 5112, South Australia Correspondence to: Dr R Boyd Emergency Department, Lyell McEwin ...

Response to: Correspondence on ‘Comparison of the effects of vapocoolant spray and topical anaesthetic cream (lidocaine-prilocaine) on pain of intravenous cannulation: a randomised controlled trial’ ...

Objectives: To estimate the incidence of ankle sprains and severe ankle sprains attending accident and emergency (A&E) units; to describe current practice for severe ankle sprains in A&E units in the ...