Background The term ‘moral injury’ may be useful in conceptualising the negative psychological effects of delivering emergency and prehospital medicine as it provides a non-pathological framework for ...

Objectives: To assess whether initial patient consult by senior clinicians reduces numbers of patients waiting to be seen as an indirect measure of waiting time throughout the emergency department (ED ...

Defining research priorities in a specialty as broad as emergency medicine is a significant challenge. In order to fund and complete the most important research projects, it is imperative that we ...

Results Studies from the peer-reviewed literature (n=15) and project reports (n=6) were included. Overall, there was evidence that investment in ECP roles is beneficial for the quality of care ...

Lower limb fractures are common injuries in prehospital care. Untreated fractures can lead to hypovolaemic shock especially if open, and should be treated with effective haemorrhage control and ...

Background Most low back pain trials have limited applicability to the emergency department (ED) because they provide treatment and measure outcomes after discharge from the ED. We investigated the ...

Objective —To determine whether minimum clinically significant difference in visual analogue scale (VAS) pain score varies according to the severity of pain reported. Method —Prospective descriptive ...

Objective To develop and validate models to predict emergency department (ED) presentations and hospital admissions for time and day of the year. Methods Initial model development and validation was ...

Introduction Pain is the most common presenting feature within the ED, yet undertreatment of pain in the ED is a well-documented problem worldwide. Despite the development of interventions to address ...

WHAT IS POWER AND WHY DOES IT MATTER Power and sample size estimations are used by researchers to determine how many subjects are needed to answer the research question (or null hypothesis). An ...

It has been proposed that formalisation of training to encompass prehospital and retrieval medicine should be considered in the UK, using those currently involved in immediate care as the core ...

Objectives: Consultation is a common and important aspect of emergency department (ED) practice which can lead to delays in patient flow. Little is known about ED consultations and this review ...