Table of contents

Original Articles

• Improving the delivery of analgesia to children in pain (1 May, 2001)

  L J Somers, M W Beckett, P M Sedgwick, D C Hulbert
• Improving promptness of antibiotic treatment in meningococcal disease (1 May, 2001)

  F A I Riordan
• Accident and emergency services for children within Trent region (1 May, 2001)

  S Playfor
• Sports related fractures in children in north east England (1 May, 2001)

  I Hassan, B J Dorani
• Burns and scalds in pre-school children attending accident and emergency: accident or abuse? (1 May, 2001)

  J R Benger, S E McCabe
• The use of pre-cannulation local anaesthetic and factors affecting pain perception in the emergency department setting (1 May, 2001)

  T Harris, P A Cameron, A Ugoni
• Measuring plasma paracetamol concentrations in all patients with drug overdose or altered consciousness: Does it change outcome? (1 May, 2001)

  P I Dargan, S Ladhani, A L Jones
• The mediastinum—Is it wide? (1 May, 2001)

  C E Gleeson, R L Spedding, L A Harding, M Caplan
• Establishing an emergency nurse practitioner service (1 May, 2001)

  J Bache
• Mathematical modelling of patient flow through an accident and emergency department (1 May, 2001)

  T J Coats, S Michalis
• The Sheffield experiment: the effects of centralising accident and emergency services in a large urban setting (1 May, 2001)

  A N Simpson, J Wardrope, D Burke
• The problem of informed consent in emergency medicine research (1 May, 2001)

  B A Foëx
• The minimum clinically significant difference in visual analogue scale pain score does not differ with severity of pain (1 May, 2001)

  A-M Kelly