Table of contents

Original Articles

• Impact of a severe acute respiratory syndrome outbreak in the emergency department: an experience in Taiwan (20 October, 2004)

  T-A Chen, K-H Lai, H-T Chang
• Evaluation of the Simplify d-dimer assay as a screening test for the diagnosis of deep vein thrombosis in an emergency department

  (20 October, 2004)

  D Neale, C Tovey, A Vali, S Davies, K Myers, M Obiako, V Ramkumar, A Hafiz
• Patients with community acquired pneumonia discharged from the emergency department according to a clinical practice guideline (20 October, 2004)

  S G Campbell, W Patrick, D G Urquhart, D M Maxwell, S A Ackroyd-Stolarz, D D Murray, A Hawass
• Heliox in the treatment of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (20 October, 2004)

  R Andrews, M Lynch
• Emergency department thrombolysis improves door to needle times (20 October, 2004)

  A R Corfield, C A Graham, J N Adams, I Booth, A C McGuffie
• A paradigm shift in the nature of care provision in emergency departments (20 October, 2004)

  D McD Taylor, D M Bennett, P A Cameron
• Reviewing emergency care systems I: insights from system dynamics modelling (20 October, 2004)

  V Lattimer, S Brailsford, J Turnbull, P Tarnaras, H Smith, S George, K Gerard, S Maslin-Prothero
• Reviewing emergency care systems 2: measuring patient preferences using a discrete choice experiment (20 October, 2004)

  K Gerard, V Lattimer, J Turnbull, H Smith, S George, S Brailsford, S Maslin-Prothero
• Use of the patient at risk scores in the emergency department: a preliminary study (20 October, 2004)

  J E Rees, C Mann
• Midazolam is more likely to cause hypotension than etomidate in emergency department rapid sequence intubation (20 October, 2004)

  Y F Choi, T W Wong, C C Lau