Background Severe sepsis is likely to account for around 37 000 deaths annually in the UK. Five years after the international Surviving Sepsis Campaign (SSC) care bundles were published, care ...

Objectives: To evaluate the effect of introducing an extended scope physiotherapy (ESP) service on patient satisfaction, and to measure the functional outcome of patients with soft tissue injuries ...

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, ...

Medical patient boarding in the emergency department as a source of crowding and delay-related harm, impacting patient outcomes and the efficiency of urgent and emergency care ...

Venous thromboembolic disease is a major global cause of morbidity and mortality. An estimated 10 million episodes are diagnosed yearly; over half of these episodes are provoked by hospital ...

Objectives—To describe the diagnostic errors occurring in a busy district general hospital accident and emergency (A&E) department over four years. Method—All diagnostic errors discovered by or ...

4 Department of Community Emergency Health and Paramedic Practice, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia 5 Emergency Medicine Department, University of Western Australia, Western Australia ...

Background Emergency medicine is a high-pressured specialty with exposure to disturbing events and risk. We conducted a qualitative study to identify which clinical events resulted in emotional ...

Correspondence to: Professor Kelly, Department of Emergency Medicine, Western Hospital, Private Bag, Footscray, Vic 3011, Australia (Anne-Maree.Kelly{at}nwhcn.org.au) Objective—To determine whether ...

2 Emergency Department,Central Manchester University Hospitals Foundation NHS Trust, Manchester, UK 3 Emergency Department, North Bristol NHS Trust, Southmead Hospital, Bristol, UK 4 Cardiology ...

Correspondence to James Price, Department of Research, Audit, Innovation, & Development (RAID), East Anglian Air Ambulance, Norwich, UK; james.price{at}eaaa.org.uk This is an open access article ...

1 Department of Emergency Medicine, Teikyo University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan 2 Department of Critical and Emergency Medicine, Showa University hospital, Tokyo, Japan Introduction The ...