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Empathy can be taught and learned with evidence-based education
Correspondence to Dr Helen Riess, Empathy and Relational Science Program, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts 02114, USA; HRiess{at}Partners.Org While many believe some people are ...
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Factors affecting diagnostic imaging decision-making in the emergency department during day and night shifts
Background Medical imaging use has increased progressively, prompting discussions about its clinical impact. Interventions to reduce low-value imaging have had varying success, as they generally do ...
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Triage: making the simple complex?
Correspondence to Dr Ellen J Weber, Department of Emergency Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94131, USA; ellen.weber{at}ucsf.edu One of the hallmarks of an emergency ...
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Choice at the end of life is a privilege
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Nitazene detections and clinical characteristics: data from a prospective observational study in a Glasgow emergency department
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Enhancing door-in-door-out time in a rural primary stroke centre using a large vessel occlusion alert: a quality improvement project ...
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Use of emergency observation and assessment wards: a systematic literature review
Emergency Medicine Research Group, Centre for Primary Health Care Studies, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK Correspondence to: Dr M Cooke, Emergency Medicine Research Group, Centre for Primary ...
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Emergency clinicians' attitudes and decisions in patient scenarios involving advance directives
Emergency Practice Innovation Centre, St Vincent's Hospital, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Correspondence to George A Jelinek, Emergency Practice Innovation Centre, St Vincent's Hospital, 41 Victoria ...
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The association between vital signs and clinical outcomes in emergency department patients of different age categories
Background Appropriate interpretation of vital signs is essential for risk stratification in the emergency department (ED) but may change with advancing age. In several guidelines, risk scores such as ...
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Validation of a new method for saliva cortisol testing to assess stress in first responders
Background Acute or chronic stress can lead to physical and mental disorders. Measuring cortisol can objectify the degree of stress. Cortisol is traditionally measured in serum, but recently the ...
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What determines diagnostic resource consumption in emergency medicine: patients, physicians or context?
Objectives A major cause for concern about increasing ED visits is that ED care is expensive. Recent research suggests that ED resource consumption is affected by patients’ health status, varies ...
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Using emergency physicians’ abilities to predict patient admission to decrease admission delay time
Correspondence to Dr Erica E M Lee, Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada; ericlee{at}toh.ca Background In many EDs, emergency physicians (EPs) do not have admitting ...