Footnotes Funding The Clinical Safety Research Unit is affiliated with the Centre for Patient Safety and Service Quality at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust which is funded by the National ...

Objective Despite ‘hospital resilience’ gaining prominence in recent years, it remains poorly defined. This article aims to define hospital resilience, build a preliminary conceptual framework and ...

Emergency Departments (EDs) are increasingly seeing more seriously unwell older people living with frailty. In the context of limited resources and increasing demand it’s the ED practitioner’s ...

Cohort, cross sectional, and case-control studies are collectively referred to as observational studies. Often these studies are the only practicable method of studying various problems, for example, ...

Experimental Medicine and Toxicology, Imperial Healthcare NHS Trust, Hammersmith Campus, London, UK Correspondence to Dr S Jarvis, Imperial Healthcare NHS Trust, Hammersmith Campus, DuCane Road, ...

Objectives & Background Since ‘legal highs' emerged as drugs of abuse in the UK, Emergency Physicians have battled to keep up with the latest drug craze. Whilst many of these drugs present with ...

School of Health and Related Research, ScHARR, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK Correspondence to Dr Maysam Ali Abdulwahid, School of Health and Related Research, ScHARR, University of Sheffield ...

A shortcut review was carried out to establish whether non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) is safe to prescribe in patients with chicken pox. 66 unique papers were found in CINAHL, Medline, ...

Objective To describe the population of patients who attend emergency departments (ED) in England for mental health reasons. Methods Cross-sectional observational study of 6 262 602 ED attendances at ...

2 Department of Preventive and Urgent Cardiology, I M Sechenov Moscow Medical Academy, City Clinical Hospital N 59, Moscow, Russian Federation 3 City Clinical Hospital N 7, Moscow, Russian Federation ...

1 Department of Emergency Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Olive View Medical Center and UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, California, USA 2 Department of Emergency Medicine, David ...

Objectives: To describe the case mix, activity, and outcome for admissions to intensive care units (ICUs) from emergency departments (EDs). Design: An observational study using data from a high ...