Emergency Medicine Journal

Article	Citations
Population, Intervention, Comparison, Outcomes and Study (PICOS) design as a framework to formulate eligibility criteria in systematic reviews	250
Association between delays to patient admission from the emergency department and all-cause 30-day mortality	67
Emergency department use during COVID-19 as described by syndromic surveillance	55
Evidence-based medicine and COVID-19: what to believe and when to change	51
Onsite telemedicine strategy for coronavirus (COVID-19) screening to limit exposure in ED	44
Digital disparities: designing telemedicine systems with a health equity aim	40
Whole blood transfusion versus component therapy in adult trauma patients with acute major haemorrhage	39
Predicting outcomes of COVID-19 from admission biomarkers: a prospective UK cohort study	39
Non-invasive ventilation for SARS-CoV-2 acute respiratory failure: a subanalysis from the HOPE COVID-19 registry	35
Diagnostic accuracy of point-of-care lung ultrasound in COVID-19	34
Remote patient monitoring for ED discharges in the COVID-19 pandemic	34
E-scooter incidents in Berlin: an evaluation of risk factors and injury patterns	33
Improving outcomes for older people in the emergency department: a review of reviews	32
Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on emergency medical service response to out-of-hospital cardiac arrests in Taiwan: a retrospective observational study	32
Occupational exposures and programmatic response to COVID-19 pandemic: an emergency medical services experience	32
COVID-19 aerosol box as protection from droplet and aerosol contaminations in healthcare workers performing airway intubation: a randomised cross-over simulation study	31
Online forward triage during the COVID-19 outbreak	31
Updated framework on quality and safety in emergency medicine	30
Paediatric patients seen in 18 emergency departments during the COVID-19 pandemic	28
Prone positioning in patients treated with non-invasive ventilation for COVID-19 pneumonia in an Italian emergency department	27
Oxygen therapy and inpatient mortality in COPD exacerbation	27
Risk of significant traumatic brain injury in adults with minor head injury taking direct oral anticoagulants: a cohort study and updated meta-analysis	27
Severity of SARS-CoV-2 infection and albumin levels recorded at the first emergency department evaluation: a multicentre retrospective observational study	26
Usability of electronic health record systems in UK EDs	25
Psychological distress during the acceleration phase of the COVID-19 pandemic: a survey of doctors practising in emergency medicine, anaesthesia and intensive care medicine in the UK and Ireland	25

Telehealth in the time of COVID-19	25
Characteristics of patients who had a stroke not initially identified during emergency prehospital assessment: a systematic review	22
Training for difficult conversations and breaking bad news over the phone in the emergency department	21
Retention of doctors in emergency medicine: a scoping review of the academic literature	21
Prognostic accuracy of emergency department triage tools for adults with suspected COVID-19: the PRIEST observational cohort study	21
Nurse practitioner administered point-of-care ultrasound compared with X-ray for children with clinically non-angulated distal forearm fractures in the ED: a diagnostic study	19
Hyperbaric oxygen as an adjuvant treatment for patients with COVID-19 severe hypoxaemia: a randomised controlled trial	19
COVID-19 rapid diagnostics: practice review	18
Aerosol containment box to the rescue: extra protection for the front line	18
Identification of very low-risk acute chest pain patients without troponin testing	18
Point-of-care testing with high-sensitivity cardiac troponin assays: the challenges and opportunities	18
Emergency department preparation for COVID-19: accelerated care units	17
National trends in chest pain visits in US emergency departments (2006–2016)	17
Frequent attendances at emergency departments in England	17
Post-exertion oxygen saturation as a prognostic factor for adverse outcome in patients attending the emergency department with suspected COVID-19: a substudy of the PRIEST observational cohort study	17
Prehospital risk stratification in patients with chest pain	17
UK healthcare staff experiences and perceptions of a mass casualty terrorist incident response: a mixed-methods study	17
Paediatric ED utilisation in the early phase of the COVID-19 pandemic	17
Prehospital clinical signs are a poor predictor of raised intracranial pressure following traumatic brain injury	16
The association between vital signs and clinical outcomes in emergency department patients of different age categories	16
Agreement and predictive value of the Rockwood Clinical Frailty Scale at emergency department triage	16
Diagnostic accuracy of the HEART Pathway and EDACS-ADP when combined with a 0-hour/1-hour hs-cTnT protocol for assessment of acute chest pain patients	15
Emergency scalpel cricothyroidotomy use in a prehospital trauma service: a 20-year review	15
End-tidal and arterial carbon dioxide gradient in serious traumatic brain injury after prehospital emergency anaesthesia: a retrospective observational study	15
Emergency department ‘outbreak rostering’ to meet challenges of COVID-19	15
Accuracy of PE rule-out strategies in pregnancy: secondary analysis of the DiPEP study prospective cohort	14
Emergency care provided to refugee children in Europe: RefuNET: a cross-sectional survey study	14
Moderate to severe hyperphosphataemia as an independent prognostic factor for 28-day mortality in adult patients with sepsis	14
Multicentre external validation of the Canadian Syncope Risk Score to predict adverse events and comparison with clinical judgement	14
Implications for COVID-19 triage from the ICNARC report of 2204 COVID-19 cases managed in UK adult intensive care units	14
Evaluating the utility of Rapid Response EEG in emergency care	14
Methanol toxicity outbreak: when fear of COVID-19 goes viral	13
Diagnostic yield of bacteriological tests and predictors of severe outcome in adult patients with COVID-19 presenting to the emergency department	13
Endotracheal intubation with barrier protection	13
Redeployment in COVID-19: old dogs and new tricks	13
Prognostic accuracy of the quick Sequential Organ Failure Assessment (qSOFA)-lactate criteria for mortality in adults with suspected bacterial infection in the emergency department of a hospital with	13
Comparison of qSOFA and Hospital Early Warning Scores for prognosis in suspected sepsis in emergency department patients: a systematic review	12
Healthcare system impacts of the 2017 Manchester Arena bombing: evidence from a national trauma registry patient case series and hospital performance data	12
Perspectives of emergency department attendees on outcomes of resuscitation efforts: origins and impact on cardiopulmonary resuscitation preference	12
Emergency departments and the COVID-19 pandemic: making the most of limited resources	12
Impact of videolaryngoscopy introduction into prehospital emergency medicine practice: a quality improvement project	12
Effect of tranexamic acid on intracranial haemorrhage and infarction in patients with traumatic brain injury: a pre-planned substudy in a sample of CRASH-3 trial patients	12
Emergency department interventions for adult patients with low back pain: a systematic review of randomised controlled trials	12
Measuring ‘Need for Recovery’ as an indicator of staff well-being in the emergency department: a survey study	12
Early warning scores to assess the probability of critical illness in patients with COVID-19	12
Understanding and interpreting artificial intelligence, machine learning and deep learning in Emergency Medicine	12
Non-sterile gloves and dressing versus sterile gloves, dressings and drapes for suturing of traumatic wounds in the emergency department: a non-inferiority multicentre randomised controlled trial	12
Accuracy of weight estimation methods in adults, adolescents and children: a prospective study	12
Incidence of emergency calls and out-of-hospital cardiac arrest deaths during the COVID-19 pandemic: findings from a cross-sectional study in a UK ambulance service	12
Clinical course of patients with low back pain following an emergency department presentation: a systematic review and meta-analysis	11

Iranian national COVID-19 electronic screening system: experience to share	11
Combatting COVID-19: is ultrasound an important piece in the diagnostic puzzle?	11
Cardiac Arrest Nurse Leadership (CANLEAD) trial: a simulation-based randomised controlled trial implementation of a new cardiac arrest role to facilitate cognitive offload for medical team leaders	11
Remodelling of a regional emergency hub in response to the COVID-19 outbreak in Emilia-Romagna	11
Impact of pharmacist interventions provided in the emergency department on quality use of medicines: a systematic review and meta-analysis	11
Projected paediatric cervical spine imaging rates with application of NEXUS, Canadian C-Spine and PECARN clinical decision rules in a prospective Australian cohort	11
A systematic mixed studies review of patient experiences in the ED	11
Emergency medicine response to the COVID-19 pandemic in England: a phenomenological study	10
Cardiovascular complications of prehospital emergency anaesthesia in patients with return of spontaneous circulation following medical cardiac arrest: a retrospective comparison of ketamine-based and	10
Development and implementation of a COVID-19 near real-time traffic light system in an acute hospital setting	10
Evidence base for point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) for diagnosis of skull fractures in children: a systematic review and meta-analysis	10
Impact of a targeted bundle of audit with tailored education and an intubation checklist to improve airway management in the emergency department: an integrated time series analysis	10
Dynamic adaptation to COVID-19 in a Singapore paediatric emergency department	10
Population-level impact of a pulse oximetry remote monitoring programme on mortality and healthcare utilisation in the people with COVID-19 in England: a national analysis using a stepped wedge design	10
Emergency care for older people living with frailty: patient and carer perspectives	10
E-bike and classic bicycle-related traumatic brain injuries presenting to the emergency department	10
Crisis clinical pathway for COVID-19	10
Adherence to protective measures among healthcare workers in the UK: a cross-sectional study	10
Relationship between the Injury Severity Score and the need for life-saving interventions in trauma patients in the UK	9
Higher clinical acuity and 7-day hospital mortality in non-COVID-19 acute medical admissions: prospective observational study	9
Secondary transfer of emergency stroke patients eligible for mechanical thrombectomy by air in rural England: economic evaluation and considerations	9
Strategic planning and response to COVID-19 in a London emergency department	9
Emergency department management of older people living with frailty: a guide for emergency practitioners	9
When dispatcher assistance is not saving lives: assessment of process compliance, barriers and outcomes in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest in a metropolitan city in China	9
Strengthening emergency care knowledge and skills in Uganda and Tanzania with the WHO-ICRC Basic Emergency Care Course	9
Variation in CT use for paediatric head injuries across different types of emergency departments in Australia and New Zealand	9
Prognostic value of National Early Warning Scores (NEWS2) and component physiology in hospitalised patients with COVID-19: a multicentre study	8
Association between the number of endotracheal intubation attempts and rates of adverse events in a paediatric emergency department	8
Parental satisfaction with waiting time in a Swiss tertiary paediatric emergency department	8
Association of the COVID-19 pandemic with bystander cardiopulmonary resuscitation for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest: a population-based analysis in Tokyo, Japan	8
Investigation into the predictive capability for mortality and the trigger points of the National Early Warning Score 2 (NEWS2) in emergency department patients	8
Mental health in hospital emergency departments: cross-sectional analysis of attendances in England 2013/2014	8
Humans not heroes: Canadian emergency physician experiences during the early COVID-19 pandemic	8
Mortality in adolescent trauma: a comparison of children’s, mixed and adult major trauma centres	8
Understanding overuse of diagnostic imaging for patients with low back pain in the Emergency Department: a qualitative study	8
Technical factors associated with first-pass success during endotracheal intubation in children: analysis of videolaryngoscopy recordings	8
Implementation of the ‘TAKE STOCK’ Hot Debrief Tool in the ED: a quality improvement project	8
Frequent attendance at the emergency department shows typical features of complex systems: analysis of multicentre linked data	8
Ability of prehospital NEWS to predict 1-day and 7-day mortality is reduced in older adult patients	7
What determines diagnostic resource consumption in emergency medicine: patients, physicians or context?	7
Peek at the glass ceiling: gender distribution of leadership among emergency medicine residency programs	7
Exploring the factors motivating continued Lay First Responder participation in Uganda: a mixed-methods, 3-year follow-up	7
Performance of early warning and risk stratification scores versus clinical judgement in the acute setting: a systematic review	7
Use of the National Early Warning Score for predicting deterioration of patients with acute pulmonary embolism: a post-hoc analysis of the YEARS Study	7
Feasibility of prehospital identification of non-ST-elevation myocardial infarction by ECG, troponin and echocardiography	7
COVID-19 diagnosis in the emergency department: seeing the tree but losing the forest	7
Feasibility and usefulness of rapid 2-channel-EEG-monitoring (point-of-care EEG) for acute CNS disorders in the paediatric emergency department: an observational study	7
Prehospital continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) for acute respiratory distress: a randomised controlled trial	7
Physicians’ and nurses’ work time allocation and workflow interruptions in emergency departments: a comparative time-motion study across two countries	7
Use of prehospital emergency medical services according to income of residential area	7
Potential of heart fatty-acid binding protein, neurofilament light, interleukin-10 and S100 calcium-binding protein B in the acute diagnostics and severity assessment of traumatic brain injury	7
Epidemiology, management and survival outcomes of adult out-of-hospital traumatic cardiac arrest due to blunt, penetrating or burn injury	7
Top 10 evidence-based countermeasures for night shift workers	7
Nature and extent of selection bias resulting from convenience sampling in the emergency department	7
COVID-19: resetting ED care	7
Undertriage of the elderly major trauma patient continues in major trauma centre care: a retrospective cohort review	7
Apnoeic oxygenation was associated with decreased desaturation rates during rapid sequence intubation in multiple Australian and New Zealand emergency departments	7
Multiple rib fractures: does flail chest matter?	6
Keeping it simple: the value of mortality prediction after trauma with basic indices like the Reverse Shock Index multiplied by Glasgow Coma Scale	6
Variation in referral rates to emergency departments and inpatient services from a GP out of hours service and the potential impact of alternative staffing models	6
Emergency management of older people with cervical spine injuries: an expert practice review	6
Temperature threshold in the screening of bacterial infections in young infants with hypothermia	6
Predicting inhospital admission at the emergency department: a systematic review	6
Emergency department attendances during the COVID-19 pandemic: a retrospective analysis of attendances following Irish governmental pandemic measures	6
Beirut explosion aftermath: lessons and guidelines	6
New NHS Prehospital Major Incident Triage Tool: from MIMMS to MITT	6
Needs assessment of resuscitative endovascular balloon occlusion of the aorta (REBOA) in patients with major haemorrhage: a cross-sectional study	6
Sex-related differences in opioid administration in the emergency department: a population-based study	6
Does the physician in triage strategy improve door-to-balloon time for patients with STEMI?	6
Could a D-dimer/fibrinogen ratio have a role in ruling-out venous thromboembolism?	6
Non-urgent emergency department attendances in children: a retrospective observational analysis	6
Emergency medicine patient wait time multivariable prediction models: a multicentre derivation and validation study	6
Emergency department admission and mortality of the non-transported emergency medical service patients: a cohort study from Northern Finland	6
Increasing emergency department attendances in central London with methamphetamine toxicity and associated harms	6
Current provision of general practitioner services in or alongside emergency departments in England	6
Ball magnet ingestion in children: a stronger and more dangerous attraction?	6
Hypochloraemia is associated with 28-day mortality in patients with septic shock: a retrospective analysis of a multicentre prospective registry	6
A data linkage study of suspected seizures in the urgent and emergency care system in the UK	5
Risk factors and outcomes of unrecognised endobronchial intubation in major trauma patients	5
Waiting times in emergency departments: exploring the factors associated with longer patient waits for emergency care in England using routinely collected daily data	5

Community frailty response service: the ED at your front door	5
Colles’ type distal radial fractures undergoing manipulation in the ED: a multicentre observational cohort study	5
Lung ultrasound in ruling out COVID-19 pneumonia in the ED: a multicentre prospective sensitivity study	5
S100B protein level for the detection of clinically significant intracranial haemorrhage in patients with mild traumatic brain injury: a subanalysis of a prospective cohort study	5
Empathy can be taught and learned with evidence-based education	5
QRS complex characteristics and patient outcomes in out-of-hospital pulseless electrical activity cardiac arrest	5
Evaluating the sustained effectiveness of a multimodal intervention aimed at influencing PIVC insertion practices in the emergency department	5
Prognostic accuracy of triage tools for adults with suspected COVID-19 in a prehospital setting: an observational cohort study	5
Determining the top research priorities in UK prehospital critical care: a modified Delphi study	5
Telemedicine in the emergency department to decrease personal protective equipment use: a before-and-after study	5
Severe vitamin D deficiency in patients admitted to the emergency department with severe sepsis is associated with an increased 90-day mortality	5
A case-control, multicentre study of consecutive patients with COVID-19 and acute (myo)pericarditis: incidence, risk factors, clinical characteristics and outcomes	5
Predicting need for hospital admission in patients with traumatic brain injury or skull fractures identified on CT imaging: a machine learning approach	5
Characteristics of frequent paediatric users of emergency departments in England: an observational study using routine national data	5
Tendency to call an ambulance or attend an emergency department for minor or non-urgent problems: a vignette-based population survey in Britain	5
Heterogeneity of reasons for attendance in frequent attenders of emergency departments and its relationship to future attendance	5
Adaptation of ED design layout during the COVID-19 pandemic: a national cross-sectional survey	5
Geriatric clinical screening tool for cervical spine injury after ground-level falls	5
Diagnostic accuracy of point-of-care ultrasound for paediatric testicular torsion: a systematic review and meta-analysis	5
Retrospective single-centre descriptive study of the characteristics, management and outcomes of adult patients with suspected sepsis in the emergency department	5
Environmentally sustainable emergency medicine	5
Positive predictive value of stroke identification by ambulance clinicians in North East England: a service evaluation	4
Establishing a COVID-19 treatment centre in Israel at the initial stage of the outbreak: challenges, responses and lessons learned	4
Inverse association between blood pressure and pulse oximetry accuracy: an observational study in patients with suspected or confirmed COVID-19 infection	4
Evaluating cross contamination on a shared ventilator	4
Prognostic accuracy of using lactate in addition to the quick Sequential Organ Failure Assessment score and the National Early Warning Score for emergency department patients with suspected infection	4
Performance of the Hull Salford Cambridge Decision Rule (HSC DR) for early discharge of patients with findings on CT scan of the brain: a CENTER-TBI validation study	4
Incidence and impact of incivility in paramedicine: a qualitative study	4
Factors associated with longer wait times, admission and reattendances in older patients attending emergency departments: an analysis of linked healthcare data	4
Comparison of the efficacy of ketamine– propofol versus sodium thiopental–fentanyl in sedation: a randomised clinical trial	4
Management of patients presenting to the emergency department with sudden onset severe headache: systematic review of diagnostic accuracy studies	4
Implementing clinical debriefing programmes	4
Randomised controlled trial comparing immobilisation in above-knee plaster of Paris to controlled ankle motion boots in undisplaced paediatric spiral tibial fractures	4
Personalised risk prediction following emergency department assessment for syncope	4
Diagnostic accuracy of a pragmatic, ultrasound-based approach to adult patients with suspected acute appendicitis in the ED	4
Risk factors that predict mortality in patients with blunt chest wall trauma: an updated systematic review and meta-analysis	4
High-potency benzodiazepine misuse in opioid-dependent patients: use naloxone with care	4
Systematic review of medical student willingness to volunteer and preparedness for pandemics and disasters	4
Non-invasive assessment of fluid responsiveness to guide fluid therapy in patients with sepsis in the emergency department: a prospective cohort study	4
1767 A survey to define the pre-hospital blood resuscitation practices of UK Air Ambulances	4
Oral nitroglycerin solution for oesophageal food impaction: a prospective single-arm pilot study	4
Identifying low-risk chest pain in the emergency department without troponin testing: a validation study of the HE-MACS and HEAR risk scores	4
Compression asphyxia and other clinicopathological findings from the Hillsborough Stadium disaster	4
Self-screening to reduce medical resource consumptions facing the COVID-19 pandemic	4
The International Federation for Emergency Medicine report on emergency department crowding and access block: A brief summary	4
Association of emergency department boarding times on hospital length of stay for patients with psychiatric illness	4
Building artificial intelligence and machine learning models : a primer for emergency physicians	4
Hospitalisations for emergency-sensitive conditions in Germany during the COVID-19 pandemic: insights from the German-wide Helios hospital network	4
Management of cardiovascular emergencies during the COVID-19 pandemic	4
Synergistic effects of emergency physician empathy and burnout on patient satisfaction: a prospective observational study	4
Predictors of hospital prenotification for STEMI and association of prenotification with outcomes	4
Diagnostic accuracy of the magnetocardiograph for patients with suspected acute coronary syndrome	4
The ethical dilemma of emergency department patients with low-risk chest pain	4
Do cardiac risk scores only muddy the waters?	3
Diagnostic accuracy of inferior vena cava ultrasound for heart failure in patients with acute dyspnoea: a systematic review and meta-analysis	3
Less social emergency departments: implementation of workplace contact reduction during COVID-19	3
Development and implementation of a clinician report to reduce unnecessary urine drug screen testing in the ED: a quality improvement initiative	3
Hyperbaric oxygen therapy for patients with COVID-19	3
Starting anticoagulation for atrial fibrillation in the emergency department safely	3
BET 1: Can hands-on defibrillation be performed safely?	3
Effect of hospital interventions to improve patient flow on emergency department clinical quality indicators	3
Effects of sleepiness on clinical decision making among paramedic students: a simulated night shift study	3
Comparative analysis of major incident triage tools in children: a UK population-based analysis	3
Evaluation of initial shockable rhythm as an indicator of short no-flow time in cardiac arrest: a national registry study	3
Emergency medicine electronic health record usability: where to from here?	3
Ability of triage nurses to predict, at the time of triage, the eventual disposition of patients attending the emergency department (ED): a systematic literature review and meta-analysis	3
Ultrasound-directed reduction of distal radius fractures in adults: a systematic review	3
Pulmonary embolism management in the emergency department: part 2	3
Risk factors for the presence of important fractures in ED patients with shoulder dislocation: a retrospective cohort study	3
Comparing complaint-based triage scales and early warning scores for emergency department triage	3
Influence of prehospital management on the outcome of spinal cord decompression sickness in scuba divers	3
Prehospital early warning scores for adults with suspected sepsis: retrospective diagnostic cohort study	3
Effect of wrist dorsiflexion on ultrasound-guided radial artery catheterisation using dynamic needle tip positioning technique in adult patients: a randomised controlled clinical trial	3
SNAPTIMED study: does the Scottish and Newcastle Antiemetic Protocol achieve timely intervention and management from the emergency department to discharge for paracetamol poisoning?	3
Emergency physician gender is associated with early pregnancy loss management: a multisite retrospective cohort study	3
qSOFA as a new community-acquired pneumonia severity score in the emergency setting	3
Rationale, development and implementation of the ReACanROC registry for out-of-hospital cardiac arrests in France and Canada	3
Differences in the thermal properties and surface temperature of prehospital antihypothermia devices: an in vitro study	3
Identifying opportunities for health promotion and intervention in the ED	3
Establishing the research priorities of emergency medicine trainees, patients and carers across the UK and Ireland: the TERN Delphi study	3
Barriers and facilitators to the administration of prehospital tranexamic acid: a paramedic interview study using the theoretical domains framework	3
Refining sonographic criteria for paediatric appendicitis: combined effects of age-based appendiceal size and secondary findings	3
Emergency medicine resident perspectives on well-being during COVID-19: a qualitative study	3
Clinical benefits of prone positioning in the treatment of non-intubated patients with acute hypoxic respiratory failure: a rapid systematic review	3
Head home: a prospective cohort study of a nurse-led paediatric head injury clinical decision tool at a district general hospital	3
Controlled observational study and economic evaluation of the effect of city-centre night-time alcohol intoxication management services on the emergency care system compared with usual care	3
Prescription of analgesia in emergency medicine (POEM) secondary analysis: an observational multicentre comparison of pain relief provided to adults and children with an isolated limb fracture and/or	3
Evaluation of a novel approach to recognising community-acquired paediatric sepsis at ED triage by combining an electronic screening algorithm with clinician assessment	3
Community emergency medicine throughout the UK and Ireland: a comparison of current national activity	3
Delivering Community Emergency Medicine during the COVID-19 pandemic: the Physician Response Unit	3
Comparison of intravenous paracetamol (acetaminophen) to intravenously or intramuscularly administered non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) or opioids for patients presenting with moderate t	3
Seven-step framework to enhance practitioner explanations and parental understandings of research without prior consent in paediatric emergency and critical care trials	3
Diagnostic accuracy of point-of-care ultrasound (PoCUS) for shoulder dislocations and reductions in the emergency department: a diagnostic randomised control trial (RCT)	3
Environmental impact of low-dose methoxyflurane versus nitrous oxide for analgesia: how green is the ‘green whistle’?	3
Diagnostic performance of S100B as a rule-out test for intracranial pathology in head-injured patients presenting to the emergency department who meet NICE Head Injury Guideline criteria for CT-head s	3