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Featured Article: Examining Effectiveness of Medical Interpreters in Emergency Departments for Spanish-Speaking Patients With Limited English Proficiency: Results of a Randomized Controlled Trial

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For Clinicians

Safety of Assessment of Patients With Potential Ischemic Chest Pain in an Emergency Department Waiting Room: A Prospective Comparative Cohort Study
Improving Cardiac Resuscitation: Evolution or Revolution?
Immediate β-Blockade in Patients With Myocardial Infarctions: Is There Evidence of Benefit?
Treating Headache Recurrence After Emergency Department Discharge: A Randomized Controlled Trial of Naproxen Versus Sumatriptan

For Researchers

Examining Emergency Department Communication Through a Staff-Based Participatory Research Method: Identifying Barriers and Solutions to Meaningful Change
Cost-Effectiveness of Strategies for Diagnosing Pulmonary Embolism Among Emergency Department Patients Presenting With Undifferentiated Symptoms
Therapeutic Efficacy of Icatibant in Angioedema Induced by Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme Inhibitors: A Case Series
Randomized Controlled Trial of Trimethoprim-Sulfamethoxazole for Uncomplicated Skin Abscesses in Patients at Risk for Community-Associated Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Infection

Clinical policy: Critical issues in the initial evaluation and management of patients presenting to the emergency department in early pregnancy
January 2003 (Vol. 41, Issue 1, Pages 123-133)
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ACEP Clinical Policies Committee and the Clinical Policies Subcommittee on Early Pregnancy
Clinical Assessment of Hypovolemia , 12 January 2005
March 2005 (Vol. 45, Issue 3, Pages 327-329)
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Richard Sinert, Mark Spektor
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High Prevalence of Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus in Emergency Department Skin and Soft Tissue Infections , 14 December 2004
March 2005 (Vol. 45, Issue 3, Pages 311-320)
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Bradley W. Frazee, Jeremy Lynn, Edwin D. Charlebois, Larry Lambert, Derrick Lowery, Francoise Perdreau-Remington
Emergency Department Brief Motivational Interventions for Alcohol With Motor Vehicle Crash Patients , 28 April 2005
June 2005 (Vol. 45, Issue 6, Pages 620-625)
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Michael J. Mello, Ted D. Nirenberg, Richard Longabaugh, Robert Woolard, Alison Minugh, Bruce Becker, Janette Baird, Lynda Stein

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Emergency Medical Services Intervals and Survival in Trauma: Assessment of the “Golden Hour” in a North American Prospective Cohort , 24 September 2009
March 2010 (Vol. 55, Issue 3, Pages 235-246.e4)
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Craig D. Newgard, Robert H. Schmicker, Jerris R. Hedges, John P. Trickett, Daniel P. Davis, Eileen M. Bulger, Tom P. Aufderheide, Joseph P. Minei, J. Steven Hata, K. Dean Gubler, Todd B. Brown, Jean-Denis Yelle, Berit Bardarson, Graham Nichol, Resuscitation Outcomes Consortium Investigators
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Diagnostic Accuracy of Noncontrast Computed Tomography for Appendicitis in Adults: A Systematic Review , 07 September 2009
January 2010 (Vol. 55, Issue 1, Pages 51-59.e1)
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Veronica Hlibczuk, Judith A. Dattaro, Zhezhen Jin, Louise Falzon, Michael D. Brown
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Medication Errors Recovered by Emergency Department Pharmacists , 11 December 2009
June 2010 (Vol. 55, Issue 6, Pages 513-521)
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Jeffrey M. Rothschild, William Churchill, Abbie Erickson, Kristin Munz, Jeremiah D. Schuur, Claudia A. Salzberg, Daniel Lewinski, Rita Shane, Roshanak Aazami, John Patka, Rondell Jaggers, Aaron Steffenhagen, Steve Rough, David W. Bates
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Clinical Policy: Critical Issues in the Evaluation and Management of Emergency Department Patients With Suspected Appendicitis
January 2010 (Vol. 55, Issue 1, Pages 71-116)
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John M. Howell, Orin L. Eddy, Thomas W. Lukens, Molly E.W. Thiessen, Scott D. Weingart, Wyatt W. Decker
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Multicenter Study of Central Venous Oxygen Saturation (ScvO2) as a Predictor of Mortality in Patients With Sepsis , 26 October 2009
January 2010 (Vol. 55, Issue 1, Pages 40-46.e1)
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Jennifer V. Pope, Alan E. Jones, David F. Gaieski, Ryan C. Arnold, Stephen Trzeciak, Nathan I. Shapiro, Emergency Medicine Shock Research Network (EMShockNet) Investigators
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Does End Tidal CO2 Monitoring During Emergency Department Procedural Sedation and Analgesia With Propofol Decrease the Incidence of Hypoxic Events? A Randomized, Controlled Trial , 25 September 2009
March 2010 (Vol. 55, Issue 3, Pages 258-264)
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Kenneth Deitch, Jim Miner, Carl R. Chudnofsky, Paul Dominici, Daniel Latta
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A Multicenter Evaluation of the ABCD2 Score's Accuracy for Predicting Early Ischemic Stroke in Admitted Patients With Transient Ischemic Attack , 26 June 2009
February 2010 (Vol. 55, Issue 2, Pages 201-210.e5)
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Andrew W. Asimos, Anna M. Johnson, Wayne D. Rosamond, Marlow F. Price, Kathryn M. Rose, Diane Catellier, Carol V. Murphy, Sam Singh, Charles H. Tegeler, Ana Felix
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Comparison of the 20-Hour Intravenous and 72-Hour Oral Acetylcysteine Protocols for the Treatment of Acute Acetaminophen Poisoning , 26 June 2009
October 2009 (Vol. 54, Issue 4, Pages 606-614)
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Mark C. Yarema, David W. Johnson, Randall J. Berlin, Marco L.A. Sivilotti, Alberto Nettel-Aguirre, Rollin F. Brant, Daniel A. Spyker, Benoit Bailey, Dominic Chalut, Jacques S. Lee, Amy C. Plint, Roy A. Purssell, Tim Rutledge, Catherine A. Seviour, Ian G. Stiell, Margaret Thompson, Jeffrey Tyberg, Richard C. Dart, Barry H. Rumack
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US Emergency Department Performance on Wait Time and Length of Visit , 05 October 2009
February 2010 (Vol. 55, Issue 2, Pages 133-141)
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Leora I. Horwitz, Jeremy Green, Elizabeth H. Bradley
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Clinical Policy: Critical Issues in the Management of Adult Patients Presenting to the Emergency Department With Community-Acquired Pneumonia
November 2009 (Vol. 54, Issue 5, Pages 704-731)
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Devorah J. Nazarian, Orin L. Eddy, Thomas W. Lukens, Scott D. Weingart, Wyatt W. Decker
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Clinical Features From the History and Physical Examination That Predict the Presence or Absence of Pulmonary Embolism in Symptomatic Emergency Department Patients: Results of a Prospective, Multicenter Study , 04 January 2010
April 2010 (Vol. 55, Issue 4, Pages 307-315.e1)
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D. Mark Courtney, Jeffrey A. Kline, Christopher Kabrhel, Christopher L. Moore, Howard A. Smithline, Kristen E. Nordenholz, Peter B. Richman, Michael C. Plewa
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Exploring Emergency Physician–Hospitalist Handoff Interactions: Development of the Handoff Communication Assessment , 30 November 2009
February 2010 (Vol. 55, Issue 2, Pages 161-170)
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Julie Apker, Larry A. Mallak, E. Brooks Applegate, Scott C. Gibson, Jason J. Ham, Neil A. Johnson, Richard L. Street
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Use of Lean in the Emergency Department: A Case Series of 4 Hospitals , 08 May 2009
October 2009 (Vol. 54, Issue 4, Pages 504-510)
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Eric W. Dickson, Zlatko Anguelov, Diana Vetterick, Andrew Eller, Sabi Singh
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Severe Sepsis and Septic Shock: Review of the Literature and Emergency Department Management Guidelines , 29 April 2006
July 2006 (Vol. 48, Issue 1, Page 54.e1)
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H. Bryant Nguyen, Emanuel P. Rivers, Fredrick M. Abrahamian, Gregory J. Moran, Edward Abraham, Stephen Trzeciak, David T. Huang, Tiffany Osborn, Dennis Stevens, David A. Talan, Emergency Department Sepsis Education Program and Strategies to Improve Survival (ED-SEPSIS) Working Group
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Predictors of 30-Day Serious Events in Older Patients With Syncope , 22 September 2009
December 2009 (Vol. 54, Issue 6, Pages 769-778.e5)
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Benjamin C. Sun, Stephen F. Derose, Li-Jung Liang, Gelareh Z. Gabayan, Jerome R. Hoffman, Alison A. Moore, William R. Mower, Carol M. Mangione
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Emergency Department Bedside Ultrasonographic Measurement of the Caval Index for Noninvasive Determination of Low Central Venous Pressure , 26 June 2009
March 2010 (Vol. 55, Issue 3, Pages 290-295)
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Arun D. Nagdev, Roland C. Merchant, Alfredo Tirado-Gonzalez, Craig A. Sisson, Michael C. Murphy
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Systematic Review of Emergency Department Crowding: Causes, Effects, and Solutions , 24 April 2008
August 2008 (Vol. 52, Issue 2, Pages 126-136.e1)
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Nathan R. Hoot, Dominik Aronsky
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Acute Metformin Overdose: Examining Serum pH, Lactate Level, and Metformin Concentrations in Survivors Versus Nonsurvivors: A Systematic Review of the Literature , 26 June 2009
December 2009 (Vol. 54, Issue 6, Pages 818-823)
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Damon M. Dell'Aglio, Louis J. Perino, Ziad Kazzi, Jerome Abramson, Michael D. Schwartz, Brent W. Morgan
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Discovery and Validation of Urine Markers of Acute Pediatric Appendicitis Using High-Accuracy Mass Spectrometry , 26 June 2009
January 2010 (Vol. 55, Issue 1, Pages 62-70.e4)
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Alex Kentsis, Yin Yin Lin, Kyle Kurek, Monica Calicchio, Yan Yan Wang, Flavio Monigatti, Fabien Campagne, Richard Lee, Bruce Horwitz, Hanno Steen, Richard Bachur
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A Graphic Reanalysis of the NINDS Trial , 25 May 2009
September 2009 (Vol. 54, Issue 3, Pages 329-336.e35)
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Jerome R. Hoffman, David L. Schriger
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Predicting Survival After Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest: Role of the Utstein Data Elements , 30 November 2009
March 2010 (Vol. 55, Issue 3, Pages 249-257)
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Thomas D. Rea, Andrea J. Cook, Ian G. Stiell, Judy Powell, Blair Bigham, Clifton W. Callaway, Sumeet Chugh, Tom P. Aufderheide, Laurie Morrison, Thomas E. Terndrup, Tammy Beaudoin, Lynn Wittwer, Dan Davis, Ahamed Idris, Graham Nichol, Resuscitation Outcomes Consortium Investigators
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A Prospective Observational Study of Medication Errors in a Tertiary Care Emergency Department , 15 January 2010
June 2010 (Vol. 55, Issue 6, Pages 522-526)
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Asad E. Patanwala, Terri L. Warholak, Arthur B. Sanders, Brian L. Erstad
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The Out-of-Hospital Validation of the Canadian C-Spine Rule by Paramedics , 27 April 2009
November 2009 (Vol. 54, Issue 5, Pages 663-671.e1)
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Christian Vaillancourt, Ian G. Stiell, Tammy Beaudoin, Justin Maloney, Andrew R. Anton, Paul Bradford, Ed Cain, Andrew Travers, Matt Stempien, Martin Lees, Doug Munkley, Erica Battram, Jane Banek, George A. Wells
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Second Symposium on the Definition and Management of Anaphylaxis: Summary Report—Second National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease/Food Allergy and Anaphylaxis Network Symposium
April 2006 (Vol. 47, Issue 4, Pages 373-380)
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Hugh A. Sampson, Anne Muñoz-Furlong, Ronna L. Campbell, N. Franklin Adkinson, S. Allan Bock, Amy Branum, Simon G.A. Brown, Carlos A. Camargo, Rita Cydulka, Stephen J. Galli, Jane Gidudu, Rebecca S. Gruchalla, Allen D. Harlor, David L. Hepner, Lawrence M. Lewis, Phillip L. Lieberman, Dean D. Metcalfe, Robert O’Connor, Antonella Muraro, Amanda Rudman, Cara Schmitt, Debra Scherrer, F. Estelle Simons, Stephen Thomas, Joseph P. Wood, Wyatt W. Decker
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A Randomized Clinical Trial of Ibuprofen Versus Acetaminophen With Codeine for Acute Pediatric Arm Fracture Pain , 20 August 2009
October 2009 (Vol. 54, Issue 4, Pages 553-560)
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Amy L. Drendel, Marc H. Gorelick, Steven J. Weisman, Roger Lyon, David C. Brousseau, Michael K. Kim
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