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Original articles

• Lack of efficacy in a randomised trial of a brief intervention to reduce drug use and increase drug treatment services utilisation among adult emergency department patients over a 12-month period (2 February, 2018) Free

  Roland C Merchant, Zhongli Zhang, Zihao Zhang, Tao Liu, Janette R Baird
• Comparison of epidemiology, treatments and outcomes of ST segment elevation myocardial infarction between young and elderly patients (15 March, 2018)

  Pin Pin Pek, Huili Zheng, Andrew Fu Wah Ho, Win Wah, Huay Cheem Tan, Ling Li Foo, Marcus Eng Hock Ong
• Ultrasound evaluation of the respiratory changes of the inferior vena cava and axillary vein diameter at rest and during positive pressure ventilation in spontaneously breathing healthy volunteers (9 March, 2018)

  Keamogetswe Molokoane-Mokgoro, Lara Nicole Goldstein, Mike Wells
• New decision formulas for predicting endotracheal tube depth in children: analysis of neck CT images (6 February, 2018)

  Se Uk Lee, Jae Yun Jung, Do Kyun Kim, Young Ho Kwak, Hyuksool Kwon, Jun Hwi Cho, Joong Wan Park, Yoo Jin Choi
• Impact of emergency department surge and end of shift on patient workup and treatment prior to referral to internal medicine: a health records review (9 March, 2018)

  Valerie Charbonneau, Edmund Kwok, Loree Boyle, Ian G Stiell
• Modelling attending physician productivity in the emergency department: a multicentre study (15 March, 2018)

  Joshua W Joseph, Samuel Davis, Elissa H Wilker, Matthew L Wong, Ori Litvak, Stephen J Traub, Larry A Nathanson, Leon D Sanchez