The 20 articles listed below are those most read on http://www.annemergmed.com from January to April 2010.


Article Title Author(s) Type Pages
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

April 2010 (Vol. 55 | No. 4 | Pages 307-315.e1)

D. Mark Courtney, Jeffrey A. Kline, Christopher Kabrhel, Christopher L. Moore, Howard A. Smithline, Kristen E. Nordenholz, Peter B. Richman, Michael C. Plewa et al. Full-length article

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307-315.e1
Randomized, Controlled Trial of Antibiotics in the Management of Community-Acquired Skin Abscesses in the Pediatric Patient

May 2010 (Vol. 55 | No. 5 | Pages 401-407)

Myto Duong, Stephen Markwell, John Peter, Stephen Barenkamp Full-length article

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401-407
Medication Errors Recovered by Emergency Department Pharmacists

June 2010 (Vol. 55 | No. 6 | Pages 513-521)

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 et al. Full-length article

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513-521
Clinical Policy: Critical Issues in the Evaluation and Management of Emergency Department Patients With Suspected Appendicitis

January 2010 (Vol. 55 | No. 1 | Pages 71-116)

John M. Howell, Orin L. Eddy, Thomas W. Lukens, Molly E.W. Thiessen, Scott D. Weingart, Wyatt W. Decker et al. Review article

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71-116
Emergency Medical Services Intervals and Survival in Trauma: Assessment of the “Golden Hour” in a North American Prospective Cohort

March 2010 (Vol. 55 | No. 3 | Pages 235-246.e4)

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 et al. Full-length article

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Testing Low-Risk Patients for Suspected Pulmonary Embolism: A Decision Analysis

April 2010 (Vol. 55 | No. 4 | Pages 316-326.e1)

Adam L. Lessler, Joshua A. Isserman, Rajan Agarwal, Harold I. Palevsky, Jesse M. Pines et al. Full-length article

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316-326.e1
Ondansetron Use in the Pediatric Emergency Department and Effects on Hospitalization and Return Rates: Are We Masking Alternative Diagnoses?

May 2010 (Vol. 55 | No. 5 | Pages 415-422)

Jesse J. Sturm, Daniel A. Hirsh, Adam Schweickert, Robert Massey, Harold K. Simon et al. Full-length article

415-422
External Validation of the San Francisco Syncope Rule in the Canadian Setting

May 2010 (Vol. 55 | No. 5 | Pages 464-472)

Venkatesh Thiruganasambandamoorthy, Erik P. Hess, Abdullah Alreesi, Jeffrey J. Perry, George A. Wells, Ian G. Stiell et al. Full-length article

464-472
Severe Sepsis and Septic Shock: Review of the Literature and Emergency Department Management Guidelines

July 2006 (Vol. 48 | No. 1 | Page 54.e1)

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 et al. Review article

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Frequent Users of Emergency Departments: The Myths, the Data, and the Policy Implications

July 2010 (Vol. 56 | No. 1 | Pages 42-48)

Eduardo LaCalle, Elaine Rabin Review article

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42-48
Randomized Controlled Trial of Trimethoprim-Sulfamethoxazole for Uncomplicated Skin Abscesses in Patients at Risk for Community-Associated Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Infection

September 2010 (Vol. 56 | No. 3 | Pages 283-287)

Gillian R. Schmitz, David Bruner, Rebecca Pitotti, Cameron Olderog, Timothy Livengood, Justin Williams, Kermit Huebner, Jeffrey Lightfoot, Brandon Ritz, Christopher Bates, Matthew Schmitz, Mihriye Mete, Gregory Deye et al. Full-length article

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283-287
An Evaluation of the Accuracy of Emergency Physician Activation of the Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory for Patients With Suspected ST-Segment Elevation Myocardial Infarction

May 2010 (Vol. 55 | No. 5 | Pages 423-430)

Michael C. Kontos, Michael Christopher Kurz, Charlotte S. Roberts, Sarah E. Joyner, Laura Kreisa, Joseph P. Ornato, George W. Vetrovec et al. Full-length article

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423-430
The Diagnostic Accuracy of Plasma Neutrophil Gelatinase–Associated Lipocalin in the Prediction of Acute Kidney Injury in Emergency Department Patients With Suspected Sepsis

July 2010 (Vol. 56 | No. 1 | Pages 52-59.e1)

Nathan I. Shapiro, Stephen Trzeciak, Judd E. Hollander, Robert Birkhahn, Ronny Otero, Tiffany M. Osborn, Eugene Moretti, H. Bryant Nguyen, Kyle Gunnerson, David Milzman, David F. Gaieski, Munish Goyal, Charles B. Cairns, Kenneth Kupfer, Seok-Won Lee, Emanuel P. Rivers et al. Full-length article

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52-59.e1
Emergency Department Bedside Ultrasonographic Measurement of the Caval Index for Noninvasive Determination of Low Central Venous Pressure

March 2010 (Vol. 55 | No. 3 | Pages 290-295)

Arun D. Nagdev, Roland C. Merchant, Alfredo Tirado-Gonzalez, Craig A. Sisson, Michael C. Murphy et al. Full-length article

290-295
Out-of-Hospital Endotracheal Intubation Experience and Patient Outcomes

June 2010 (Vol. 55 | No. 6 | Pages 527-537.e6)

Henry E. Wang, G.K. Balasubramani, Lawrence J. Cook, Judith R. Lave, Donald M. Yealy et al. Full-length article

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Multicenter Study of Central Venous Oxygen Saturation (ScvO2) as a Predictor of Mortality in Patients With Sepsis

January 2010 (Vol. 55 | No. 1 | Pages 40-46.e1)

Jennifer V. Pope, Alan E. Jones, David F. Gaieski, Ryan C. Arnold, Stephen Trzeciak, Nathan I. Shapiro, Emergency Medicine Shock Research Network (EMShockNet) Investigators et al. Full-length article

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Effects of Actual Waiting Time, Perceived Waiting Time, Information Delivery, and Expressive Quality on Patient Satisfaction in the Emergency Department

December 1996 (Vol. 28 | No. 6 | Pages 657-665)

David A Thompson, Paul R Yarnold, Diana R Williams, Stephen L Adams Full-length article

657-665
A Prospective Observational Study of Medication Errors in a Tertiary Care Emergency Department

June 2010 (Vol. 55 | No. 6 | Pages 522-526)

Asad E. Patanwala, Terri L. Warholak, Arthur B. Sanders, Brian L. Erstad Full-length article

522-526
Systematic Review of Emergency Department Crowding: Causes, Effects, and Solutions

August 2008 (Vol. 52 | No. 2 | Pages 126-136.e1)

Nathan R. Hoot, Dominik Aronsky Review article

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Use of Lean in the Emergency Department: A Case Series of 4 Hospitals

October 2009 (Vol. 54 | No. 4 | Pages 504-510)

Eric W. Dickson, Zlatko Anguelov, Diana Vetterick, Andrew Eller, Sabi Singh et al. Full-length article

504-510