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  1. Oral versus intravenous fluid therapy in emergency department patients: protocol for a randomized controlled non-inferiority trial (Preprint)
  2. Using artificial neural networks for anomaly detection in infrared thermography images for rapid diagnosis in an emergency care unit
  3. Can capillary refill time be estimated without a stopwatch?
  4. Using Patient-Held Devices to Measure Variations in Resting Heart Rate and Step Count Prior to Presentation With an Acute Illness: International, Multicenter Flash Mob Feasibility Study
  5. 10° compared to 22° celsius cold fluid bolus does not affect hemostasis in healthy adults – A randomized crossover trial
  6. Acute endocrine trauma response and posttraumatic stress disorder: A pilot study on sex differences.
  7. Non-Invasive Camera-Based Cardiac Output Monitoring via Facial Photoplethysmography: Advancing Hemodynamic Assessment in Critical Care
  8. Current sepsis management practices in European emergency departments: the ISG-emergency department European Survey
  9. Brachial plexus nerve block versus haematoma block for closed reduction of distal radius fracture in adults: The BLOCK Trial – a protocol for a multicentre randomised controlled trial
  10. Utilizing D-dimer levels for predicting survival probability in unplanned hospital admissions: Insights from a 5-year nationwide population-based register study
  11. Infrared Thermography Anomaly Detection Using VAESIMCA Approach
  12. Labour market attachment before and after hospitalisation for sepsis: a Danish cohort study
  13. Facial Remote Photoplethysmography for Continuous Heart Rate, Stroke Volume, and Systemic Vascular Resistance Monitoring During Prolonged Warm/Cold Fluid Bolus Administration
  14. Feasibility of Using Resting Heart Rate and Step Counts From Patient-Held Sensors During Clinical Assessment of Medical Emergencies (FUSE): Protocol for Prospective Observational Study in European Hospitals
  15. Early initiated noradrenaline versus fluid therapy for hypotension and shock in the emergency department (VASOSHOCK): a protocol for a pragmatic, multi-center, superiority, randomized controlled trial
  16. Validation of the Frailty‐Adjusted Prognosis Tool for 30‐Day Mortality in Older Emergency Department Patients
  17. association between serial measurements of cardiac parameters on ultrasound and prognosis in adult emergency department visits
  18. ‘Shelter-at-home’ restrictions did not change 90-day mortality for unplanned acute and emergency hospital contacts in Denmark: A nationwide observational case-cohort study
  19. Door-to-antibiotic time and mortality in patients with sepsis: Systematic review and meta-analysis
  20. Ringer’s lactate administered at 15 °C leads to a greater and more prolonged increase in blood pressure compared to 37 °C
  21. The effect of antipyretic medication on the relationship between heart rate, respiratory rate and temperature in acutely admitted medical patients: A retrospective study
  22. Patients' use of Danish emergency medical services before and during the COVID-19 pandemic: a register-based study
  23. Importance of GP contact on readmission rate following psychiatric acute care: A Danish Nationwide study
  24. Mortality risk associated with weekend and holiday hospitalizations amongst patients with hematological malignancies and febrile neutropenia
  25. Facial Remote Photoplethysmography for Continuous Heart Rate Monitoring during Prolonged Cold Liquid Bolus Administration
  26. Utility of ultrasound in the diagnostic work-up of suspected pulmonary embolism: an open-label multicentre randomized controlled trial (the PRIME study)
  27. Degree of Worry and unscheduled returns to the emergency department within 30 days: An observational study
  28. The intensive care population profile in Denmark before and during the first wave of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic; a national register-based study
  29. Predictive value and interrater reliability of mental status and mobility assessment in the emergency department
  30. How do sepsis survivors experience life after sepsis? A Danish qualitative study exploring factors of importance
  31. Feasibility of Using Resting Heart Rate and Step Counts From Patient-Held Sensors During Clinical Assessment of Medical Emergencies (FUSE): Protocol for Prospective Observational Study in European Hospitals (Preprint)
  32. Evaluating dynamic patterns in mortality before and after reconfiguration of the Danish emergency healthcare system
  33. Prevalence and prognostic value of electrocardiographic abnormalities in hypokalemia: A multicenter cohort study
  34. Clinical Frailty Scale at presentation to the emergency department: interrater reliability and use of algorithm-assisted assessment
  35. Comparison of international guideline recommendations for the diagnosis of pulmonary embolism
  36. Late Breaking Abstract - Does ultrasound in suspected pulmonary embolism safely reduce referral to diagnostic imaging? – a randomized controlled trial
  37. Resuscitation preferences of older acutely admitted medical and mentally competent patients with one and six months follow-up
  38. Both acuity and long term prognosis are important Emergency Department metrics: comparison of mobility assessment with the Emergency Severity Index
  39. THE ASSOCIATION BETWEEN SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE AND HEART RATE IN EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT PATIENTS: A MULTICENTER COHORT STUDY
  40. Utilisation and time to performance of diagnostic imaging in patients admitted to Danish emergency departments: a nationwide register-based study from 2007 to 2017
  41. Development and External Validation of the International Early Warning Score for Improved Age- and Sex-Adjusted In-Hospital Mortality Prediction in the Emergency Department
  42. Readmission is experienced as inevitable among older adults receiving homecare: A qualitative interview study
  43. Mobile emergency department care to nursing home residents: a novel outreach service
  44. A tale of two continents: The performance of six early warning scores in two emergency departments
  45. Does corrected QT interval correlate with serum ionised calcium in the ED setting?
  46. Centralization of emergency hospital care is not associated with increased in-hospital mortality; a population-based cohort study
  47. The COVID-19 pandemic has not affected the mortality for patients admitted with pneumonia in Denmark
  48. What matters and influence resuscitation preference? Development, field testing, and structural validation of items among older patients in the emergency department
  49. Prognosis for older people at presentation to emergency department based on frailty and aggregated vital signs
  50. Diagnostic Accuracy of a Bespoke Multiorgan Ultrasound Approach in Suspected Pulmonary Embolism
  51. Multiorgan ultrasonographic findings in patients with pulmonary embolism at diagnosis and clinical follow-up: a proof of concept study
  52. Diagnostic accuracy of a bespoke multiorgan ultrasound approach in suspected pulmonary embolism
  53. Readmission trends before and after a national reconfiguration of emergency departments in Denmark
  54. Are changes in vital signs, mobility and mental status while in hospital measures of the quality of care?
  55. Mortality before and after reconfiguration of the Danish hospital-based emergency healthcare system: a nationwide interrupted time series analysis
  56. Compensation Claims in Danish Emergency Care: Identifying Hot Spots and Blind Spots in the Quality of Care
  57. The quality of life of older adults acutely admitted to the emergency department: A cross‐sectional study
  58. Using Facial Landmark Detection on Thermal Images as a Novel Prognostic Tool for Emergency Departments
  59. Are 5-level triage systems improved by using a symptom based approach?—a Danish cohort study
  60. The clinical frailty scale predicts 1‐year mortality in emergency department patients aged 65 years and older
  61. The Impact of Age on Predictive Performance of National Early Warning Score at Arrival to Emergency Departments: Development and External Validation
  62. Arterial Blood Gas Analysis: as safe as we think? A multicentre historical cohort study
  63. Validation of a Simple Score for Mortality Prediction in a Cohort of Unselected Emergency Patients
  64. Older adults who receive homecare are at increased risk of readmission and mortality following a short ED admission: a nationally register-based cohort study
  65. PR interval prolongation and 1-year mortality among emergency department patients: a multicentre transnational cohort study
  66. Mandatory referral for unplanned hospital admissions led to a 9.4% reduction in attendances
  67. Diagnostic accuracy of focused deep venous, lung, cardiac and multiorgan ultrasound in suspected pulmonary embolism: a systematic review and meta-analysis
  68. Diagnostic accuracy of focused deep venous, lung, cardiac, and multiorgan ultrasound in suspected pulmonary embolism: a systematic review and meta-analysis
  69. Organ failure, aetiology and 7-day all-cause mortality among acute adult patients on arrival to an emergency department: a hospital-based cohort study
  70. Performance evaluation of Emergency Department patient arrivals forecasting models by including meteorological and calendar information: A comparative study
  71. The Reply
  72. The effect of the March 2020 COVID‐19 lockdown on national psychiatric contacts in Denmark: An interrupted time series analysis
  73. Clinical thermography at extreme temperatures
  74. D-dimer levels for Risk Stratification in Patients with Suspected COVID-19 – A Prospective Observational Study
  75. Elevated level of urea is a good predictor for 30-day all-cause mortality in acutely admitted medical patients
  76. Assessment of patient mobility improves the risk stratification of triage with the Emergency Severity Index: a prospective cohort study
  77. Correction to: Understanding what matters most to patients in acute care in seven countries, using the flash mob study design
  78. Can vital signs recorded in patients’ homes aid decision making in emergency care? A Scoping Review
  79. Understanding what matters most to patients in acute care in seven countries, using the flash mob study design
  80. Can the ECG be used to estimate age-related survival?
  81. Nationwide study on trends in unplanned hospital attendance and deaths during the 7 weeks after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in Denmark
  82. Translation of the updated clinical frailty scale 2.0 into Danish and implications for cross-sectoral reliability
  83. Evaluation of systemic vasoconstriction and prognosis using thermography: a systematic review
  84. Thermographic visualization of facial vasoconstriction is associated with 30-day all-cause mortality in medical patients; prospective observational two-site cohort study
  85. The Diagnoses and Outcomes of Emergency Patients With an Elevated D-Dimer Over the Next 90 Days
  86. Low diagnostic yield of ST elevation myocardial infarction amplitude criteria in chest pain patients at the emergency department
  87. Socioeconomic inequality in telephone triage on triage response, hospitalization and 30-day mortality
  88. Routine measurement of d-dimers on suspected SARS-CoV2-infected patients does not lead to significant increase in radiological investigations
  89. Intended and unintended changes in length of stay following reconfiguration of emergency care departments
  90. Testing the effects of checklists on team behaviour during emergencies on general wards: An observational study using high-fidelity simulation
  91. Cross-sectoral inter-rater reliability of the clinical frailty scale – a Danish translation and validation study
  92. Level of vital and laboratory values on arrival, and increased risk of 7-day mortality among adult patients in the emergency department: a population-based cohort study
  93. Relation of QRS Voltage and Prolonged QTc Interval to One-Year Mortality
  94. Changes in compensation claim contents following reorganization of emergency hospital care
  95. Validation of the Clinical Frailty Scale for Prediction of Thirty-Day Mortality in the Emergency Department
  96. QTc Interval Prolongation Is a Proxy for Increased Short-Term Mortality
  97. Self-rated worry is associated with hospital admission in out-of-hours telephone triage – a prospective cohort study
  98. A simple prognostic score predicts one‐year mortality of alert and calm emergency department patients: A prospective two‐center observational study
  99. Increasing emergency hospital activity in Denmark, 2005–2016: a nationwide descriptive study
  100. Optimal measuring point for ST deviation in chest pain patients with possible acute coronary syndrome
  101. Envenomation by the common European adder (Vipera berus)
  102. Prevalence of organ failure and mortality among patients in the emergency department: a population-based cohort study
  103. Is it possible to quickly identify acutely unwell patients who can be safely managed as outpatients? The need for a “Universal Safe to Discharge Score”
  104. A simplified algorithm – is simpler better?
  105. Normal gait, albumin and d-dimer levels identify low risk emergency department patients: a prospective observational cohort study with 365-day 100% follow-up
  106. New-onset atrial fibrillation among patients with infection in the emergency department: A multicentre cohort study of one-year stroke risk
  107. Mobility Identifies Acutely Ill Patients at Low Risk of In-Hospital Mortality
  108. A negative D-dimer identifies patients at low risk of death within 30 days: a prospective observational emergency department cohort study
  109. Impact of caller’s degree-of-worry on triage response in out-of-hours telephone consultations: a randomized controlled trial
  110. Geriatric emergency medicine
  111. Impaired Mobility, Rather Than Frailty, Should Be a Vital Sign
  112. The value of vital sign trends in predicting and monitoring clinical deterioration: A systematic review
  113. qSOFA is a Poor Predictor of Short-Term Mortality in All Patients: A Systematic Review of 410,000 Patients
  114. What Matters at the End of Life: A Qualitative Study of Older Peoples Perspectives in Southern Denmark
  115. Design and Evaluation of a Patient Monitoring Dashboard for Emergency Departments
  116. Impaired mobility is associated with risk of ICU admission but not outcome after ICU treatment
  117. Prevalence and prognosis of acutely ill patients with organ failure at arrival to hospital: A systematic review
  118. Predictive validity of the CriSTAL tool for short-term mortality in older people presenting at Emergency Departments: a prospective study
  119. Emergency medicine research and the European Journal of Emergency Medicine
  120. Are changes in objective observations or the patient’s subjective feelings the day after admission the best predictors of in-hospital mortality? An observational study in a low-resource sub-Saharan hospital
  121. Patients in prehospital transport to the emergency department
  122. 147 The Predictive Value of Quick Sepsis-Related Organ Failure Assessment for Prognosis of Sepsis in the Emergency Department: A Systematic Review
  123. The PARIS score can reliably predict 7-day all-cause mortality for both acute medical and surgical patients: an international validation study
  124. P1286Atrial fibrillation and infection among acute patients in the Emergency Department: a multicentre cohort study of prevalence and prognosis
  125. Truth disclosure on prognosis: Is it ethical not to communicate personalised risk of death?
  126. Association between QTc prolongation and mortality in patients with suspected poisoning in the emergency department: a transnational propensity score matched cohort study
  127. Association between presenting complaints of acutely admitted medical patients and mortality: A cohort study
  128. External validation of a decision tree early warning score using only laboratory data: A retrospective review of prospectively collected data
  129. Efficacy of a tool to predict short-term mortality in older people presenting at emergency departments: Protocol for a multi-centre cohort study
  130. Risk factors associated with short term mortality changes over time, after arrival to the emergency department
  131. Acute medical risk scores: is MARS out of this world?
  132. The prediction of in-hospital mortality by mid-upper arm circumference: a prospective observational study of the association between mid-upper arm circumference and the outcome of acutely ill medical patients admitted to a resource-poor hospital in sub...
  133. CURB-65 Score is Equal to NEWS for Identifying Mortality Risk of Pneumonia Patients: An Observational Study
  134. Validation of the MARS: a combined physiological and laboratory risk prediction tool for 5- to 7-day in-hospital mortality
  135. Should impaired mobility on presentation be a vital sign?
  136. Sensemaking in the formation of basic life support teams - a proof-of-concept, qualitative study of simulated in-hospital cardiac arrests
  137. Optimizing chest x-rays in patients treated with the LUCAS chest compression system
  138. Measurement of respiratory rate by multiple raters in a clinical setting is unreliable: A cross-sectional simulation study
  139. Prevalence and prognosis of acutely ill patients with organ failure at arrival to hospital: protocol for a systematic review
  140. Screening of the frail patient in the emergency department: A systematic review
  141. Using scores to identify patients at risk of short term mortality at arrival to the acute medical unit: A validation study of six existing scores
  142. An acute hospital admission greatly increases one year mortality – Getting sick and ending up in hospital is bad for you: A multicentre retrospective cohort study
  143. Use of Infrared Thermography in Diagnosing Necrotizing Fasciitis in the Emergency Department: A Case Study
  144. What is inappropriate hospital use for elderly people near the end of life? A systematic review
  145. Patients’ and providers’ perceptions of the preventability of hospital readmission: a prospective, observational study in four European countries
  146. Does how the patient feels matter? A prospective observational study of the outcome of acutely ill medical patients who feel their condition has improved on their first re-assessment after admission to hospital
  147. Meeting abstracts from the 7th Danish Emergency Medicine Conference
  148. Validation of the qSOFA score for identification of septic patients: A retrospective study
  149. The Stop-Only-While-Shocking algorithm reduces hands-off time by 17% during cardiopulmonary resuscitation – a simulation study
  150. Prognostic value of infrared thermography in an emergency department
  151. The Danish database for acute and emergency hospital contacts
  152. Combined use of the National Early Warning Score and D-dimer levels to predict 30-day and 365-day mortality in medical patients
  153. Fluoroquinolone Administration and Outcomes in Patients Hospitalized for Community Acquired Pneumonia: A Case of Confounding by Indication?
  154. Sepsis – where are the emergency physicians?
  155. Exploring the preventable causes of unplanned readmissions using root cause analysis: Coordination of care is the weakest link
  156. Factors related to monitoring during admission of acute patients
  157. Hospitalized acute patients with fever and severe infection have lower mortality than patients with hypo- or normothermia: a follow-up study
  158. The mortality of acutely ill medical patients for up to 60days after admission to a resource poor hospital in sub-Saharan Africa compared with patients of similar illness severity admitted to a Danish Regional Teaching Hospital — An exploratory observa...
  159. Lactate is associated with increased 10-day mortality in acute medical patients
  160. Acutely admitted medical patients have increasing one-year mortality with increasing age
  161. Readmissions of medical patients: an external validation of two existing prediction scores
  162. Physicians using ultrasound in Danish emergency departments are mostly summoned specialists
  163. Inter-Observer Agreement in Measuring Respiratory Rate
  164. Seven-Day Mortality Can Be Predicted in Medical Patients by Blood Pressure, Age, Respiratory Rate, Loss of Independence, and Peripheral Oxygen Saturation (the PARIS Score): A Prospective Cohort Study with External Validation
  165. No change in survival after cardiac arrest in 2007 and 2012 at a hospital in Denmark
  166. Hypokalemia in Acute Medical Patients: Risk Factors and Prognosis
  167. Pre-hospital transported patients - a resource for accessing prognostic risk factors
  168. Diagnostic tracks in emergency departments match discharge diagnoses fairly well
  169. Prehospital transported patients: a resource for accessing prognostic risk factors
  170. Rhythm recognition is accountable for the majority of hands-off time during cardiopulmonary resuscitation – a simulation study
  171. Mobility measures should be added to the National Early Warning Score (NEWS)
  172. Hypoalbuminemia Is a Strong Predictor of 30-Day All-Cause Mortality in Acutely Admitted Medical Patients: A Prospective, Observational, Cohort Study
  173. External Validation of the Simple Clinical Score and the HOTEL Score, Two Scores for Predicting Short-Term Mortality after Admission to an Acute Medical Unit
  174. Nurses and Physicians in a Medical Admission Unit Can Accurately Predict Mortality of Acutely Admitted Patients: A Prospective Cohort Study
  175. Prognosis and Risk Factors for Deterioration in Patients Admitted to a Medical Emergency Department
  176. Full-text publication of abstracts in emergency medicine in Denmark
  177. Time and safety in defibrillation with paddles versus pads: A comparative study of two defibrillation regimes
  178. Capillary refill time is a predictor of short-term mortality for adult patients admitted to a medical department: an observational cohort study
  179. Complication with Intraosseous Access: Scandinavian Users' Experience
  180. Use of predefined biochemical admission profiles does not reduce the number of tests or total cost
  181. Identifying admitted patients at risk of dying: a prospective observational validation of four biochemical scoring systems
  182. Defibrillator charging before rhythm analysis significantly reduces hands-off time during resuscitation: a simulation study
  183. Hoping for a domino effect: a new specialty in Sweden is a breath of fresh air for the development of Scandinavian emergency medicine
  184. A review of consecutive cardiac arrests in 2007 and 2011 at a regional hospital in Denmark: A retrospective cohort study
  185. Can biochemical analyses risk stratify acutely admitted medical patients: an external validation of two existing systems
  186. How many training modalities are needed to obtain procedural confidence in intraosseous access? A questionnaire study
  187. 303 Can Nursing Staff and Junior Physicians Accurately Predict the Risk of In-Hospital Mortality of Acutely Admitted Medical Patients: An Observational Cohort Study
  188. The characteristics and prognosis of patients fulfilling the Appropriateness Evaluation Protocol in a medical admission unit; a prospective observational study
  189. Capillary refill time
  190. In-hospital resuscitation evaluated by in situ simulation: a prospective simulation study
  191. Perception of time by professional health care workers during simulated cardiac arrest
  192. Reasons for not using intraosseous access in critical illness: Table 1
  193. Microfinance as a method of facilitating research in emergency medicine
  194. Risk scoring systems for adults admitted to the emergency department: a systematic review
  195. Emergency medicine in Scandinavia - an outstanding opportunity for research
  196. Current use of intraosseous infusion in Danish emergency departments: a cross-sectional study
  197. Do acutely admitted medical patients comply with the Appropriateness Evaluation Protocol?
  198. Level of training and experience in physicians performing interhospital transfers of adult patients in the internal medicine department
  199. How do we limit the interruptions of chest compression during defibrillation? The three-in-one method
  200. Fibrin clot structure in patients with end-stage renal disease