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• • ·Editors

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• • ·Upcoming TOC

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• • ·Manuscript submission agreement

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• • ·Information for readers

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• • ·Peer reviewers

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• • ·Calendar

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• • ·Classified 2006 advertising rates & information : New value-added feature—your ad online at no additional cost!

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• • ·Classified

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• HEALTH POLICY AND CLINICAL PRACTICE

  • ·Characteristics of Frequent Users of Emergency Departments

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    Kelly A. Hunt, Ellen J. Weber, Jonathan A. Showstack, David C. Colby, Michael L. Callaham

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  • ·Frequent Users of Massachusetts Emergency Departments: A Statewide Analysis

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    Kathleen Kerwin Fuda, Rachel Immekus

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  • ·Did you know?

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• IMAGES IN EMERGENCY MEDICINE

  • ·Images in emergency medicine

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    Stephen W. Smith, Chip Truwit

     

• HEALTH POLICY AND CLINICAL PRACTICE

  • ·Frequent Emergency Department Visitors: The End of Inappropriateness

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    Steven L. Bernstein

    
  • ·Images in emergency medicine

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    Stephen W. Smith

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  • ·An Educational HIV Pretest Counseling Video Program for Off-Hours Testing in the Emergency Department

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    Yvette Calderon, Marianne Haughey, Polly E. Bijur, Jason Leider, Lisa Moreno-Walton, Sandra Torres, Paul Gennis, Laurie J. Bauman

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  • ·2006 Undersea and Hyperbaric Medicine Subspecialty Examination

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• INFECTIOUS DISEASE

  • ·Severe Sepsis and Septic Shock: Review of the Literature and Emergency Department Management Guidelines

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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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  • ·Update on Emerging Infections From the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

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    Fredrick M. Abrahamian, David A. Talan, Gregory J. Moran, Robert Pinner

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  • ·Commentary

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  • ·2006 Medical Toxicology MoC Assessment of Cognitive Expertise Examination

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• NEWS AND PERSPECTIVE

  • ·Specialty prepares for The Future of Emergency Care in the United States Health System: IOM report release anticipated

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    Eric Berger

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  • ·Too POSH for the public: Are physician-owned specialty hospitals a drain on emergency care?

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    William B. Millard

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• CARDIOLOGY

  • ·Amino-Terminal Pro-Brain Natriuretic Peptide for the Diagnosis of Acute Heart Failure in Patients With Previous Obstructive Airway Disease

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    Roderick H. Tung, Carlos A. Camargo, Dan Krauser, Saif Anwaruddin, Aaron Baggish, Annabel Chen, James L. Januzzi

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  • ·Did you know?

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  • ·Getting the Right Message: Avoiding Overly Optimistic Interpretations of the Scientific Literature

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    David L. Schriger

    
  • ·Access to Annals of Emergency Medicine Online is now reserved for ACEP members and print subscribers

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  • ·Chest Pain: Physician Perceptions and Decisionmaking in a London Emergency Department

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    Steven A. Farmer, Irene J. Higginson

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  • ·Did you know?

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  • ·Vasopressin or Epinephrine for Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest

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    Peter C. Wyer, Phillips Perera, Zhezhen Jin, Qi Zhou, Deborah J. Cook, Stephen D. Walter, Gordon H. Guyatt

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  • ·2006 Medical Toxicology Subspecialty Certification Examination

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• EVIDENCE-BASED EMERGENCY MEDICINE

  • ·What Is the Preferred First-Line Therapy for Status Epilepticus?

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    Eddy S. Lang, James E. Andruchow

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  • ·2006 Pediatric Emergency Medicine Subspecialty Certification Examination

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  • ·Clinical Assessment of Acute Cholecystitis in Adults

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    Jedd Roe

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  • ·Correction

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• CHANGE OF SHIFT

  • ·Lynn’s Leukemia

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    Peter J. Paganussi

    

• IMAGES IN EMERGENCY MEDICINE

  • ·Skin Damage Following Application of Suction Device for Snakebite

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    Christopher P. Holstege, Eunice M. Singletary

     

• CORRESPONDENCE

  • ·Response to: The Emergency Department Utility of Simplify^™ D-dimer to Exclude Pulmonary Embolism in Patients With Pleuritic Chest Pain

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    Lisa Maree Baade, Robert W. Herrington

    
  • ·In reply

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    Kerstin Hogg, Deborah Dawson, Kevin Mackway-Jones

    
  • ·The Myths of Disaster Education

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    Edbert B. Hsu, Italo Subbarao

    
  • ·In reply

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    Jonathan L. Burstein

    
  • ·Exploratory Buprenorphine Ingestion in an Infant

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    Christine S. Cho, Diane P. Calello, Kevin C. Osterhoudt

    

• ABSTRACTS

  • ·Early Surgery Versus Initial Conservative Treatment in Patients With Spontaneous Supratentorial Intracerebral Haematomas in the International Surgical Trial in Intracerebral Haemorrhage (STICH): A Randomised Trial

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  • ·Comparative Efficacy and Costs of Various Topical Anesthetics for Repair of Dermal Lacerations: A Systematic Review of Randomized, Controlled Trials

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  • ·Can the Wrong Statistic Be Bad for Health? Improving the Reporting of Door-to-Needle Time Performance in Acute Myocardial Infarction

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• BOOK AND MEDIA REVIEWS

  • ·Cosby Karen S., Kendall John. Williams & WilkinsLippincott (2005). MD, MD

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    Tony Owens

    
  • ·Roback M.G., Teach D.J.. American College of Emergency Physicians (2005). 301 pages, $70.00

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    Jonathan Harris Valente

    
  • ·Skin Damage Following Application of Suction Device for Snakebite

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    Christopher P. Holstege

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