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  1. Envenomation by the common European adder (Vipera berus)

    Article • European Journal of Emergency Medicine, October 2019, Wolters Kluwer Health

    Mikkel Brabrand

  2. Prevalence of organ failure and mortality among patients in the emergency department: a population-based cohort study

    Article • BMJ Open, October 2019, BMJ

    Mikkel Brabrand

  3. 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”

    Article • European Journal of Internal Medicine, September 2019, Elsevier

    Mikkel Brabrand

  4. New-onset atrial fibrillation among patients with infection in the emergency department: A multicentre cohort study of one-year stroke risk

    Article • The American Journal of Medicine, August 2019, Elsevier

    Mikkel Brabrand

  5. Mobility Identifies Acutely Ill Patients at Low Risk of In-Hospital Mortality

    Article • CHEST Journal, August 2019, Elsevier

    Mikkel Brabrand

  6. A negative D-dimer identifies patients at low risk of death within 30 days: a prospective observational emergency department cohort study

    Article • QJM, June 2019, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Mikkel Brabrand

  7. Impact of caller’s degree-of-worry on triage response in out-of-hours telephone consultations: a randomized controlled trial

    Article • Scandinavian Journal of Trauma Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine, April 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Freddy Lippert, Mikkel Brabrand

  8. Geriatric emergency medicine

    Article • European Journal of Emergency Medicine, April 2019, Wolters Kluwer Health

    Mikkel Brabrand

  9. Impaired Mobility, Rather Than Frailty, Should Be a Vital Sign

    Article • CHEST Journal, April 2019, Elsevier

    Mikkel Brabrand

  10. The value of vital sign trends in predicting and monitoring clinical deterioration: A systematic review

    Article • PLoS ONE, January 2019, PLOS

    Mikkel Brabrand

  11. qSOFA is a Poor Predictor of Short-Term Mortality in All Patients: A Systematic Review of 410,000 Patients

    Article • Journal of Clinical Medicine, January 2019, MDPI AG

    Mikkel Brabrand

  12. What Matters at the End of Life: A Qualitative Study of Older Peoples Perspectives in Southern Denmark

    Article • Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine, January 2019, SAGE Publications

    Mikkel Brabrand

  13. Impaired mobility is associated with risk of ICU admission but not outcome after ICU treatment

    Article • Acta Anaesthesiologica Scandinavica, November 2018, Wiley

    Mikkel Brabrand

  14. Prevalence and prognosis of acutely ill patients with organ failure at arrival to hospital: A systematic review

    Article • PLoS ONE, November 2018, PLOS

    Mikkel Brabrand

  15. Predictive validity of the CriSTAL tool for short-term mortality in older people presenting at Emergency Departments: a prospective study

    Article • European Geriatric Medicine, October 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Mikkel Brabrand

  16. Emergency medicine research and the European Journal of Emergency Medicine

    Article • European Journal of Emergency Medicine, October 2018, Wolters Kluwer Health

    Mikkel Brabrand

  17. 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

    Article • Resuscitation, October 2018, Elsevier

    Mikkel Brabrand

  18. Patients in prehospital transport to the emergency department

    Article • European Journal of Emergency Medicine, October 2018, Wolters Kluwer Health

    Mikkel Brabrand

  19. The PARIS score can reliably predict 7-day all-cause mortality for both acute medical and surgical patients: an international validation study

    Article • QJM, August 2018, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Mikkel Brabrand

  20. P1286Atrial fibrillation and infection among acute patients in the Emergency Department: a multicentre cohort study of prevalence and prognosis

    Article • European Heart Journal, August 2018, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Mikkel Brabrand

  21. Truth disclosure on prognosis: Is it ethical not to communicate personalised risk of death?

    Article • International Journal of Clinical Practice, July 2018, Wiley

    Mikkel Brabrand

  22. Association between QTc prolongation and mortality in patients with suspected poisoning in the emergency department: a transnational propensity score matched cohort study

    Article • BMJ Open, July 2018, BMJ

    Mikkel Brabrand

  23. Association between presenting complaints of acutely admitted medical patients and mortality: A cohort study

    Article • European Journal of Internal Medicine, June 2018, Elsevier

    Mikkel Brabrand

  24. External validation of a decision tree early warning score using only laboratory data: A retrospective review of prospectively collected data

    Article • European Journal of Internal Medicine, May 2018, Elsevier

    Mikkel Brabrand

  25. Efficacy of a tool to predict short-term mortality in older people presenting at emergency departments: Protocol for a multi-centre cohort study

    Article • Archives of Gerontology and Geriatrics, May 2018, Elsevier

    Mikkel Brabrand

  26. Risk factors associated with short term mortality changes over time, after arrival to the emergency department

    Article • Scandinavian Journal of Trauma Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine, April 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Mikkel Brabrand

  27. Acute medical risk scores: is MARS out of this world?

    Article • QJM, April 2018, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Mikkel Brabrand

  28. 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...

    Article • Clinical Medicine, April 2018, Royal College of Physicians

    Mikkel Brabrand

  29. CURB-65 Score is Equal to NEWS for Identifying Mortality Risk of Pneumonia Patients: An Observational Study

    Article • Lung, March 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Mikkel Brabrand

  30. Validation of the MARS: a combined physiological and laboratory risk prediction tool for 5- to 7-day in-hospital mortality

    Article • QJM, March 2018, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Mikkel Brabrand

  31. Should impaired mobility on presentation be a vital sign?

    Article • Acta Anaesthesiologica Scandinavica, March 2018, Wiley

    Mikkel Brabrand

  32. Sensemaking in the formation of basic life support teams - a proof-of-concept, qualitative study of simulated in-hospital cardiac arrests

    Article • Scandinavian Journal of Trauma Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine, January 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Mikkel Brabrand

  33. Optimizing chest x-rays in patients treated with the LUCAS chest compression system

    Article • Resuscitation, January 2018, Elsevier

    Mikkel Brabrand

  34. Measurement of respiratory rate by multiple raters in a clinical setting is unreliable: A cross-sectional simulation study

    Article • Journal of Critical Care, December 2017, Elsevier

    Mikkel Brabrand

  35. Prevalence and prognosis of acutely ill patients with organ failure at arrival to hospital: protocol for a systematic review

    Article • Systematic Reviews, November 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Mikkel Brabrand

  36. Screening of the frail patient in the emergency department: A systematic review

    Article • European Journal of Internal Medicine, November 2017, Elsevier

    Mikkel Brabrand

  37. 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

    Article • European Journal of Internal Medicine, November 2017, Elsevier

    Mikkel Brabrand

  38. 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

    Article • European Journal of Internal Medicine, November 2017, Elsevier

    Mikkel Brabrand

  39. Use of Infrared Thermography in Diagnosing Necrotizing Fasciitis in the Emergency Department: A Case Study

    Article • European Journal of Case Reports in Internal Medicine, October 2017, SMC Media

    Mikkel Brabrand

  40. What is inappropriate hospital use for elderly people near the end of life? A systematic review

    Article • European Journal of Internal Medicine, July 2017, Elsevier

    Mikkel Brabrand

  41. Patients’ and providers’ perceptions of the preventability of hospital readmission: a prospective, observational study in four European countries

    Article • BMJ Quality & Safety, June 2017, BMJ

    Mikkel Brabrand, John Soong

  42. 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

    Article • QJM, April 2017, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Mikkel Brabrand

  43. Meeting abstracts from the 7th Danish Emergency Medicine Conference

    Article • Scandinavian Journal of Trauma Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine, March 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Mikkel Brabrand

  44. Validation of the qSOFA score for identification of septic patients: A retrospective study

    Article • European Journal of Internal Medicine, December 2016, Elsevier

    Mikkel Brabrand

  45. The Stop-Only-While-Shocking algorithm reduces hands-off time by 17% during cardiopulmonary resuscitation – a simulation study

    Article • European Journal of Emergency Medicine, December 2016, Wolters Kluwer Health

    Mikkel Brabrand

  46. Prognostic value of infrared thermography in an emergency department

    Article • European Journal of Emergency Medicine, December 2016, Wolters Kluwer Health

    Mikkel Brabrand

  47. The Danish database for acute and emergency hospital contacts

    Article • Clinical Epidemiology, October 2016, Dove Medical Press

    Mikkel Brabrand

  48. Combined use of the National Early Warning Score and D-dimer levels to predict 30-day and 365-day mortality in medical patients

    Article • Resuscitation, September 2016, Elsevier

    Mikkel Brabrand

  49. Fluoroquinolone Administration and Outcomes in Patients Hospitalized for Community Acquired Pneumonia: A Case of Confounding by Indication?

    Article • Clinical Infectious Diseases, June 2016, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Mikkel Brabrand

  50. Sepsis – where are the emergency physicians?

    Article • European Journal of Emergency Medicine, June 2016, Wolters Kluwer Health

    Mikkel Brabrand

  51. Exploring the preventable causes of unplanned readmissions using root cause analysis: Coordination of care is the weakest link

    Article • European Journal of Internal Medicine, May 2016, Elsevier

    Mikkel Brabrand

  52. Factors related to monitoring during admission of acute patients

    Article • Journal of Clinical Monitoring and Computing, April 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Mikkel Brabrand

  53. Hospitalized acute patients with fever and severe infection have lower mortality than patients with hypo- or normothermia: a follow-up study

    Article • QJM, March 2016, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Mikkel Brabrand

  54. 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...

    Article • European Journal of Internal Medicine, January 2016, Elsevier

    Mikkel Brabrand

  55. Lactate is associated with increased 10-day mortality in acute medical patients

    Article • European Journal of Emergency Medicine, August 2015, Wolters Kluwer Health

    Mikkel Brabrand

  56. Acutely admitted medical patients have increasing one-year mortality with increasing age

    Article • Scandinavian Journal of Trauma Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine, July 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Mikkel Brabrand

  57. Readmissions of medical patients: an external validation of two existing prediction scores

    Article • QJM, July 2015, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Mikkel Brabrand

  58. Physicians using ultrasound in Danish emergency departments are mostly summoned specialists

    Article • Scandinavian Journal of Trauma Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine, July 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Mikkel Brabrand

  59. Inter-Observer Agreement in Measuring Respiratory Rate

    Article • PLoS ONE, June 2015, PLOS

    Mikkel Brabrand

  60. 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

    Article • PLoS ONE, April 2015, PLOS

    Mikkel Brabrand

  61. No change in survival after cardiac arrest in 2007 and 2012 at a hospital in Denmark

    Article • Resuscitation, February 2015, Elsevier

    Mikkel Brabrand

  62. Hypokalemia in Acute Medical Patients: Risk Factors and Prognosis

    Article • The American Journal of Medicine, January 2015, Elsevier

    Dr Pernille Just Vinholt, Mikkel Brabrand

  63. Pre-hospital transported patients - a resource for accessing prognostic risk factors

    Article • Scandinavian Journal of Trauma Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine, January 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Mikkel Brabrand

  64. Diagnostic tracks in emergency departments match discharge diagnoses fairly well

    Article • Scandinavian Journal of Trauma Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine, January 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Mikkel Brabrand

  65. Prehospital transported patients: a resource for accessing prognostic risk factors

    Article • Critical Care, January 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Mikkel Brabrand

  66. Rhythm recognition is accountable for the majority of hands-off time during cardiopulmonary resuscitation – a simulation study

    Article • European Journal of Emergency Medicine, October 2014, Wolters Kluwer Health

    Mikkel Brabrand

  67. Mobility measures should be added to the National Early Warning Score (NEWS)

    Article • Resuscitation, September 2014, Elsevier

    Mikkel Brabrand

  68. Hypoalbuminemia Is a Strong Predictor of 30-Day All-Cause Mortality in Acutely Admitted Medical Patients: A Prospective, Observational, Cohort Study

    Article • PLoS ONE, August 2014, PLOS

    Mikkel Brabrand

  69. 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

    Article • PLoS ONE, August 2014, PLOS

    Mikkel Brabrand

  70. Nurses and Physicians in a Medical Admission Unit Can Accurately Predict Mortality of Acutely Admitted Patients: A Prospective Cohort Study

    Article • PLoS ONE, July 2014, PLOS

    Mikkel Brabrand

  71. Prognosis and Risk Factors for Deterioration in Patients Admitted to a Medical Emergency Department

    Article • PLoS ONE, April 2014, PLOS

    Mikkel Brabrand

  72. Full-text publication of abstracts in emergency medicine in Denmark

    Article • Scandinavian Journal of Trauma Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine, January 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Mikkel Brabrand

  73. Time and safety in defibrillation with paddles versus pads: A comparative study of two defibrillation regimes

    Article • Resuscitation, November 2013, Elsevier

    Mikkel Brabrand

  74. Capillary refill time is a predictor of short-term mortality for adult patients admitted to a medical department: an observational cohort study

    Article • Emergency Medicine Journal, September 2013, BMJ

    Mikkel Brabrand

  75. Complication with Intraosseous Access: Scandinavian Users' Experience

    Article • Western Journal of Emergency Medicine, September 2013, Western Journal of Emergency Medicine

    Mikkel Brabrand

  76. Use of predefined biochemical admission profiles does not reduce the number of tests or total cost

    Article • European Journal of Emergency Medicine, July 2013, Wolters Kluwer Health

    Mikkel Brabrand

  77. Identifying admitted patients at risk of dying: a prospective observational validation of four biochemical scoring systems

    Article • BMJ Open, June 2013, BMJ

    Mikkel Brabrand

  78. Defibrillator charging before rhythm analysis significantly reduces hands-off time during resuscitation: a simulation study

    Article • The American Journal of Emergency Medicine, February 2013, Elsevier

    Mikkel Brabrand

  79. Hoping for a domino effect: a new specialty in Sweden is a breath of fresh air for the development of Scandinavian emergency medicine

    Article • Scandinavian Journal of Trauma Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine, January 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Mikkel Brabrand

  80. A review of consecutive cardiac arrests in 2007 and 2011 at a regional hospital in Denmark: A retrospective cohort study

    Article • Resuscitation, October 2012, Elsevier

    Mikkel Brabrand

  81. How many training modalities are needed to obtain procedural confidence in intraosseous access? A questionnaire study

    Article • European Journal of Emergency Medicine, December 2011, Wolters Kluwer Health

    Mikkel Brabrand

  82. The characteristics and prognosis of patients fulfilling the Appropriateness Evaluation Protocol in a medical admission unit; a prospective observational study

    Article • BMC Health Services Research, June 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Mikkel Brabrand

  83. Capillary refill time

    Article • European Journal of Emergency Medicine, February 2011, Wolters Kluwer Health

    Mikkel Brabrand

  84. In-hospital resuscitation evaluated by in situ simulation: a prospective simulation study

    Article • Scandinavian Journal of Trauma Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine, January 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Mikkel Brabrand

  85. Perception of time by professional health care workers during simulated cardiac arrest

    Article • The American Journal of Emergency Medicine, January 2011, Elsevier

    Mikkel Brabrand

  86. Reasons for not using intraosseous access in critical illness: Table 1

    Article • Emergency Medicine Journal, October 2010, BMJ

    Mikkel Brabrand

  87. Microfinance as a method of facilitating research in emergency medicine

    Article • Scandinavian Journal of Trauma Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine, January 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    Mikkel Brabrand

  88. Risk scoring systems for adults admitted to the emergency department: a systematic review

    Article • Scandinavian Journal of Trauma Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine, January 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    Mikkel Brabrand

  89. Emergency medicine in Scandinavia - an outstanding opportunity for research

    Article • Scandinavian Journal of Trauma Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine, January 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    Mikkel Brabrand

  90. Current use of intraosseous infusion in Danish emergency departments: a cross-sectional study

    Article • Scandinavian Journal of Trauma Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine, January 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    Mikkel Brabrand

  91. Level of training and experience in physicians performing interhospital transfers of adult patients in the internal medicine department

    Article • Emergency Medicine Journal, September 2009, BMJ

    Mikkel Brabrand

  92. How do we limit the interruptions of chest compression during defibrillation? The three-in-one method

    Article • Resuscitation, May 2008, Elsevier

    Mikkel Brabrand

  93. Fibrin clot structure in patients with end-stage renal disease

    Article • Thrombosis and Haemostasis, July 2007, Schattauer GmbH

    Mikkel Brabrand