{
  "abstract": "Davidson et al’s findings, in their paper in this month’s Emergency Medicine Journal (EMJ), that ED patients presenting with low back pain have high self-presentation, admission and re-presentation rates are familiar to most of us irrespective of our ED settings.1 Davidson et al go on to assess whether a suite of quality improvement strategies for patients presenting with LBP improved ED performance indicators in a single-centre study.1 Although the impact on admission rates and length of stay was not statistically significant, the findings highlight challenges EDs face when managing this common presentation.",
  "authors": [
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Tallaght University Hospital, Dublin, Ireland",
        "Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland"
      ],
      "name": "Aileen McCabe"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Tallaght University Hospital, Dublin, Ireland"
      ],
      "name": "Sophia Willgress"
    }
  ],
  "title": "Low-back pain presentations to the emergency department",
  "uid": "92c78b08-7ee3-517f-a926-eccfb44d0c41"
}