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Setting Up a Stroke Team Algorithm and Conducting Simulation-based Training in the Emergency Department - A Practical Guide

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Emergency Physicians Research Common Problems in Proportion to their Frequency.

Michael P Wilson¹, Gary M Vilke, Prasanthi Govindarajan

¹UC San Diego Health System, Department of Emergency Medicine Behavioral Emergencies Research Lab, San Diego, California.

The Western Journal of Emergency Medicine

|December 20, 2012

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Emergency physicians research medical conditions in proportion to their occurrence in emergency departments. This study found no evidence that research scarcity stems from focusing on rare diseases.

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Area of Science:

Emergency Medicine Research
Clinical Epidemiology
Medical Informatics

Background:

Emergency medicine (EM) research faces a scarcity, prompting calls for increased clinical investigation from leading organizations.
Previous studies explored EM research funding and productivity, but the focus of EM researchers on specific patient conditions remained unknown.
A hypothesis suggested EM research scarcity might stem from a tendency to study rare, high-morbidity conditions over common ones.

Purpose of the Study:

To investigate whether emergency physicians preferentially focus their research on rare conditions.
To compare the frequency of medical conditions presenting to emergency departments with the frequency of research conducted on those conditions by emergency physicians.

Main Methods:

A retrospective review compared principal diagnoses from the National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey (1996-2006) with PubMed first-author publications by emergency physicians.
Statistical analysis involved correlations and linear regression, using emergency department (ED) visits per diagnosis as the independent variable and publication count as the dependent variable.

Main Results:

A strong positive correlation (0.85, P < 0.01) was found between the frequency of conditions presenting to EDs and the frequency of research on those conditions.
Common ED diagnoses, including injury/poisoning and respiratory diseases, constituted 60.9% of principal diagnoses and 50.2% of published EM research.

Conclusions:

Emergency physicians' research focus aligns closely with the prevalence of conditions encountered in the emergency department.
The scarcity of EM research is not attributable to a skewed focus on less common patient problems.