Brian J Zink, Susan A Stern, Prashant Mahajan, Kayla Roseen, Apoorva Belle, James Cranford
{"title":"Developing emergency medicine leaders: The AACEM/SAEM chair development program at 10 years.","authors":"Brian J Zink, Susan A Stern, Prashant Mahajan, Kayla Roseen, Apoorva Belle, James Cranford","doi":"10.1111/acem.70034","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/acem.70034","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The AACEM Chair Development Program (CDP) provides emergency medicine (EM)-focused leadership training for academic chairs and those interested in becoming EM chairs. The CDP began in 2014.This report describes the CDP second 5-year cohort from 2018 to 2023. A total of 102 participants completed the program during this time period with increased enrollment of women leaders. Seventeen participants who were not chairs at entry have become EM chairs. Quantitative and qualitative data based on a survey of participants demonstrate continued highly favorable assessment of the CDP and likelihood to recommend it to others. The CDP remains a popular and successful training experience to develop leadership skills, foster a leadership network, and prepare EM leaders for academic chair positions.</p>","PeriodicalId":7105,"journal":{"name":"Academic Emergency Medicine","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2025-03-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143717722","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Robert R Ehrman, Elizabeth Osorio Pina, Nicholas E Harrison
{"title":"Is a paralytic-first approach for rapid sequence intubation safe? Maybe so, maybe not.","authors":"Robert R Ehrman, Elizabeth Osorio Pina, Nicholas E Harrison","doi":"10.1111/acem.70032","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/acem.70032","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":7105,"journal":{"name":"Academic Emergency Medicine","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2025-03-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143717727","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pawan Acharya, Tabitha Garwe, Sara K Vesely, Amanda Janitz, Jennifer D Peck, Alisa M Cross
{"title":"Response to Luthfiyah, Triwiyanto, and Ismath RE: Enhancing geriatric trauma mortality prediction: Modifying and assessing the geriatric trauma outcome score with net benefit and decision curve analysis.","authors":"Pawan Acharya, Tabitha Garwe, Sara K Vesely, Amanda Janitz, Jennifer D Peck, Alisa M Cross","doi":"10.1111/acem.70030","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/acem.70030","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":7105,"journal":{"name":"Academic Emergency Medicine","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2025-03-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143707898","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Women presenting to emergency departments with vaginitis should be offered single-dose empirical treatment.","authors":"David A Talan, Omai B Gardner, Brett A Faine","doi":"10.1111/acem.70026","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/acem.70026","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":7105,"journal":{"name":"Academic Emergency Medicine","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2025-03-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143707901","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Sari Luthfiyah, Triwiyanto Triwiyanto, Mohammed Ismath
{"title":"Enhancing geriatric trauma mortality prediction: Modifying and assessing the geriatric trauma outcome score with net benefit and decision curve analysis.","authors":"Sari Luthfiyah, Triwiyanto Triwiyanto, Mohammed Ismath","doi":"10.1111/acem.70027","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/acem.70027","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":7105,"journal":{"name":"Academic Emergency Medicine","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2025-03-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143690654","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Andrew K Posen, Shaveta Khosla, Terry Vanden Hoek, Renee M Petzel Gimbar
{"title":"Current use of push-dose epinephrine: Survey and interview results from academic clinicians in emergency medicine.","authors":"Andrew K Posen, Shaveta Khosla, Terry Vanden Hoek, Renee M Petzel Gimbar","doi":"10.1111/acem.70014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/acem.70014","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":7105,"journal":{"name":"Academic Emergency Medicine","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2025-03-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143646669","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Alexander T Janke, Aaron Dalton, Keith E Kocher, Anita A Vashi
{"title":"Clinician-level variation in admission practices for common conditions in Veteran Affairs emergency departments.","authors":"Alexander T Janke, Aaron Dalton, Keith E Kocher, Anita A Vashi","doi":"10.1111/acem.70020","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/acem.70020","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>The Veterans Affairs (VA) Healthcare System seeks to improve value of care. Variations in hospital admission practices may be a target to improve the efficiency and quality of emergency care.</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>This was a retrospective cross-sectional analysis of 113 VA emergency departments (EDs) from October 1, 2015 to June 8, 2023. ED visits were included if their primary diagnosis matched one of 535 ICD-10 codes within the previously developed admission intensity measure, encompassing 16 clinical conditions with known variation in admission practices and opportunities for outpatient management. The primary outcome was the standard deviation (SD) of clinician-level, risk-adjusted admission rates for each condition, calculated using multilevel, hierarchical models accounting for patient sociodemographic and clinical characteristics. We then summarized the SD of clinician admission rates, based on total admission volume at VA. We further assessed the association between clinician admission intensity and 72-h ED return visits resulting in hospitalization, a safety indicator, using Pearson correlation coefficients.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>During the study period, 18.5 million ED visits were recorded across 9350 clinicians, with 3,815,094 visits (20.6%) having primary diagnoses matching one of the 16 clinical conditions included in the admission intensity measure. Patients' mean (±SD) age was 63.3 (SD 15.4) years, and 89.9% were male. Among the 16 conditions, chest pain accounted for the highest number of admissions (229,507) and exhibited the greatest variation (SD ±14.7%) in clinician-level admission rates, while nephrolithiasis had the lowest variation (SD ±4.6%). There was no significant association between clinician admission rates and 72-h ED returns (Pearson correlation 0.018).</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>A previously developed admission intensity measure may help identify improvement opportunities in hospitalization practices across VA EDs. Chest pain was the most common condition among those in the measure, and subject to the most variability in admission practices among clinicians.</p>","PeriodicalId":7105,"journal":{"name":"Academic Emergency Medicine","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2025-03-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143646668","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}