AEM Special Issue: The Science of Errors in Emergency Care

Submissions Closed

Academic Emergency Medicine, the flagship journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine will publish a special issue dedicated to the science of errors in emergency care. This was previously announced, but a new development has caused us to extend the deadline for submissions. We have recently received funding support for this special issue from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ).

This special issue will publish original reports that focus on all aspects of errors relevant to emergency care, ranging from the definition of errors, cognitive processing, diagnostic hypothesis generation, treatment, and communication with patients and other providers. We hope to focus particularly on diagnostic error. A team of three specially designated editors will be looking for work that elucidates the why behind errors and how to prevent them, but also for data that illuminate group-based inequities in errors.

Please email any questions to Jeffrey A. Kline, MD, AEM editor-In-chief, at jkline@wayne.edu.