AEM Special Issue: The Science of Errors in Emergency Care

Final Call for Papers Extended to August 31, 2024

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). Accordingly, we have extended the deadline for submissions to midnight, August 31, 2024.

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.

At the time of upload, authors can select to submit to the "Special Issue on Errors" on our AEM Submissions website. Please email any questions to Jeffrey A. Kline, MD, AEM editor-In-chief, at jkline@wayne.edu.