Emergency Medicine Research
For emergency medicine researchers at all levels, this section provides a forum for communication and promotes collaboration among researchers in emergency medicine and related fields to advance the specialty.
During the section's meeting at ACEP's annual Scientific Assembly meeting, you will hear from and have an opportunity to meet experienced researchers in emergency medicine, NIH, CDC, AHRQ, and past research award recipients. Emergency medicine research is evolving and growing, and as a section member you can contribute to this evolution.
Resources

Emergency Care Research: A Primer-electronic flipbook (clicking on the corner of the page will allow you to flip the page like a book, double clicking advances to the next page and clicking on a chapter in the TOC will take you directly to that chapter). For novice investigators, the primer offers an introduction to emergency care research with a hands-on guide to initiating, completing, and disseminating research. The chapters in this manual address what emergency care research is, how to identify a research topic, find a mentor, address key issues in emergency care research, training in research, basics of grant writing, presentation of research results, getting published, top 10 commandments of emergency care research, and how to start a research career.
Statsoft-a comprehensive statistics online textbook
A basic primer on medical study design and research:
Part I: Understanding Clinical Studies
Part II: Interpreting Medical Research
NIH Grant Resources:
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/grants_process.htm
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/oer.htm
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/ep/Grants.html
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/ep/GrantPubs.html
Non-NIH International Grant Opportunities: http://www.fic.nih.gov/Funding/NonNIH/Pages/health-professionals.aspx
Select "health" category: http://www.grants.gov/search/category.do
EMF Grant resources: http://www.emfoundation.org/EMF.aspx?id=106
Number Needed to Treat-a powerful tool to communicate benefit and harm that both patients and doctors can understand.
Medical Calculator
Grants/Research
- Research Methodology/Study Design
- Chart Reviews in Emergency Medicine Research - Eric Gilbert, MD, 1996
- Conducting Systematic Reviews of Diagnostic Studies:Didactic Guidelines - Walter L. Deville, 2002
- The CONSORT statement: Revised Recommendations for Improving the Quality of Reports of Parallel Group Randomized Trials - David Moher and Kenneth F Schulz, 2001
- The Achitecture of Diagnostic Research- D. L. Sackett and R.B. Haynes, 2002
- Good Practice in the Conduct and Reporting of Survey Research - Kate Kelley, Belinda Clarke, Vivienne Brown, and John Sitzia, 2003
- Ruling a Diagnosis In or Out- Daniel Pewsner, 2004
- Accuracy of Diagnostic Tests - C.T. Loy, 2004
- Reassessing the Methods of Medical Record Review Studies in Emergency Medicine Research - Andrew Worster, MD, MSc, 2005
- Guidelines for Retrospective Studies - A.C. Jansen, 2005
- Translating Clinical Research into Clinical Practice: Impact of Using Predicition Rules to
Make Decisions - Brendan M. Reilly, MD, 2006
- A Methodology for Conducting Retrospective Review Research - Robin E. Gearing, PhD, MSW, 2006
- Grant Writing
- Statistics
- Manuscript Preparation
How to Review Papers
Research Section members may send an e-mail to all members of this section via the section e-list at research.section@elist.acep.org
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