Patients with COVID-19 donate specimens to advance research (Links to an external site)
Philip Mudd, MD, PhD, above, an emergency medicine physician, and his colleague, Jane O’Halloran, MD, PhD, an infectious diseases specialist, have led efforts to create a repository for storing and managing specimens collected from patients with COVID-19. To date, more than 7,000 samples, including blood, urine and saliva specimens, have been distributed to investigators conducting […]
Unconditional care in academic EDs (Links to an external site)
In response to racial disparities noted in COVID-19 outcomes and recent social unrest tied to police violence, SAEM and Academic Emergency Medicine Editorial Board leaders authored this essay re-stating emergency medicine’s commitment to all patients.
Interventions to improve older adults’ ED experience (Links to an external site)
Systematic review exploring efforts to improve patient satisfaction scores for older adults in the contemporary ED.
Economics of geriatric emergency medicine (Links to an external site)
Balancing fiscal restraints with the desperate need to continue innovating emergency medicine for older adults.
Geriatric emergency medicine screeners 2.0 (Links to an external site)
The path forward to simultaneously creating more accurate measures of “vulnerability” for aging individuals while providing efficient emergency care for today’s seniors.
Measuring “frailty” in ED settings (Links to an external site)
The first manuscript in emergency medicine to validate a simple assessment for geriatric frailty
Critically Appraising Medical Research Primer for Low Income Nations (Links to an external site)
Highlights Wash U’s Journal Club as exemplar resource to train emergency medicine physicians worldwide about evidence based medicine and critical appraisal.