A Top-Five List for Emergency Medicine

A "Top Five" list for emergency medicine: a policy and research agenda for stewardship to improve the value of emergency care.

United States health care costs are growing at an unsustainable rate; one significant contributor has been the overuse of health services. Physicians have a professional ethical obligation to serve as stewards of society's resources and take responsibility for health care costs. We propose a framework for identifying overused services and a research and implementation agenda to guide stewardshi...

The Council of Emergency Medicine Residency Directors’ (CORD) Academy for Scholarship in Education in Emergency Medicine: A Five-Year Update

Section Editor: David P. Way, MEd Submission history: Submitted June 14, 2016; Revision received September 19, 2016; Accepted October 10, 2016 Electronically published November 15, 2016 Full text available through open access at http://escholarship.org/uc/uciem_westjem DOI: 10.5811/westjem.2016.10.31232 [West J Emerg Med. 2017;18(1)26-30.] North Shore University Hospital, Department of Emergenc...

Choosing Wisely: assessment of current US top five list recommendations’ trustworthiness using a pragmatic approach

OBJECTIVES Identification of sufficiently trustworthy top 5 list recommendations from the US Choosing Wisely campaign. SETTING Not applicable. PARTICIPANTS All top 5 list recommendations available from the American Board of Internal Medicine Foundation website. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES/INTERVENTIONS Compilation of US top 5 lists and search for current German highly trustworthy (S3) guideline...

Top 10 List for Building Team Science.

Five strategies to effectively use online resources in emergency medicine.

INTRODUCTION For health professions learners of all levels, staying abreast of the literature can seem like an insurmountable task as the number of clinically oriented articles continues to grow at an increasing rate. Fortunately, there has been a veritable explosion of online secondary resources that endeavor to digest the expanding medical literature and present it in a format that is optimiz...