Status report: Development of emergency medicine research since the macy report

Pollack, Charles V.; Hollander, Judd E.; O'Neil, Brian J.; Neumar, Robert W.; Summers, Richard; Camargo, Carlos A.; Younger, John G.; Callaway, Clifton W.; Gallagher, E.John; Kellermann, Arthur L.; Krause, Gary S.; Schafermeyer, Robert W.; Sloan, Edward; Stern, Susan; On behalf of the ACEP Research Committee,

doi:10.1067/mem.2003.237

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Volume 42, Issue 1 , Pages 66-80, July 2003

Status report: Development of emergency medicine research since the macy report☆

Departments of Emergency Medicine at Pennsylvania Hospital, Philadelphia, PA (Pollack); the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA (Hollander, Neumar); William Beaumont Hospital, Royal Oak, MI (O'Neil); Wayne State University, Detroit, MI (Krause); University of Mississippi, Jackson, MS (Summers); Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA (Camargo); University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI (Younger, Stern); University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA (Callaway); Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA (Kellermann); Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, NY (Gallagher); Carolinas Medical Center, Charlotte, NC (Schafermeyer); and University of Illinois, Chicago, IL (Sloan)

Received 19 September 2002; received in revised form 2 January 2003; accepted 12 January 2003.

Address for correspondence: Charles V. Pollack, Jr., MA, MD, Department of Emergency Medicine, Pennsylvania Hospital, 800 Spruce Street, Philadelphia, PA 19107; 215-829-3264, fax 215-829-8044; E-mail pollackc@pahosp.com.

Abstract

In Williamsburg, VA, April 17 to 20, 1994, the Josiah Macy, Jr. Foundation sponsored a conference entitled “The Role of Emergency Medicine in the Future of American Medical Care,” a report on which was published in Annals in 1995. This report promulgated recommendations for the development and enhancement of academic departments of emergency medicine and a conference to develop an agenda for research in emergency medicine. The American College of Emergency Physicians' Research Committee, along with several ad hoc members, presents updates in several of the areas addressed by the Macy Report and subsequent conferences, as a status report for the development of emergency medicine research as a whole, as of late 2002. [Ann Emerg Med. 2003;42:66-80.]