Faculty and residents are actively encouraged to participate in scholarly and academic activities and to develop their research projects with the goal of presentation and publication. Each resident also presents his/her scholarly activity at the Department of Emergency Medicine’s Research Day, held every June. The research team consists of more than 30 trained volunteer research assistants that facilitate patient recruitment and data collection. A multidisciplinary research meeting is held every month to discuss and develop all active projects, provide research education for the Department, and share our collaborative projects with our colleagues at Maimonides.

Here is a list of research projects happening now:

• A Needs Assessment Survey for the use of Interactive Web Seminar Technology to Develop International Emergency Medicine
• Accuracy of Emergency Nurses in Assessment of Adult and Pediatric Patients’ Pain
• Accuracy of Whole Blood Testing for Rapid Detection of Pregnancy Using a Commercially Available Immunochemical Assay for Human Chorionic Gonadotropin
• Advance Directives and Emergency Department Resource Use
• Clinical and Economic Impact of Delayed Transfer of Critically Ill Patients from the Emergency Department to the Intensive Care Unit
• Community Based Basic Emergency Interventions and Injury Prevention Education
• Comparison of Blood Gas and Conventional Laboratory Results
• Department of Medicine Physicians’ Attitudes toward Contact and Communications Modalities from the ED
• DIAS-2 Desmoteplase in Acute Ischemic Stroke
• Haddon Matrix as a Tool to Teach Pediatric Patients about Medical Errors
• Medication Data Accuracy and Emergency Department Interventions among Geriatric Patients
• Neurological Emergency Trial Network Study
• Patient Expectations of their Emergency Department Visit
• Predictive Modeling of Hospital Resource Utilization for ED Admissions
• Reliability of Emergency Department Triage Pulse Oximetry
• Safety and Efficacy of NeuroFlo Technology in Ischemic Stroke
• Sonographic Measurements of the Inferior Vena Cava as an Indicator of Volume Status in Pediatric Emergency Patients
• The Epidemiology of Elderly Visitors to an Urban Emergency Department
• The Impact of an Electronic Medical Record on Emergency Department Coding
• The Influence of Childhood Obesity on Presentation to a Pediatric Emergency Department
• The Usefulness of an Elevated Procalcitonin Level as an Indicator of the Presence of Acute Appendicitis in Children
• Treatment of Complications of Automated Internal Defibrillators
• National Emergency Department Safety Study
• Utilization of Personal Digital Assistant by Pediatric and Emergency Medicine Residents