Objectives
- Partner with the Grants Committee, Web Board and Communications Committee to identify and disseminate funding opportunities in geriatric/aging research and education. Geriatrics Task Force is the lead for content for the website and newsletter article.
Due: March 1, 2009
- Partner with the Web Editorial Board to continue production and dissemination of educational modules in emergency medicine geriatric education for the SAEM Website.
- Complete requirements for the “Geriatrics Training for Emergency Medicine Physicians: a practical approach to promote patient safety and quality of care” grant.
(Retirement Research Foundation. Funding ends January 1, 2009.)
- Complete the development of quality indicators in geriatric care in six areas and submit a publication reporting results and areas for future study.
- Partner with the Crowding Task Force to discuss and develop potential research studies assessing effects of ED crowding on geriatric patients’ quality care. Geriatrics Committee will be the lead committee.
Due: March 1, 2009.
- Develop a continuity plan for the study and dissemination of the import and impact of geriatric emergency medicine within the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine.
Due: October 1, 2008.
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