Knowledge Translation in Emergency Medicine:
Establishing a Research Agenda and Guide Map for Evidence Uptake

 

A Consensus Conference Sponsored by Academic Emergency Medicine

 

The Official Journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine

 

May 15, 2007

 

Sheraton Chicago Hotel and Towers
Chicago, Illinois, USA

 

Conference Co-Chairs
Barnet Eskin, Peter Wyer, Eddy Lang

 

Organizational Support
Emergency Department
Sir Mortimer B. Davis Jewish General Hospital
A McGill University Teaching Hospital

 

Funding for this conference was made possible in part by Grant Number: 1 R13 HS017002-01 from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ). The views expressed in written conference materials or publications and by speakers and moderators do not necessarily reflect the official policies of the Department of Health and Human Services; nor does mention of trade names, commercial practices, or organizations imply endorsement by the U.S. Government.

The following stakeholder organizations have issued endorsements and have agreed to be considered among the Consensus Conference supporting agencies:

 

• Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)

• American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP)

• Alberta Research Centre for Child Health Evidence (ARCHE)

• American Academy of Emergency Medicine (AAEM)

• Canadian Agency for Drug and Technology Assessment in Health (CADTH)

• Canadian Association of Emergency Physicians (CAEP)

• Canadian Association of Emergency Physicians Research Consortium (CAEP RC)

• Canadian Institutes for Health Research (CIHR)

• Cochrane Prehospital and Emergency Health Field (CPEHF)

• Emergency Multidisciplinary Research Unit (EMRU)

• Emergency Medicine Residents Association (EMRA)

• Evidence Based Emergency Medicine Interest Group, NY Academy of Medicine

• Knowledge Translation Program at the University of Toronto

• Ottawa Health Research Institute (OHRI)

• Pediatric Emergency Care Applied Research Network (PECARN)

• Pediatric Emergency Research Canada (PERC)

• Society for Academic Emergency Medicine (SAEM)