AEM Special Issue: The Science of Errors in Emergency Care

Academic Emergency Medicine, the flagship journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine will publish a special issue dedicated to the science of errors in emergency care. This special issue will publish original reports that focus on all aspects of errors relevant to emergency care, ranging from the definition of errors, cognitive processing, diagnostic hypothesis generation, treatment, and communication with patients and other providers.

We hope to focus particularly on diagnostic error. A team of three specially designated editors will be looking for work that elucidates the why behind errors and how to prevent them, but also for data that illuminate group-based inequities in errors.

At the time of upload, authors can select to submit to the "Special Issue on Errors" on our AEM Submissions website. Because of the possibility of new funding for this issue, the deadline for submission is being extended into the spring of 2024. Please email any questions to Jeffrey A. Kline, AEM editor-In-chief, at jkline@wayne.edu.