Mission
The Emergency Medicine Network (EMNet)’s mission is to advance public health objectives through diverse projects in emergency care, particularly multicenter clinical research.
Overview
EMNet involves 247 medical centers and three programs. Large administrative dataset analyses contribute to all three programs.
The major Multicenter Airway Research Collaboration (MARC) research activities at this time are MARC-35 and MARC-43, two multicenter cohorts on infants. The cohorts will examine which children develop recurrent wheezing and asthma, and the relation of airway microbiome to risk of childhood asthma.
Another major project is MARC-42, an analysis of large administrative datasets to investigate readmissions within 30 days after COPD-related hospitalization.
The Health Services Research program includes activities such as:
a) the National ED Safety Study (NEDSS), a >60-center study of patient safety issues in the ED;
b) the ongoing National ED Inventories (NEDI), which includes a database of every ED in the United States and several international cities and countries;
c) several EM workforce studies.
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The Social EM program focuses on identifying and addressing adverse social determinants of health and developing interventions to reduce disparities in emergency care.
A major past research activity for the Social EM program was ED-SAFE, an 8-center suicide prevention project.
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