WestJEM is the official journal of the California Chapter of the American Academy of Emergency Medicine, the California Chapter of the American College of Emergency Physicians and the American College of Osteopathic Emergency Physicians. WestJEM is now indexed in PubMed with full text in PubMed Central, CINAHL, Scopus and Directory of Open Access Journals.
WestJEM's goal is to be the premier open-access, peer-reviewed emergency medicine journal, drawing submissions from the Western United States and Western Hemisphere, and providing an English language forum for developing emergency care systems throughout the world. The journal’s purpose is to provide original research and review articles in:
- Optimal patient care through enhanced clinical decision-making, efficiency of evaluation and treatment, medical education and promotion of patient safety.
- The role of computers in the emergency department, including simulation and information transfer within and between health systems, and between patients and physicians.
- Injury prevention and population health.
- Clinical imaging
Current Issue, Volume 13, Issue 2, 2012
Injury Prevention and Population Health
Trauma Center-Based Surveillance of Nontraffic Pedestrian Injury among California Children
Rice, Thomas M; Trent, Roger B; Bernacki, Kate; Rice, Jennifer K; Lovette, Bonnie; Hoover, Eileen et al.
Violent and Fatal Youth Trauma: Is There a Missed Opportunity?
Caputo, Nicholas D.; Shields, Christopher P.; Ochoa, Cesar O.; Matarlo, Jennifer; Leber, Mark; Madlinger, Robert et al.
Alcohol Misuse and Multiple Sexual Partners
Bazargan-Hejazi, Shahrzad; Gains, Tommi; Bazargan, Mohsen; Seddighzadeh, Bobak; Ahmadi, Alireza
Cardiology
Red Flags in Electrocardiogram for Emergency Physicians: Remembering Wellens’ Syndrome and Upright T wave in V1
Ünlüer, erden e; Pınar, Adnan; Bozdemir, Hüseyin; Bayata, Serdar; Ünlüer, Seran; Yavaşi, Özcan
ED Administration
Time Series Analysis of Emergency Department Length of Stay per 8-Hour Shift
Rathlev, Niels K.; Obendorfer, Daniel; White, Laura F.; Rebholz, Casey M.; Magauran, Brendan; Baker, Willie et al.
Insurance Exchange Marketplace: Implications for Emergency Medicine Practice
Rankey, David S.
Patient and Physician Willingness to Use Personal Health Records in the Emergency Department
Menon, Anil S.; greenwald, sally; Ma, Trisha J.; Kooshesh, Shoreh; Duriseti, Ram
Measuring Emergency Physicians’ Work: Factoring in Clinical Hours, Patients Seen, and Relative Value Units into 1 Metric
Silich, Bert; Yang, James J.
Physician Assistants Contribution to Emergency Department Productivity
Brook, Christopher; Chomut, Alexandra; Jeanmonod, Rebecca K.
Teaching and Clinical Efficiency: Competing Demands
Colletti, James E; Flottemesch, Thomas J.; O'Connell, Tara; Ankel, Felix K.; Asplin, Brent R.
Clinical Practice
Emergency Department Management of Delirium in the Elderly
Gower, Lynn E.J.; Gatewood, Medley O'Keefe; Kang, Christopher S.
Radiation Dose From Medical Imaging: A Primer for Emergency Physicians
Jones, Jesse G.A.; Mills, Christopher N.; Mogensen, Monique A.; Lee, Christoph I.
Disaster Preparedness and Population Health
Downwind from the Great Tohoku Earthquake: A Call to Global Action
Koenig, Kristi L.; Burkle, Frederick M.
Trauma
Bilateral Spontaneous Pneumothorax
Garrido, Marcela; Aguilera, Pablo
CAL/AAEM Newsletter
President's Message May 2012
Mills, Trevor
University of California Irvine’s Ultrafest: Bedside Ultrasound Symposium Riding the Wave of Ultrasound in Medical Education
Bertoglio, Kiah; Fox, J Christian
The Fight Against Teenage Drunk Driving: Saving Lives and Keeping Preventable Injuries out of the Emergency Department
Jakle, Hal; Spjute, Adam
Table of Contents
Table of Contents May 2012
Emergency Medicine, Western Journal
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Masthead May 2012
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