Board Certification

Articles on the Quality of Care

The following articles demonstrate that board certification or residency training in EM enhances the quality of care, and support the AAEM mission to ensure patient access to such specialties.

• An Association Between Emergency Medicine Residencies and Improved Trauma Patient Outcome (added 12/28/05)
• Emergency Medicine-trained Physicians Proficient in the Insertion of Transvenous Pacemakers (added 6/9/04)
• Impact of Emergency Medicine Faculty on Door to Thrombolytic Time (added 5/10/04)
• Improved Airway Management (added 4/23/03)
• Family Practice Graduates and Emergency Medicine (added 2/5/01)
• Impact of Emergency Residency Program on Rotator's Emergency Medicine Education (added 2/5/01)
• Attending Supervision of Nonemergency Medicine Residents in a University Hospital ED (added 2/5/01)
• Quality of Care Study (added 11/27/00)
• Cost of Care Study (added 11/27/00)
• Improved Airway Management: Emergency Department Airway Management Before and After an Emergency Medicine Residency (added 11/27/00)
• Improved Airway Management: Declining Rate of Cricothyrotomy in Trauma Patients with an Emergency Medicine Residency (added 11/27/00)
• EM Training Improves Malpractice Experience (added 9/18/00)