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The UCLA/Olive View-UCLA Emergency Medicine faculty are active in a broad array of EM research disciplines. Particular areas of strength, in which multiple faculty and residents are currently performing research, include health services research, medical informatics, and infectious disease. Other areas of active research include stroke research, pre-hospital care, clinical bedside ultrasound, and medical education.
UCLA/Olive View-UCLA Emergency Medicine faculty have been involved in many of the seminal research studies in emergency medicine, including:
Hoffman JR, Mower WR, Wolfson AB, Todd KH, Zucker MI for the National Emergency X-radiography Utilization Study (NEXUS) Group. Validity of a set of clinical criteria to rule out injury to the cervical spine in patients with blunt trauma. New England Journal of Medicine 2000;343:94-9.
Mower WR, Hoffman JR, Herbert M, Wolfson AB, Pollack CV, Zucker MI; NEXUS II Investigators. Developing a decision instrument to guide computed tomographic imaging of blunt head injury patients. Journal of Trauma 2005;59:954-9. Nguyen HB, Rivers EP, Abrahamian FM, Moran GJ, Abraham E, Trzeciak S, Huang DT, Osborn T, Stevens D, Talan DA. Severe sepsis and septic shock: review of the literature and emergency department management guidelines. Ann Emerg Med 2006;48:28-54. Moran GJ, Krishnadasan A, Gorwitz RJ, Fosheim GE, McDougal LK, Carey RB, Talan DA, for The EMERGEncy ID Net Study Group. Methicillin-Resistant S. aureus Infections among Patients in the Emergency Department. New Engl J Med 2006;355:666-74. |