SUNY at Buffalo,Department of Emergency Medicine,New York,New York USA.
Prehosp Disaster Med. 2014 Jun;29(3):294-8. doi: 10.1017/S1049023X14000338. Epub 2014 Apr 15.
Specialized knowledge and a scientific body of literature are the foundation of the recognition of Emergency Medical Services (EMS) as a subspecialty within emergency medicine (EM). Emergency Medical Services research often is presented at national meetings and published in abstract form, but full publication occurs less frequently. Problem The primary goal of the study was to determine the rate at which EMS-related research presented at selected conferences went on to manuscript publication. A secondary goal was the determination of the time to manuscript publication.
A cross-sectional study of published abstracts from the 2003-2005 national meetings of the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP), Society for Academic Emergency Medicine (SAEM), National Association of EMS Physicians (NAEMSP), Association of Air Medical Services (AAMS), and the National Association of EMS Educators (NAEMSE) was conducted to identify EMS-related abstracts. PubMed (National Center for Biotechnology Information, Bethesda, Maryland USA) was searched using abstract title keywords and authors' names to determine if the study had been published in a PubMed-indexed journal in the time since presentation and abstract publication.
Abstracts for the five conferences were reviewed for 2003-2005. Six hundred and thirty-five EMS-related abstracts met the inclusion criteria. The total number of EMS abstracts presented and the percent subsequently published as a manuscript were: SAEM 135, 53.3%; ACEP 128, 48.4%; NAEMSP 282, 42.9%; AAMS 66, 33.3%; and NAEMSE 24, 16.7%. The overall rate of publication was 44.3%. The average time to publication was 22.2 months (SD = 16.5 months, range = 0-94 months).
Less than half of EMS abstracts go on to manuscript publication. This may represent missed opportunities for the growth of EMS as a subspecialty.
专业知识和科学文献是将急救医疗服务（EMS）确认为急诊医学（EM）亚专业的基础。急救医疗服务研究通常在全国会议上进行介绍，并以摘要形式发表，但完整发表的情况较少。
本研究的主要目标是确定在选定会议上发表的与 EMS 相关的研究论文发表的比率。次要目标是确定手稿发表的时间。
对 2003-2005 年美国急诊医师学院（ACEP）、学术急诊医学协会（SAEM）、国家急诊医师协会（NAEMSP）、航空医疗服务协会（AAMS）和国家急诊医师教育协会（NAEMSE）的国家会议上发表的已发表摘要进行了横断面研究，以确定与 EMS 相关的摘要。使用标题关键字和作者姓名在 PubMed（美国马里兰州贝塞斯达国立生物技术信息中心）中进行搜索，以确定自介绍和摘要发表以来，该研究是否已在 PubMed 索引期刊上发表。
对 2003-2005 年的五次会议摘要进行了审查。有 635 篇 EMS 相关摘要符合纳入标准。发表的 EMS 摘要总数和随后作为论文发表的百分比为：SAEM 135 篇，占 53.3%；ACEP 128 篇，占 48.4%；NAEMSP 282 篇，占 42.9%；AAMS 66 篇，占 33.3%；NAEMSE 24 篇，占 16.7%。总体发表率为 44.3%。发表的平均时间为 22.2 个月（SD=16.5 个月，范围为 0-94 个月）。
不到一半的 EMS 摘要会被发表为论文。这可能代表了 EMS 作为一个亚专业发展的错失机会。
