Western Journal of Emergency Medicine:

Integrating Emergency Care with Population Health

Indexed in MEDLINE, PubMed, and Clarivate Web of Science, Science Citation Index Expanded

Journal Focus

Emergency medicine is a specialty which closely reflects societal challenges and consequences of public policy decisions. The emergency department specifically deals with social injustice, health and economic disparities, violence, substance abuse, and disaster preparedness and response. This journal focuses on how emergency care affects the health of the community and population, and conversely, how these societal challenges affect the composition of the patient population who seek care in the emergency department. The development of better systems to provide emergency care, including technology solutions, is critical to enhancing population health.

Table of Contents

703 Impact of Care Initiation Model on Emergency Department Orders and Operational Metrics: Cohort Study

Andy Hung-Yi Lee, Rebecca E. Cash, Alice Bukhman, Dana Im, Damarcus Baymon, Leon D Sanchez, Paul C. Chen

Behavioral Health

710 Disparities in Emergency Department Naloxone and Buprenorphine Initiation

Joan Papp, Charles Louis Emerman

717 Flow through the Emergency Department for Patients Presenting with Substance Use Disorder in Alberta, Canada

Jonah Edmundson, Kevin Skoblenick, Rhonda J. Rosychuk

Education

728 Perception of Quiet Students in Emergency Medicine: An Exploration of Narratives in the Standardized Letter of Evaluation

John K. Quinn, Jillian Mongelluzzo, Alyssa Nip, Joe Graterol, Esther H. Chen

732 Impact of Faculty Incentivization on Resident Evaluations

Viral Patel, Alexandra Nordberg, Richard Church, Jennifer L. Carey

Health Outcomes

737 Single-step Optimization in Triaging Large Vessel Occlusion Strokes: Identifying Factors to Improve Door-to-groin Time for Endovascular Therapy

Joshua Rawson, Ashley Petrone, Amelia Adcock

743

Violence and Abuse: A Pandemic Within a Pandemic

Paula J. Whiteman, Wendy L. Macias-Konstantopoulos, Pryanka Relan, Anita Knopov, Megan L. Ranney, Ralph J. Riviello

Critical Care

751 Examining Predictors of Early Admission and Transfer to the Critical Care Resuscitation Unit

Quincy K. Tran, Daniel Najafali, Tiffany Cao, Megan Najafali, Nelson Chen, Iana Sahadzic, Ikram Afridi, Ann Matta, William Teeter, Daniel J. Haase

763 Arterial Monitoring in Hypertensive Emergencies: Significance for the Critical Care Resuscitation Unit

Quincy K. Tran, Dominique Gelmann, Manahel Zahid, Jamie Palmer, Grace Hollis, Emily Engelbrecht-Wiggans, Zain Alam, Ann Elizabeth Matta, Emily Hart, Daniel J. Haase

Technology

774 Block Time: A Multispecialty Systematic Review of Efficacy and Safety of Ultrasound-guided Upper Extremity Nerve Blocks

Campbell Belisle Haley, Andrew R. Beauchesne, John Christian Fox, Ariana M. Nelson

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