SAEM publishes the Academic Emergency Medicine (AEM) Journal and CAEP publishes the Canadian Journal of Emergency Medicine (CJEM). I am calling SGEM Hot Off the Press, or SGEM HOP The SGEM has entered into an arrangement with Society of Academic Emergency Medicine (SAEM) and the Canadian Association of Emergency Physicians (CAEP) to achieve that goal. But we are going to try and shorten that KT window to less than 1 week using the power of Social Media. Seventeen years is more than 10 years as we are always quoting on the SGEM. A study by Morris et al in 2011 called discusses how it can take an average of 17 years for research evidence to reach clinical practice. No wonder it takes so long for high quality clinically relevant evidence to reach the bedside. The answer is no one could possibly keep up. They asked the question “How could anyone every keep up”?
Bastian et al published in PloS 2010 that there are about 75 RCT and 11 Systematic reviews released daily. There are about 3,800 biomedical publications every day on PUBMED alone. goal of the SGEM continues to be to cut the knowledge translation window down from over ten years to less than one year. C0-Author of Evidence Based Emergency Care- Diagnostic, Testing and Clinical Decision Rules.
Director, Evidence Based Medicine, Washington University.
