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Suggested Citation:"Appendix C Acronyms." Institute of Medicine. 2007. Future of Emergency Care: Dissemination Workshop Summaries. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/11926.
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Appendix C
Acronyms

AAP American Academy of Pediatrics

ACEP American College of Emergency Physicians

ACTION Accelerating Change and Transformation in Organizations and Networks

AHRQ Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

ANCC Advice nurse call center

CDC Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

CEN Certified emergency nurse

CMS Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services

DHHS U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

DHS U.S. Department of Homeland Security

DMAT Disaster management assistant team

DoD U.S. Department of Defense

DOT U.S. Department of Transportation

ED Emergency department

EDAP Emergency department approved for pediatrics

EMAC Emergency Management Assistance Compact

EMRA Emergency Medicine Residents’ Association

EMS Emergency medical services

EMS-C The federal Emergency Medical Services for Children program

Suggested Citation:"Appendix C Acronyms." Institute of Medicine. 2007. Future of Emergency Care: Dissemination Workshop Summaries. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/11926.
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EMT Emergency medical technician

EMTALA Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act

ENA Emergency Nurses Association

FDA U.S. Food and Drug Administration

FEMA Federal Emergency Management Agency

FICEMS Federal Interagency Committee on EMS

HCUP Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project

HRSA Health Resources and Services Administration

INPC Indiana Network for Patient Care

IRB Institutional review board

JCAHO Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations

LERN Louisiana Emergency Response Network

LVN Licensed vocational nurse

MCHB Maternal and Child Health Bureau

MRC Medical Reserve Corps

NEMSIS National EMS information system

NETT Neurological Emergencies Treatment Trials

NHTSA National Highway Traffic Safety Administration

NIH National Institutes of Health

NINDS National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke

PALS Pediatric advance life support

PCCC Pediatric critical care center

PECARN Pediatric Emergency Care Applied Research

PHESS Public Health Emergency Surveillance System

PICU Pediatric intensive care unit

PSO Patient safety organization

SAEM Society for Academic Emergency Medicine

SPOTRIAS Special Program of Translational Research in Acute Stroke

USU Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences

Suggested Citation:"Appendix C Acronyms." Institute of Medicine. 2007. Future of Emergency Care: Dissemination Workshop Summaries. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/11926.
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Suggested Citation:"Appendix C Acronyms." Institute of Medicine. 2007. Future of Emergency Care: Dissemination Workshop Summaries. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/11926.
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In June 2006, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) Committee on the Future of Emergency Care in the U.S. Health System released a series of reports on the state of emergency care. The reports, Emergency Medical Services at the Crossroads; Hospital-Based Emergency Care: At the Breaking Point; and Emergency Care for Children: Growing Pains, identified a number of disturbing problems including overcrowded emergency departments, a lack of coordination among emergency providers, variability in the quality of care provided to patients, workforce shortages, lack of disaster preparedness, a limited research base, and shortcomings in the systems' ability to care for pediatric patients. These problems, while apparent to those who work in the field, are largely hidden from public view, in part because popular fictional television programs frequently depict the emergency care system in fine shape. Despite the lifesaving feats performed every day by emergency departments and ambulance services, the nation's emergency medical system as a whole is overburdened, underfunded, and highly fragmented. The IOM received funding from 14 organizations to conduct a series of dissemination workshops associated with the release of the 2006 reports on the future of emergency care.

Three one-day regional dissemination workshops were conducted in Salt Lake City, Utah (September 7, 2006), Chicago, Ilinois (October 27, 2006), and New Orleans, Louisiana (November 2, 2006). Each of the workshops featured focused discussions in two issue areas. The meeting in Salt Lake City focused on pediatric emergency care and care in rural areas; in Chicago it was workforce issues and hospital efficiency; and in New Orleans it was EMS issues and disaster preparedness. A fourth capstone workshop, held in Washington, D.C., provided an opportunity to engage congressional and other federal policy leaders in a discussion of emergency care issue.

Future of Emergency Care summarizes the proceedings of the workshops. Each regional workshop began with an overview of the findings and recommendations from the three reports on the future of emergency care. Findings and recommendations from those three reports are also summarized in this report.

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