Academic emergency medicine : official journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine
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Clinical trial investigators often assemble internal study monitoring committees (SMCs) to measure individual or group adherence with trial performance benchmarks. We examined the processes and results of study monitoring in an international trial of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. ⋯ Study monitoring procedures may play an important role in ensuring the performance quality in acute care clinical trials.
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The Global Emergency Medicine Literature Review (GEMLR) conducts a systematic annual search of peer-reviewed and gray literature relevant to global emergency medicine (EM) to identify, review, and disseminate the most rigorously conducted and widely relevant research in global EM. ⋯ In 2018, the total number of articles relevant to global EM that were identified by our search continued to increase. Studies and reviews focusing on pediatric infections, several new and traditionally underrepresented topics, and landscape reviews that may help guide clinical care in new settings represented the majority of top-scoring articles. A shortage of articles related to the development of EM as a specialty was identified.