European journal of emergency medicine : official journal of the European Society for Emergency Medicine
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We assessed the relationship between the size of the 39 Journal Citation Reports (JCR) medical categories and impact factor (IF) of journals in these categories, and the implications that it might have for emergency medicine (EM) journals. ⋯ There is a negative relationship between JCR size category and IF achieved by the journals. This places EM journals at a clear disadvantage because they represent one of the smallest clinical medical research disciplines.
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Multicenter Study Comparative Study
Reliability of electronic recording of waiting times in the emergency department: a prospective multicenter study.
We aimed to evaluate the reliability of waiting times (WT) measures electronically retrieved. We prospectively collected true WT in four emergency departments during 20 predefined 2-h inclusion periods, and compared them with the electronically retrieved waiting time (ERWT). We assessed agreement with calculation of rate of outliers (difference exceeding 20 min), bias, and its 95% limits of agreements, and associated Bland and Altman plot. ⋯ Bland and Altman plot showed a good agreement, and we report 7% of outliers. Using ERWT, 14 patients (5%) were misclassified as having their target WT exceeded or not. ERWT agree well with the true WT, although the significant rate of outlier and misclassification calls for caution in their interpretation.