Mission Statement

WestJEM focuses on how the systems and delivery of emergency care affects health, health disparities, and health outcomes in communities and populations worldwide, including the impact of social conditions on the composition of patients seeking care in emergency departments.

Population Health, per the Journal’s use, is broadly defined as research that examines systems of medicine related to the emergency department and environs. While the focus of the Journal is broadly on, “Integrating Emergency Care with Population Health,” the journal focus is NOT narrowly defined as only public health or epidemiology. Likely the only category of research paper that the journal does not consider are pharmaceutical company studies of investigational drugs.

Further description of the types of papers the journal encourages for submission follow:

1. All ages (pediatrics/adult/geriatrics)
2. Community, academic and critical access practice settings
3. All countries and regions, even if emergency care, per se, is not yet a formally recognized specialty
4. Abuse of all types (child, sexual, domestic violence, elder)
5. Injury prevention (gun violence)
6. Immigrant health
7. Psychiatric conditions and addiction medicine
8. Clinical practice of EM within the ED for all traditional medical and surgical specialties
9. Critical care delivered within the ED
10. Observation medicine
11. ED Operations, including throughput, boarding/crowding/finance/transfers/extension to outpatient care paths
12. Social determinates of health
13. Education of medical students, residents and fellows
14. Computers/technology use in and around the ED
15. Infectious diseases, epidemics, and pandemics
16. Prehospital care
17. All associated sub boards of emergency medicine (pediatrics, EMS, US, ED admin, tox, critical care, medical informatics)

WestJEM has dedicated subspecialty content experts for the following sections. Submitted papers will undergo peer review from both reviewers with specific interest in the topic of submitted papers, as well as synthesis and further review from subspecialty content experts, including:

1. Behavioral Emergencies
2. Cardiac Care
3. Climate Change
4. Clinical Practice
5. Critical Care
6. Disaster Medicine
7. Education
8. ED Administration
9. Emergency Medical Services
10. Geriatrics
11. Health Equity
12. Infectious Disease
13. Injury Prevention
14. International Medicine
15. Legal Medicine
16. Musculo-Skeletal conditions
17. Neurosciences
18. Pediatric Emergency Medicine
19. Public Health
20. Statistics and Methodology
21. Technology in Emergency Medicine
22. Trauma
23. Toxicology
24. Ultrasound
25. Women’s Health

If you are unsure whether your potential submission fits the niche of the journal, please email the Editor at milangdo@uci.edu and editor@westjem.org with an abstract.

Last updated March 20, 2023