American Journal of Emergency Medicine

The scope of The American Journal of Emergency Medicine is as broad as the definition of emergency
medicine itself, encompassing all activities concerned with acute medical care. AJEM invites the
submission of original research, reports, correspondence, and opinion relating to acute adult and
pediatric medicine and surgery and the related fields of trauma, toxicology, critical care, resuscitation,
emergency medical services, behavioral emergencies, and environmental medicine.

In general, AJEM does not publish surveys, qualitative research, papers that focus on patient
satisfaction, quality assurance, or didactics , or use data sets that do not include recent (less than
3 years old) data.

Original contributions will be accepted on the basis of significance, validity, and clarity. Authors will
be expected to justify conclusions by the data presented, maintain a lucid prose style, and describe
methodology in sufficient detail for readers to evaluate results accurately. AJEM, in turn, is committed
to a confidential, expeditious, and professional editorial process. Reviews will be objective, rigorous,
and responsible.

Articles published in AJEM are indexed and abstracted in Index Medicus, Excerpta Medica, Current
Contents/Clinical Medicine, ISI/BIOMED, and BIOSIS.

For the convenience of prospective authors, AJEM is a participating journal in the International
Committee of Medical Journal Editors’ ‘‘Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to
Biomedical Journals’’ (N Engl J Med 1997;336:309-315). This agreement provides for a standardized
manuscript format, allowing authors to submit articles to any one of over 500 scholarly medical
publications without revision simply to accommodate the vagaries of any individual journal’s technical and stylistic requirements.