2022 consensus conference on diversity,equity, and inclusion: Developing an emergency medicine research agenda for addressing racism through health care research |
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| Authors: | Joshua Davis MD Leon D Sanchez MD MPH Angela F Jarman MD MPH Wendy Macias-Konstantopoulos MD MPH MBA Jennifer Newberry MD JD MSc Shama Patel MD MPH Erik Hess MD MSc Elizabeth Burner MD MPH |
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| Institution: | 1. University of Kansas School of Medicine, Wichita, Kansas, USA;2. Department of Emergency Medicine, Brigham and Women's Faulkner Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA;3. Department of Emergency Medicine, University of California, Davis, Sacramento, California, USA;4. Department of Emergency Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA;5. Department of Emergency Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA;6. Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Florida College of Medicine, Jacksonville, Florida, USA;7. Department of Emergency Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, USA;8. Department of Emergency Medicine, Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA |
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| Abstract: | Racism in emergency medicine (EM) health care research is pervasive but often underrecognized. To understand the current state of research on racism in EM health care research, we developed a consensus working group on this topic, which concluded a year of work with a consensus-building session as part of the overall Society for Academic Emergency Medicine (SAEM) consensus conference on diversity, equity, and inclusion: “Developing a Research Agenda for Addressing Racism in Emergency Medicine,” held on May 10, 2022. In this article, we report the development, details of preconference methods and preliminary results, and the final consensus of the Healthcare Research Working Group. Preconference work based on literature review and expert opinion identified 13 potential priority research questions that were refined through an iterative process to a list of 10. During the conference, the subgroup used consensus methodology and a “consensus dollar” (contingent valuation) approach to prioritize research questions. The subgroup identified three research gaps: remedies for racial bias and systematic racism, biases and heuristics in clinical care, and racism in study design, and we derived a list of six high-priority research questions for our specialty. |
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