Three reports were released on June 14, 2006, in Washington, DC.  Please refer to last link below under "Project Meetings" or use the link above for more information. 

Dissemination workshops were organized.  Please visit www.iom.edu/emergencycare/workshops for further information.

The scope of this IOM study addressed the full range of emergency care services, including 9-1-1 and medical dispatch, prehospital EMS (including ground and air medical services), and hospital-based emergency and trauma care for adults and children.  The reports of this project address three key focus areas of the study -- prehospital, hospital-based, and pediatric emergency and trauma care -- as well as provide an integrated overview of the emergency care system in the United States.

The structure of the project was as follows:

• The 25 member Main committee (expanded from the original 18 members) includes representation from both pediatric and pre-hospital emergency care services;
• An 11 member Prehospital EMS subcommittee was established, including six from the main committee;
• An 11 member Pediatric subcommittee was established, including five from the main committee;
• And a 13 member Hospital-based Emergency Department subcommittee was established, including eight from the main committee.

Please note that the final session of this study's meetings open to the public was held during the March 2005 meetings in Irvine, CA.  

More information on this project can be found using the links to the left.  You may also sign up for the project listserv to receive information via e-mail on upcoming meetings and other project-related news.

To provide feedback to committee and subcommittee members and project staff through the duration of the project, please follow directions at the bottom of the project's page in the National Academies Current Projects System. Please note that any comments submitted through this website or otherwise, including your name and identifying information, will not be kept confidential and will be included in a Public Access File. The National Academies shall be authorized to use any such comments or submissions in accordance with the National Academies' Terms of Use Agreement.

Support for this project was provided by the Josiah Macy, Jr. Foundation; the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), and  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC); and the U.S. Department of Transportation's National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA).