Emergency Medicine Research
Building Better Pathways for Pediatric Emergency Care
At Nemours Children’s, emergency medicine research focuses on improving urgent pediatric care. We study how care teams can make decisions safer, faster, and more consistent for children and families.
This work connects emergency care with the specialties and systems that support children beyond the first visit. Our goal is to give clinicians stronger evidence and families clearer care pathways when urgent health needs arise.
Key Areas of Research
Emergency Decision-Making | Studying how clinicians evaluate symptoms, test results, injuries, and risk factors in urgent situations so children can receive the right care at the right time.
Acute Illness, Injury & Pain | Improving how emergency teams diagnose and care for children with sudden illness, injury, infection, pain, or other urgent concerns.
Urgent Infection & Illness Evaluation | Studying how clinicians evaluate infections, breathing problems, fever-related concerns, and other urgent symptoms so children receive appropriate testing, treatment, and follow-up care.
Emergency-to-Specialty Care Transitions | Evaluating how children move from emergency care into specialty care, surgery, hospitalization, or follow-up so treatment decisions are coordinated and timely.
Musculoskeletal Injury & Recovery | Studying bone, joint, and movement-related injuries to improve diagnosis, treatment planning, healing, and long-term function after urgent or emergency care.
Multicenter Emergency Research | Participating in large pediatric emergency research collaborations that allow investigators to study urgent care questions across many hospitals and patient populations.
Emergency Medicine Clinical Trials & Studies
Emergency medicine research at Nemours includes studies that help clinicians make better decisions in high-pressure care settings.
Nemours also participates in national pediatric emergency research efforts, including work connected to the Pediatric Emergency Care Applied Research Network (PECARN). PECARN is the first federally funded emergency medicine research network in the U.nited States, with Nemours participating as part of the GLACIER node with other leading children’s hospitals. These collaborations help answer questions that no single hospital could answer alone.
Where Emergency Medicine Research Happens
Emergency medicine research at Nemours is closely connected to the clinical environments where children receive urgent care. Investigators work with emergency medicine clinicians and connect with specialty research when urgent care involves injury, follow-up, surgery, or recovery.
Emergency Clinical Care
Emergency Medicine
CLINICAL CARE
Pediatric emergency care for acute illness and injury provided 24/7 at Nemours Children’s hospitals and in collaboration with local emergency providers.
Orthopedic Center, Delaware Valley
CLINICAL CARE
Pediatric orthopedic care including neuromuscular, spine, and limb conditions at Nemours Children’s Hospital, Delaware and throughout Greater Philadelphia.