Table 1.

Summary of recommendations

Target audience	Recommendations
Emergency medicine providers	1. All emergency medicine providers should understand the role and application of both clinical research and quality improvement science
Academic emergency medicine physicians	2. Academic emergency medicine physicians should contribute to both local adoption and broad dissemination of project findings 3. Quality improvement methodology should be leveraged by researchers to improve the knowledge translation of study findings 4. Researchers and quality improvement experts should ensure that their respective project outcomes prioritize patient care
Academic leaders	5. Academic leaders should strive to enhance the infrastructure for oversight of research and quality improvement projects 6. Academic leaders should encourage collaboration between researchers and quality improvement experts by ensuring that academic and operational infrastructures align and support both