When Dr. Brown took over at OECR, there was no RCDC code for emergency medicine. Absent an RCDC code, there was no way to know how much NIH spent on emergency care research. He created an RCDC code for clinical emergency medicine and calculated that in 2011, 2012, and 2013, NIH spent a total of $90.8 million, representing 2.6% of NIH funding.
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ACEP14 Daily News Tuesday: Vol 33 - No10B - October 2014Dr. Brown concluded his talk by explaining that OECR wants to fund more excellent science.
“We are lagging behind,” he said. “We need to do something about this.”
Lara C. Pullen is a freelance medical writer in Chicago.
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