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<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title><jats:p>In 2018, the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine and the journal <jats:italic>Academic Emergency Medicine</jats:italic> (<jats:italic><jats:styled-content style="fixed-case">AEM</jats:styled-content></jats:italic>) convened a consensus conference entitled, “<jats:italic>Academic Emergency Medicine</jats:italic> Consensus Conference: Aligning the Pediatric Emergency Medicine Research Agenda to Reduce Health Outcome Gaps.” This article is the product of the breakout session, “Emergency Department Collaboration‐Pediatric Emergency Medicine in Non‐Children's Hospital”).</jats:p><jats:p>This subcommittee consisting of emergency medicine, pediatric emergency medicine, and quality improvement (<jats:styled-content style="fixed-case">QI</jats:styled-content>) experts, as well as a patient advocate, identified main outcome gaps in the care of children in the emergency departments (<jats:styled-content style="fixed-case">ED</jats:styled-content>s) in the following areas: variations in pediatric care and outcomes, pediatric readiness, and gaps in knowledge translation. The goal for this session was to create a research agenda that facilitates collaboration and partnering of diverse stakeholders to develop a system of care across all <jats:styled-content style="fixed-case">ED</jats:styled-content> settings with the aim of improving quality and increasing safe medical care for children. The following recommended research strategies emerged: explore the use of technology as well as collaborative networks for education, research, and advocacy to develop and implement patient care guidelines, pediatric knowledge generation and dissemination, and pediatric <jats:styled-content style="fixed-case">QI</jats:styled-content> and prepare all <jats:styled-content style="fixed-case">ED</jats:styled-content>s to care for the acutely ill and injured pediatric patients. In conclusion, collaboration between general <jats:styled-content style="fixed-case">ED</jats:styled-content>s and academic pediatric centers on research, dissemination, and implementation of evidence into clinical practice is a solution to improving the quality of pediatric care across the continuum.</jats:p>