Research Priorities for Data Collection and Management Within Global Acute and Emergency Care Systems |
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| Authors: | Teri A. Reynolds MD MS PhD Mark Bisanzo MD DTMH Daniel Dworkis MD PhD Bhakti Hansoti MBChB MPH Ziad Obermeyer MD MPhil Phil Seidenberg MD Mark Hauswald MS MD Hani Mowafi MD MPH |
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| Affiliation: | 1. The Department of Emergency Medicine, University of California, , San Francisco, CA;2. The Department of Emergency Medicine, Muhimbili National Hospital, , Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania;3. The Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Massachusetts, , Worcester, MA;4. The Department of Emergency Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, , Boston, MA;5. Johns Hopkins University, , Baltimore, MD;6. Harvard Medical School, , Boston, MA;7. The Department of Emergency Medicine, University of New Mexico, , Albuquerque, NM;8. The Department of Emergency Medicine, University Teaching Hospital, , Lusaka, Zambia;9. The Department of Emergency Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, , New Haven, CT |
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| Abstract: | Barriers to global emergency care development include a critical lack of data in several areas, including limited documentation of the acute disease burden, lack of agreement on essential components of acute care systems, and a lack of consensus on key analytic elements, such as diagnostic classification schemes and regionally appropriate metrics for impact evaluation. These data gaps obscure the profound health effects of lack of emergency care access in low‐ and middle‐income countries (LMICs). As part of the Academic Emergency Medicine consensus conference “Global Health and Emergency Care: A Research Agenda,” a breakout group sought to develop a priority research agenda for data collection and management within global emergency care systems. |
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