Prehospital research in sub-saharan Africa: establishing research tenets

Academic Emergency Medicine : Official Journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine
Nee-Kofi Mould-MillmanLee Wallis

Abstract

Prehospital care constitutes an important link in the continuum of emergency care and confers a survival benefit to injured and ill persons. As development of acute and emergency care in sub-Saharan Africa expands, there is a strong need to improve the delivery of prehospital care to help relieve the overwhelming regional morbidity and mortality attributable to time-sensitive, life-threatening conditions. Effective research is integral to prehospital care development, as it helps quantify the need for prehospital care and tests effective solutions. Unfortunately, there is limited consensus guiding such research in the low-resource nations of sub-Saharan Africa that face unique challenges. This article aims to assimilate the current pertinent literature to demonstrate research success stories and challenges, and ultimately to build on previous efforts to establish prehospital research priorities for sub-Saharan Africa. Region-specific obstacles hindering prehospital research include the lack of epidemiologic data on emergency conditions, the underdevelopment of in-hospital emergency care, confusing prehospital terminology, poorly defined prehospital research priorities, the lack of qualified local prehospital researchers, and a ...Continue Reading

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Dec 19, 2015·Global Health, Science and Practice·Nee-Kofi Mould-MillmanThomas B Campbell
Feb 6, 2016·Emergency Medicine Journal : EMJ·Trisha AnestBhakti Hansoti
Feb 24, 2017·Prehospital and Disaster Medicine·Nee-Kofi Mould-MillmanLee A Wallis
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