Uncertainty in Facility Location Models for Emergency Medical Services

Stratman, Eric G.; Boutilier, Justin J.; Albert, Laura A.

doi:10.1007/978-3-031-32338-6_9

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“…As a result, it can be challenging to recruit personnel to participate in research studies or to allocate time to collect data. Additionally, prehospital care infrastructure is often decentralized, with services provided by multiple organizations with different protocols and resources [56]. This can make it difficult to standardize data collection and analysis across different regions, leading to inconsistent outcomes.…”

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confidence: 99%

Clinical Research in Prehospital Care: Current and Future Challenges

Cimino,

Braun

2023

Clinics and Practice

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Prehospital care plays a critical role in improving patient outcomes, particularly in cases of time-sensitive emergencies such as trauma, cardiac failure, stroke, bleeding, breathing difficulties, systemic infections, etc. In recent years, there has been a growing interest in clinical research in prehospital care, and several challenges and opportunities have emerged. There is an urgent need to adapt clinical research methodology to a context of prehospital care. At the same time, there are many barriers in prehospital research due to the complex context, posing unique challenges for research, development, and evaluation. Among these, this review allows the highlighting of limited resources and infrastructure, ethical and regulatory considerations, time constraints, privacy, safety concerns, data collection and analysis, selection of a homogeneous study group, etc. The analysis of the literature also highlights solutions such as strong collaboration between emergency medical services (EMS) and hospital care, use of (mobile) health technologies and artificial intelligence, use of standardized protocols and guidelines, etc. Overall, the purpose of this narrative review is to examine the current state of clinical research in prehospital care and identify gaps in knowledge, including the challenges and opportunities for future research.

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Section: Limited Resources and Infrastructurementioning

confidence: 99%