Christopher W Seymour, Jeremy M Kahn, Christian Martin-Gill, Clifton W Callaway, Derek C Angus, Donald M Yealy
OBJECTIVES: Emergency medical services (EMS) providers deliver the initial care for millions of people in the United States each year. The Institute of Medicine noted a deficit in research necessary to improve prehospital care, created by the existence of data silos, absence of long-term outcomes, and limited stakeholder engagement in research. This article describes a regional effort to create a high-performing infrastructure in southwestern Pennsylvania addressing these fundamental barriers...
May 2014: Academic Emergency Medicine