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Pre-Hospital Outcomes for Evidence Based Evaluation studies presented at 18th World Congress on Disaster and Emergency Medicine

IMAG0511Fiona Togher, Viet-Hai Phung and Professor Niroshan Siriwardena from CaHRU recently attended the World Congress on Disaster and Emergency Medicine which took place in Manchester on 28th to 31st May 2013. Together with Janette Turner from the University of Sheffield, the group gave three oral presentions on studies from Pre-hospital Outcomes for Evidence Based Evaluation (PhOEBE), a 5-year programme of work funded by the National Institute for Health Research Programme Grants for Applied Research.

Fiona Togher presented a qualitative study, ‘What do service users value about the emergency ambulance service?‘. Viet-Hai Phung presented a ‘Systematic review of pre-hospital outcomes for evidence-based evaluation of ambulance service care’. Finally Janette Turner presented, ‘What outcome measures should be developed for pre-hospital care? Results of a consensus event.’ All three studies sought to identify existing and new outcome (together with process and structural) measures for ambulance services. The presentations were well delivered and received and there were a number of constructive questions and comments from an international audience.

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The day began with a keynote lecture  entitled ‘A Brief History of Resuscitation’. from Professor Douglas Chamberlain, preeminent in and one of the founders of resuscitation medicine in the UK. Professor Chamberlain received the Peter Safar award for his international work in resuscitation. He was also one of the leaders in development of the paramedic role.

 

 

 

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Improvement science and research methods seminars: introduction to Stata

The latest in a series of regular seminars consisted of an introduction to Stata, the widely used software for statistical analysis. The seminar held on 9 April was led by Dr Zahid Asghar, senior lecturer in statistics, and was attended by members of the Community and Health Research Unit.

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The presentation covered basic Stata commands designed to inspect and examine data, before going on to summarise data using simple descriptive statistics. This laid the foundations for future sessions examining regression and more advanced statistical techniques.

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Making an impact: what’s new in prehospital emergency care research

Members of the Community and Health Research Unit (CaHRU) recently attended a one-day prehospital emergency care conference in999EMS Cardiff on 27 February 2013 to present studies on behalf of the study teams and being undertaken as part of the Prehospital Emergency Quality and Outcomes (PEQO) programme of research at CaHRU. The conference was sponsored by the Thematic Research Network for Unscheduled and Trauma care (TRUST), Welsh Ambulance Service Trust and the 999 EMS Research Forum.

Viet-Hai Phung presented posters on  “Leadership, innovation and engagement in quality improvement in the Ambulance Services Cardiovascular Quality Initiative: cross sectional study” and “Prehospital outcomes for ambulance service care: systematic review”. Fiona Togher and Viet-Hai Phung presented a poster on “What do users value about the emergency ambulance service?“.

cardiffProfessor Niro Siriwardena presented one of the four oral presentations selected at the conference on the resuslts from the Ambulance Services Cardiovascular Quality Initiative (ASCQI), “The effect of a national ambulance Quality Improvement Collaborative on performance in care bundles for acute myocardial infarction and stroke”. In the afternoon he also conducted a workshop with Dr Steven Macey on “How to include anonymised routine data in emergency care research”.

The conference was a real success and an important opportunity for team members to meet with other leading prehospital researchers in the United Kingdom.

 

 

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Improvement science and methods seminar series: experimental methods in health research

The latest seminar in the ‘improvement science and methods’ seminar series covered non-randomised experimental designs and was given by director of CaHRU, Niro Siriwardena.

The seminar included discussion of pre-experimental (uncontrolled before-and-after) designs and quasi-experimental designs such as time series, interrupted time series and non-randomised control group designs, including the advantages and disadvantages of these methods for quality improvement and complex interventions.

Presentation: ‘Experimental methods in health research’

A chapter on ‘Experimental methods in health research’ by Professor Siriwardena is also included in the recently published second edition of ‘Researching Health’, a textbook for health researchers.  The book includes qualitative and quantitative methods employed in researching health, contemporary issues such as research ethics, comparative research and the use of mixed methods, and how to disseminate health research.

 

 

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University of Lincoln/NHS Health Research Forum

The latest Research Forum took place today on 7th November in the Board Room in Bridge House. The Research Forum takes place three times a year and is an opportunity for colleagues to present studies conducted in Lincolnshire or undertaken by the county’s researchers. The meeting  began with a light lunch and included NHS staff, university staff and students, and colleagues interested in health and social care research.

The presentations were:
• Programs to promote physical activity among children and adolescents: A case study of the Team Bath Tribe
Project presented by Dr Harriet Koorts, LCHS NHS Trust.
• An exploration of how a multi-disciplinary team (MDT) approach can support decision making in advanced
heart failure; an action research methodology presented by Rachel Gavin, Heart Failure Complex Case Manager, LCHS
NHS Trust.
• Achieving change in older people’s services: Effective prevention?’ presented by Karen Windle, Reader in Health, CaHRU, University of Lincoln.

The three studies were excellently presented and well received by attendees. There were some excellent questions generated and ably responded to by our speakers.

If you wish to attend future meetings, please contact Victoria Hill at Victoria.Hill@lincs-chs.nhs.uk