‘Emerging research priorities within pre-hospital care’ with Sarah McLaughlin and Lisa Ramage.

In this interview we will examine the emerging research priorities within pre-hospital care from the perspective of priority and importance. I will be speaking with Sarah McLaughlin – a senior research fellow with affiliations with Essex & Herts Air Ambulance (EHAAT) and Anglia Ruskin University. I will also be speaking with Lisa Ramage, Lisa is a PHEM trainee in the East of England and the chair of PHOTON. PHOTON is a group of non-consultant grade, pre-hospital, doctors with an ambition to expand the quality and reach of research within pre-hospital care. In this conversation we are going to examine a national Delphi study which is defining the national research priorities within pre-hospital care in the contemporary climate. We will also:

• Examine what is a Delphi study
• Why is it an important time for empirical research and audit at the moment within pre-hospital care
• Sarah’s EHAAT Delphi study as an analogue of the national PHOTON study
• The process of a Delphi study in terms of rounds and refinement of the questions.
• How does it achieve consensus?
• What are the advantages to a Delphi study?
• Ethical approval (the panel and process)
• Topics that have emerged from the process
• Why is it important to study end points that don’t always involve mortality (look at 30 day outcome, CPC neurological outcome, discharge data, and patient centred outcomes)
• How does this inform national strategic direction and focus
• Final thoughts from Sarah and Lisa & take-home messages.

You can find out more about PHOTON and Lisa Ramage here: https://fphc.rcsed.ac.uk/about/photon-group

You can find out more about EHAAT here: https://www.ehaat.org/about-us/our-people/

You can find the EHAAT Delphi study that is mentioned in the interview here: https://sjtrem.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13049-021-00835-z

You can find some of Sarah McLaughlin's publications here: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Sarah-Mclachlan-5

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