Data and data systems | How can data from vertical programmes and non-health data be incorporated into emergency care surveillance? |
What are the validity, reliability and utility of various surveillance instruments used in emergency care settings? | |
How do we predict the population-level burden of acute illnesses and injuries using data obtained through emergency care system surveillance? | |
How do we accurately and reliably identify epidemiological changes in the health of communities through data obtained from emergency care system surveillance? | |
What data obtained through emergency department routine surveillance can help with identifying infectious disease outbreaks in LMICs? | |
How do we use emergency care surveillance data to better characterise the prevalence of non-communicable diseases (such as DM and HTN) in otherwise healthy patients and what mechanism would improve long-term care of such patients? | |
Quality and access to emergency care and clinical interventions for key diseases | What is the epidemiology of emergency diseases in low-resource settings? Can presenting symptoms and syndromic presentations be used to define disease epidemiology when time and/or resources to make final diagnoses are not always available? |
What are the measures of access to emergency care? What is the level of access of population in LMICs to quality emergency care? | |
How can quality of emergency care be measured in low-resource settings? What interventions can be developed to improve the quality of emergency care? Which tools developed in high-resource settings are applicable in low-resource settings? | |
Which component(s) of the emergency care system either individually or in combination are most effective at improving patient outcomes and decreasing risk of death and disability? | |
How to identify, triage and treat patients with emergency conditions, such as sepsis, injury, etc, using vital signs and simple clinical assessments and other low-cost technologies, such as oxygen saturation? | |
How do we strengthen risk assessment and engage acutely sick patients and their families in decision making in low-resource, low-health literacy settings? | |
Emergency health economics | What is the economic value of emergency care? What are the economic benefits of emergency care interventions? |
How do various methods of healthcare financing impact financial protection from emergency diseases? | |
Emergency care research ethics | What international-specific and country-specific guidelines could help researchers and research ethics committees navigate ethical and regulatory issues distinctive of emergency care research? |
LMICs, low-income and middle-income countries.