Developing metrics for emergency care research in low- and middle-income countries.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

There is little research on emergency care delivery in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). To facilitate future research, we aimed to assess the set of key metrics currently used by researchers in these settings and to propose a set of standard metrics to facilitate future research.

Methods

Systematic literature review of 43,109 published reports on general emergency care from 139 LMICs. Studies describing care for subsets of emergency conditions, subsets of populations, and data aggregated across multiple facilities were excluded. All facility- and patient-level statistics reported in these studies were recorded and the most commonly used metrics were identified.

Results

We identified 195 studies on emergency care delivery in LMICs. There was littl

SUBMITTER: Abujaber S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6234170 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature