title: Research priorities for data collection and management within global acute and emergency care systems.
abstract: Barriers to global emergency care development include a critical lack of data in several areas, including limited documentation of the acute disease burden, lack of agreement on essential components of acute care systems, and a lack of consensus on key analytic elements, such as diagnostic classification schemes and regionally appropriate metrics for impact evaluation. These data gaps obscure the profound health effects of lack of emergency care access in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). As part of the Academic Emergency Medicine consensus conference "Global Health and Emergency Care: A Research Agenda," a breakout group sought to develop a priority research agenda for data collection and management within global emergency care systems.
authors.affiliation: The Department of Emergency Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, CA; The Department of Emergency Medicine, Muhimbili National Hospital, Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania.
authors.forename: Teri A
authors.initials: TA
authors.lastname: Reynolds
authors.forename: Mark
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Bisanzo
authors.forename: Daniel
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Dworkis
authors.forename: Bhakti
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Hansoti
authors.forename: Ziad
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Obermeyer
authors.forename: Phil
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Seidenberg
authors.forename: Mark
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Hauswald
authors.forename: Hani
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Mowafi
mesh_terms: D003625:Data Collection / Q000379:methods*; D004632:Emergency Medical Services / Q000458:organization & administration*; D004635:Emergency Medicine / Q000458:organization & administration*; D014943:Global Health; D006302:Health Services Research; D006801:Humans; D012106:Research