Emergency and Immediate Care Research
Sheffield is a leading national and international centre for emergency medicine research. Academic emergency medicine is based in the section of Health Services Research in the School of Health and Related Research (ScHARR) and the Emergency Department of the Sheffield Teaching Hospitals Foundation Trust. We are also linked with a number of other NHS and academic organisations throughout the UK.
Research undertaken in emergency medicine
The range of research methods reflects the range of issues that need to be addressed to deliver high quality evidence based emergency care. Research methods include single-centre and multi-centre clinical trials, cluster trials, observational studies, organisational evaluation, qualitative research, meta-analysis, modelling and cost-effectiveness analysis. We have developed productive collaborations with a wide variety of academic disciplines.
We have studied a wide range of issues in emergency care:
- The organisation of emergency care e.g. Evaluation of the National Infarct Angioplasty Project; ESCAPE trial of chest pain units in the NHS; Evaluation of organisational factors influencing emergency department performance (UWAIT and SAFETIME)
- Clinical trials in emergency medicine e.g. 3Mg trial of magnesium sulphate in acute asthma; RATPAC trial of point-of-care cardiac markers in acute chest pain
- Workforce evaluation in emergency care e.g. Studies on delivery of pre-hospital care in the community without transfer to hospital. Evaluation of motivation and well-being of junior doctors in emergency departments (EDiT)
- Economic evaluation in emergency care e.g. Secondary research into strategies for deep venous thrombosis and minor head injury care
- Risk prediction in emergency care e.g. Development and Validation of Risk-adjusted Outcomes for Systems of emergency care (DAVROS); PAINTED study (Pandemic Influenza in the Emergency Department)
Clinical academia
Clinical academic training is provided at all levels of medical career progression:
- Medical student SSC modules alongside established projects
- One-year intercalated BMedSci degrees
- 4-month foundation year 2 attachments
- Three-year academic clinical fellow (ST1-3) posts
- Full-time MD/PhD research fellowships
- Four-year clinical lecturer posts