Strengthening emergency care by developing data collection systems in low- and middle-income countries

Aaditya Katyal; Akshay Kumar; Preethy Rajesh; Roshan Mathew; Sanjeev Bhoi

doi:10.1016/j.afjem.2020.09.003

Strengthening emergency care by developing data collection systems in low- and middle-income countries

Afr J Emerg Med. 2021 Mar;11(1):111-112. doi: 10.1016/j.afjem.2020.09.003. Epub 2020 Oct 1.

Authors

Aaditya Katyal¹, Akshay Kumar¹, Preethy Rajesh¹, Roshan Mathew¹, Sanjeev Bhoi¹

Affiliation

¹ Department of Emergency Medicine, AIIMS, New Delhi, India.

Abstract

Emergency care surveillance as well as registries of emergency care are largely absent in most LMICs. Improper data systems in Emergency Department create an important gap in our understanding about the health of large portions of the population. Clinical data systems in LMICs and lower-resource settings will foster research and generation of contextualized evidence.

Keywords: Data collection systems; Electronic health record; Emergency department; Epidemiology studies; HER.