NIH Requesting Input on Ways to Enhance Emergency Medical Care Research

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) recently issued a request for information (RFI) seeking input that will help inform: The development of good emergency medical care research practices under Exception from Informed Consent (EFIC) and Policies and procedures for the design, implementation, and oversight of NIH-supported emergency medical care research conducted under EFIC. Because obtaining informed consent from patients with emergent, life-threatening conditions is so difficult, research in emergency and prehospital settings often falls under EFIC guidelines. There are significant challenges to conducting emergency care research and NIH is looking for feedback on those challenges and how they can be addressed. Safely reducing barriers to EMS research is a priority of the profession that was mentioned frequently during the two years of gathering community input for EMS Agenda 2050. The NHTSA Office of EMS strongly encourages individuals and organizations from the EMS community to respond to the RFI and share their ideas that can help facilitate high-quality and safe EMS research. Responses are due by December 17, 2018. More details as well as instructions for how to respond are available online.
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