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[Agency] AHRQ [Project Title] COMPARATIVE EFFECTIVENESS OF PREHOSPITAL AND HOSPITAL EMERGENCY CARE [Institution] RUTGERS THE ST UNIV OF NJ NEW BRUNSWICK [Amount] $0 [Summary] Patients with critical conditions such as cardiac arrest or major trauma often depend on prehospital emergency medical services (EMS) for life-saving care. Nevertheless, the evidence base for that care, particularly as it relates to transitions between prehospital and hospital settings, is extremely limited. These transitions are poorly understood because data linking prehospital and hospital services are lacking. Without linked data, many important questions about the effectiveness of emergency care systems and protocols cannot be answered. This project will create a data infrastructure for comparative effectiveness research (CER) that bridges prehospital and hospital care using newly available electronic patient care records for prehospital EMS transports in New Jersey (Specific Aim 1). These data will be linked to all-payer hospital discharge abstract data and death certificates to support a wide range of comparative effectiveness studies on patient- and system-level interventions where prehospital and hospital services are tightly connected. [Completion/ Closing Date] 10/01/2013 [Link] link [Category] 
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