Pathology of Urgent and Emergency Care

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PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Martín Sánchez, Francisco Javier
fjjms@hotmail.com
Tel. +34 913303000 (Ext. 483469)
ADDRESS

Emergency Service

San Carlos Clinical Hospital
C/ Profesor Martín Lagos s/n. 28040 Madrid

Group information

The IdISSC’s Urgent and Emergency Care research group is made up of a team of doctors and nurses who study acute illnesses and injuries in the hospital and out-of-hospital setting with the aim of improving prevention, diagnosis, prognosis, and process management. Urgent care is becoming more frequent due to the progressive ageing of the population and the increasing prevalence of chronic diseases. The urgent and emergency care services are responsible for triage and initial healthcare for time-dependent pathologies. It is therefore an emerging area of research with a high potential for clinical and healthcare impact, whose cross-cutting nature requires collaboration with numerous clinical and translational research groups.

Strategic objectives

To develop lines of research on time-dependent pathologies, vulnerable populations, and the forensic medical field (Lines 1 and 2)
To understand the epidemiology of urgent and emergency care (UEC) medicine related processes (Line 1)
To incorporate new technologies in the field of UEC (Line 2 and Line 4)
To improve care and communication with patients and caregivers in the emergency department and its associated units (Line 3).
To train professionals in UEC medicine research lines and develop training programmes and courses on UEC medicine research lines (Line 3).
To develop tools aimed at management, safety, and quality in the field of urgent and emergency care medicine (Line 5).
To formalise strategic research alliances with hospital and out-of-hospital services and promote lines of research on the main emergency syndromes jointly with other hospital and out-of-hospital services (Line 6).
To enhance and disseminate research related to UEC medicine (Line 7)

Lines of research

Epidemiology of acute processes, vulnerable population at risk of adverse events, or high resource consumption and forensic medical aspects related to UEC medicine.
Research studies to develop and validate diagnostic tests, intervention strategies, and prognostic markers in time-dependent pathologies and vulnerable populations.
Research on improving care and communication with patients and their caregivers in the urgent and emergency care department and its implementation.
To promote and evaluate the application of new technologies to clinical healthcare practice in the field of UEC medicine.
Development of tools to assist in the evaluation of management, safety, and quality in the urgent and emergency care area.
Consensus documents on the main UEC syndromes.
Bibliometric analysis of UEC research and strategies for disseminating its results.