{"id":6516,"date":"2024-12-11T09:16:32","date_gmt":"2024-12-11T14:16:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alanbatt.net\/?p=6516"},"modified":"2025-04-17T09:07:59","modified_gmt":"2025-04-17T13:07:59","slug":"cummins-et-al-research-priorities-in-the-development-of-a-national-research-strategy-for-paramedicine-in-ireland-a-delphi-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/alanbatt.net\/?p=6516","title":{"rendered":"Cummins et al. PP33 Research priorities in the development of a national research strategy for paramedicine in Ireland: a Delphi study."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Background<\/strong> Research is challenging in the unpredictable out-of-hospital setting and internationally research capacity and culture in paramedicine has developed slowly. In Ireland significant progress in education and research has been made in recent years and a national research strategy is currently being developed by the statutory regulator, the Pre-hospital Emergency Care Council. This study aims to establish research priorities, resources, process changes and outcome measures to inform the development of the national research strategy in Ireland.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Methods<\/strong> The study design was an online modified Delphi which established the key aspects of the research strategy across three rounds via end-user consensus, set a priori at 70%. Participants were stakeholders involved in pre-hospital care or research in Ireland. The first round questionnaire (n=104 participants) consisted of open-ended questions and the results were coded and developed into themes for subsequent rounds of the Delphi with the second round (n=99) and third round (n=73) comprising closed-ended questions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Results<\/strong> Staff Wellbeing, Education & Professionalism and Acute Medical Conditions were Research Priority areas which reached consensus. The Key Resources deemed imperative were Education, Staffing and Leadership. Education was a Key Process Change considered imperative to enable future research to occur. Outcome Measures reaching consensus were Patient Outcomes, Practitioner Development, Practitioner Wellbeing, Alternate Pathways, Evidence-based Practice and Staff Satisfaction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Conclusion<\/strong> The findings align with previous international studies with some key differences. Education has not previously been highlighted to this extent, which may reflect a more recent move to higher education in Ireland than in other jurisdictions. The focus on staff wellbeing may be due to the study timing relative to the COVID-19 pandemic. Limitations include less than optimal engagement from non-paramedic stakeholders. These findings provide a basis for the establishment of the national Irish strategy and may help inform international research policy in paramedicine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Background Research is challenging in the unpredictable out-of-hospital setting and internationally research capacity and culture in paramedicine has developed slowly. In Ireland significant progress in education and research has been made in recent years and a national research strategy is currently being developed by the statutory regulator, the Pre-hospital Emergency Care Council. This study aims […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7884,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"saved_in_kubio":false,"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[72,76,70],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-battlab","category-blog","category-frontpage"],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["http:\/\/alanbatt.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/article-glyph-gradient-round-corner-icon-vector.jpg",1920,1920,false],"thumbnail":["http:\/\/alanbatt.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/article-glyph-gradient-round-corner-icon-vector-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["http:\/\/alanbatt.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/article-glyph-gradient-round-corner-icon-vector-300x300.jpg",300,300,true],"medium_large":["http:\/\/alanbatt.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/article-glyph-gradient-round-corner-icon-vector-768x768.jpg",768,768,true],"large":["http:\/\/alanbatt.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/article-glyph-gradient-round-corner-icon-vector-1024x1024.jpg",1024,1024,true],"1536x1536":["http:\/\/alanbatt.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/article-glyph-gradient-round-corner-icon-vector-1536x1536.jpg",1536,1536,true],"2048x2048":["http:\/\/alanbatt.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/article-glyph-gradient-round-corner-icon-vector.jpg",1920,1920,false],"kubio-fullhd":["http:\/\/alanbatt.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/article-glyph-gradient-round-corner-icon-vector-1080x1080.jpg",1080,1080,true]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"Alan","author_link":"http:\/\/alanbatt.net\/?author=1"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"Background Research is challenging in the unpredictable out-of-hospital setting and internationally research capacity and culture in paramedicine has developed slowly. In Ireland significant progress in education and research has been made in recent years and a national research strategy is currently being developed by the statutory regulator, the Pre-hospital Emergency Care Council. This study aims…","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/alanbatt.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/alanbatt.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/alanbatt.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/alanbatt.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/alanbatt.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6516"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/alanbatt.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6516\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6520,"href":"http:\/\/alanbatt.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6516\/revisions\/6520"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/alanbatt.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/alanbatt.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/alanbatt.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/alanbatt.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}