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Paramedic attitudes and experiences of enrolling patients into the PARAMEDIC-2 adrenaline trial: a qualitative survey within the London Ambulance Service

OBJECTIVES: The aim of this study was to gather the views and experiences of paramedics who participated in a large-scale randomised controlled drug trial and to identify barriers to recruitment. DESIGN: We surveyed paramedics using a questionnaire consisting of a mix of closed and open ended questi...

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Autores principales: Lazarus, Johanna, Iyer, Rajeshwari, Fothergill, Rachael T
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Publicado: BMJ Publishing Group 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6924800/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31791962
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2018-025588
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Iyer, Rajeshwari
Fothergill, Rachael T
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description OBJECTIVES: The aim of this study was to gather the views and experiences of paramedics who participated in a large-scale randomised controlled drug trial and to identify barriers to recruitment. DESIGN: We surveyed paramedics using a questionnaire consisting of a mix of closed and open ended questions. SETTING: The study was conducted within the London Ambulance Service, London, UK. PARTICIPANTS: 150 paramedics who were trained to enrol patients into the PARAMEDIC-2 randomised controlled trial of adrenaline versus placebo in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest and who returned the questionnaire. RESULTS: 98% of study participants felt prehospital research was very important, and 97.3% reported an overall positive experience of being involved in a drug trial. Only 5.3% felt uncomfortable enrolling patients into the trial without prior consent from the patient or a relative. Over one- third (39.3%) identified one or more barriers to patient recruitment, the most common being the attitudes of other staff. CONCLUSION: We found a strong appetite for involvement in prehospital research among paramedics and an understanding of the importance of research that prevailed over the complexities of the trial. This is an important finding demonstrating that potentially ethically controversial research can be undertaken successfully by paramedics in the prehospital environment.
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spelling pubmed-69248002020-01-02 Paramedic attitudes and experiences of enrolling patients into the PARAMEDIC-2 adrenaline trial: a qualitative survey within the London Ambulance Service Lazarus, Johanna Iyer, Rajeshwari Fothergill, Rachael T BMJ Open Emergency Medicine OBJECTIVES: The aim of this study was to gather the views and experiences of paramedics who participated in a large-scale randomised controlled drug trial and to identify barriers to recruitment. DESIGN: We surveyed paramedics using a questionnaire consisting of a mix of closed and open ended questions. SETTING: The study was conducted within the London Ambulance Service, London, UK. PARTICIPANTS: 150 paramedics who were trained to enrol patients into the PARAMEDIC-2 randomised controlled trial of adrenaline versus placebo in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest and who returned the questionnaire. RESULTS: 98% of study participants felt prehospital research was very important, and 97.3% reported an overall positive experience of being involved in a drug trial. Only 5.3% felt uncomfortable enrolling patients into the trial without prior consent from the patient or a relative. Over one- third (39.3%) identified one or more barriers to patient recruitment, the most common being the attitudes of other staff. CONCLUSION: We found a strong appetite for involvement in prehospital research among paramedics and an understanding of the importance of research that prevailed over the complexities of the trial. This is an important finding demonstrating that potentially ethically controversial research can be undertaken successfully by paramedics in the prehospital environment. BMJ Publishing Group 2019-12-01 /pmc/articles/PMC6924800/ /pubmed/31791962 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2018-025588 Text en © Author(s) (or their employer(s)) 2019. Re-use permitted under CC BY-NC. No commercial re-use. See rights and permissions. Published by BMJ. This is an open access article distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited, appropriate credit is given, any changes made indicated, and the use is non-commercial. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/.
spellingShingle Emergency Medicine
Lazarus, Johanna
Iyer, Rajeshwari
Fothergill, Rachael T
Paramedic attitudes and experiences of enrolling patients into the PARAMEDIC-2 adrenaline trial: a qualitative survey within the London Ambulance Service
title Paramedic attitudes and experiences of enrolling patients into the PARAMEDIC-2 adrenaline trial: a qualitative survey within the London Ambulance Service
title_full Paramedic attitudes and experiences of enrolling patients into the PARAMEDIC-2 adrenaline trial: a qualitative survey within the London Ambulance Service
title_fullStr Paramedic attitudes and experiences of enrolling patients into the PARAMEDIC-2 adrenaline trial: a qualitative survey within the London Ambulance Service
title_full_unstemmed Paramedic attitudes and experiences of enrolling patients into the PARAMEDIC-2 adrenaline trial: a qualitative survey within the London Ambulance Service
title_short Paramedic attitudes and experiences of enrolling patients into the PARAMEDIC-2 adrenaline trial: a qualitative survey within the London Ambulance Service
title_sort paramedic attitudes and experiences of enrolling patients into the paramedic-2 adrenaline trial: a qualitative survey within the london ambulance service
topic Emergency Medicine
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6924800/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31791962
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2018-025588
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