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Clinical Outcomes Following the Implementation of a Novel One-Year Training Program in Emergency Medicine in Karachi, Pakistan

BACKGROUND: Most Emergency Departments (EDs) in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), particularly in Pakistan, are staffed by physicians not formally trained in Emergency Medicine (EM). As of January 2022, there were only 13 residency training programs in EM throughout all of Pakistan. Therefor...

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Autores principales: Saleem, Syed Ghazanfar, Ali, Saima, Khatri, Adeel, Mukhtar, Sama, Farooq, Wasfa, Maroof, Quratulain, Jamal, Muhammad Imran, Aziz, Tariq, Haider, Kaniz Farwa, Dadabhoy, Farah Z., Rybarczyk, Megan M.
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Ubiquity Press 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9854282/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36721434
http://dx.doi.org/10.5334/aogh.3890
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author Saleem, Syed Ghazanfar
Ali, Saima
Khatri, Adeel
Mukhtar, Sama
Farooq, Wasfa
Maroof, Quratulain
Jamal, Muhammad Imran
Aziz, Tariq
Haider, Kaniz Farwa
Dadabhoy, Farah Z.
Rybarczyk, Megan M.
author_facet Saleem, Syed Ghazanfar
Ali, Saima
Khatri, Adeel
Mukhtar, Sama
Farooq, Wasfa
Maroof, Quratulain
Jamal, Muhammad Imran
Aziz, Tariq
Haider, Kaniz Farwa
Dadabhoy, Farah Z.
Rybarczyk, Megan M.
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description BACKGROUND: Most Emergency Departments (EDs) in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), particularly in Pakistan, are staffed by physicians not formally trained in Emergency Medicine (EM). As of January 2022, there were only 13 residency training programs in EM throughout all of Pakistan. Therefore, an intermediate solution—a one-year training program in EM—was developed to build capacity. OBJECTIVE: To determine the impact of a novel training program in EM on clinical metrics and outcomes. METHODS: The first cohort of a novel, one-year training program—the Certification Program in Emergency Medicine (CPEM)—completed the program in June 2019. The program consisted of two arms: CPEM-Clinical (CPEM-C), which included physicians from the Indus Hospital and Health Network (IHHN) ED; and CPEM-Didactic (CPEM-D), which included physicians from EDs across Karachi. Both groups participated in weekly conferences, such as didactics, small group discussions, workshops, and journal clubs. CPEM-C learners also received clinical mentorship from local and international faculty. Mortality, length of stay (LOS), and time-to-evaluation, as well as metrics in four key areas—patients at risk for cardiovascular disease/acute coronary syndrome, sepsis, respiratory illness, and intra-abdominal trauma—were assessed before and after the initial cohort at IHHN and compared with other groups in IHHN. FINDINGS AND CONCLUSIONS: More than 125,000 patients were seen from July to December 2017 (pre-CPEM) and July to December 2019 (post-CPEM). Overall, there were significant improvements in all clinical metrics and outcomes, with the exception of LOS and time-to-evaluation, and a trend toward improved mortality. In comparing CPEM graduates to other groups in IHHN ED, most metrics and outcomes significantly improved or trended toward improvement, including mortality. Implementation of a medium-duration, intensive EM training program can help improve patient care and the development of EM as a new specialty in lower-resource settings.
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spelling pubmed-98542822023-01-30 Clinical Outcomes Following the Implementation of a Novel One-Year Training Program in Emergency Medicine in Karachi, Pakistan Saleem, Syed Ghazanfar Ali, Saima Khatri, Adeel Mukhtar, Sama Farooq, Wasfa Maroof, Quratulain Jamal, Muhammad Imran Aziz, Tariq Haider, Kaniz Farwa Dadabhoy, Farah Z. Rybarczyk, Megan M. Ann Glob Health Original Research BACKGROUND: Most Emergency Departments (EDs) in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), particularly in Pakistan, are staffed by physicians not formally trained in Emergency Medicine (EM). As of January 2022, there were only 13 residency training programs in EM throughout all of Pakistan. Therefore, an intermediate solution—a one-year training program in EM—was developed to build capacity. OBJECTIVE: To determine the impact of a novel training program in EM on clinical metrics and outcomes. METHODS: The first cohort of a novel, one-year training program—the Certification Program in Emergency Medicine (CPEM)—completed the program in June 2019. The program consisted of two arms: CPEM-Clinical (CPEM-C), which included physicians from the Indus Hospital and Health Network (IHHN) ED; and CPEM-Didactic (CPEM-D), which included physicians from EDs across Karachi. Both groups participated in weekly conferences, such as didactics, small group discussions, workshops, and journal clubs. CPEM-C learners also received clinical mentorship from local and international faculty. Mortality, length of stay (LOS), and time-to-evaluation, as well as metrics in four key areas—patients at risk for cardiovascular disease/acute coronary syndrome, sepsis, respiratory illness, and intra-abdominal trauma—were assessed before and after the initial cohort at IHHN and compared with other groups in IHHN. FINDINGS AND CONCLUSIONS: More than 125,000 patients were seen from July to December 2017 (pre-CPEM) and July to December 2019 (post-CPEM). Overall, there were significant improvements in all clinical metrics and outcomes, with the exception of LOS and time-to-evaluation, and a trend toward improved mortality. In comparing CPEM graduates to other groups in IHHN ED, most metrics and outcomes significantly improved or trended toward improvement, including mortality. Implementation of a medium-duration, intensive EM training program can help improve patient care and the development of EM as a new specialty in lower-resource settings. Ubiquity Press 2023-01-19 /pmc/articles/PMC9854282/ /pubmed/36721434 http://dx.doi.org/10.5334/aogh.3890 Text en Copyright: © 2023 The Author(s) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC-BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. See http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
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Saleem, Syed Ghazanfar
Ali, Saima
Khatri, Adeel
Mukhtar, Sama
Farooq, Wasfa
Maroof, Quratulain
Jamal, Muhammad Imran
Aziz, Tariq
Haider, Kaniz Farwa
Dadabhoy, Farah Z.
Rybarczyk, Megan M.
Clinical Outcomes Following the Implementation of a Novel One-Year Training Program in Emergency Medicine in Karachi, Pakistan
title Clinical Outcomes Following the Implementation of a Novel One-Year Training Program in Emergency Medicine in Karachi, Pakistan
title_full Clinical Outcomes Following the Implementation of a Novel One-Year Training Program in Emergency Medicine in Karachi, Pakistan
title_fullStr Clinical Outcomes Following the Implementation of a Novel One-Year Training Program in Emergency Medicine in Karachi, Pakistan
title_full_unstemmed Clinical Outcomes Following the Implementation of a Novel One-Year Training Program in Emergency Medicine in Karachi, Pakistan
title_short Clinical Outcomes Following the Implementation of a Novel One-Year Training Program in Emergency Medicine in Karachi, Pakistan
title_sort clinical outcomes following the implementation of a novel one-year training program in emergency medicine in karachi, pakistan
topic Original Research
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9854282/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36721434
http://dx.doi.org/10.5334/aogh.3890
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