TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2015//
TI  - The challenges of conducting prehospital research: successes and lessons learnt from the Head Injury Transportation Straight to Neurosurgery (HITS-NS) trial
JO  - Emergency medicine journal
A1  - McClelland, Graham
A1  - Pennington, Elspeth
A1  - Byers, Sonia
A1  - Russell, Wanda
A1  - Lecky, Fiona
SP  - 663
EP  - 664
VL  - 32
IS  - 8
N2  - Head Injury Transportation Straight to Neurosurgery was a cluster randomised trial studying suspected severe head injury treatment pathways conducted in the North East Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust and North West Ambulance Service NHS Trust between January 2012 and March 2013. This was the world's first large scale trial of any trauma bypass and was conducted as a feasibility study. This short report will describe some of the lessons learnt during this ground breaking and complex trial.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 1472-0205
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/emermed-2014-203870
ID  - ref1
ER  -