Research Literacy Among Emergency Dispatchers at an Emergency Communication Center: Developing Capacity for Evidence-Based Practice at Dispatch (A Pilot Report)
Christopher Olola, PhD, Greg Scott, MBA, EMD-QI, Isabel Gardett, PhD, Holly Downs, Bryce Stockman, Jeff J. Clawson, MD
Mar 07, 2016|AEDR 2016 Vol. 4 Issue 1|Original Research
Expanding the role of evidence-based practice (EBP) in emergency medical services is a matter of increasing importance to researchers and practitioners alike. However, this movement toward EBP has not yet been applied to one critical area of prehospital care: emergency dispatching. The primary reason for this gap is that emergency dispatchers (EDs) struggle to develop a research culture able to produce enough well-conducted studies to move toward true EBP. One starting point with documented potential for building the research capacity in a field is to develop...