Strengthening emergency care by developing data collection systems in low- and middle-income countries

Abstract

Emergency care surveillance as well as registries of emergency care are largely absent in most LMICs. Improper data systems in Emergency Department create an important gap in our understanding about the health of large portions of the population. Clinical data systems in LMICs and lower-resource settings will foster research and generation of contextualized evidence.

Keywords

• Data collection systems
• Emergency department
• Epidemiology studies
• Electronic health record
• HER