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AU/NZ emergency care research priorities being set
Establishing the Priorities for Emergency Care Research in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand
Emergency Medicine Australasia · 2026-10 · Added 23 October 2026
ACEM's Clinical Trials Network, with the James Lind Alliance, has launched a priority setting partnership to set the emergency care research agenda for Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand for the next 5–10 years.
- Study type
- Guideline / statement
- Design
- Guideline / statement
- Participants
- Not reported
- Main finding
- No results yet — the partnership is underway, aiming to prioritise unanswered questions across the ~11 million annual ED presentations in both countries
- Caveat
- This is an announcement of a process, not findings, and prehospital questions may or may not feature in the final priorities
- Bottom line
- Context only
Why it matters in Australia (Medium relevance). It's an ED-led process rather than an ambulance one, but the resulting agenda shapes the emergency care evidence Australian paramedics work from, and the partnership is explicitly seeking clinician and consumer participation.
Learning goal
Understand how national emergency care research priorities are set and where paramedic perspectives can shape the agenda.
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- Topic: Other
- Daily scan: 23 October 2026
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