Introduction to EMS Research

Osama A Samarkandi, PhD, RN BSc, GMD, BSN, MSN, NIAC

EMS 423; EMS Research and Evidence Based Practice

Definition

• Research: careful, systematic, patient study and investigation in some field of knowledge, undertaken to discover or establish facts or principles.

• Research methodology: is a way to systematically solve the research problem

• Science: Systematized knowledge derived from observation, study, and experimentation carried on in order to determine the nature or principles of what is being studied.

Is EMS Art or Science?

• The knowledge of EMS is science.• The way it is applied is art.• Excellent EMTs know the science of EMS and

use the art of EMS to apply the science.

Research Purpose & Aim

• The purpose of research is to discover answers to questions through the application of scientific procedures.

• The main aim of research is to find out the truth which is hidden and which has not been discovered as yet.

Research Objectives

• To gain familiarity with a phenomenon or to achieve new insights into it (studies with this object in view are termed as exploratory or formulative research studies);

• To portray accurately the characteristics of a particular individual, situation or a group (studies with this object in view are known as descriptive research studies);

Research Objectives

• To determine the frequency with which something occurs or with which it is associated with something else (studies with this object in view are known as diagnostic research studies);

• To test a hypothesis of a causal relationship between variables (such studies are known as hypothesis-testing research studies).

Research Types

• Descriptive vs. Analytical, • Applied vs. Fundamental,• Quantitative vs. Qualitative, • Conceptual vs. Empirical, • Some Other Types of Research

Research Approach

• Quantitative approach, and • Qualitative approach

Research Methods

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