Projects - Mehul D Patel, PhD

CURRENT

Regionalization of Emergency Medical Care

Click on the logo for more information on the Emergency Medical collaBorative on RegionAlized CarE (EMBRACE).

[Article] Rural–urban differences in emergency medical services bypass routing of stroke in North Carolina

[Article] Statewide availability of acute stroke treatment, services, and programs: A survey of North Carolina Hospitals

[Article] Community Socioeconomic and Urban–Rural Disparities in Prehospital Notification of Stroke by Emergency Medical Services in North Carolina (Free Full Text)

[Article] Community socioeconomic and urban-rural differences in emergency medical services times for suspected stroke in North Carolina

[Article] Performance of the vision, aphasia, neglect (VAN) assessment within a single large EMS system (Free Full Text)

[Article] Availability of Hospital Resources and Specialty Services for Stroke Care in North Carolina (Free Full Text)

[Code] EMS Stroke Triage and Transport Model (ESTTM)

[News] Access to Acute Stroke Care in North Carolina

Disparities in Emergency Department Decision Making

[Article] Identifying Patient Subpopulations with Significant Race-Sex Differences in Emergency Department Disposition Decisions (Open Access)

[Article] Patient sex, racial and ethnic disparities in emergency department triage: A multi-site retrospective study

[Article] Disparities in emergency department prioritization and rooming of patients with similar triage acuity score

[Project] Understanding and Addressing Disparities in Triage and Disposition Decisions in the Emergency Department funded by the AHRQ/PCORI Learning Health System Small Grant Pilot Program (R03)

Effectiveness-Implementation Study of LifeFlow®

[Article] Effectiveness of a Novel Rapid Infusion Device and Clinician Education for Early Fluid Therapy by Emergency Medical Services in Sepsis Patients: A Pre-Post Observational Study

[Abstract] Implementation of a Novel Fluid Resuscitation Device for the Care of Sepsis Patients: Processes and Perceptions in the Out-of-Hospital Setting

[News] UNC and Wake County EMS Partner through EMF Grant to Study the Impact of Early Fluid Resuscitation for Sepsis in the Prehospital Setting

PAST

COVID-19 Simulation Integrated Modeling (COVSIM)

Go to project website: http://go.ncsu.edu/covsim

[News] Masks, distancing still important even with vaccination, study suggests

[Article] Association of Simulated COVID-19 Vaccination and Nonpharmaceutical Interventions With Infections, Hospitalizations, and Mortality

[News] COVID-19 Simulation Shows Importance of Continued Safety Efforts During Vaccine Distribution

Remote Ischemic Conditioning (RIC)

Feasibility of prehospital delivery of RIC by EMS in chest pain patients: Protocol and Results

EMS Stroke Care (pre-2016)

Study evaluates capability of emergency medical services to care for stroke patients

CDC Podcast: “Emergency Medical Services Capacity for Prehospital Stroke Care” …in this audio podcast, lead author and Preventing Chronic Disease’s 2013 Student Research Contest Winner, Mehul D. Patel, talks about his article on stroke care and emergency medical services.

UNC Grad School: EMS Prenotification Leads to Quicker Evaluation for Stroke

[News] Reuters: Faster stroke care when patients come by ambulance