ArticleCritical care (London, England)2018
The global need for essential emergency and critical care.
Article in Critical care (London, England), 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT06051526 (The African Critical Illness Outcomes Study), which is not on this map. Cited by 76 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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76 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- The prevalence of hypoxaemia in paediatric and adult patients in health-care facilities in low-income and middle-income countries: a systematic review and meta-analysis.The Lancet. Global health · 2025Pooled it
- Resource use, availability and cost in the provision of critical care in Tanzania: a systematic review.BMJ open · 2022Pooled it
- Patient, family and clinician priorities for critical care research in Asia and Africa: a James Lind Alliance Priority Setting Partnership using modified Delphi and nominal group techniques.BMJ global health · 2026Article
- Time-critical care gaps and systemic delays linked to higher mortality in severe trauma patients in Tanzania.BMC emergency medicine · 2026Observational
- Incident and predictors of 30-day mortality in critically ill patients after admission to the emergency department in the central region of Thailand: a prospective observational study.BMC health services research · 2026Observational
- The first pediatric emergency and critical care fellowship in sub-Saharan Africa: investing in local leaders to build subspecialty capacity in low- and middle-income countries.Frontiers in pediatrics · 2026Article
- Top ten research priorities for Essential Emergency and Critical Care: A modified Delphi process.PLOS global public health · 2026Article
- Contextual determinants of implementation of stakeholder-selected quality indicators in Indian intensive care units: a mixed-methods evaluation within a national registry network.Frontiers in health services · 2026Article
- Pediatric assessment and early resuscitation capacity building: Multi-country implementation of the StART Training-of-Trainers Model in Rwanda, Uganda, and Nigeria.PLOS global public health · 2026Article
- Lessons learned from the promotion of Essential Emergency and Critical Care in Tanzania - a qualitative study.BMJ open · 2025Article
- Critical emergency medicine unit: a new model to mitigate critically ill patient boarding in emergency department.Journal of anesthesia, analgesia and critical care · 2025Article
- Hospital burden of critical illness across global settings: a point prevalence and cohort study in Malawi, Sri Lanka and Sweden.BMJ global health · 2025Observational
- Global burden of emergency and operative conditions: an analysis of Global Burden of Disease data, 2011-2019.Bulletin of the World Health Organization · 2025Article
- The African Critical Illness Outcomes Study (ACIOS): a point prevalence study of critical illness in 22 nations in Africa.Lancet (London, England) · 2025Article
- Reducing emergency department length of stay for hematology patients of tikur anbessa specialized hospital: An improvement initiative.PloS one · 2025Article
- Effect of an Educational Intervention on Nurses' Knowledge Regarding Use of Modified Early Warning Score in Recognition of Critical Illness.Open access emergency medicine : OAEM · 2025Article
- Non-medical costs incurred by critically ill patients with dengue, sepsis and tetanus within a major referral hospital in Southern Vietnam: a cost of illness study.BMJ public health · 2025Article
- Utilising artificial intelligence in prehospital emergency care systems in low- and middle-income countries: a scoping review.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
- Fundamental care in the emergency room: insights from patients with life-threatening conditions in the emergency room.BMC emergency medicine · 2024Article
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Abstract
Critical illness results in millions of deaths each year. Care for those with critical illness is often neglected due to a lack of prioritisation, co-ordination, and coverage of timely identification and basic life-saving treatments. To improve care, we propose a new focus on essential emergency and critical care (EECC)-care that all critically ill patients should receive in all hospitals in the world. Essential emergency and critical care should be part of universal health coverage, is appropriate for all countries in the world, and is intended for patients irrespective of age, gender, underlying diagnosis, medical specialty, or location in the hospital. Essential emergency and critical care is pragmatic and low-cost and has the potential to improve care and substantially reduce preventable mortality.
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