Participate in research

Research participation for air medical programs.

Air medical safety research depends on programs willing to take part. Researchers need organizations that will provide access to crews, leaders, and records under agreed terms. If your program is open to being considered for future studies, you can register that interest here.

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What this form is

This form records an expression of interest only. It helps researchers identify programs whose size, mission, and setting fit a planned study. It does not enroll your organization in any study and creates no obligation.

What happens before any study

Ethics review comes first. An Institutional Review Board (IRB) approves the study, or determines that it is exempt, before any recruitment begins. Documentation of that review is available to you at first contact.
Your permission comes before any referral. AMSARC asks before sharing your contact details with a specific researcher. You may decline.
You receive a summary of the study. The summary covers its objectives and general design. An example would be a study of the factors that influence whether crew members report or withhold information about near misses.
Your organization decides. No study proceeds without written agreement from a person authorized to commit your organization.
Individuals choose for themselves. Crew members and staff provide their own informed consent where the study requires it and may decline without consequence.

Protecting your program

AMSARC refers your program only to studies whose researchers agree to the following terms.

Participating organizations are not named in publications unless they agree in writing.
Data access, storage, and sharing terms are set in a data use agreement before any data are shared.
Your organization can withdraw from a study at any time.

You can ask to be removed from this list at any time.

Before you write

This form asks about your program, not about specific events. Do not include patient information, accident or incident details, or names of individual crew members.

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Your program

Program or organization name

Program type Approximate number of bases

States or regions where you operate (optional)

Services (check all that apply)

Rotor-wing Fixed-wing Ground critical care Communications center

How your program might take part

Your program may be open to (check all that apply)

Surveys of crews or staff Interviews or focus groups Sharing de-identified operational or safety data Training or simulation studies Testing an intervention or practice change Reviewing study designs or instruments Not sure yet

Does your organization have its own IRB or research office?

Yes No Not sure

Topics your program would most like studied (optional)

Contact

Your name Title or role

Work email Phone (optional)

Your role in this decision I can express interest on behalf of my organization. I am passing this along and will connect researchers with the right person.

I understand this is a non-binding expression of interest. No study involves my organization without prior coordination, written agreement, and IRB review.

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See privacy and data use for what happens to this information.