Research Questions | Air Medical Safety Network

What You Can Submit

A Research Question: Recommend a research question to study.
A Topic Worth Investigating: Suggest a topic that needs study.
An Opportunity to Collaborate: Offer your program for a study.
Something Else Worth Considering: Share something else worth considering.

What Happens Next?

We review it. An AMSN member reads every submission and shapes it into one or more questions that can be studied.
We confirm it with you. If you share your contact details and agree to follow up, we send you that version within two weeks, before anything is posted.
Approved questions are posted for feedback. We rewrite each one in our own words, without your name or any identifying detail. Others can comment, suggest revisions, and say they may want to study it.
We help form a study team. When people express interest in studying a question, we connect them.

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The Air Medical Safety Network is not a confidential or protected safety reporting system. It is not part of an ASAP, FOQA, or any government reporting program. Report specific events through your own program's safety reporting process.

Describe the question, not the event. Leave out patient information and any names, dates, tail numbers, or locations that would identify a person, aircraft, or program.

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Please do not include patient identifiers, names of individuals, or details that would identify a specific incident, aircraft, or program. If your question is approved, it will be rewritten and posted publicly without your name, organization, or identifying details.

1. Your question

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Research question Topic that needs study Opportunity to take part Something else

Your question or topic

Write it the way you would explain it to a colleague. A rough description is fine.

What prompted it, or why it matters (optional)

2. We can help you build a question (optional)

These questions help us turn your topic into something that can be studied. Answer any that apply and skip the rest.

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Topic: Crews on 24-hour shifts seem to make more charting mistakes late in the shift.
Kind of answer: Does one thing cause or contribute to another?
Who is affected: Flight nurses and paramedics working 24-hour shifts
What you are asking about: Hours into the shift
Compared with what: The first 6 hours of the same shift
What to measure: Documentation errors found on chart review
Workaround: Some crews complete charts before the last call of the shift

What kind of answer are you looking for?

How often does this happen? Does one thing cause or contribute to another? Why or how do crews do this? Which approach works better? Not sure

Who is affected?

What condition, practice, or exposure are you asking about?

Compared with what?

What would you want to know or measure at the end?

Have you or your program developed a way to handle this?

3. Context

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4. About you

Submit anonymously No name or email is collected, and we cannot follow up.

I understand that if my question is approved, AMSN will rewrite it and post it publicly without my name or identifying details, for comment and suggested revisions.

Open for feedback

Questions open for feedback.

These questions came from people in the field. We reviewed and rewrote each one before posting it. Open a question to read it in full, comment, suggest a revision, or tell us you may want to study it.

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Up if it should be studied, down if it should not. One vote per topic from each browser. You can change it.
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Interactive example. The question below shows how postings work. AMSN wrote it as an example. It did not come from a submission.

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Comment guidelines

Discuss the question, not specific events. Do not name people, programs, aircraft, patients, dates, or places tied to an event.
No accusations or claims about anyone's conduct.
Comments are reviewed before they appear and may be lightly edited or declined.
This is not a protected or confidential reporting system. Report events through your own program.

From the literature

Questions drawn from published research.

Research papers often end with ideas for future studies. We grouped those ideas by topic into research questions, each linked to the papers that support it. These three have the most papers behind them.

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Questions drawn from published research.

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