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By Daniel Baxter |
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AAMS provided
factual input to the GAO for its report, including data generated from a
series of critical-care-transport studies funded by its charitable
foundation, MedEvac Foundation International, and from findings
generated by the Atlas & Database of Air Medical Service (ADAMS), a
joint venture between AAMS and the Center for Transportation Injury
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?AAMS agrees with
the GAO?s findings that additional data needs to be collected on the
nature of air medical operations,? said AAMS President Daniel Hankins,
MD, FACEP. ?We have been advocating for additional data collection
efforts for a long time.
"Similarly,
MedEvac Foundation International has funded a national database, known
as the Critical Care Transport Collaborative Outcomes Research Effort
(CCT CORE), which compiles the outcomes of studies involving input from
more than 40 helicopter emergency medical services programs. In addition, AAMS and the air medical community ?recognize that some gray areas of jurisdiction still remain as to whether certain activities should be categorized under medicine or aviation, or medicine and economic authority to operate, as pointed out by the GAO,? Dr. Hankins said. ?However, AAMS is working to narrow confusion in these overlap areas by appointing an industry-wide task force to study these issues and make to recommendations for enhancing safety of operations on behalf of the patients we fly.? |