Welcome to PROJECT HEAL!

The Health Emergency Acuity Levels Project (Project HEAL) is a project aimed at developing a robust system that can be used to classify hospitals based on their available resources (e.g. human, equipment) and can easily be used by the emergency medical (ambulance) services to transport patients to the appropriate hospitals based on the medical needs of the patient. 

This is being done by developing a ranking system of hospitals. The various rankings of the hospitals will be done based on the functional equipment at the facility, specialties and experience of staff, and protocols of care to handle trauma/surgical, medical, paediatric and obstetrics/gynaecology emergencies. This ranking will help to classify hospitals in Ghana based on their capacity to handle the various types and severity of emergencies.

Experts in the relevant fields are being tasked to do this. You have been selected to take part in this study based on your expertise in the medical field. You will be tasked to determine which equipment, supplies and skills  are needed by a health facility for it to handle  trauma/surgical, medical, paediatric and obstetrics/gynaecology emergencies.

This ranking tool will be incorporated into an existing software addressing system called SnooCODE RED, which will be available to the ambulance services. This will be used to determine which hospital is appropriate and best to receive a particular type of patient needing a specified emergency care.

There will be a series of online meeting and discussion to finalize the needs list for every facility based on which facility ranking will be done. This will require in total 10hours of your time spread across 1-2months. For being part of the study, you will be listed as our study expert on the project HEAL website, access to data related to the Delphi for additional analysis following the main study, authorship in the speciality-based paper, certificate of participation and the fulfilment of supporting in developing a milestone in emergency care in Ghana.  

This project is being supported by the Emergency Medicine Society of Ghana (EMSOG) in collaboration with the Swiss Embassy in Ghana. This project has received approval from the Ghana Health Service Ethical Review Committee (GHS-ERC 015/07/20).

If your consent to participate in this Delphi study, please register with the required details into the fields below.