Research (INDUS-ARC)
INDO-US Academic Research Cooperative
INDUS-ARC was established in 2009 at the 5th INDO-US Emergency Medicine Summit held at PSG Institute of Medical Sciences and Research Coimbatore India on 30th October 2009.
ARC partnership is both innovative and futuristic working towards uniformity in multi center research to facilitate faster accomplishment of investigations and recruiting higher quality research studies.
Established as a Model operating simultaneously at multiple institutions ARC will provide uniform infrastructure, IRB and QA support to studies at academic health sites across India.
ARC will promote Single Ethics approval process to be acceptable for implementation at multiple sites which are a part of the Cooperative. Studies will thus be easily conducted if common procedures are set up and training programs are instituted to build Uniform Research Capacities at Member Academic Sites which are a part of ARC.
This arrangement provides a competitive advantage to the Industry and Sponsoring Agencies to choose a Platform which has a single Ethics approval process, Standardized Operating Procedures, Improved Quality analysis, and single contracts with multicenter sites governed by lead investigators.
The ARC system will relieve research agencies of the effort to work individually at each institution to repeatedly obtain separate approvals, conduct multiple training programs, institute tailor made study protocols and create multiple administration models for a single study.
By working with ARC a study initiated by one institution will be very easily replicated at partner institutions and be governed via a central command structure forging both validity and reliability for research outcomes. Strict Protocols will be set up to sustain uniformity and success in research.
With India being fast recognized as a Research Hub the growth of ARC is crucial to the future of Funded Multicenter Research at Academic Medical Institutions in India.
Study Number 1: To study the prevalence, pattern and factors associated with violent incidents in the emergency departments of India
Principle Investigator
Dr Sanjeev Bhoi
Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine
All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India
Background: Violent incidents (VI) in emergency departments is an important and under reported concern for emergency care providers (ECP) in India. A VI alters the work environment and the work performance among care givers. Verbal and physical abuse of emergency care workers is common. Intoxication, anxiety and overpowering attendants were patient related factors while System related factors were delay in investigations, non availability of bed, overcrowding, lack of staff, poor communication skill and non availability of senior doctors in Emergency Department There is limited data from emergency department(ED) of India regarding VI
Objective: Study of pattern and factors associated with violent incidents in the emergency departments in India.
Methodology: Web based Qualitative survey questionnaire consisting of 21 questions based various domains of violent incidents experienced by emergency care workers. The question has multiple choices with single answer key. The responder has to click submit after responding to all questions. The name of responder and the institute will be kept confidential. This survey will not be used for any commercial purpose and there is no conflict of interest.
Click here to answer the Questionnaire.
To participate as a co-investigator Contact Dr Sanjeev Bhoi: sanjeevbhoi@gmail.com
