Maritime Health Research and Education-NET/Students Research Projects 4

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Title Analysis of the Telemedical consultations for 2020 with respect to the use of prescribed medicine (and the advised medicine from RM) - NB before entering this project we need to have free access to data
Name of institute and Supervisors
Student
Ethical considerations The ethical rules for database research in xxx are complied with. Confidentiality in handling personal information is done according to the rules set out by the Nationl Data Protection Agencies. The Project is notified University Research and Innovation office. The dataset is anonymous.
Data supplier Radio-Medical
Data ownerships and rights to publish Radio-Medical is the data owner with the right to publish the results based on the students Thesis. In agreement, the student has the right to be first or a co-author by compliance with the rules for authorship after agreement.
Brief description of the proposed project Radio medical advice for seafarers and traveling passengers is important and can be crucial for the optimal medical treatment on board ships. The aim of this study is to analyze the data from one-year consultations with all types of ships to identify areas for possible improvements. Methods: Data from the tele medical journals for 1 year from Danish Radio Medical consultations with the medical officers are analyzed retrospectively by the relevant indicators which are the object for this study. Especially analysis of the seafarers prescribed medicine is wanted.
Research questions
  1. The diagnostic pattern of the tele medical consultations

Symptoms and diseases classified according to the International Classification for Primary Care (ICPC-2).

  1. The distribution of symptoms, accidents and diseases, treatments/actions taken, evacuations and communication forms
  2. Distribution of the use of prescribed medicine
Project objectives 1. Systematic literature review on tele medical indicators in seafaring

2. Analysis of ready data set for 2020 to answer the research questions

3. Give proposals for prevention


Project methodology

“               Systematic literature review (PRISMA)

“               Epidemiological, analysis of tele medical data report (STROBE*)

“               The variables include demographic indicators on person, age, gender, nationality, types of ship, work areas on board, job-position, officer/non-officer, and tele medical indicators

Research population A sample of tele medical data reports 2020
Type of project: “               Descriptive, cross-sectional epidemiological analysis of primary tele medical data and a systematic literature study
What kind of support can you provide to our student? “               office space plus a PC

x           Supervision for the study and thesis writing

x           Research methodological training

x           Data set available for analysis

Other comments The study starts xxx and ends xxx. PRISMA and STROBE are international guidelines for systematic scientific study reporting