Mohammadkarim Bahadori
Fatemeh Ghardashi
Ahmad Reza Izadi
Ramin Ravangard
Sedigheh Mirhashemi
Seyed Mojtaba Hosseini

Context: Pre-hospital care plays a vital role in saving trauma patients. Objectives: This study aims to review studies conducted on the pre-hospital emergency status in Iran. Data Sources: Data were sourced from Iranian electronic databases, including SID, IranMedex, IranDoc, Magiran, and non-Iranian electronic databases, such as Medline, Embase, Cochrane Library, Scopus, and Google Scholar. In addition, available data and statistics for the country were used. Data Selection: All Persian-language articles published in Iranian scientific journals and related English-language articles published in Iranian and non-Iranian journals indexed on valid sites for September ۲۰۰۵ - ۲۰۱۴ were systematically reviewed. Data Extraction: To review the selected articles, a data extraction form developed by the researchers as per the study’s objective was adopted. The articles were examined under two categories: structure and function of pre-hospital emergency. Results: A total of ۱۹ articles were selected, including six descriptive studies (۴۲%), four descriptive-analytical studies (۲۱%), five review articles (۱۶%), two qualitative studies (۱۰.۵%), and two interventional (experimental) studies (۱۰.۵%). In addition, of these, ۱۴ articles (۷۳.۵%) had been published in the English language. The focus of these selected articles were experts (۳۱.۵%), bases of emergency medical services (۲۶%), injured (۱۶%), data reviews (۱۶%), and employees (۱۰.۵%). A majority of the studies (۶۸%) investigated pre-hospital emergency functions and ۳۲% reviewed the pre-hospital emergency structure. Conclusions: The number of studies conducted on pre-hospital emergency services in Iran is limited. To promote public health, consideration of prevention areas, processes to provide pre-hospital emergency services, policymaking, foresight, systemic view, comprehensive research programs and roadmaps, and assessments of research needs in pre-hospital emergency seem necessary.

Pre, Hospital Emergency, Iran, Systematic review