PT - JOURNAL ARTICLE AU - McClelland, Graham AU - Pennington, Elspeth AU - Byers, Sonia AU - Russell, Wanda AU - Lecky, Fiona TI - The challenges of conducting prehospital research: successes and lessons learnt from the Head Injury Transportation Straight to Neurosurgery (HITS-NS) trial AID - 10.1136/emermed-2014-203870 DP - 2015 Aug 01 TA - Emergency Medicine Journal PG - 663--664 VI - 32 IP - 8 4099 - http://emj.bmj.com/content/32/8/663.short 4100 - http://emj.bmj.com/content/32/8/663.full SO - Emerg Med J2015 Aug 01; 32 AB - Head Injury Transportation Straight to Neurosurgery was a cluster randomised trial studying suspected severe head injury treatment pathways conducted in the North East Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust and North West Ambulance Service NHS Trust between January 2012 and March 2013. This was the world's first large scale trial of any trauma bypass and was conducted as a feasibility study. This short report will describe some of the lessons learnt during this ground breaking and complex trial.