TY - JOUR T1 - The challenges of conducting prehospital research: successes and lessons learnt from the Head Injury Transportation Straight to Neurosurgery (HITS-NS) trial JF - Emergency Medicine Journal JO - Emerg Med J SP - 663 LP - 664 DO - 10.1136/emermed-2014-203870 VL - 32 IS - 8 AU - Graham McClelland AU - Elspeth Pennington AU - Sonia Byers AU - Wanda Russell AU - Fiona Lecky Y1 - 2015/08/01 UR - http://emj.bmj.com/content/32/8/663.abstract N2 - 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. ER -