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- Title
Global Emergency Medicine: A Review of the Literature From 2016.
- Authors
Becker, Torben K.; Hansoti, Bhakti; Bartels, Susan; Hayward, Alison Schroth; Hexom, Braden J.; Lunney, Kevin M.; Marsh, Regan H.; Osei‐Ampofo, Maxwell; Trehan, Indi; Chang, Julia; Levine, Adam C.; Eleanor Anderson, R.; Balhara, Kamna S.; Becker, orben K.; Beyene, Temesgen; Bills, Corey B.; Bloem, Christina; Bonney, Joseph; Bustamante, Nirma D.; Chan, Jennifer
- Abstract
Objectives: The Global Emergency Medicine Literature Review (GEMLR) conducts an annual search of peer-reviewed and gray literature relevant to global emergency medicine (EM) to identify, review, and disseminate the most important new research in this field to a global audience of academics and clinical practitioners. Methods: This year 13,890 articles written in four languages were identified by our search. These articles were distributed among 20 reviewers for initial screening based on their relevance to the field of global EM. An additional two reviewers searched the gray literature. All articles that were deemed appropriate by at least one reviewer and approved by their editor underwent formal scoring of overall quality and importance. Two independent reviewers scored all articles. Results: A total of 716 articles met our inclusion criteria and underwent full review. Fifty-nine percent were categorized as emergency care in resource-limited settings, 17% as emergency medicine development, and 24% as disaster and humanitarian response. Nineteen articles received scores of 18.5 or higher out of a maximum score 20 and were selected for formal summary and critique. Inter-rater reliability testing between reviewers revealed Cohen's Kappa of 0.441. Conclusions: In 2016, the total number of articles identified by our search continued to increase. The proportion of articles in each of the three categories remained stable. Studies and reviews with a focus on infectious diseases, pediatrics, and the use of ultrasound in resource-limited settings represented the majority of articles selected for final review.
- Subjects
EMERGENCY medicine; MEDLINE; ONLINE information services; STATISTICS; WORLD health; INTER-observer reliability; DATA analysis software; DESCRIPTIVE statistics
- Publication
Academic Emergency Medicine, 2017, Vol 24, Issue 9, p1150
- ISSN
1069-6563
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/acem.13216