TY - JOUR
T1 - Global Emergency Medicine
T2 - A Review of the Literature From 2015
AU - the Global Emergency Medicine Literature Review (GEMLR) Group
AU - Becker, Torben K.
AU - Hansoti, Bhakti
AU - Bartels, Susan
AU - Bisanzo, Mark
AU - Jacquet, Gabrielle A.
AU - Lunney, Kevin
AU - Marsh, Regan
AU - Osei-Ampofo, Maxwell
AU - Trehan, Indi
AU - Lam, Christopher
AU - Levine, Adam C.
AU - Eleanor Anderson, R.
AU - Aschkenasy, Miriam
AU - Aschkenasy, Miriam
AU - Balhara, Kamna S.
AU - Bisanzo, Mark
AU - Boyd, Michael
AU - Chan, Jennifer
AU - Dickason, Robert Myles
AU - Hauswald, Mark
AU - Hayward, Alison S.
AU - Hexom, Braden
AU - House, Emily
AU - Jenson, Alexander
AU - Kearney, Alexis
AU - Keefe, Devin Mansfield
AU - Kivlehan, Sean
AU - Machen, Heather E.
AU - Mahal, Jacqueline
AU - Millikan, Daniel J.
AU - Modi, Payal
AU - Nicholson, Benjamin
AU - Rahman, Najeeb
AU - Rybarczyk, Megan
AU - Schroeder, Erika D.
AU - Selvam, Anand
AU - Silvestri, David
AU - Silvestri, David
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2016 by the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine
PY - 2016/10/1
Y1 - 2016/10/1
N2 - 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 12,435 articles written in six 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. A total of 723 articles were deemed appropriate by at least one reviewer and approved by their editor for formal scoring of overall quality and importance. Two independent reviewers scored all articles. Results: A total of 723 articles met our predetermined inclusion criteria and underwent full review. Sixty percent were categorized as emergency care in resource-limited settings (ECRLS), 17% as EM development (EMD), and 23% as disaster and humanitarian response (DHR). Twenty-four 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 between reviewers gave an intraclass correlation coefficient of 0.71 (95% confidence interval = 0.66 to 0.75). Studies and reviews with a focus on infectious diseases, trauma, and the diagnosis and treatment of diseases common in resource-limited settings represented the majority of articles selected for final review. Conclusions: In 2015, there were almost twice as many articles found by our search compared to the 2014 review. The number of EMD articles increased, while the number ECRLS articles decreased. The number of DHR articles remained stable. As in prior years, the majority of articles focused on infectious diseases.
AB - 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 12,435 articles written in six 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. A total of 723 articles were deemed appropriate by at least one reviewer and approved by their editor for formal scoring of overall quality and importance. Two independent reviewers scored all articles. Results: A total of 723 articles met our predetermined inclusion criteria and underwent full review. Sixty percent were categorized as emergency care in resource-limited settings (ECRLS), 17% as EM development (EMD), and 23% as disaster and humanitarian response (DHR). Twenty-four 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 between reviewers gave an intraclass correlation coefficient of 0.71 (95% confidence interval = 0.66 to 0.75). Studies and reviews with a focus on infectious diseases, trauma, and the diagnosis and treatment of diseases common in resource-limited settings represented the majority of articles selected for final review. Conclusions: In 2015, there were almost twice as many articles found by our search compared to the 2014 review. The number of EMD articles increased, while the number ECRLS articles decreased. The number of DHR articles remained stable. As in prior years, the majority of articles focused on infectious diseases.
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U2 - 10.1111/acem.12999
DO - 10.1111/acem.12999
M3 - Article
C2 - 27146277
AN - SCOPUS:84991314195
SN - 1069-6563
VL - 23
SP - 1183
EP - 1191
JO - Academic Emergency Medicine
JF - Academic Emergency Medicine
IS - 10
ER -