TY - JOUR
T1 - Global Emergency Medicine
T2 - A Review of the Literature From 2016
AU - the Global Emergency Medicine Literature Review (GEMLR) Group
AU - Becker, Torben K.
AU - Hansoti, Bhakti
AU - Bartels, Susan
AU - Hayward, Alison Schroth
AU - Hexom, Braden J.
AU - Lunney, Kevin M.
AU - Marsh, Regan H.
AU - Osei-Ampofo, Maxwell
AU - Trehan, Indi
AU - Chang, Julia
AU - Levine, Adam C.
AU - Eleanor Anderson, R.
AU - Balhara, Kamna S.
AU - Becker, Orben K.
AU - Beyene, Temesgen
AU - Bills, Corey B.
AU - Bloem, Christina
AU - Bonney, Joseph
AU - Bustamante, Nirma D.
AU - Chan, Jennifer
AU - Coker, Amin
AU - Cook, Jolene
AU - Grover, Emily
AU - Hauswald, Mark
AU - House, Emily J.
AU - Glover, Paul
AU - Jacquet, Gabrielle A.
AU - Jenson, Alexander
AU - Kearney, Alexis
AU - Koval, Katie
AU - Koutroulis, Ioannis
AU - Kivlehan, Sean
AU - Lam, Christopher
AU - Mahal, Jacqueline
AU - Magnus, Daniel
AU - Modi, Payal
AU - Nicholson, Benjamin
AU - Pousson, Amelia
AU - Quao, Nana Serwaa Agyeman
AU - Rybarczyk, Megan
AU - Selvam, Anand
AU - Silvestri, David
AU - Schultz, Megan
AU - Tyler Winders, W.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2017 The Authors. Academic Emergency Medicine published by Wiley Periodicals, Inc. on behalf of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine (SAEM)
PY - 2017/9
Y1 - 2017/9
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 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 EM development, and 24% as disaster and humanitarian response. Nineteen articles received scores of 18.5 or higher out of a maximum score of 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.
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 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 EM development, and 24% as disaster and humanitarian response. Nineteen articles received scores of 18.5 or higher out of a maximum score of 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.
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U2 - 10.1111/acem.13216
DO - 10.1111/acem.13216
M3 - Article
C2 - 28474823
AN - SCOPUS:85027529954
SN - 1069-6563
VL - 24
SP - 1150
EP - 1160
JO - Academic Emergency Medicine
JF - Academic Emergency Medicine
IS - 9
ER -