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Becker TK, Trehan I, Hayward AS, et al. Global Emergency Medicine: A Review of the Literature From 2017. Acad Emerg Med. 2018;25(11):1287-1298doi: 10.1111/acem.13456.
Becker, T. K., Trehan, I., Hayward, A. S., Hexom, B. J., Kivlehan, S. M., Lunney, K. M., Modi, P., Osei-Ampofo, M., Pousson, A., Cho, D. K., Levine, A. C. (2018). Global Emergency Medicine: A Review of the Literature From 2017. Academic emergency medicine : official journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine, 25(11), 1287-1298. https://doi.org/10.1111/acem.13456
Becker, Torben K, et al. "Global Emergency Medicine: A Review of the Literature From 2017." Academic emergency medicine : official journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine vol. 25,11 (2018): 1287-1298. doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/acem.13456
Becker TK, Trehan I, Hayward AS, Hexom BJ, Kivlehan SM, Lunney KM, Modi P, Osei-Ampofo M, Pousson A, Cho DK, Levine AC. Global Emergency Medicine: A Review of the Literature From 2017. Acad Emerg Med. 2018 Nov;25(11):1287-1298. doi: 10.1111/acem.13456. Epub 2018 Jun 14. PMID: 29791967.
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Acad Emerg Med. 2018 Nov;25(11):1287-1298. doi: 10.1111/acem.13456. Epub 2018 Jun 14.

Global Emergency Medicine: A Review of the Literature From 2017.

Academic emergency medicine : official journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine

Torben K Becker, Indi Trehan, Alison Schroth Hayward, Braden J Hexom, Sean M Kivlehan, Kevin M Lunney, Payal Modi, Maxwell Osei-Ampofo, Amelia Pousson, Daniel K Cho, Adam C Levine,

Affiliations

  1. Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL.
  2. Lao Friends Hospital for Children, Luang Prabang, Lao PDR.
  3. Department of Pediatrics and Institute for Public Health, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO.
  4. Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, University of Malawi, Blantyre, Malawi.
  5. Department of Emergency Medicine, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT.
  6. Department of Emergency Medicine, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL.
  7. Department of Emergency Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA.
  8. Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, Cambridge, MA.
  9. Navy Trauma Training Center, Los Angeles County and University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA.
  10. Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Massachusetts, Worcester, MA.
  11. Emergency Medicine Directorate, Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital and the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana.
  12. Department of Emergency Medicine, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD.
  13. Brown University, Providence, RI.
  14. Department of Emergency Medicine, The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, RI.
  15. Humanitarian Innovation Initiative (HI²), Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs, Providence, RI.

PMID: 29791967 DOI: 10.1111/acem.13456

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, 17,722 articles written in three languages were identified by our electronic search. These articles were distributed among 20 reviewers for initial screening based on their relevance to the field of global EM. Another two reviewers searched the gray literature, yielding an additional 11 articles. 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 848 articles met our inclusion criteria and underwent full review. Sixty-three percent were categorized as emergency care in resource-limited settings, 23% as disaster and humanitarian response, and 14% as EM development. Twenty-one 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 a Cohen's kappa of 0.344.

CONCLUSIONS: In 2017, the total number of articles identified by our search continued to increase. Studies and reviews with a focus on infectious diseases, pediatrics, and trauma represented the majority of top-scoring articles.

© 2018 by the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine.

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