ArticlePLoS currents2011
DEALING WITH DISASTER DATABASES - WHAT CAN WE LEARN FROM HEALTH AND SYSTEMATIC REVIEWS?: Application in practice.
Article in PLoS currents, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Who cites it
9 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Infrastructural Aspects of Rain-Related Cascading Disasters: A Systematic Literature Review.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2020Pooled it
- Interventions to improve the use of systematic reviews in decision-making by health system managers, policy makers and clinicians.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2012Pooled it
- Minimum data set harmonization in the management of cross-border Multi Casualty Incidents. Modified Delphi (VALKYRIES-H2020 project).PloS one · 2024Article
- Stakeholders' experiences with the evidence aid website to support 'real-time' use of research evidence to inform decision-making in crisis zones: a user testing study.Health research policy and systems · 2019Article
- Disaster preparedness and response improvement: comparison of the 2010 Haiti earthquake-related diagnoses with baseline medical data.European journal of emergency medicine : official journal of the European Society for Emergency Medicine · 2017Article
- SIMEDIS: a Discrete-Event Simulation Model for Testing Responses to Mass Casualty Incidents.Journal of medical systems · 2016Article
- Prioritization of themes and research questions for health outcomes in natural disasters, humanitarian crises or other major healthcare emergencies.PLoS currents · 2013Article
- The use of systematic reviews and other research evidence in disasters and related areas: preliminary report of a needs assessment survey.PLoS currents · 2013Article
- Utstein-style template for uniform data reporting of acute medical response in disasters.PLoS currents · 2012Article
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Abstract
There is an increasing move towards facilitating the use of research findings in policy and practice relating to disaster risk reduction and response. One of the key issues is the quality of the evidence available to decision-makers. Disaster databases, as a key resource, represent a tremendous investment of effort and goodwill. However, their usefulness is limited by the variability in how they are compiled, differences in the output they produce, a general lack of comparability and standardization, and the fact that they might produce different results due to the ways they have been created or by chance. One possible solution to this, which has been applied successfully in evidence synthesis in health care is the systematic review. In this study we attempt to show how the systematic review process may be applied to information and data that is held in disaster databases. We demonstrate that systematic reviews of disaster databases can be achieved in a technical sense and the potential value of such reviews, but also discuss the practical difficulties that arise. Key wordsSystematic review, evidence, disaster database.
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