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ArticleAcademic emergency medicine : official journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine2025

Global emergency medicine: A scoping review of the literature from 2023.

Braden J Hexom, Nana Serwaa A Quao, N Shakira Bandolin, Joseph Bonney, Morgan C Broccoli, Amanda Collier, Nanaba A Dawson-Amoah, Jonathan Dyal, Vinay Kampalath, J Austin Lee and 5 more

Abstract readScoping Review
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Article in Academic emergency medicine : official journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Global Emergency Medicine: A Scoping Review of the Literature From 2024.Academic emergency medicine : official journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine · 2026
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  2. Global emergency medicine: A scoping review of the literature from 2023.Academic emergency medicine : official journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

15 authors.

Braden J HexomDepartment of Emergency Medicine, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Nana Serwaa A QuaoDepartment of Emergency Medicine, Accident and Emergency Centre, Korle Bu Teaching Hospital, Accra, Ghana.
N Shakira BandolinDepartment of Emergency Medicine, University of California, Davis, California, USA.
Joseph BonneyDepartment of Emergency Medicine, Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital, Kumasi, Ghana.
Morgan C BroccoliDepartment of Emergency Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
Amanda CollierDepartment of Emergency Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
Nanaba A Dawson-AmoahDepartment of Emergency Medicine, Greater Accra Regional Hospital, Accra, Ghana.
Jonathan DyalDepartment of Emergency Medicine, University of Texas, Houston, Texas, USA.
Vinay KampalathDepartment of Pediatrics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-0194-0788
J Austin LeeDepartment of Emergency Medicine, Indiana University School of Medicine, Bloomington, Indiana, USA.
Chris A ReesDivision of Pediatric Emergency Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
Gabriel Lucca de Oliveira SalvadorJohns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
Jonathan M StrongDepartment of Emergency Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
Sean M KivlehanDepartment of Emergency Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-4857-4316
Global Emergency Medicine Literature Review (GEMLR) Group

Funding

P-KIDs CARE: An Intervention to Address Health Systems Delays to Care for Injured Children in TanzaniaK23HD112548 · NICHD · UTAH STATE HIGHER EDUCATION SYSTEM--UNIVERSITY OF UTAH · PI Elizabeth Marie Keating · 2023 to 2026
$695k
NICHD NIH HHS K23 HD112548
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

objectiveThe Global Emergency Medicine Literature Review (GEMLR) highlights the highest-quality research addressing emergency care in resource-limited settings (ECRLS). This 18th edition reviews global emergency medicine (GEM) literature published during 2023.

methodsA scoping review of GEM articles published in 2023 was performed using a systematic PubMed search and manual gray literature (GRAY) search. Reviewers and editors from 10 countries screened articles utilizing case definitions of three categories of GEM research-disaster and humanitarian response (DHR), ECRLS, and emergency medicine development (EMD). After duplicates and those not meeting authorship equity and ethical review requirements were removed, articles were scored according to rubrics for original research (OR), review articles (RE), and GRAY. Those in the top 5% from any category were summarized and critiqued in narrative review.

resultsThere were 58,291 articles identified in the main search and 11,035 in the GRAY search. A total of 825 articles from the main search and 37 GRAY articles screened in and were scored. Fifty-five main search articles and one GRAY article were included after scoring, a 52.8% increase from 2022 despite <1% change in search volume. ECRLS remained the largest category (63%). As in previous years, articles frequently addressed emergencies in pediatrics (10 articles), trauma (9), prehospital care (8), maternal/neonatal care (6), education/training (6), disaster medicine (4), and airway/sedation management (4). A total of 3.5% of screened-in articles failed to meet GEMLR's new authorship equity and ethics standards.

conclusionsThe quantity and quality of GEM research continues to grow as measured by the GEMLR scoring system. A revised search string identified relevant GEM articles with broad application in global settings. New equity guidelines were successfully implemented. This review summarizes the highest quality current GEM research while providing evolving guidelines for best practices in performing this important and rapidly growing work.

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PMID40052382
PMCPMC12077061

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