Adjustment of medical standards in disaster, crises and war: a scoping review of the literature.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Currently, there is a lack of evidence on how societies and healthcare systems cope with disrupting situations like disasters, crisis and wars. The aim of the scoping review was to map evidence to the following questions: Is the fact of possible overwhelming of healthcare systems accepted or denied? Are medical standards adjusted? Are dedicated contingency concepts applied? Are there triage concepts for allocating scarce resources?

Methods

We conducted and reported the scoping review in accordance with the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic reviews and Meta-Analyses extension for scoping reviews. A review protocol was published a priori in the Open Science Framework. Medline via PubMed was used as data source. We considered reviews, systematic reviews, gui

SUBMITTER: Wurmb TE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12581022 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature