Templates for reporting pre-hospital major incident medical management: systematic literature review.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

In 2010, a total of 385 natural disasters killed more than 297 000 people worldwide and affected over 217 million others. More standardised reporting of major incident management have been advocated in the previous years. Prevention, mitigation, preparedness and major incident response may be improved through collection and analysis of high-quality standardised data on medical management of major incidents. Standardised data may elevate the level of scientific evidence within disaster medicine research.

Methods and analysis

A systematic literature review will be conducted to identify templates for reporting pre-hospital major incident medical management. The first set of entry terms aims to describe major incidents published during the last 20 years. The second

SUBMITTER: Fattah S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3346945 | biostudies-literature | 2012

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature