TY - JOUR
T1 - Global emergency medicine
T2 - A scoping review of the literature from 2023
AU - Global Emergency Medicine Literature Review (GEMLR) Group
AU - Hexom, Braden J.
AU - Quao, Nana Serwaa A.
AU - Bandolin, N. Shakira
AU - Bonney, Joseph
AU - Broccoli, Morgan C.
AU - Collier, Amanda
AU - Dawson-Amoah, Nanaba A.
AU - Dyal, Jonathan
AU - Kampalath, Vinay
AU - Lee, J. Austin
AU - Rees, Chris A.
AU - de Oliveira Salvador, Gabriel Lucca
AU - Strong, Jonathan M.
AU - Kivlehan, Sean M.
AU - Ahmed, Zainab
AU - Awanchiri, Kimonia Bih
AU - Bandolin, N. Shakira
AU - Bartlett, Emily
AU - Bhaskar, Nidhi
AU - Bills, Corey B.
AU - Bonney, Joseph
AU - Broccoli, Morgan C.
AU - Bryant, Whitney K.
AU - Brzezinski, Agatha
AU - Chan, Jonathan
AU - Chien, Emily
AU - Ciano, Joseph D.
AU - Clay, Cassandra
AU - Cloessner, Emily
AU - Collier, Amanda
AU - Cortes, Emma
AU - Dawson-Amoah, Nanaba A.
AU - Dyal, Jonathan W.
AU - Garbern, Stephanie Chow
AU - Haflich, Reid
AU - Hassan, Mohamed F.
AU - Hayward, Alison S.
AU - Hexom, Braden J.
AU - Hill, Keanoo C.
AU - Hooft, Anneka
AU - Jones, Jennifer E.
AU - Kampalath, Vinay N.
AU - Keating, Elizabeth M.
AU - Kivlehan, Sean M.
AU - Laurence, Colleen E.
AU - Leanza, Joseph
AU - Lee, J. Austin
AU - Loevinsohn, Gideon
AU - Memon, Rmaah
AU - Moses, Mwanja
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2025 The Author(s). Academic Emergency Medicine published by Wiley Periodicals LLC on behalf of Society for Academic Emergency Medicine.
PY - 2025/5
Y1 - 2025/5
N2 - Objective: The 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. Methods: A 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. Results: There 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. Conclusions: The 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.
AB - Objective: The 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. Methods: A 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. Results: There 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. Conclusions: The 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.
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/105000012049
U2 - 10.1111/acem.70012
DO - 10.1111/acem.70012
M3 - Article
C2 - 40052382
AN - SCOPUS:105000012049
SN - 1069-6563
VL - 32
SP - 553
EP - 569
JO - Academic Emergency Medicine
JF - Academic Emergency Medicine
IS - 5
ER -