title: International emergency medicine: a review of the literature.
abstract: The field of international emergency medicine has grown rapidly over the past several decades, with an increase in the number of interested individuals and in the range of topics included under its rubric. One of the greatest obstacles, however, faced by international emergency medicine researchers and practitioners alike remains the lack of a high-quality, consolidated, and easily accessible evidence base of literature. In response to this perceived need, members of the Emergency Medicine Residents' Association International Emergency Medicine Committee, in conjunction with members of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine International Interest Group, embarked on the task of creating a recurring review of international emergency medicine literature. Articles for this first annual review, covering research published in 2005, were selected according to explicit, predetermined criteria that included both methodological quality and perceived impact of the research. It is our hope that this annual review will act as a forum for disseminating best practices, while also stimulating further research in the field of international emergency medicine.
authors.affiliation: Department of Emergency Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA. alevine2@partners.org
authors.forename: Adam C
authors.initials: AC
authors.lastname: Levine
authors.forename: Silpa
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Gadiraju
authors.forename: Ashish
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Goel
authors.forename: Sandeep
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Johar
authors.forename: Renee
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: King
authors.forename: Kris
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Arnold
mesh_terms: D004635:Emergency Medicine; D019317:Evidence-Based Medicine; D014943:Global Health; D012196:Review Literature as Topic; D012955:Societies, Medical