Top Articles 2016

Emergency Care in Resource Limited Settings (2016) ​

Baudin M, Jumaa AM, Jomma HJ, et al. Association of Rift Valley fever virus infection with miscarriage in Sudanese women: a cross-sectional study. Lancet Glob Health 2016;4:e864-e871. Click here

Boisen ML, Cross RW, Hartnett JN, et al. Field Validation of the ReEBOV Antigen Rapid Test for Point-of-Care Diagnosis of Ebola Virus Infection. J Infect Dis 2016;214:S203-S209. Click here

​Burnham-Marusich AR, Ezeanolue CO, Obiefune MC, et al. Prevalence of Sickle Cell Trait and Reliability of Self-Reported Status among Expectant Parents in Nigeria: Implications for Targeted Newborn Screening. Public Health Genomics 2016;19:298-306. Click here

Chattopadhyay A, Chang K, Nguyen K, et al. An Inexpensive Bismuth-Petrolatum Dressing for Treatment of Burns. Plast Reconstr Surg Glob Open 2016;4:e737. Click here

Elfving K, Shakely D, Andersson M, et al. Acute Uncomplicated Febrile Illness in Children Aged 2-59 months in Zanzibar - Aetiologies, Antibiotic Treatment and Outcome. PLoS One. 2016;11:e0146054. Click here

Khan A, Mahadevan SV Dreyfuss A, et al. One-two-triage: validation and reliability of a novel triage system for low-resource settings. Emerg Med J. 2016;33:709-15. Click here

LaGrone L, Riggle K, Joshipura M, et al. Uptake of the World Health Organization's trauma care guidelines: a systematic review. Bull World Health Organ. 2016;94:585-598C. Click here

Mir F, Nisar I, Tikmani SS, et al. Simplified antibiotic regimens for treatment of clinical severe infection in the outpatient setting when referral is not possible for young infants in Pakistan (Simplified Antibiotic Therapy Trial [SATT]): a randomised, open-label, equivalence trial. Lancet Glob Health. 2017;5:e177-e185. Click here

Peter JG, Zijenah LS, Chanda D, et al. Effect on mortality of point-of-care, urine-based lipoarabinomannan testing to guide tuberculosis treatment initiation in HIV-positive hospital inpatients: a pragmatic, parallel-group, multicountry, open-label, randomised controlled trial. Lancet. 2016;387:1187-97. Click here

Ralston ME, Myatt MA. Weight Estimation Tool for Children Aged 6 to 59 Months in Limited-Resource Settings. PLoS One. 2016;11:e0159260. Click here

Sawe HR, Mfinanga JA, Mwafongo V, et al. The test characteristics of physician clinical gestalt for determining the presence and severity of anaemia in patients seen at the emergency department of a tertiary referral hospital in Tanzania. Emerg Med J. 2016;33:338-44. Click here

Seear M, Awasthi S, Gowraiah V, et al. Predictive Accuracy of Chest Radiographs in Diagnosing Tachypneic Children. Indian J Pediatr. 2016;83:930-6. Click here

Shah SP, Shah SP, Fils-Aime R, et al. Focused cardiopulmonary ultrasound for assessment of dyspnea in a resource-limited setting. Crit Ultrasound J. 2016;8:7. Click here

Stewart BT, Lafta R, Cherewick M, et al. Road traffic injuries in Baghdad from 2003 to 2014: results of a randomised household cluster survey. Inj Prev. 2016;22:321-7. Click here

Syed AA, Almas A, Naeem Q, et al. Barriers and perceptions regarding code status discussion with families of critically ill patients in a tertiary care hospital of a developing country: A cross-sectional study. Palliat Med. 2017;31:147-157. Click here

Vasudevan V, Singh P, Basu S. Importance of awareness in improving performance of emergency medical services (EMS) systems in enhancing traffic safety: A lesson from India. Traffic Inj Prev. 2016;17:699-704. Click here

Daoud A, Halleröd B, Guha-Sapir D. What Is the Association between Absolute Child Poverty, Poor Governance, and Natural Disasters? A Global Comparison of Some of the Realities of Climate Change. PLoS One. 2016;11:e0153296. Click here

Kapoor R, Sandoval MA, Avendaño L, et al. Regional scale-up of an Emergency Triage Assessment and Treatment (ETAT) training programme from a referral hospital to primary care health centres in Guatemala. Emerg Med J. 2016;33:611-7. Click here

Reynolds T, Noble J, Paschal G, et al. Bedside ultrasound training at Muhimbili National Hospital in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania and Hospital San Carlos in Chiapas, Mexico. African Journal of Emergency Medicine. 2016;6:3. Click here