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Diagnostic Imaging in Disasters: A Bibliometric Analysis

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 August 2017

Bo Gong ,
Mohammed F. Mohammed ,
Savvas Nicolaou ,
Muazzam Nasrullah ,
Bruce B. Forster  and
Faisal Khosa
Bo Gong
Affiliation:
Department of Radiology, Vancouver General Hospital, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Mohammed F. Mohammed
Affiliation:
Department of Radiology, Vancouver General Hospital, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Savvas Nicolaou
Affiliation:
Department of Radiology, Vancouver General Hospital, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Muazzam Nasrullah
Affiliation:
Injury Control Research Center, School of Public Health, West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia
Bruce B. Forster
Affiliation:
Department of Radiology, Vancouver General Hospital, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Faisal Khosa*
Affiliation:
Department of Radiology, Vancouver General Hospital, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
*
Correspondence and reprint requests to Faisal Khosa, MD, MBA, FFRRCSI, FRCPC, DABR. Department of Emergency & Trauma Radiology, Vancouver General Hospital, 899 12th Avenue West, Vancouver, BC, Canada V5Z 1M9 (e-mail: fkhosa@hotmail.com).
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Abstract

Objective

To investigate the role of diagnostic imaging in the clinical diagnosis, treatment, and follow-up management of patients in response to disasters.

Methods

A MEDLINE (OVID) search of original research articles identified 177 articles on this topic published since 2000. A bibliometric analysis was conducted on the top 100 articles ranked by average yearly citation.

Results

The most frequently studied disaster categories were disease outbreak (55 articles), armed conflict (23 articles), terrorist incident (10 articles), and earthquake (7 articles). The most studied disasters were the H1N1 influenza outbreak in 2009 (28 articles), Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome outbreak in 2003 (24 articles), War in Afghanistan, 2001-2014 (8 articles), Iraq War, 2003-2011 (6 articles), and the Sichuan earthquake (China) in 2008 (6 articles). Among the first authors, 59 were primarily affiliated with Radiology. The United States of America produced the most articles (25 articles), followed by the People’s Republic of China (24 articles). Eighty-one studies were retrospective, with 19 studies being prospective. Computed tomography was the most investigated modality (52.8%), followed by conventional radiography (33.3%) and ultrasound (9.7%).

Conclusions

Our study identifies intellectual milestones in the utility of diagnostic imaging in response to various disasters, and could help guide future research in developing disaster management plans. (Disaster Med Public Health Preparedness. 2018;12:265–277)

Keywords

diagnostic imagingdisasterbibliometrics

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Type
Systematic Review
Information
Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness , Volume 12 , Issue 2 , April 2018 , pp. 265 - 277
Copyright
Copyright © Society for Disaster Medicine and Public Health, Inc. 2017 

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