Browsing: Scientific Papers
enero, 2023
>> Älgå A, Malmstedt J. Prophylactic Negative-Pressure Wound Therapy After Laparotomy: Ongoing Discussion Following High-Quality Systematic Review. World Journal of Surgery 2023;:1475-1476
>> Amat Camacho, N., von Schreeb, J., Della Corte, F., Kolokotroni, O. Interventions to support the re-establishment of breastfeeding and their application in humanitarian settings: A systematic review. Maternal & Child Nutrition. 2023 Jan;19(1):e13440
>> Singh, P., Lamine, H., Sapkota, S., Bahattab, A., & Eriksson, A. (2023). Management of Mass-Casualty Incidents in Nepal: A Qualitative Case Study of Three District Hospitals in Nepal. Prehospital and Disaster Medicine, 1-6.
>> Gomez, M. D. M. M., Alhaffar, M. B. A., Sigua, J. A., Eriksson, A., & Hernandez, E. (2023). Differential ethnic approach in disaster risk reduction and management: The case of Colombia. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 103958.
>> Gohy, B., Opava, C. H., von Schreeb, J., van den Bergh, R., Brus, A., Fouda Mbarga, N., Ouamba, J. P., Mafuko, J-M., Mulombwe Musambi, I., Rougeon, D., Côté Grenier, E., Gaspar Fernandes, L., van Hulse, J., Weerts, E., The AIM-T Study Group., Brodin N. (2023). Assessing independence in mobility activities in trauma care: Validity and reliability of the Activity Independence Measure-Trauma (AIM-T) in humanitarian settings. PLOS Global Public Health, e0001723.
>> Kamrujjaman M.D., Demetriou Christiana., Cuartas Álvarez T., Castro Delgado R. The Role of Social Work for Emergency Medical Services (EMS): A Systematic Review. Prehospital and Disaster Medicine. 2023
>> Khalifeh R., D’Hoore W., Saliba C., Salameh P., Dauvrin M. Experiences of Cultural Differences, Discrimination, and Healthcare Access of Displaced Syrians (DS) in Lebanon: A Qualitative Study. Healthcare (Switzerland). 2023
>> Critselis E., Panagiotakos D. Impact of Electronic Cigarette use on Cardiovascular Health: Current Evidence, Causal Pathways, and Public Health Implications. Angiology. 2023
>> Hajj A., Badro D.A., Selwan C.A., Sacre H., Aoun R., Haddad C., Salameh P. The role of the COVID-19 pandemic and economic crisis in insomnia and post-traumatic stress symptoms in the Lebanese population: A cross-sectional assessment. International Journal of Population Studies. 2023
>> Alahmad B., Li J., Achilleos S., Al-Mulla F., Al-Hemoud A., Koutrakis P. Burden of fine air pollution on mortality in the desert climate of Kuwait. Journal of Exposure Science and Environmental Epidemiology. 2023
>> Demetriou C.A., Achilleos S., Quattrocchi A., Gabel J., Critselis E., Constantinou C., Nicolaou N., Ambrosio G., Bennett C.M., Le Meur N., Critchley J.A., Mortensen L.H., Rodriguez-Llanes J.M., Chong M., Denissov G., Klepac P., Goldsmith L.P., Costa A.J.L., Hagen T.P., Chan Sun M., Huang Q., Pidmurniak N., Zucker I., Cuthbertson J., Burström B., Barron M., Eraen I., Stracci F., Calmon W., Martial C., Verstiuk O., Kaufman Z., Tao W., Kereselidze M., Chikhladze N., Polemitis A., Charalambous A. Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on total, sex-and age-specific all-cause mortality in 20 countries worldwide during 2020: Results from the C-MOR project. International Journal of Epidemiology. 2023
>> Rizk R., Haddad C., Sacre H., Malaeb D., Wachten H., Strahler J., Salameh P. Assessing the relationship between food insecurity and lifestyle behaviors among university students: a comparative study between Lebanon and Germany. BMC Public Health. 2023
>> Kouis, P., Michanikou, A., Galanakis, E., Michaelidou, E., Dimitriou, H., Perez, J., Kinni, P., Achilleos, S., Revvas, E., Stamatelatos, G., Zacharatos, H., Savvides, C., Vasiliadou, E., Kalivitis, N., Chrysanthou, A., Tymvios, F., Papatheodorou, S.I., Koutrakis, P., Yiallouros, P.K. Responses of schoolchildren with asthma to recommendations to reduce desert dust exposure: Results from the LIFE-MEDEA intervention project using wearable technology. Science of the Total Environment. 2023
>> Alahmad, B., Khraishah, H., Royé, D., Vicedo-Cabrera, A.M., Guo, Y., Papatheodorou, S.I., Achilleos, S., Acquaotta, F., Armstrong, B., Bell, M.L., Pan, S.-C., de Sousa Zanotti Stagliorio Coelho, M., Colistro, V., Dang, T.N., Van Dung, D., De’ Donato, F.K., Entezari, A., Guo, Y.-L.L., Hashizume, M., Honda, Y., Indermitte, E., Íñiguez, C., Jaakkola, J.J.K., Kim, H., Lavigne, E., Lee, W., Li, S., Madureira, J., Mayvaneh, F., Orru, H., Overcenco, A., Ragettli, M.S., Ryti, N.R.I., Saldiva, P.H.N., Scovronick, N., Seposo, X., Sera, F., Silva, S.P., Stafoggia, M., Tobias, A., Garshick, E., Bernstein, A.S., Zanobetti, A., Schwartz, J., Gasparrini, A., Koutrakis, P. Associations Between Extreme Temperatures and Cardiovascular Cause-Specific Mortality: Results From 27 Countries. Circulation. 2023
>> Gan RK, Bruni E, Castro Delgado R, Alsua C, Arcos González P. Novel Google Maps and Google Earth application for chemical industry disaster risk assessment during complex emergencies in Eastern Ukraine. Sci Rep. 2023 Apr 8;13(1):5758. doi: 10.1038/s41598-023-31848-6. PMID: 37031223.
>> Castro Delgado R, Alvarez Gonzalez K, Cernuda Martinez JA, Cuartas Alvarez T, Arcos Gonzalez P. Top research priorities in prehospital care in Spain. Prehospital and Disaster Medicine 2023; 38 (1): 81-87.
>> Getu SB, Walle Tsegaw F, Arcos González P, Castro Delgado R. Hospital Disasters Preparedness for Mass-Casualty Incidents at Emergency Units in Northwest of Ethiopia: A Cross-Sectional Study. Prehosp Disaster Med. 2023; 38(3) :360–365. doi: 10.1017/S1049023X23000365
>> Walika, M., Moitinho De Almeida, M., Castro Delgado, R., Arcos González, P. (2023). Outbreaks Following Natural Disasters: A Review of the Literature. Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness, 17, E444. doi:10.1017/dmp.2023.96
>> Diaz Villanueva L, Lada Colunga B, Villanueva Ordóñez MJ, Cuartas Álvarez T, Cernuda Martinez JA, Castro Delgado R. Impact of the COVID pandemic on the profile of patients in SAMU-Asturias EMS (Spain): a two years retrospective analysis of Advanced Life Support Units data. Prehospital and disaster Medicine 2023; 38 (4): 430-435
>> Kamrujjaman MD, Demetriou C, Cuartas Álvarez T, Castro Delgado R. The Role of Social Work for Emergency Medical Services (EMS): A Systematic Review. Prehosp Disaster Med. 2023 Aug 1:1-8. doi: 10.1017/S1049023X23006143
>> Helel U, Khalid H, Castro-Delgado R. Effects of mass casualty incidents on anxiety, depression and PTSD among doctors and nurses: a systematic review protocol. BMJ Open 2023;(Q2 77/167. 2,9)
enero, 2022
>> Castro Delgado R, Cernuda Martínez JA, Romero Pareja JA, Cuartas Alvarez T, Arcos Gonzalez P. Management of the COVID-19 pandemic: Analysis of the perception of professionals of Emergency Medical Systems in Spain after the first wave. Prehospital and Disaster Medicine 2022; 37 (3): 314-320
>> Castro Delgado R, Rick Kye G, Cabrera Garcia V, Arcos González P. Sensitivity and Specificity of Spanish Prehospital Advanced Triage Method (META) and Manchester Triage System in Mass Casualty Incidents. Prehospital and Disaster Medicine 2022; 37 (3): 321-326
>> Gohy B, Opava Ch, Von Schreeb J, Van Den Bergh R, Brus A, El Hamid Qaradaya A, Mafuko Jm, Al-abbasi O, Cherestal S, Fernandes L, Da Silva Frois A, Weerts E, Brodin N, Aim-t Study Group. Monitoring independence in daily life activities after trauma in humanitarian settings: Item reduction and assessment of content validity of the Activity Independence Measure-Trauma (AIM-T). 0PLOS global public health 2022;2(12):e0001334-
>> Amirkhani M, Ghaemimood S, Von Schreeb J, El-khatib Z, Yaya S. Extreme weather events and death based on temperature and CO2 emission – A global retrospective study in 77 low-, middle- and high-income countries from 1999 to 2018. PREVENTIVE MEDICINE REPORTS 2022;:101846-
>> Halmin M, Abou Mourad G, Ghneim A, Rady A, Baker T, Von Schreeb J. Development of a quality assurance tool for intensive care units in Lebanon during the COVID-19 pandemic. International journal for quality in health care : journal of the International Society for Quality in Health Care 2022;34(2):-
>> Älgå A, Löfgren J, Haweizy R, Bashaireh K, Wong S, Forsberg Bc, Von Schreeb J, Malmstedt J. Cost analysis of negative-pressure wound therapy versus standard treatment of acute conflict-related extremity wounds within a randomized controlled trial. World journal of emergency surgery : WJES 2022;17(1):9-
>> Palmqvist M, Von Schreeb J, Älgå A. Autotransfusion in low-resource settings: a scoping review. BMJ open 2022;12(5):e056018-
>> Daebes Hl, Tounsi Ll, Nerlander M, Gerdin Wärnberg M, Jaweed M, Mamozai Ba, Nasim M, Trelles M, Von Schreeb J. Association between triage level and outcomes at Médecins Sans Frontières trauma hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan, 2015. Emergency medicine journal : EMJ 2022;39(8):628-633
>> Gustavsson, M. E., Juth, N., Arnberg, F. K., & von Schreeb, J. (2022). Dealing with difficult choices: a qualitative study of experiences and consequences of moral challenges among disaster healthcare responders. Conflict and Health, 16(1), 1-19.
>> Chowdhury M.A., Hasan M. Khalid, Islam S.L.U. Climate change adaptation in Bangladesh: Current practices, challenges and the way forward. Journal of Climate Change and Health. 2022
>> Hasan M.K., Nasrullah S.M., Quattrocchi A., Arcos González P., Castro Delgado R. Hospital Surge Capacity Preparedness in Disasters and Emergencies: Protocol for a Systematic Review. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 2022
>> Achilleos, S., Quattrocchi, A., Gabel, J., Heraclides, A., Kolokotroni, O., Constantinou, C., Ugarte, M.P., Nicolaou, N., Rodriguez-Llanes, J.M., Bennett, C.M., Bogatyreva, E., Schernhammer, E., Zimmermann, C., Costa, A.J.L., Lobato, J.C.P., Fernandes, N.M., Semedo-Aguiar, A.P., Ramirez, G.I.J., Garzon, O.D.M., Mortensen, L.H., Critchley, J.A., Goldsmith, L.P., Denissov, G., Rüütel, K., Le Meur, N., Kandelaki, L., Tsiklauri, S., O’Donnell, J., Oza, A., Kaufman, Z., Zucker, I., Ambrosio, G., Stracci, F., Hagen, T.P., Erzen, I., Klepac, P., González, P.A., Camporro, Á.F., Burström, B., Pidmurniak, N., Verstiuk, O., Huang, Q., Mehta, N.K., Polemitis, A., Charalambous, A., Demetriou, C.A. Excess all-cause mortality and COVID-19-related mortality: a temporal analysis in 22 countries, from January until August 2020. International Journal of Epidemiology. 2022
>> Quattrocchi, A., Tsioutis, C., Demetriou, A., Kyprianou, T., Athanasiadou, M., Silvestros, V., Mamais, I., Demetriou, Christiana.A., Theophanous, F., Soteriou, S., Gregoriadou, C., Anastasiou, E., Kolios, P., Ηaralambous, C., Gregoriou, I., Kalakouta, O., Nikolopoulos, G. Effect of vaccination on SARS-CoV-2 reinfection risk: a case–control study in the Republic of Cyprus. Public Health. 2022
>> Abid Z, Castro Delgado R, Cernuda Martínez JA, Arcos González P. The impact of COVID-19 pandemic lockdown in the routine immunization in the province of Laghman, Afghanistan. Risk Management and Healthcare Policy 2022:15 901–908
>> Zerbo A, Castro Delgado R, Arcos González P. Conceptualization of the Transmission Dynamic of Faecal-Orally Transmitted Diseases in Urban Exposome of Sub-Saharan Africa. Risk Manag Healthc Policy. 2022; 15: 1959-1964. https://doi.org/10.2147/RMHP.S372185
>> Kharb A, Bhandari S, Moitinho de Almeida M, Castro Delgado R, Arcos González P, Tubeuf S. Valuing Human Impact of Natural Disasters: A Review of Methods. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2022 Sep 13;19(18):11486. doi: 10.3390/ijerph191811486. PMID: 36141766; PMCID: PMC9517194
>> Tahreer Mahmoud Amro, Pedro Arcos González, Eduardo Montero Viñuales, Rafael Castro Delgado Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on Stress and Burnout Levels amongst Emergency Medical Technicians: A Cross-Sectional Study in Spain. Annals of Medicine 2022, 54:1, 3007-3016, DOI: 10.1080/07853890.2022.2137735
>> Castro Delgado, R., Fernández García, L., Cernuda Martínez, J., Cuartas Álvarez, T., & Arcos González, P. (2023). Training of Medical Students for Mass Casualty Incidents Using Table-Top Gamification. Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness,17, E255. doi:10.1017/dmp.2022.206.
enero, 2021
>> Castro Delgado, R., Pérez Quesada, P., Pintado García, E., Marañón Zabalza, I., Vallina-Victorero Vázquez, M., & Escribano Balín, R. (2021). Alternate Care Sites for COVID-19 Patients: Experience from the H144 Hospital of the Health Service of the Principality of Asturias, Spain. Prehospital and Disaster Medicine 2021; 36(6): 774-781. doi:10.1017/S1049023X21001102
>> Cernuda Martínez JA, Castro Delgado R, Arcos González P. Self-perception of theoretical knowledges and practical skills by primary health care physicians in life-threatening emergencies according to their gender: a cross-sectional study. Medicine 2021; 100: 8.
>> Zerbo A, Castro Delgado R, Arcos González P. Conceptual frameworks regarding waterborne diseases in sub-Saharan Africa and the need of for a new approach to urban exposomes. Epidemiol Health. 2021;43:e2021079. doi: 10.4178/epih.e2021079. Epub 2021 Oct 6. PMID: 34645205.
>> Haddad C., Malhab S.B., Malaeb D., Sacre H., Saadeh D., Tayeh C.B., Salameh P. Factors associated with knowledge, attitudes, and practices of the general Lebanese population toward the coronavirus disease 2019. International Journal of Population Studies. 2021
>> Gountas I., Quattrocchi A., Mamais I., Tsioutis C., Christaki E., Fokianos K., Nikolopoulos G. Effect of public health interventions during the first epidemic wave of COVID-19 in Cyprus: a modelling study. BMC Public Health. 2021
>> Hoteit M., Al-Atat Y., Joumaa H., El Ghali S., Mansour R., Mhanna R., Sayyed-Ahmad F., Salameh P., Al-Jawaldeh A. Exploring the impact of crises on food security in lebanon: Results from a national cross-sectional study. Sustainability (Switzerland). 2021
>> Kolokotroni O., Mosquera M.C., Quattrocchi A., Heraclides A., Demetriou C., Philippou E. Lifestyle habits of adults during the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown in Cyprus: evidence from a cross-sectional study. BMC Public Health. 2021
enero, 2020
>> Rodriguez-Llanes JM, Castro Delgado R, Pedersen MG, Meneghini M, Arcos Gonzalez P. Surging critical care capacity for COVID19: key now and in the future. Progress in Disaster Science 8 (2020); 100136. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pdisas.2020.100136.
>> Saulnier Dd, Hean H, Thol D, Ir P, Hanson C, Von Schreeb J, Mölsted Alvesson H.Staying afloat: community perspectives on health system resilience in the management of pregnancy and childbirth care during floods in Cambodia. BMJ global health 2020;5(4):-
>> Eriksson A, Gerdin Wärnberg M, Tylleskär T, Von Schreeb J.Predicting the Unpredictable – Harder than Expected. Prehospital and disaster medicine 2020;35(2):174-183
>> Gustavsson, M. E., Arnberg, F. K., Juth, N., & von Schreeb, J. (2020). Moral distress among disaster responders: what is it?.Prehospital and disaster medicine, 35(2), 212-219.
>> Ugarte M.P., Achilleos S., Quattrocchi A., Gabel J., Kolokotroni O., Constantinou C., Nicolaou N., Rodriguez-Llanes J.M., Huang Q., Verstiuk O., Pidmurniak N., Tao J.W., Burström B., Klepac P., Erzen I., Chong M., Barron M., Hagen T.P., Kalmatayeva Z., Davletov K., Zucker I., Kaufman Z., Kereselidze M., Kandelaki L., Le Meur N., Goldsmith L., Critchley J.A., Pinilla M.A., Jaramillo G.I., Teixeira D., Goméz L.F., Lobato J., Araújo C., Cuthbertson J., Bennett C.M., Polemitis A., Charalambous A., Demetriou C.A., On behalf of the C-MOR consortium Premature mortality attributable to COVID-19: potential years of life lost in 17 countries around the world, January–August 2020. BMC Public Health. 2022
>> Quattrocchi A., Mamais I., Tsioutis C., Christaki E., Constantinou C., Koliou M., Pana Z.-D., Silvestros V., Theophanous F., Haralambous C., Stylianou A., Sotiriou S., Athanasiadou M., Kyprianou T., Demetriou A., Demetriou C.A., Kolokotroni O., Gregoriou I., Paphitou N., Panos G., Kostrikis L., Karayiannis P., Petrikkos G., Agathangelou P., Mixides G., Siakallis G., Hadjihannas L., Palazis L., Vavlitou A., Matsentidou-Timiliotou C., Koukios D., Adamidi T., Frangopoulos F., Constantinou E., Nikolopoulos G.. Extensive testing and public health interventions for the control of covid-19 in the republic of cyprus between march and may 2020. Journal of Clinical Medicine. 2020
>> Constantinou C., Kolokotroni O., Mosquera M.-C., Heraclides A., Demetriou C., Karayiannis P., Quattrocchi A., Charalambous A. Developing a holistic contingency plan: Challenges and dilemmas for cancer patients during the COVID-19. Cancer Medicine. 2020
>> Romero Pareja R, Castro Delgado R, Turégano Fuentes F, Jhon Tissar-Vasallo I, Sanz Rosa D, Arcos González P. Prehospital triage for mass casualty incidents using the META method for early surgical assessment: retrospective validation of a hospital trauma registry. European Journal of Trauma and Emergency Surgery 2020; 46 (2): 425-433
>> Zerbo A, Castro Delgado R, Arcos González P. Vulnerability and everyday health risks of urban informal settlements in Sub-Saharan Africa. Global Health Journal 2020; 4 (2): 46-50. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.glohj.2020.04.003.
>> González PA, Camporro ÁF, Eriksson A, Llada CA. (2020) The Epidemiological Presentation Pattern of Ebola Virus Disease Outbreaks: Changes from 1976 to 2019. Prehospital and Disaster Medicine. 2020;35(3):247-53.
enero, 2019
>> De Almeida Mm, Von Schreeb J. Human Stampedes: An Updated Review of Current Literature. Prehospital and disaster medicine 2019;34(1):82-88
>> Marshall, S.K., Monárrez-Espino, J., Eriksson, A. (2019) Performance of mid-upper arm circumference to diagnose acute malnutrition in a cross-sectional community-based sample of children aged 6–24 months in Niger. Nutrition research and practice, 2019. 13(3): p. 247-255