Saturday, July 28, 2012

Surge Capacity

Database: PubMed

((surge capacity[MeSH Terms] OR "surge capacity"[tiab] OR "surge capacities"[tiab])) OR (("health facilities"[MeSH Terms] OR hospital[tiab] OR hospitals[tiab]) AND (surge[tiab] OR surges[tiab] OR surged[tiab] OR "rapidly mobilize"[tiab] OR "rapidly mobilizes"[tiab] OR "rapidly mobilized"[tiab] OR "rapidly expand"[tiab] OR "rapidly expands"[tiab] OR "rapidly expanded"[tiab]) AND ("Disasters"[MeSH Terms] OR "Disaster Medicine"[MeSH Terms] OR "Mass Casualty Incidents"[MeSH Terms] OR disaster[tiab] OR disasters[tiab] OR catastrophe[tiab] OR catastrophes[tiab] OR catastrophic[tiab] OR "mass casualty"[tiab] OR "mass casualties"[tiab]))

Note: Requested by Melinda

Friday, July 20, 2012

Disaster planning and patient classification

Database: PubMed

(("disaster planning/methods"[MeSH Terms] OR "disaster planning/organization and administration"[MeSH Terms])) AND ("patients/classification"[MeSH Terms])

Note: Designed for a hospital administrator and turned into a monthly email alert. Notification email of new publications that match this search is sent at the beginning of every month to the patron.

Ethics of Relief Work

Database: PubMed

(("relief work/ethics"[MeSH Terms])) OR (((ethic[tiab] OR ethics[tiab] OR ethical[tiab])) AND ((humanitarian[Title/Abstract] OR international[tiab]) AND (relief[tiab] OR aid[tiab])))

Note: Designed for a faculty researcher and turned into a monthly email alert. Notification email of new publications that match this search is sent at the beginning of every month to the patron.

Campus Safety

Database: PubMed


((((((((disaster planning[MeSH Terms])) OR ("disease outbreaks/prevention and control"[MeSH Terms])) OR ("Risk Management/methods"[Mesh:noexp] OR "Risk Management/organization and administration"[Mesh:noexp])) OR (disasters[MeSH Terms])) OR (emergencies[MeSH Terms])) OR (((((((((disaster*[Title/Abstract]) OR "emergency plan"[Title/Abstract]) OR "emergency planning"[Title/Abstract]) OR "emergency response"[Title/Abstract]) OR "emergency preparedness"[Title/Abstract]) OR "security service"[Title/Abstract]) OR "security services"[Title/Abstract]) OR "campus security"[Title/Abstract]) OR "campus police"[Title/Abstract]))) AND (((universities[MeSH Terms])) OR ((((((university[Title]) OR universities[Title]) OR student[Title]) OR students[Title]) OR campus[Title]) OR campuses[Title]))

Note: Designed for campus staff and turned into a monthly email alert. Notification email of new publications that match this search is sent at the beginning of every month to the patron.

Bioterrorism

Database: PubMed

bioterrorism[mesh] OR bioterror[title] OR bioterrorist*[title] OR bioterrorism[title] OR biowarfare[title] OR biodefence[title] OR biosecurity[title] OR "biological warfare"[mesh] OR "biological warfare"[title] OR "biological weapon*"[title]

Note: Designed for a faculty researcher and turned into a monthly email alert. Notification email of new publications that match this search is sent at the beginning of every month to the patron.

General Disaster Medicine Journals Search String

Database: PubMed

((((("prehospital and disaster medicine"[Journal] OR "american journal of disaster medicine"[Journal]) OR "disaster management response dmr an official publication of the emergency nurses association"[Journal]) OR "disaster medicine and public health preparedness"[Journal]) OR "disasters"[Journal]) OR "biosecurity and bioterrorism biodefense strategy, practice, and science"[Journal]) OR "journal of business continuity emergency planning"[Journal]

Note: Turned into an RSS feed and used to monitor new publications in the major disaster medicine journals.