Pediatric Disaster Medicine Literature: A Scoping Review

Introduction: Over the last 20 years disasters have increasingly involved children, and pediatric disaster medicine research is growing. However, this largely reactive, has not been categorized in terms of cycle, quality variable. To understand gaps current literature highlight areas for future research, we conducted a scoping review literature. This work will help create recommendations research. Method: Using published framework reviews, worked with medical librarian multi-institutional team to define question, develop eligibility criteria, identify search strategy. We comprehensive Medline from 2001-2022, which was distributed nine reviewers. Each article independently screened inclusion by two Discrepancies were resolved third reviewer. Inclusion criteria included articles English, related all stages education, focused on or populations; academic, peer-reviewed journals, policies professional societies. Results: 967 imported screening 35 duplicates removed. 932 relevance 109 excluded. In 2000, three met 66 2021. noticed reactive spikes number after major disasters. Most preparedness response, only few recovery, mitigation, prevention. Methodology used most studies either qualitative retrospective. single site there < 10 meta-analyses over years. Conclusion: describes trends existing By identifying body literature, can better prioritize