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Minimum Data Set for Mass-Gathering Health Research and Evaluation: A Discussion Paper

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 September 2012

Jamie Ranse  and
Alison Hutton
Jamie Ranse*
Affiliation:
Faculty of Health, University of Canberra, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia School of Nursing and Midwifery, Flinders University, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
Alison Hutton
Affiliation:
School of Nursing and Midwifery, Flinders University, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
*
Correspondence: Jamie Ranse, RN, BN, MCritCarNurs Faculty of Health University of Canberra Canberra, Australia, ACT, 2601 E-mail jamie@jamieranse.com
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Abstract

This paper discusses the need for consistency in mass-gathering data collection and biomedical reporting. Mass gatherings occur frequently throughout the world, and having an understanding of the complexities of mass gatherings is important to inform health services about the possible required health resources. Factors within the environmental, psychosocial and biomedical domains influence the usage of health services at mass gatherings. The biomedical domain includes the categorization of presenting injury or illness, and rates such as patient presentation rate, transferred to hospital rate and referred to hospital rate. These rates provide insight into the usage of onsite health services, prehospital ambulance services. and hospital emergency department services.

Within the literature, these rates are reported in a manner that is varied, haphazard and author dependent. This paper proposes moving away from an author-dependent practice of collection and reporting of data. An expert consensus approach is proposed as a means of further developing mass-gathering theory and moving beyond the current situation of reporting on individual case studies. To achieve this, a minimum data set with a data dictionary is proposed in an effort to generate conversation about a possible agreed minimum amount and type of information that should be collected consistently for research and evaluation at mass gatherings. Finally, this paper outlines future opportunities that will emerge from the consistent collection and reporting of mass-gathering data, including the possibility for meta-analysis, comparison of events across societies and modeling of various rates to inform health services.

RanseJ, HuttonA. Minimum Data Set for Mass-Gathering Health Research and Evaluation: A Discussion Paper. Prehosp Disaster Med. 2012;27(6):1-8.

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healthmass gatheringminimum data setplanned eventresearch

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Comprehensive Review
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Prehospital and Disaster Medicine , Volume 27 , Issue 6 , December 2012 , pp. 543 - 550
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Copyright © World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine 2012

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