Prevention and assessment of infectious diseases among children and adult migrants arriving to the European Union/European Economic Association : A protocol for a suite of systematic reviews for public health and health systems
Pottie, Kevin (Bruyère Research Institute)
Mayhew, Alain D. (Bruyère Research Institute)
Morton, Rachael L. (University of Sydney)
Greenaway, Christina (SMBD-Jewish General Hospital)
Akl, Elie A. (McMaster University (Canadà))
Rahman, Prinon (Bruyère Research Institute)
Zenner, Dominik (Centre for Infectious Disease Surveillance and Control (CIDSC))
Pareek, Manish (University of Leicester (Leicester, Regne Unit))
Tugwell, Peter (University of Ottawa)
Welch, Vivian (University of Ottawa)
Meerpohl, Joerg J (Université Paris Descartes)
Alonso-Coello, Pablo (Institut d'Investigació Biomèdica Sant Pau)
Hui, Charles (University of Ottawa)
Biggs, Beverley-Ann (Royal Melbourne Hospital (Melbourne, Austràlia))
Requena-Méndez, Ana (Hospital Clínic i Provincial de Barcelona)
Agbata, Eric (University of Roehampton)
Noori, Teymur (European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC))
Schünemann, Holger J. (McMaster University (Canadà))
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

Date:	2017
Abstract:	The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control is developing evidence-based guidance for voluntary screening, treatment and vaccine prevention of infectious diseases for newly arriving migrants to the European Union/European Economic Area. The objective of this systematic review protocol is to guide the identification, appraisal and synthesis of the best available evidence on prevention and assessment of the following priority infectious diseases: tuberculosis, HIV, hepatitis B, hepatitis C, measles, mumps, rubella, diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis, poliomyelitis (polio), Haemophilus influenza disease, strongyloidiasis and schistosomiasis. The search strategy will identify evidence from existing systematic reviews and then update the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness evidence using prospective trials, economic evaluations and/or recently published systematic reviews. Interdisciplinary teams have designed logic models to help define study inclusion and exclusion criteria, guiding the search strategy and identifying relevant outcomes. We will assess the certainty of evidence using the Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development and Evaluation (GRADE) approach. There are no ethical or safety issues. We anticipate disseminating the findings through open-access publications, conference abstracts and presentations. We plan to publish technical syntheses as GRADEpro evidence summaries and the systematic reviews as part of a special edition open-access publication on refugee health. We are following the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses for Protocols reporting guideline.
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Language:	Anglès
Document:	Article ; recerca ; Versió publicada
Subject:	Grade ; Infectious disease ; Migrants ; Refugees ; Screening ; Vaccination
Published in:	BMJ open, Vol. 7 Núm. 9 (january 2017) , p. e014608, ISSN 2044-6055

DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2016-014608
PMID: 28893741

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