BMJ Open
Volume 7, Issue 9, 2017

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 (Article) (Open Access)

Pottie K. , Mayhew A.D. , Morton R.L. , Greenaway C. , Akl E.A. , Rahman P. , Zenner D. , Pareek M. , Tugwell P. , Welch V. , Meerpohl J. , Alonso-Coello P. , Hui C. , Biggs B.-A. , Requena-Méndez A. , Agbata E. , Noori T. , Schünemann H.J.*
  • a Departments of Family Medicine, Epidemiology and Community Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada, C.T. Lamont Primary Health Care Research Centre, Bruyère Research Institute, Ottawa, ON, Canada
  • b C.T. Lamont Primary Health Care Research Centre, Bruyère Research Institute, Ottawa, ON, Canada
  • c University of Sydney, NHMRC Clinical Trials Centre, Sydney, Australia
  • d SMBD-Jewish General Hospital, McGill University Montreal, Montreal, Canada
  • e Department of Internal Medicine, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon, Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence and Impact, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada
  • f C.T. Lamont Primary Health Care Research Centre, Bruyère Research Institute, Ottawa, ON, Canada
  • g Department of Public Health, Respiratory Diseases, Centre for Infectious Disease Surveillance and Control (CIDSC), London, United Kingdom
  • h Department of Infection, Immunity and Inflammation Leicester, University of Leicester, Leicester, United Kingdom
  • i Department of Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada
  • j Centre for Global Health, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada
  • k Cochrane Germany, MedicalCenter-University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany, Centre de Recherche Épidémiologie et Statistique Sorbonne Paris Cité, Inserm, Université Paris Descartes, Paris, France
  • l Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence and Impact, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada, Iberoamerican Cochrane Centre, CIBERESP-IIB Sant Pau, Barcelona, Spain
  • m Department of Pediatrics, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada
  • n Department of Medicine, University of Melbourne, Victorian Infectious Diseases Service, Royal Melbourne Hospital, Melbourne, Australia
  • o ISGlobal, Barcelona Centre for International Health Research (CRESIB), Hospital Clínic, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
  • p Departmentof Paediatrics, Obstetrics, Gynaecology and Preventive Medicine, UniversitatAutònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, Faculty of Health Science, University of Roehampton, London, United Kingdom
  • q Surveillanceand Response Unit, Scientific Assessment Section, European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), Stockholm, Sweden
  • r Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence and Impact, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada, Department of Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada

Abstract

Introduction 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. Methods and analysis 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. Ethics and dissemination 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.

Author Keywords

Screening Migrants Grade Vaccination Infectious disease Refugees

Index Keywords

Strongyloidiasis prospective study Embase refugee Human immunodeficiency virus infection mass screening methodology Research Design Cinahl Europe clinical effectiveness human clinical assessment Refugees Communicable Diseases Cochrane Library Haemophilus influenzae type b Medline evidence based practice Humans migrant Emigrants and Immigrants tuberculosis communicable disease control European Union diphtheria pertussis tetanus Haemophilus influenzae type b vaccine Article economic evaluation infection prevention communicable disease adult migration schistosomiasis pertussis Haemophilus infection measles mumps rubella vaccine mumps infection health care system rubella Transients and Migrants Delivery of Health Care vaccination hepatitis B poliomyelitis diphtheria systematic review practice guideline intestine parasite health care delivery measles public health tetanus cost effectiveness analysis hepatitis C Child

Link
https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85034835615&doi=10.1136%2fbmjopen-2016-014608&partnerID=40&md5=67485000f06c771ed424cdbcddb6f26a

DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2016-014608
ISSN: 20446055
Cited by: 18
Original Language: English