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1. A pandemic recap: lessons we have learned

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Federico Coccolini, Enrico Cicuttin, Camilla Cremonini, Dario Tartaglia, Bruno Viaggi, Akira Kuriyama, Edoardo Picetti, Chad Ball, Fikri Abu-Zidan, Marco Ceresoli, Bruno Turri, Sumita Jain, Carlo Palombo, Xavier Guirao, Gabriel Rodrigues, Mahir Gachabayov, Fernando Machado, Lostoridis Eftychios, Souha S. Kanj, Isidoro Di Carlo, Salomone Di Saverio, Vladimir Khokha, Andrew Kirkpatrick, Damien Massalou, Francesco Forfori, Francesco Corradi, Samir Delibegovic, Gustavo M. Machain Vega, Massimo Fantoni, Demetrios Demetriades, Garima Kapoor, Yoram Kluger, Shamshul Ansari, Ron Maier, Ari Leppaniemi, Timothy Hardcastle, Andras Vereczkei, Evika Karamagioli, Emmanouil Pikoulis, Mauro Pistello, Boris E. Sakakushev, Pradeep H. Navsaria, Rita Galeiras, Ali I. Yahya, Aleksei V. Osipov, Evgeni Dimitrov, Krstina Doklestić, Michele Pisano, Paolo Malacarne, Paolo Carcoforo, Maria Grazia Sibilla, Igor A. Kryvoruchko, Luigi Bonavina, Jae Il Kim, Vishal G. Shelat, Jacek Czepiel, Emilio Maseda, Sanjay Marwah, Mircea Chirica, Giandomenico Biancofiore, Mauro Podda, Lorenzo Cobianchi, Luca Ansaloni, Paola Fugazzola, Charalampos Seretis, Carlos Augusto Gomez, Fabio Tumietto, Manu Malbrain, Martin Reichert, Goran Augustin, Bruno Amato, Alessandro Puzziello, Andreas Hecker, Angelo Gemignani, Arda Isik, Alessandro Cucchetti, Mirco Nacoti, Doron Kopelman, Cristian Mesina, Wagih Ghannam, Offir Ben-Ishay, Sameer Dhingra, Raul Coimbra, Ernest E. Moore, Yunfeng Cui, Martha A. Quiodettis, Miklosh Bala, Mario Testini, Jose Diaz, Massimo Girardis, Walter L. Biffl, Matthias Hecker, Ibrahima Sall, Ugo Boggi, Gabriele Materazzi, Lorenzo Ghiadoni, Junichi Matsumoto, Wietse P. Zuidema, Rao Ivatury, Mushira A. Enani, Andrey Litvin, Majdi N. Al-Hasan, Zaza Demetrashvili, Oussama Baraket, Carlos A. Ordoñez, Ionut Negoi, Ronald Kiguba, Ziad A. Memish, Mutasim M. Elmangory, Matti Tolonen, Korey Das, Julival Ribeiro, Donal B. O’Connor, Boun Kim Tan, Harry Van Goor, Suman Baral, Belinda De Simone, Davide Corbella, Pietro Brambillasca, Michelangelo Scaglione, Fulvio Basolo, Nicola De’Angelis, Cino Bendinelli, Dieter Weber, Leonardo Pagani, Cinzia Monti, Gianluca Baiocchi, Massimo Chiarugi, Fausto Catena, and Massimo Sartelli

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Pandemia, International, Thoughts, Reflection, Ethics, Biology, Surgery, RD1-811, Medical emergencies. Critical care. Intensive care. First aid, RC86-88.9
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Abstract On January 2020, the WHO Director General declared that the outbreak constitutes a Public Health Emergency of International Concern. The world has faced a worldwide spread crisis and is still dealing with it. The present paper represents a white paper concerning the tough lessons we have learned from the COVID-19 pandemic. Thus, an international and heterogenous multidisciplinary panel of very differentiated people would like to share global experiences and lessons with all interested and especially those responsible for future healthcare decision making. With the present paper, international and heterogenous multidisciplinary panel of very differentiated people would like to share global experiences and lessons with all interested and especially those responsible for future healthcare decision making.

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2021
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2. COVID-19 the showdown for mass casualty preparedness and management: the Cassandra Syndrome

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Federico Coccolini, Massimo Sartelli, Yoram Kluger, Emmanouil Pikoulis, Evika Karamagioli, Ernest E. Moore, Walter L. Biffl, Andrew Peitzman, Andreas Hecker, Mircea Chirica, Dimitrios Damaskos, Carlos Ordonez, Felipe Vega, Gustavo P. Fraga, Massimo Chiarugi, Salomone Di Saverio, Andrew W. Kirkpatrick, Fikri Abu-Zidan, Alain Chicom Mefire, Ari Leppaniemi, Vladimir Khokha, Boris Sakakushev, Rodolfo Catena, Raul Coimbra, Luca Ansaloni, Davide Corbella, and Fausto Catena

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Coronavirus, COVID-19, Epidemia, Pademia, Mass casualties, Management, Surgery, RD1-811, Medical emergencies. Critical care. Intensive care. First aid, RC86-88.9
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Abstract Since December 2019, the world is potentially facing one of the most difficult infectious situations of the last decades. COVID-19 epidemic warrants consideration as a mass casualty incident (MCI) of the highest nature. An optimal MCI/disaster management should consider all four phases of the so-called disaster cycle: mitigation, planning, response, and recovery. COVID-19 outbreak has demonstrated the worldwide unpreparedness to face a global MCI. This present paper thus represents a call for action to solicitate governments and the Global Community to actively start effective plans to promote and improve MCI management preparedness in general, and with an obvious current focus on COVID-19.

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2020
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3. Reflecting upon the humanitarian use of unmanned aerial vehicles (drones)

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Evanthia Tatsidou, Costas Tsiamis, Evika Karamagioli, Georgios Boudouris, Andreas Pikoulis, Eleni Kakalou, and Emmanuel Pikoulis

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drones, health crisis management, humanitarian response, Medicine
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Nine years after the earthquake in Haiti and the appearance of the concept of “humanitarian drones”, it remains a poorly discussed yet highly controversial issue. Emergency mapping and light cargo deliveries to inaccessible areas are only some of the most popular ways in which drones are currently used for post-disaster relief and health crisis management by first responders around the world. On the other hand, every single successful use for drones is always followed by controversy about the problems caused by that very same, initially successful, use. However, examples of good practices will contribute to the investigation, study and analysis of the ways in which new, cutting-edge technologies such as drones can be implemented and adapted to meet the needs and requirements of humanitarian organisations and local communities affected by disasters. The issue is how and under what circumstances drone use can potentially fulfil humanitarian functions, particularly in the aftermath of a disaster, and how this type of technology could be deployed in non-violent, ethically desirable ways as part of the humanitarian response. In conclusion, it is questionable whether the benefits of using drones outnumber the moral obstacles they raise, and whether they will eventually be considered an inseparable part of humanitarian aid as well as a cutting-edge technological toy.

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2019
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6. Surgeons' perspectives on artificial intelligence to support clinical decision-making in trauma and emergency contexts: results from an international survey

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Cobianchi, Lorenzo, Piccolo, Daniele, Dal Mas, Francesca, Agnoletti, Vanni, Ansaloni, Luca, Balch, Jeremy, Biffl, Walter, Butturini, Giovanni, Catena, Fausto, Coccolini, Federico, Denicolai, Stefano, De Simone, Belinda, Frigerio, Isabella, Fugazzola, Paola, Marseglia, Gianluigi, Marseglia, Giuseppe Roberto, Martellucci, Jacopo, Modenese, Mirko, Previtali, Pietro, Ruta, Federico, Venturi, Alessandro, Kaafarani, Haytham M, Loftus, Tyler J, Kenneth Lyle Abbott, Abubaker Abdelmalik, Nebyou Seyoum Abebe, Fikri Abu-Zidan, Yousif Abdallah Yousif Adam, Harissou Adamou, Dmitry Mikhailovich Adamovich, Ferdinando Agresta, Antonino Agrusa, Emrah Akin, Mario Alessiani, Henrique Alexandrino, Syed Muhammad Ali, Vasilescu Alin Mihai, Pedro Miguel Almeida, Mohammed Mohammed Al-Shehari, Michele Altomare, Francesco Amico, Michele Ammendola, Jacopo Andreuccetti, Elissavet Anestiadou, Peter Angelos, Alfredo Annicchiarico, Amedeo Antonelli, Daniel Aparicio-Sanchez, Antonella Ardito, Giulio Argenio, Catherine Claude Arvieux, Ingolf Harald Askevold, Boyko Tchavdarov Atanasov, Goran Augustin, Selmy Sabry Awad, Giulia Bacchiocchi, Carlo Bagnoli, Hany Bahouth, Efstratia Baili, Lovenish Bains, Gian Luca Baiocchi, Miklosh Bala, Carmen Balagué, Dimitrios Balalis, Edoardo Baldini, Oussama Baraket, Suman Baral, Mirko Barone, Alberto Gonzãlez Barranquero, Jorge Arturo Barreras, Gary Alan Bass, Zulfu Bayhan, Giovanni Bellanova, Offir Ben-Ishay, Fabrizio Bert, Valentina Bianchi, Helena Biancuzzi, Chiara Bidoli, Raluca Bievel Radulescu, Mark Brian Bignell, Alan Biloslavo, Daniele Bissacco, Roberto Bini, Paolo Boati, Guillaume Boddaert, Branko Bogdanic, Cristina Bombardini, Luigi Bonavina, Luca Bonomo, Andrea Bottari, Konstantinos Bouliaris, Gioia Brachini, Antonio Brillantino, Giuseppe Brisinda, Maloni Mamada Bulanauca, Luis Antonio Buonomo, Jakob Burcharth, Salvatore Buscemi, Francesca Calabretto, Giacomo Calini, Valentin Calu, Fabio Cesare Campanile, Riccardo Campo Dall Orto, Andrea Campos-Serra, Stefano Campostrini, Recayi Capoglu, Joao Miguel Carvas, Marco Cascella, Gianmaria Casoni Pattacini, Valerio Celentano, Danilo Corrado Centonze, Marco Ceresoli, Dimitrios Chatzipetris, Antonella Chessa, Maria Michela Chiarello, Mircea Chirica, Serge Chooklin, Christos Chouliaras, Sharfuddin Chowdhury, Pasquale Cianci, Nicola Cillara, Stefania Cimbanassi, Stefano Piero Bernardo Cioffi, Elif Colak, Enrique Colás Ruiz, Luigi Conti, Alessandro Coppola, Tiago Correia De Sa, Silvia Dantas Costa, Valerio Cozza, Giuseppe Curro', Kirsten Felicia Ann-Sophie Aimee Dabekaussen, Fabrizio D'Acapito, Dimitrios Damaskos, Giancarlo D'Ambrosio, Koray Das, Richard Justin Davies, Andrew Charles De Beaux, Sara Patricia De Lebrusant Fernandez, Alessandro De Luca, Francesca De Stefano, Luca Degrate, Zaza Demetrashvili, Andreas Kyriacou Demetriades, Dzemail Smail Detanac, Agnese Dezi, Giuseppe Di Buono, Isidoro Di Carlo, Pierpaolo Di Lascio, Marcello Di Martino, Salomone Di Saverio, Bogdan Diaconescu, Jose J Diaz, Rigers Dibra, Evgeni Nikolaev Dimitrov, Vincenza Paola Dinuzzi, Sandra Dios-Barbeito, Jehangir Farman Ali Diyani, Agron Dogjani, Maurizio Domanin, Mario D'Oria, Virginia Duran Munoz-Cruzado, Barbora East, Mikael Ekelund, Gerald Takem Ekwen, Adel Hamed Elbaih, Muhammed Elhadi, Natalie Enninghorst, Mairam Ernisova, Juan Pablo Escalera-Antezana, Sofia Esposito, Giuseppe Esposito, Mercedes Estaire, Camilla Nikita Farè, Roser Farre, Francesco Favi, Luca Ferrario, Antonjacopo Ferrario di Tor Vajana, Claudia Filisetti, Francesco Fleres, Vinicius Cordeiro Fonseca, Alexander Forero-Torres, Francesco Forfori, Laura Fortuna, Evangelos Fradelos, Gustavo P Fraga, Pietro Fransvea, Simone Frassini, Giuseppe Frazzetta, Erica Pizzocaro, Maximos Frountzas, Mahir Gachabayov, Rita Galeiras, Alain A Garcia Vazquez, Simone Gargarella, Ibrahim Umar Garzali, Wagih Mommtaz Ghannam, Faiz Najmuddin Ghazi, Lawrence Marshall Gillman, Rossella Gioco, Alessio Giordano, Luca Giordano, Carlo Giove, Giorgio Giraudo, Mario Giuffrida, Michela Giulii Capponi, Emanuel Gois Jr, Carlos Augusto Gomes, Felipe Couto Gomes, Ricardo Alessandro Teixeira Gonsaga, Emre Gonullu, Jacques Goosen, Tatjana Goranovic, Raquel Gracia-Roman, Giorgio Maria Paolo Graziano, Ewen Alexander Griffiths, Tommaso Guagni, Dimitar Bozhidarov Hadzhiev, Muad Gamil Haidar, Hytham K S Hamid, Timothy Craig Hardcastle, Firdaus Hayati, Andrew James Healey, Andreas Hecker, Matthias Hecker, Edgar Fernando Hernandez Garcia, Adrien Montcho Hodonou, Eduardo Cancio Huaman, Martin Huerta, Aini Fahriza Ibrahim, Basil Mohamed Salabeldin Ibrahim, Giuseppe Ietto, Marco Inama, Orestis Ioannidis, Arda Isik, Nizar Ismail, Azzain Mahadi Hamid Ismail, Ruhi Fadzlyana Jailani, Ji Young Jang, Christos Kalfountzos, Sujala Niatarika Rajsain Kalipershad, Emmanouil Kaouras, Lewis Jay Kaplan, Yasin Kara, Evika Karamagioli, Aleksandar Karamarkovia, Ioannis Katsaros, Alfie J Kavalakat, Aristotelis Kechagias, Jakub Kenig, Boris Juli Kessel, Jim S Khan, Vladimir Khokha, Jae Il Kim, Andrew Wallace Kirkpatrick, Roberto Klappenbach, Yoram Kluger, Yoshiro Kobe, Efstratios Kofopoulos Lymperis, Kenneth Yuh Yen Kok, Victor Kong, Dimitris P Korkolis, Georgios Koukoulis, Bojan Kovacevic, Vitor Favali Kruger, Igor A Kryvoruchko, Hayato Kurihara, Akira Kuriyama, Aitor Landaluce-Olavarria, Pierfrancesco Lapolla, Ari Leppäniemi, Leo Licari, Giorgio Lisi, Andrey Litvin, Aintzane Lizarazu, Heura Llaquet Bayo, Varut Lohsiriwat, Claudia Cristina Lopes Moreira, Eftychios Lostoridis, Agustãn Tovar Luna, Davide Luppi, Gustavo Miguel Machain V, Marc Maegele, Daniele Maggiore, Stefano Magnone, Ronald V Maier, Piotr Major, Mallikarjuna Manangi, Andrea Manetti, Baris Mantoglu, Chiara Marafante, Federico Mariani, Athanasios Marinis, Evandro Antonio Sbalcheiro Mariot, Gennaro Martines, Aleix Martinez Perez, Costanza Martino, Pietro Mascagni, Damien Massalou, Maurizio Massaro, Belen Matías-García, Gennaro Mazzarella, Giorgio Mazzarolo, Renato Bessa Melo, Fernando Mendoza-Moreno, Serhat Meric, Jeremy Meyer, Luca Miceli, Nikolaos V Michalopoulos, Flavio Milana, Andrea Mingoli, Tushar S Mishra, Muyed Mohamed, Musab Isam Eldin Abbas Mohamed, Ali Yasen Mohamedahmed, Mohammed Jibreel Suliman Mohammed, Rajashekar Mohan, Ernest E Moore, Dieter Morales-Garcia, Mã Ns Muhrbeck, Francesk Mulita, Sami Mohamed Siddig Mustafa, Edoardo Maria Muttillo, Mukhammad David Naimzada, Pradeep H Navsaria, Ionut Negoi, Luca Nespoli, Christine Nguyen, Melkamu Kibret Nidaw, Giuseppe Nigri, Ioannis Nikolopoulos, Donal Brendan O'Connor, Habeeb Damilola Ogundipe, Cristina Oliveri, Stefano Olmi, Ernest Cun Wang Ong, Luca Orecchia, Aleksei V Osipov, Muhammad Faeid Othman, Marco Pace, Mario Pacilli, Leonardo Pagani, Giuseppe Palomba, Desire' Pantalone, Arpad Panyko, Ciro Paolillo, Mario Virgilio Papa, Dimitrios Papaconstantinou, Maria Papadoliopoulou, Aristeidis Papadopoulos, Davide Papis, Nikolaos Pararas, Jose Gustavo Parreira, Neil Geordie Parry, Francesco Pata, Tapan Patel, Simon Paterson-Brown, Giovanna Pavone, Francesca Pecchini, Veronica Pegoraro, Gianluca Pellino, Maria Pelloni, Andrea Peloso, Eduardo Perea Del Pozo, Rita Goncalves Pereira, Bruno Monteiro Pereira, Aintzane Lizarazu Perez, Silvia Pérez, Teresa Perra, Gennaro Perrone, Antonio Pesce, Lorenzo Petagna, Giovanni Petracca, Vorapong Phupong, Biagio Picardi, Arcangelo Picciariello, Micaela Piccoli, Edoardo Picetti, Emmanouil Pikoulis Pikoulis, Tadeja Pintar, Giovanni Pirozzolo, Francesco Piscioneri, Mauro Podda, Alberto Porcu, Francesca Privitera, Clelia Punzo, Silvia Quaresima, Martha Alexa Quiodettis, Niels Qvist, Razrim Rahim, Filipe Ramalho de Almeida, Rosnelifaizur Bin Ramely, Huseyin Kemal Rasa, Martin Reichert, Alexander Reinisch-Liese, Angela Renne, Camilla Riccetti, Maria Rita Rodriguez-Luna, Daniel Roizblatt, Andrea Romanzi, Luigi Romeo, Francesco Pietro Maria Roscio, Ramely Bin Rosnelifaizur, Stefano Rossi, Andres M Rubiano, Elena Ruiz-Ucar, Boris Evgeniev Sakakushev, Juan Carlos Salamea, Ibrahima Sall, Lasitha Bhagya Samarakoon, Fabrizio Sammartano, Alejandro Sanchez Arteaga, Sergi Sanchez-Cordero, Domenico Pietro Maria Santoanastaso, Massimo Sartelli, Diego Sasia, Norio Sato, Artem Savchuk, Robert Grant Sawyer, Giacomo Scaioli, Dimitrios Schizas, Simone Sebastiani, Barbara Seeliger, Helmut Alfredo Segovia Lohse, Charalampos Seretis, Giacomo Sermonesi, Mario Serradilla-Martin, Vishal G Shelat, Sergei Shlyapnikov, Theodoros Sidiropoulos, Romeo Lages Simoes, Leandro Siragusa, Boonying Siribumrungwong, Mihail Slavchev, Leonardo Solaini, Gabriele Soldini, Andrey Sopuev, Kjetil Soreide, Apostolos Sovatzidis, Philip Frank Stahel, Matt Strickland, Mohamed Arif Hameed Sultan, Ruslan Sydorchuk, Larysa Sydorchuk, Syed Muhammad Ali Muhammad Syed, Luis Tallon-Aguilar, Andrea Marco Tamburini, Nicolò Tamini, Edward C T H Tan, Jih Huei Tan, Antonio Tarasconi, Nicola Tartaglia, Giuseppe Tartaglia, Dario Tartaglia, John Vincent Taylor, Giovanni Domenico Tebala, Michel Teuben, Alexis Theodorou, Matti Tolonen, Giovanni Tomasicchio, Adriana Toro, Beatrice Torre, Tania Triantafyllou, Giuseppe Trigiante Trigiante, Marzia Tripepi, Julio Trostchansky, Konstantinos Tsekouras, Victor Turrado-Rodriguez, Roberta Tutino, Matteo Uccelli, Petar Angelov Uchikov, Bakarne Ugarte-Sierra, Mika Tapani Ukkonen, Michail Vailas, Panteleimon G Vassiliu, Alain Garcia Vazquez, Rita Galeiras Vazquez, George Velmahos, Juan Ezequiel Verde, Juan Manuel Verde, Massimiliano Veroux, Jacopo Viganò, Ramon Vilallonga, Diego Visconti, Alessandro Vittori, Maciej Waledziak, Tongporn Wannatoop, Lukas Werner Widmer, Michael Samuel James Wilson, Sarah Woltz, Ting Hway Wong, Sofia Xenaki, Byungchul Yu, Steven Yule, Sanoop Koshy Zachariah, Georgios Zacharis, Claudia Zaghi, Andee Dzulkarnaen Zakaria, Diego A Zambrano, Nikolaos Zampitis, Biagio Zampogna, Simone Zanghì, Maristella Zantedeschi, Konstantinos Zapsalis, Fabio Zattoni, Monica Zese, Lorenzo, Cobianchi, Daniele, Piccolo, Francesca, Dal Ma, Vanni, Agnoletti, Luca, Ansaloni, Jeremy, Balch, Walter, Biffl, Giovanni, Butturini, Fausto, Catena, Federico, Coccolini, Stefano, Denicolai, Belinda, De Simone, Isabella, Frigerio, Paola, Fugazzola, Gianluigi, Marseglia, Giuseppe Roberto, Marseglia, Jacopo, Martellucci, Mirko, Modenese, Pietro, Previtali, Federico, Ruta, Alessandro, Venturi, Haytham M, Kaafarani, Tyler J, Loftu, Lyle Abbott, Kenneth, Abdelmalik, Abubaker, Seyoum Abebe, Nebyou, Abu-Zidan, Fikri, Abdallah Yousif Adam, Yousif, Adamou, Harissou, Mikhailovich Adamovich, Dmitry, Agresta, Ferdinando, Agrusa, Antonino, Akin, Emrah, Alessiani, Mario, Alexandrino, Henrique, Muhammad Ali, Syed, Alin Mihai, Vasilescu, Miguel Almeida, Pedro, Mohammed Al-Shehari, Mohammed, Altomare, Michele, Amico, Francesco, Ammendola, Michele, Andreuccetti, Jacopo, Anestiadou, Elissavet, Angelos, Peter, Annicchiarico, Alfredo, Antonelli, Amedeo, Aparicio-Sanchez, Daniel, Ardito, Antonella, Argenio, Giulio, Claude Arvieux, Catherine, Harald Askevold, Ingolf, Tchavdarov Atanasov, Boyko, Augustin, Goran, Sabry Awad, Selmy, Bacchiocchi, Giulia, Bagnoli, Carlo, Bahouth, Hany, Baili, Efstratia, Bains, Lovenish, Luca Baiocchi, Gian, Bala, Miklosh, Balagué, Carmen, Balalis, Dimitrio, Baldini, Edoardo, Baraket, Oussama, Baral, Suman, Barone, Mirko, Gonzãlez Barranquero, Alberto, Arturo Barreras, Jorge, Alan Bass, Gary, Bayhan, Zulfu, Bellanova, Giovanni, Ben-Ishay, Offir, Bert, Fabrizio, Bianchi, Valentina, Biancuzzi, Helena, Bidoli, Chiara, Bievel Radulescu, Raluca, Brian Bignell, Mark, Biloslavo, Alan, Bissacco, Daniele, Bini, Roberto, Boati, Paolo, Boddaert, Guillaume, Bogdanic, Branko, Bombardini, Cristina, Bonavina, Luigi, Bonomo, Luca, Bottari, Andrea, Bouliaris, Konstantino, Brachini, Gioia, Brillantino, Antonio, Brisinda, Giuseppe, Mamada Bulanauca, Maloni, Antonio Buonomo, Lui, Burcharth, Jakob, Buscemi, Salvatore, Calabretto, Francesca, Calini, Giacomo, Calu, Valentin, Cesare Campanile, Fabio, Campo Dall Orto, Riccardo, Campos-Serra, Andrea, Campostrini, Stefano, Capoglu, Recayi, Miguel Carvas, Joao, Cascella, Marco, Casoni Pattacini, Gianmaria, Celentano, Valerio, Corrado Centonze, Danilo, Ceresoli, Marco, Chatzipetris, Dimitrio, Chessa, Antonella, Michela Chiarello, Maria, Chirica, Mircea, Chooklin, Serge, Chouliaras, Christo, Chowdhury, Sharfuddin, Cianci, Pasquale, Cillara, Nicola, Cimbanassi, Stefania, Piero Bernardo Cioffi, Stefano, Colak, Elif, Colás Ruiz, Enrique, Conti, Luigi, Coppola, Alessandro, Correia De Sa, Tiago, Dantas Costa, Silvia, Cozza, Valerio, Curro', Giuseppe, Felicia Ann-Sophie Aimee Dabekaussen, Kirsten, D'Acapito, Fabrizio, Damaskos, Dimitrio, D'Ambrosio, Giancarlo, Das, Koray, Justin Davies, Richard, Charles De Beaux, Andrew, Patricia De Lebrusant Fernandez, Sara, De Luca, Alessandro, De Stefano, Francesca, Degrate, Luca, Demetrashvili, Zaza, Kyriacou Demetriades, Andrea, Smail Detanac, Dzemail, Dezi, Agnese, Di Buono, Giuseppe, Di Carlo, Isidoro, Di Lascio, Pierpaolo, Di Martino, Marcello, Di Saverio, Salomone, Diaconescu, Bogdan, J Diaz, Jose, Dibra, Riger, Nikolaev Dimitrov, Evgeni, Paola Dinuzzi, Vincenza, Dios-Barbeito, Sandra, Farman Ali Diyani, Jehangir, Dogjani, Agron, Domanin, Maurizio, D'Oria, Mario, Duran Munoz-Cruzado, Virginia, East, Barbora, Ekelund, Mikael, Takem Ekwen, Gerald, Hamed Elbaih, Adel, Elhadi, Muhammed, Enninghorst, Natalie, Ernisova, Mairam, Pablo Escalera-Antezana, Juan, Esposito, Sofia, Esposito, Giuseppe, Estaire, Mercede, Nikita Farè, Camilla, Farre, Roser, Favi, Francesco, Ferrario, Luca, Ferrario di Tor Vajana, Antonjacopo, Filisetti, Claudia, Fleres, Francesco, Cordeiro Fonseca, Viniciu, Forero-Torres, Alexander, Forfori, Francesco, Fortuna, Laura, Fradelos, Evangelo, P Fraga, Gustavo, Fransvea, Pietro, Frassini, Simone, Frazzetta, Giuseppe, Pizzocaro, Erica, Frountzas, Maximo, Gachabayov, Mahir, Galeiras, Rita, A Garcia Vazquez, Alain, Gargarella, Simone, Umar Garzali, Ibrahim, Mommtaz Ghannam, Wagih, Najmuddin Ghazi, Faiz, Marshall Gillman, Lawrence, Gioco, Rossella, Giordano, Alessio, Giordano, Luca, Giove, Carlo, Giraudo, Giorgio, Giuffrida, Mario, Giulii Capponi, Michela, Gois Jr, Emanuel, Augusto Gomes, Carlo, Couto Gomes, Felipe, Alessandro Teixeira Gonsaga, Ricardo, Gonullu, Emre, Goosen, Jacque, Goranovic, Tatjana, Gracia-Roman, Raquel, Maria Paolo Graziano, Giorgio, Alexander Griffiths, Ewen, Guagni, Tommaso, Bozhidarov Hadzhiev, Dimitar, Gamil Haidar, Muad, S Hamid, Hytham K, Craig Hardcastle, Timothy, Hayati, Firdau, James Healey, Andrew, Hecker, Andrea, Hecker, Matthia, Fernando Hernandez Garcia, Edgar, Montcho Hodonou, Adrien, Cancio Huaman, Eduardo, Huerta, Martin, Fahriza Ibrahim, Aini, Mohamed Salabeldin Ibrahim, Basil, Ietto, Giuseppe, Inama, Marco, Ioannidis, Oresti, Isik, Arda, Ismail, Nizar, Mahadi Hamid Ismail, Azzain, Fadzlyana Jailani, Ruhi, Young Jang, Ji, Kalfountzos, Christo, Niatarika Rajsain Kalipershad, Sujala, Kaouras, Emmanouil, Jay Kaplan, Lewi, Kara, Yasin, Karamagioli, Evika, Karamarkovia, Aleksandar, Katsaros, Ioanni, J Kavalakat, Alfie, Kechagias, Aristoteli, Kenig, Jakub, Juli Kessel, Bori, S Khan, Jim, Khokha, Vladimir, Il Kim, Jae, Wallace Kirkpatrick, Andrew, Klappenbach, Roberto, Kluger, Yoram, Kobe, Yoshiro, Kofopoulos Lymperis, Efstratio, Yuh Yen Kok, Kenneth, Kong, Victor, P Korkolis, Dimitri, Koukoulis, Georgio, Kovacevic, Bojan, Favali Kruger, Vitor, A Kryvoruchko, Igor, Kurihara, Hayato, Kuriyama, Akira, Landaluce-Olavarria, Aitor, Lapolla, Pierfrancesco, Leppäniemi, Ari, Licari, Leo, Lisi, Giorgio, Litvin, Andrey, Lizarazu, Aintzane, Llaquet Bayo, Heura, Lohsiriwat, Varut, Cristina Lopes Moreira, Claudia, Lostoridis, Eftychio, Tovar Luna, Agustãn, Luppi, Davide, V, Gustavo Miguel Machain, Maegele, Marc, Maggiore, Daniele, Magnone, Stefano, V Maier, Ronald, Major, Piotr, Manangi, Mallikarjuna, Manetti, Andrea, Mantoglu, Bari, Marafante, Chiara, Mariani, Federico, Marinis, Athanasio, Antonio Sbalcheiro Mariot, Evandro, Martines, Gennaro, Martinez Perez, Aleix, Martino, Costanza, Mascagni, Pietro, Massalou, Damien, Massaro, Maurizio, Matías-García, Belen, Mazzarella, Gennaro, Mazzarolo, Giorgio, Bessa Melo, Renato, Mendoza-Moreno, Fernando, Meric, Serhat, Meyer, Jeremy, Miceli, Luca, V Michalopoulos, Nikolao, Milana, Flavio, Mingoli, Andrea, S Mishra, Tushar, Mohamed, Muyed, Isam Eldin Abbas Mohamed, Musab, Yasen Mohamedahmed, Ali, Jibreel Suliman Mohammed, Mohammed, Mohan, Rajashekar, E Moore, Ernest, Morales-Garcia, Dieter, Ns Muhrbeck, Mã, Mulita, Francesk, Mohamed Siddig Mustafa, Sami, Maria Muttillo, Edoardo, David Naimzada, Mukhammad, H Navsaria, Pradeep, Negoi, Ionut, Nespoli, Luca, Nguyen, Christine, Kibret Nidaw, Melkamu, Nigri, Giuseppe, Nikolopoulos, Ioanni, Brendan O'Connor, Donal, Damilola Ogundipe, Habeeb, Oliveri, Cristina, Olmi, Stefano, Cun Wang Ong, Ernest, Orecchia, Luca, V Osipov, Aleksei, Faeid Othman, Muhammad, Pace, Marco, Pacilli, Mario, Pagani, Leonardo, 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Settore SECS-P/10 - Organizzazione Aziendale, Settore MED/18 - Chirurgia Generale, Artificial intelligence, Settore SECS-P/07 - Economia Aziendale, Decision aid, Emergency Medicine, Decision aids, Surgery, [SDV.IB]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Bioengineering, Trauma and emergency surgery, Clinical decision-making, Survey
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Background Artificial intelligence (AI) is gaining traction in medicine and surgery. AI-based applications can offer tools to examine high-volume data to inform predictive analytics that supports complex decision-making processes. Time-sensitive trauma and emergency contexts are often challenging. The study aims to investigate trauma and emergency surgeons’ knowledge and perception of using AI-based tools in clinical decision-making processes. Methods An online survey grounded on literature regarding AI-enabled surgical decision-making aids was created by a multidisciplinary committee and endorsed by the World Society of Emergency Surgery (WSES). The survey was advertised to 917 WSES members through the society’s website and Twitter profile. Results 650 surgeons from 71 countries in five continents participated in the survey. Results depict the presence of technology enthusiasts and skeptics and surgeons' preference toward more classical decision-making aids like clinical guidelines, traditional training, and the support of their multidisciplinary colleagues. A lack of knowledge about several AI-related aspects emerges and is associated with mistrust. Discussion The trauma and emergency surgical community is divided into those who firmly believe in the potential of AI and those who do not understand or trust AI-enabled surgical decision-making aids. Academic societies and surgical training programs should promote a foundational, working knowledge of clinical AI.

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2023

9. Psychological First Aid Training of Police Officers

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Zoe Kouvatsou, Georgios Degermedgoglou, Evika Karamagioli, and Emmanouil Pikoulis

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Law, Applied Psychology
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A significant lack of evidence regarding the effectiveness of psychological first aid (PFA) training of first responders to emergency settings has been reported. The aim of the present study was to assess the effectiveness of a PFA training program on the feeling of confidence on providing help in crisis, knowledge, attitudes, and skills of police officers. Fifty police officers were trained in PFA, using an adapted version of the World Health Organization's program, and they were compared to a control group of 53 police officers. A PFA questionnaire was used to compare the two groups, before and after the implementation of the PFA training. Results revealed significant improvementson confidence, knowledge, attitudes, and skills of trained police officers, in comparison to controls. Thus, the present results suggest that PFA training programs are effective and should be offered to police officers in order to enhance their capacity to provide PFA in emergency settings.

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2022

10. Trauma consultations in a Swiss tertiary emergency department: Comparison of asylum seekers and the local population—Patient characteristics and patterns of injuries, a retrospective study

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Anne Jachmann, Rabia Saffuri, Henk Eijer, Adam D. Brown, Evika Karamagioli, Emmanouil Pikoulis, Aristomenis Exadaktylos, Karsten Klingberg, and David Srivastava

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Adult, Refugees, Multidisciplinary, Humans, 610 Medicine & health, Emergency Service, Hospital, Referral and Consultation, Switzerland, Retrospective Studies
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Background In 2017, accidents and other acts of violence were the fifth most common cause of death in Switzerland. Moreover, there are increasing numbers of refugees and asylum seekers (AS), who often exhibit distinct disease profiles from those of the natives of the host country. If these differences could be clearly identified, this might help to develop and implement strategies to prevent injuries in health care programs for refugees and asylum seekers. The aim of this study was to examine the types and characteristics of physical trauma profiles in patients from the two largest groups of AS in Switzerland–from Eastern Africa (EA) and the Middle East (ME)–who consulted a Swiss Emergency Department (ED) in 2017/2018. Furthermore, the physical trauma profiles of Swiss national (SN) patients were examined in order to explore potential differences. Methods Descriptive retrospective study of adult trauma patients consulting the ED of a Swiss University Hospital between 01/2017 and 12/2018. The study included 157 asylum seeking trauma patients from EA and ME were included in the study. These were matched by gender and age to 157 Swiss trauma patients consulting the ED in the study period. Results There were significant differences between the groups with respect to type of admission, level of severity, localization and mechanisms of injury. While SN had higher levels of injuries related to road traffic or work, AS had higher levels of injuries related to attempted suicide or to assault. Conclusions There were differences between AS and the local population with respect to the characteristics and patterns of injury, so that strategies for preventing injuries and promoting health must be tailored to the target population. Moreover, the observed high rates of outpatient treatment for both groups underline the increasing role of EDs as primary care providers for the population served.

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2022
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11. Appraisal of a Contact Tracing Training Program for COVID-19 in Greece Focusing on Vulnerable Populations

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Agis Terzidis, Karl Philipp Puchner, Ioannis Hodges-Mameletzis, Zisimos Solomos, Anastasia Pikouli, Paraskevi Goggolidou, Evangelia Nitsa, Eleni-Panagiota Stoupa, Evika Karamagioli, Elena Riza, Emmanouil Pikoulis, Eleni Cardoso, Eleni Kakalou, and Christina Kakalou

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medicine.medical_specialty, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Refugee, education, Training (civil), Vulnerable Populations, Article, vulnerable groups, Pandemic, Epidemiology, medicine, Humans, Curriculum, Pandemics, Medical education, evaluation, Greece, SARS-CoV-2, Public health, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, COVID-19, training course, Work (electrical), Medicine, communication skills, Contact Tracing, Psychology, Contact tracing
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Background: Contact tracing as an epidemiological strategy has repeatedly contributed to the containment of various past epidemics and succeeded in controlling the spread of disease in the community. Systematic training of contact tracers is crucial in ensuring the effectiveness of epidemic containment. Methods: An intensive training course was offered to 216 health and other professionals who work with vulnerable population groups, such as Roma, refugees, and migrants in Greece, by the scientific team of the postgraduate programme “Global Health-Disaster Medicine” of the Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, with the support of the Swiss embassy in Greece. The course was delivered online due to the pandemic restriction measures and was comprised of 16 h over 2 days. The course curriculum was adapted in Greek using, upon agreement, a similar training course to what was developed by the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health. Evaluation of the course was conducted in order to determine the short term satisfaction from participating in this training course. Results: A total of 70% of the course participants completed the evaluation questionnaires and all trainers gave feedback on the course. The training modules were ranked as extremely useful by the majority of the participants and over 50% of the participants specifically stated that the course content was directly related to their work with vulnerable groups. Content about the ethics of contact tracing and the effective communication skills presented were deemed most useful. Conclusion: The course was well organised and provided the required skills for effective contact tracing. Many course participants intend to use some components in their work with vulnerable populations groups. Contact tracing efforts work best in a systematic and coordinated way and the provision of systematic and organised training can greatly increase its effectiveness.

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2021

12. A pandemic recap: lessons we have learned

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Ugo Boggi, Julival Ribeiro, Luigi Bonavina, Mauro Pistello, Fikri M. Abu-Zidan, Massimo Sartelli, Dieter G. Weber, Vladimir Khokha, Pietro Brambillasca, Dario Tartaglia, Yoram Kluger, Lorenzo Cobianchi, Damien Massalou, Cristian Mesina, Arda Isik, Alessandro Cucchetti, Mutasim M. Elmangory, Xavier Guirao, Salomone Di Saverio, Ibrahima Sall, Emmanouil Pikoulis, Aleksei V. Osipov, Krstina Doklestic, Mahir Gachabayov, Maria Grazia Sibilla, Charalampos Seretis, Fabio Tumietto, M Chirica, Paola Fugazzola, Isidoro Di Carlo, Gian Luca Baiocchi, Chad G. Ball, Yunfeng Cui, Lorenzo Ghiadoni, Timothy Craig Hardcastle, Massimo Fantoni, Boun Kim Tan, Bruno Turri, Edoardo Picetti, Federico Coccolini, Jacek Czepiel, Jae Il Kim, Evgeni Dimitrov, R. V. Maier, Camilla Cremonini, Ali I. Yahya, I. A. Kryvoruchko, Akira Kuriyama, Wagih Ghannam, Shamshul Ansari, Fernando Machado, Enrico Cicuttin, Sumita A Jain, Ronald Kiguba, Doron Kopelman, Martha Quiodettis, Michele Pisano, Marco Ceresoli, Harry van Goor, Garima Kapoor, Andrew W. Kirkpatrick, Mauro Podda, Angelo Gemignani, Boris Sakakushev, Souha S. Kanj, Ernest E. Moore, Samir Delibegovic, Cinzia Monti, Massimo Girardis, Matti Tolonen, Mushira Enani, Massimo Chiarugi, Carlos A. Ordoñez, Zaza Demetrashvili, Leonardo Pagani, Ziad A. Memish, Pradeep H. Navsaria, Paolo Malacarne, Nicola de’Angelis, Giandomenico Luigi Biancofiore, Fulvio Basolo, Goran Augustin, Junichi Matsumoto, Fausto Catena, Ari Leppäniemi, Gabriel Rodrigues, W.P. Zuidema, Raul Coimbra, Manu Malbrain, Emilio Maseda, Suman Baral, Demetrios Demetriades, M. Hecker, Davide Corbella, András Vereczkei, Sanjay Marwah, Francesco Forfori, Donal B. O’Connor, Carlo Palombo, Vishal G Shelat, Michelangelo Scaglione, Walter L. Biffl, Andrey Litvin, Majdi N. Al-Hasan, Sameer Dhingra, Miklosh Bala, Oussama Baraket, Carlos Augusto Gomez, Offir Ben-Ishay, Gabriele Materazzi, Paolo Carcoforo, Rita Galeiras, Belinda De Simone, Ionut Negoi, Mirco Nacoti, Luca Ansaloni, Bruno Viaggi, Jose J. Diaz, Alessandro Puzziello, Bruno Amato, Lostoridis Eftychios, Cino Bendinelli, Mario Testini, Andreas Hecker, Martin Reichert, Francesco Corradi, Korey Das, Gustavo M. Machain Vega, Evika Karamagioli, Rao R. Ivatury, HUS Abdominal Center, II kirurgian klinikka, Coccolini, F, Cicuttin, E, Cremonini, C, Tartaglia, D, Viaggi, B, Kuriyama, A, Picetti, E, Ball, C, Abu-Zidan, F, Ceresoli, M, Turri, B, Jain, S, Palombo, C, Guirao, X, Rodrigues, G, Gachabayov, M, Machado, F, Eftychios, L, Kanj, S, Di Carlo, I, Di Saverio, S, Khokha, V, Kirkpatrick, A, Massalou, D, Forfori, F, Corradi, F, Delibegovic, S, Machain Vega, G, Fantoni, M, Demetriades, D, Kapoor, G, Kluger, Y, Ansari, S, Maier, R, Leppaniemi, A, Hardcastle, T, Vereczkei, A, Karamagioli, E, Pikoulis, E, Pistello, M, Sakakushev, B, Navsaria, P, Galeiras, R, Yahya, A, Osipov, A, Dimitrov, E, Doklestic, K, Pisano, M, Malacarne, P, Carcoforo, P, Sibilla, M, Kryvoruchko, I, Bonavina, L, Kim, J, Shelat, V, Czepiel, J, Maseda, E, Marwah, S, Chirica, M, Biancofiore, G, Podda, M, Cobianchi, L, Ansaloni, L, Fugazzola, P, Seretis, C, Gomez, C, Tumietto, F, Malbrain, M, Reichert, M, Augustin, G, Amato, B, Puzziello, A, Hecker, A, Gemignani, A, Isik, A, Cucchetti, A, Nacoti, M, Kopelman, D, Mesina, C, Ghannam, W, Ben-Ishay, O, Dhingra, S, Coimbra, R, Moore, E, Cui, Y, Quiodettis, M, Bala, M, Testini, M, Diaz, J, Girardis, M, Biffl, W, Hecker, M, Sall, I, Boggi, U, Materazzi, G, Ghiadoni, L, Matsumoto, J, Zuidema, W, Ivatury, R, Enani, M, Litvin, A, Al-Hasan, M, Demetrashvili, Z, Baraket, O, Ordonez, C, Negoi, I, Kiguba, R, Memish, Z, Elmangory, M, Tolonen, M, Das, K, Ribeiro, J, O'Connor, D, Tan, B, Van Goor, H, Baral, S, De Simone, B, Corbella, D, Brambillasca, P, Scaglione, M, Basolo, F, De'Angelis, N, Bendinelli, C, Weber, D, Pagani, L, Monti, C, Baiocchi, G, Chiarugi, M, Catena, F, Sartelli, M, Surgery, Other Research, APH - Quality of Care, Department of Surgery, and Faculty of Health Sciences

Subjects
Biomedical Research, Pandemics / prevention & control, Delivery of Health Care / organization & administration, International Cooperation, Reflection, 030230 surgery, Global Health, Health Services Accessibility, COVID-19 / epidemiology, 0302 clinical medicine, White paper, Telemedicine / organization & administration, Multidisciplinary approach, Pandemic, Health care, Global health, 030212 general & internal medicine, Letter to the Editor, Health Policy, Politics, Medical emergencies. Critical care. Intensive care. First aid, COVID-19 / therapy, Public relations, Telemedicine, Primary Health Care / organization & administration, 3. Good health, Policy, International, Emergency Medicine, Thought, medicine.medical_specialty, COVID-19 Vaccines, RD1-811, Thoughts, Mass Vaccination, Mass Vaccination / organization & administration, NO, 03 medical and health sciences, medicine, Politic, Humans, Ethic, Healthcare Disparities, Biology, Pandemics, Health policy, LS7_4, Ethics, Pandemia, Primary Health Care, RC86-88.9, business.industry, Public health, COVID-19, Health Status Disparities, 3126 Surgery, anesthesiology, intensive care, radiology, Delivery of Health Care, Reconstructive and regenerative medicine Radboud Institute for Health Sciences [Radboudumc 10], Surgery, business, COVID-19 / diagnosis
Abstract

Contains fulltext : 238976.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access) On January 2020, the WHO Director General declared that the outbreak constitutes a Public Health Emergency of International Concern. The world has faced a worldwide spread crisis and is still dealing with it. The present paper represents a white paper concerning the tough lessons we have learned from the COVID-19 pandemic. Thus, an international and heterogenous multidisciplinary panel of very differentiated people would like to share global experiences and lessons with all interested and especially those responsible for future healthcare decision making. With the present paper, international and heterogenous multidisciplinary panel of very differentiated people would like to share global experiences and lessons with all interested and especially those responsible for future healthcare decision making.

Published
2021

13. The Role of the Crowds in Managing Disasters: Toward a Bottom-Up Participatory Approach

Author

Anastasia Pikouli, Evika Karamagioli, Korinna-Zoi Karamagkioli, and Vassileios Tokakis

Subjects
Participatory approach, Resource (biology), Crowds, Civic action, Top-down and bottom-up design, Business, Environmental planning, Natural (archaeology)
Abstract

The advent of both natural and manmade disasters is increasingly highlighting the role of citizens (ranging from spontaneous volunteers and first responders to emergent entities and communities of civic action) as inevitable and potentially valuable resource in their management.

Published
2021

14. When the Going Gets Tough, the Tough Get Going: Improving the Disaster Preparedness of Health Care Providers: A Single Center's 4-Year Experience

Author

Ari Leppäniemi, Aristomenis K. Exadaktylos, Kyle N. Remick, Panagis M. Lykoudis, Norman M. Rich, Bernd Domres, Evika Karamagioli, Adam L. Kushner, Eric A. Elster, Athanasios Kalogeropoulos, Andreas Pikoulis, Debra L Malone, and Emmanouil Pikoulis

Subjects
media_common.quotation_subject, Health Personnel, Disaster Planning, Disaster Medicine, 03 medical and health sciences, 0302 clinical medicine, Perception, Health care, Humans, Mass Casualty Incidents, 030212 general & internal medicine, Set (psychology), Interdisciplinarity, media_common, Response rate (survey), Medical education, Emergency management, business.industry, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Civil Defense, 030208 emergency & critical care medicine, 3. Good health, Mass-casualty incident, Preparedness, business, Psychology
Abstract

Objective:Operation based exercises represent simulation activities, which are of great importance for emergency preparedness, as they simulate real experiences in a guided manner. Whereas their primary purpose is to address the organizational emergency preparedness, little is known about the personal benefits of involved participants and whether these positive changes endure over time.Methods:Immediate and medium term assessment of the effectiveness on individual preparedness and benefits of participants, based on self-perception, after participating in a set of 4 interdisciplinary field exercises organized as part of the MSc in Global Health-Disaster Medicine of the Medical School of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece. The field exercises were carried out yearly, from 2016 to 2019. Data were collected via questionnaires pre- and post-exercise (1 week and 10 months after participation). The sample size was 228 trainees, with a response rate of 88%.Results:The majority (95%) stated that Mass Casualty Incident (MCI) exercises are appropriate for disaster management training in terms of comprehending theory, and for team-building training. In the case of a real MCI, 22% of the participants declared themselves to be ready to respond prior to MCI exercises. Upon completion, the overall perception of readiness among the participants increased to 77%. Trainee feedback indicated enhancement of both technical and non-technical skills (87%), which were persistent over time, and revealed a high level of satisfaction with the training.Conclusion:This study shows a positive immediate and medium-term impact of operation-based exercises on technical, non-technical skills, and self-perception of participants.

Published
2020

15. Gathering evidence on the decreased emergency room visits during the coronavirus disease 19 pandemic

Author

Emmanouil Pikoulis, Karl Philipp Puchner, Evika Karamagioli, Zisimangelos Solomos, Soorej Jose Puthoopparambil, Elena Riza, and Andreas Pikoulis

Subjects
medicine.medical_specialty, Telemedicine, Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), business.industry, 030503 health policy & services, Public health, Adult population, MEDLINE, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, COVID-19 pandemic, Emergency room, Disease, health services underusage, General Medicine, medicine.disease_cause, Article, 03 medical and health sciences, 0302 clinical medicine, Environmental health, Pandemic, medicine, 030212 general & internal medicine, 0305 other medical science, business, Coronavirus
Abstract

Αbstract During the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic there is emerging evidence, from several European countries, suggesting drastic decline in emergency room (ER) visits. Two diametrically opposite hypotheses can be formulated: a) The altered lifestyle due to the lock-down measures as well as vast application of telemedicine has a beneficial effect on the health status of the majority of the adult population, reducing thus demand for emergency health services. b) Despite increased health needs, people choose to avoid interactions with the health system and the ER out of fear of getting infected with COVID-19 resulting in a health services underusage. ER and HS indicators can be useful in monitoring and interpreting the underlying causes of reduced hospital ER services demand. Investigating the causes of the decline in ER visits is of outmost public health relevance as it might shed light in the indirect health effects of COVID-19 pandemic.

Published
2020

16. COVID-19 the showdown for mass casualty preparedness and management: the Cassandra Syndrome

Author

Davide Corbella, Emmanouil Pikoulis, Andrew W Kirkpatrick, Alain Chicom Mefire, Massimo Sartelli, Andrew B. Peitzman, Vladimir Khokha, Mircea Chirica, Fausto Catena, Dimitrios Damaskos, Yoram Kluger, Fikri M. Abu-Zidan, Gustavo Pereira Fraga, Walter L. Biffl, Massimo Chiarugi, Ari Leppäniemi, Boris Sakakushev, Ernest E. Moore, Raul Coimbra, Luca Ansaloni, Andreas Hecker, Carlos A. Ordoñez, Rodolfo Catena, Evika Karamagioli, Felipe Vega, Salomone Di Saverio, Federico Coccolini, and Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository

Subjects
Resource, Resource (biology), Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), Human Rights, Pneumonia, Viral, lcsh:Surgery, Disaster Planning, 030230 surgery, Global Health, Risk Assessment, 03 medical and health sciences, 0302 clinical medicine, Pandemic, Epidemia, Global health, Medicine, Humans, Mass Casualty Incidents, Operations management, 030212 general & internal medicine, Viral, COVID-19, Coronavirus, Criticalities, Management, Mass casualties, Pademia, WSES, Civil Defense, Delivery of Health Care, Coronavirus Infections, Pandemics, Emergency management, business.industry, lcsh:Medical emergencies. Critical care. Intensive care. First aid, lcsh:RD1-811, lcsh:RC86-88.9, Pneumonia, Mass-casualty incident, Preparedness, Emergency Medicine, Commentary, Surgery, business, Risk assessment
Abstract

Since December 2019, the world is potentially facing one of the most difficult infectious situations of the last decades. COVID-19 epidemic warrants consideration as a mass casualty incident (MCI) of the highest nature. An optimal MCI/disaster management should consider all four phases of the so-called disaster cycle: mitigation, planning, response, and recovery. COVID-19 outbreak has demonstrated the worldwide unpreparedness to face a global MCI.This present paper thus represents a call for action to solicitate governments and the Global Community to actively start effective plans to promote and improve MCI management preparedness in general, and with an obvious current focus on COVID-19.

Published
2020

17. Demographic and clinical characteristics of refugees seeking primary healthcare services in Greece in the period 2015–2016: a descriptive study

Author

E. Pikoulis, Evika Karamagioli, A Vetsika, Costas Tsiamis, Eleni Kakalou, T Antypas, S Choursoglou, Agis Terzidis, N Voudouri, M Chalikias, and Eleni Riza

Subjects
Adult, Male, Mainland China, Health (social science), Adolescent, Cross-sectional study, Refugee, Population, 030209 endocrinology & metabolism, Communicable Diseases, Health Services Accessibility, Middle East, Young Adult, 03 medical and health sciences, 0302 clinical medicine, Human settlement, Humans, 030212 general & internal medicine, Child, Dental Care, education, Referral and Consultation, Aged, Aged, 80 and over, Refugees, education.field_of_study, Data collection, Greece, Primary Health Care, Infant, Newborn, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Infant, General Medicine, Middle Aged, Patient Acceptance of Health Care, Port (computer networking), Cross-Sectional Studies, Geography, Socioeconomic Factors, Child, Preschool, Female, Descriptive research, Mobile Health Units, Demography
Abstract

Background In 2015-2016, more than a million refugees entered Greece. Along with other organizations, PRAKSIS, a local non-governmental organization, deployed mobile medical units on three islands and in temporary settlements in Athens. Methods This is a descriptive cross-sectional study aimed at analysing the demographic and clinical characteristics of the population (n=6688) that received services from PRAKSIS between October 2015 and June 2016 in different locations (islands of Samos, Kos and Leros in the southeastern Aegean Sea and on the mainland at Athens-Piraeus Port Gate E) before and after the closure of European borders in March 2016. Results The majority (88%) of the population came from Syria, Afghanistan and Iraq. Among them, 53% were women and children. Infectious diseases decreased as the population moved from the islands to the Athens-Piraeus Port, while all other disease categories increased in relative frequency, the difference being statistically significant (p

Published
2018

18. Improving Knowledge and Skills of Healthcare Professionals in Limited Resources Disaster Settings: The 12 Year Experience of the Master's Course in Global Health: Disaster Medicine

Author

Emmanouil Pikoulis, Kyle N. Remick, Evika Karamagioli, Stephanie Marie Saint Laurent, Eric A. Elster, and Debra L. Malone

Subjects
Medical education, Health professionals, business.industry, Global health, Medicine, Master s, Surgery, business, Limited resources, Disaster medicine, Course (navigation)
Published
2020

19. Reflecting upon the humanitarian use of unmanned aerial vehicles (drones)

Author

Georgios Boudouris, E. Pikoulis, Andreas Pikoulis, Evika Karamagioli, Evanthia Tatsidou, Costas Tsiamis, and Eleni Kakalou

Subjects
business.industry, Humanitarian aid, Disaster Planning, General Medicine, Crisis management, Public relations, Relief Work, Humanitarian response, Drone, Haiti, Telemedicine, Disasters, Earthquakes, Medicine, Humans, business, Aviation, Disaster planning
Abstract

Nine years after the earthquake in Haiti and the appearance of the concept ofldquo;humanitarian dronesrdquo;, it remains a poorly discussed yet highly controversial issue. Emergency mapping and light cargo deliveries to inaccessible areas are only some of the most popular ways in which drones are currently used for post-disaster relief and health crisis management by first responders around the world. On the other hand, every single successful use for drones is always followed by controversy about the problems caused by that very same, initially successful, use. However, examples of good practices will contribute to the investigation, study and analysis of the ways in which new, cutting-edge technologies such as drones can be implemented and adapted to meet the needs and requirements of humanitarian organisations and local communities affected by disasters. The issue is how and under what circumstances drone use can potentially fulfil humanitarian functions, particularly in the aftermath of a disaster, and how this type of technology could be deployed in non-violent, ethically desirable ways as part of the humanitarian response. In conclusion, it is questionable whether the benefits of using drones outnumber the moral obstacles they raise, and whether they will eventually be considered an inseparable part of humanitarian aid as well as a cutting-edge technological toy.

Published
2019

21. Time to Rethink Refugee and Migrant Health in Europe: Moving from Emergency Response to Integrated and Individualized Health Care Provision for Migrants and Refugees

Author

Athanasios Kalogeropoulos, Emmanouil Pikoulis, Costas Tsiamis, Anastasia Pikouli, Eleni Kakalou, Evika Karamagioli, Elena Pavlidou, and Karl Philipp Puchner

Subjects
Economic growth, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Refugee, Population, Refugee crisis, Emigrants and Immigrants, lcsh:Medicine, refugee and migrant (R&M) health, Health Services Accessibility, 03 medical and health sciences, 0302 clinical medicine, Political science, Health care, media_common.cataloged_instance, Humans, 030212 general & internal medicine, European Union, European union, education, media_common, refugee crisis, education.field_of_study, Refugees, business.industry, Delivery of Health Care, Integrated, World War II, lcsh:R, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, healthcare, Europe, Emergency response, Scale (social sciences), Commentary, Comprehensive Health Care, Emergencies, European Union (EU), business, 030217 neurology & neurosurgery, Needs Assessment
Abstract

In the last three years, the European Union (EU) is being confronted with the most significant influx of migrants and refugees since World War II. Although the dimensions of this influx—taking the global scale into account—might be regarded as modest, the institutional response to that phenomenon so far has been suboptimal, including the health sector. While inherent challenges of refugee and migrant (R&M) health are well established, it seems that the EU health response oversees, to a large extend, these aspects. A whole range of emergency-driven health measures have been implemented throughout Europe, yet they are failing to address adequately the changing health needs and specific vulnerabilities of the target population. With the gradual containment of the migratory and refugee waves, three years after the outbreak of the so-called ‘refugee crisis’, we are, more than ever, in need of a sustainable and comprehensive health approach that is aimed at the integration of all of migrants and refugees—that is, both the new and old population groups that are already residing in Europe—in the respective national health systems.

Published
2018

22. Assessing the Social Media Presence and Activity of Major Greek Cities During 2014-2017

Author

Dimitris Gouscos, Eleni-Revekka Staiou, and Evika Karamagioli

Subjects
Local government, Political science, Political economy, Social media
Abstract

This chapter describes how little is known about how Greek local authorities capitalize on the potential of social media as a communication channel. The authors present the results of following up on a 2014 study assessing major Greek cities' presence on social media at the time. The authors check whether and how Greek cities may have improved their levels of acting and reacting via social media so as to identify eventual positive changes and/or patterns and discuss potential ways to implement comprehensive strategies for social media as civic interaction tools for local governments. A set of 52 major cities all over Greece (administrative capitals of the corresponding prefectures), has been chosen as the research population. Findings show that local authorities are advancing in the exploration of social media for communication with citizens, but have not yet reached a level at which they would use them as catalysts for citizen interaction in order to enhance civic engagement.

Published
2018

23. Cross-sectional study on awareness and knowledge of torture investigation and documentation among Greek doctors and senior medical students

Author

Evika Karamagioli, Christina Orfanou, Agis Terzidis, Costas Tsiamis, E. Pikoulis, and Anastasia Pikouli

Subjects
Adult, Male, Students, Medical, Torture, Refugee, Population, Poison control, Medical law, Documentation, 01 natural sciences, Pathology and Forensic Medicine, 03 medical and health sciences, Young Adult, 0302 clinical medicine, Physicians, Surveys and Questionnaires, Istanbul Protocol, Humans, 030216 legal & forensic medicine, education, education.field_of_study, Medical education, Descriptive statistics, Greece, 010401 analytical chemistry, 0104 chemical sciences, Cross-Sectional Studies, Female, Clinical Competence, Psychology, Educational program
Abstract

Doctors in Greece face the possibility of encountering a person that has suffered torture, especially since the high rates of refugees’ and migrants’ inflows that took place over the last years. In order to assess the awareness and the knowledge of doctors and senior medical students in Greece regarding a manual on effective investigation and documentation of torture such as Istanbul Protocol (official United Nation document since 1999), a cross-sectional study was conducted using a structured anonymous questionnaire. The sample was doctors practicing in public hospitals in Greece, doctors volunteering at a non-governmental organization (NGO) and undergraduate medical students in their final year of studies in the Medical School of National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. The data were analyzed using IBM SPSS version 23, using descriptive statistics and statistical significance tests. In a total of 289 participants, the mean total score of Istanbul Protocol knowledge was 4.43 ± 1.104 (the maximum possible score was 10) and the mean total score of Istanbul Protocol awareness was 2.04 ± 1.521 (the maximum possible score was 10). The most important conclusion was that among doctors and senior medical students, there seem to be knowledge, awareness, and information deficit about Istanbul Protocol and several issues relating to torture. The overall research outcome highlights the need for the development of a relevant informative/educational program, in order to cover the corresponding existing needs of the population of doctors in Greece.

Published
2017

24. Assessing the Social Media Presence and Usage Patterns of Major Greek Municipalities

Author

Eleni-Revekka Staiou, Dimitris Gouscos, and Evika Karamagioli

Subjects
business.industry, Local government, Social media, Public relations, Public administration, business
Abstract

Social media tools can enhance governments' abilities to interact with and engage citizens as well as to meet their expectations for transparency as they have the potential to make policy processes more inclusive and thereby rebuild the long lost confidence between governments and citizens. Little is known about how Greek local authorities capitalize on the potential of social media as communication channels. The purpose of this study is therefore to explore if and how 52 major municipalities all over Greece (administrative capitals of the corresponding prefectures) utilize Facebook, Twitter and YouTube for managing their external communication with citizens during the April-June 2014 timeframe, which covered the period of municipal elections in Greece that took place in mid-May 2014.

Published
2015

25. Refugee crisis in Greece: The National and Kapodistrian University of Athens paves the way to meet the challenge

Author

Emmanouil Pikoulis, Ioannis Karavokyros, Demetrios Moris, Evika Karamagioli, and Anastasios Angelou

Subjects
Higher education, business.industry, Refugee, Refugee crisis, General Medicine, 030204 cardiovascular system & hematology, Special Interest Group, Public administration, Public opinion, Statute, 03 medical and health sciences, 0302 clinical medicine, Political science, Health care, Social partners, 030212 general & internal medicine, business, Letter to the Editor
Abstract

By its statute, the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUoA)—the oldest and more prestigious Institution of Higher Education in Greece-supports education at the highest level and promotes social cohesion (1). During this refugee crisis of enormous magnitude (2), NKUoA actively supports these vulnerable populations with a variety of immediate actions including healthcare services and integration actions ( Figure 1 ). Moreover, it supports collaborations among Institutional volunteer programs, local authorities, private non-profit foundations, NGOs, social partners and General State Administration (Ministry of Health). To ensure the transparency of the actions and inform public opinion about refugee crisis, a bulletin including updates on policies about refugees, with special interest in Greece, is released weekly under the auspice of NKUoA. NKUoA has also established an Action Watch-Solidarity Network for the refugees with the participation of more than 100 doctors and scientific bodies in order to offer immediate and coordinated volunteer actions, including administrative support, healthcare services and supplies.

Published
2017

26. Participatory Constitutional Design: A Grassroots Experiment for (Re)Designing the Constitution in Greece

Author

Evika Karamagioli, Stephania Xydia, Mary Karatza, and Dimitris Gouscos

Subjects
Politics, Grassroots, Constitution, media_common.quotation_subject, Political science, Public participation, Social media, Citizen journalism, Syntagma, Public administration, Deliberation, Civil engineering, media_common
Abstract

This chapter reports how participatory processes and ICT tools can go against rule-driven bureaucratic approaches to political participation and public deliberation, trying to defy strict procedural norms in favor of more flexible formats for citizen mobilization, political co-thinking, and sustained social innovation in the area of constitutional building. After describing key theoretical issues on trends and perspectives of public participation in constitution building processes, we review arguments in favor of ICT and social media use in constitutional building and then discuss an ongoing Greek bottom-up experiment named Syntagma 2.0 that introduced an innovative co-creative process for the production of a new Constitution for Greece, to be delivered by the citizens for the citizens. Based on the results of the aforementioned project so far, we present success factors for such initiatives.

Published
2017

28. Government Spending Transparency on the Internet

Author

Eleni-Revekka Staiou, Evika Karamagioli, and Dimitris Gouscos

Subjects
Government spending, Public Administration, business.industry, Accounting, The Internet, Business, Top-down and bottom-up design, Library and Information Sciences, Public relations, Transparency (behavior), Computer Science Applications
Abstract

The objective of this article is to present four civil society initiatives that attempt to scrutinize government spending using open data from the Greek government OpenGov initiative Diavgeia project (“diavgeia”, in Greek, standing for lucidity). In a period of strong economic recession, Greece is facing one of the most intense social and political crisis of its history, with citizens characterized by substantial disenchantment with politics and a cynical stance about their government and representatives. The Diavgeia project was launched in 2010 by the Greek government with the objective to bring back transparency and trust in the political process, enabling online insights into government spending. By reviewing current bottom-up initiatives in Greece that are using data from Diavgeia in an effort to serve the principles of transparency, openness, and offering public data in a manner easy to understand, evaluate and re-use, we discuss the role of open government mechanisms in introducing a new relation between citizens and policy-makers, tackling contemporary political challenges of democratic societies and reconnecting ordinary people with politics and policy-making.

Published
2014

29. Reinventing primary health care in the Greece of austerity: the role of health-care workers

Author

Evika Karamagioli, Anastasia Roumeliotou, and Effie Simou

Subjects
Economic growth, medicine.medical_specialty, National Health Programs, Health Personnel, education, Population, Health administration, Nursing, Health care, Humans, Medicine, Care Planning, Health policy, education.field_of_study, Greece, Primary Health Care, Delivery of Health Care, Integrated, business.industry, Public health, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, International health, Health promotion, Workforce, business
Abstract

Background The Greek primary health-care system (PHC) seems to be suffering the most from the economic crisis because of understaffing and misdistribution of the health workforce and the shortage of medical supplies and diagnostic equipment. Aims The objective of the paper is to present for the first time in public national health-care workforce census data for the first two years of the economic recession and the adopted bailout mechanism (2010 and 2011) (a) to evaluate the adequacy of the governmental effort in terms of organization and management of the health-care workforce in PHC; and (b) to identify constraints and opportunities for the development of an integrated PHC ensuring access to health-care services for all. Methods Data were drawn from the national project ‘Health Monitoring Indicators System: Health Map’ coordinated scientifically by the National School of Public Health, Department of Epidemiology. They referred to the 202 PHCs and their regional surgeries (with 98% response rate). Descriptive statistics and frequency distributions were used for the analysis. Findings The findings pointed that PHC absorbs a very limited part of the national health system's workforce. Important inequalities in the numerical and geographical allocation of the PHC health workforce specialties across the country in favor of the medical profession and to the detriment of rural areas and the islands were identified, raising concerns about the policymakers’ ability to meet the emerging needs of the population, as the retrospective study of the health-care workforce, since 2010, reveals that the numerical and per type allocations remained almost unchanged. These results were in line with previous studies showcasing the lack of holistic approach for PHC questioning the restrictive spending policy (ie, salary and benefit cuts for the health-care professionals, important discharges and nonrenewal of the personnel) adopted in the public health-care sector.

Published
2013

31. From eGovernment to elnclusion

Author

Evika Karamagioli

Subjects
Knowledge management, business.industry, Information and Communications Technology, Communication, Business
Published
2008

33. Government Spending Transparency on the Internet

Author

Evika Karamagioli, Eleni-Revekka Staiou, and Dimitris Gouscos

Abstract

The objective of this article is to present four civil society initiatives that attempt to scrutinize government spending using open data from the Greek government OpenGov initiative Diavgeia project (“diavgeia”, in Greek, standing for lucidity). In a period of strong economic recession, Greece is facing one of the most intense social and political crisis of its history, with citizens characterized by substantial disenchantment with politics and a cynical stance about their government and representatives. The Diavgeia project was launched in 2010 by the Greek government with the objective to bring back transparency and trust in the political process, enabling online insights into government spending. By reviewing current bottom-up initiatives in Greece that are using data from Diavgeia in an effort to serve the principles of transparency, openness, and offering public data in a manner easy to understand, evaluate and re-use, we discuss the role of open government mechanisms in introducing a new relation between citizens and policy-makers, tackling contemporary political challenges of democratic societies and reconnecting ordinary people with politics and policy-making.

Published
2015

36. Refugee crisis in Greece: the forthcoming higher education challenge

Author

Evika Karamagioli, Demetrios Moris, Emmanouil Pikoulis, Michael C. Kontos, and Antonios Athanasiou

Subjects
Higher education, business.industry, Refugee, World War II, Refugee crisis, Context (language use), General Medicine, Gateway (computer program), 010501 environmental sciences, 01 natural sciences, 03 medical and health sciences, 0302 clinical medicine, Economy, Environmental protection, Political science, media_common.cataloged_instance, 030212 general & internal medicine, European union, business, Letter to the Editor, 0105 earth and related environmental sciences, media_common
Abstract

As the south-easterly boarder of European Union, Greece has found itself standing for the gateway to the largest mass movement of populations across Europe since the end of World War II (1). Currently, refugees in Greece are estimated around 57,000 with the context of the crisis still evolving (2).

Published
2017

38. In the Quest of Opened-Up Governmental Policies in Greece: Challenges and Recommendations

Author

Evika Karamagioli and Dimitris Gouscos

Subjects
Open government, Open data, business.industry, Political science, Environmental resource management, Effective management, Public administration, business, New Public Administration, Transparency (behavior), Maturity (finance)
Abstract

The chapter describes the key elements of the innovative effort of the Greek public administration over the last 5 years to enable the transition to a new public administration model via opened-up governmental policies so as to improve public services provision, increase public integrity and ensure a more effective management of public resources After showcasing the most representative tools developed so far, the authors will discuss their level of maturity and their potential in light of open data policy requirements.

Published
2014

39. Can Open-Government Models Contribute to More Collaborative Ways of Governance?

Author

Dimitris Gouscos, Eleni-Revekka Staiou, and Evika Karamagioli

Subjects
Open government, business.industry, Corporate governance, media_common.quotation_subject, Public relations, Transparency (behavior), Democracy, Politics, Forms of government, Political science, Accountability, The Internet, business, media_common
Abstract

The Greek political landscape and the way public administration and political procedures are performed is an ideal field of study of the enabling potential of the Internet to foster new, dynamic forms of democracy, introducing open and “citizen-friendly” forms of government mainly by functioning as a horizontal communication channel allowing polyphonic discussions as well as one-to-one dialogues.

Published
2014

40. Addressing Social Inclusion via eDemocracy Applications

Author

Evika Karamagioli

Subjects
Human rights, business.industry, media_common.quotation_subject, Political science, Environmental resource management, Environmental ethics, business, media_common
Abstract

Public participation is considered to be the remedy for the democratization of political processes. As technological progress advances, more trust is put in Information and Communication Technologies as tools to democratize the political processes by enhancing and assisting citizens’ involvement in political processes. Such examples are initiatives like eDemocracy and eParticipation, among others. However, experts emphasize that technology as any kind of “tool” is not unbiased, and it does involve serious considerations of social import. The emergence of the digital divide is a proof that these tools, if not handled appropriately, could cause even greater impact to the already existing social exclusion. At this point, social inclusion has re-emerged not only as a strategy for confronting social exclusion in general but also the digital divide, which keeps citizens from participating in political processes. This chapter indicates and concludes on how social inclusion functions not only as a prerequisite for public participation via ICT but also, through appropriate regulatory mechanisms, represents a solution for combating the problems of exclusion that eDemocracy faces.

Published
2013

41. Transparency in the Open Government Era

Author

Evika Karamagioli

Subjects
Open government, business.industry, Transparency (market), Political science, Internet privacy, ComputingMilieux_LEGALASPECTSOFCOMPUTING, Public relations, business
Abstract

The decline in citizen engagement in the public sphere has long been one of the main challenges of modern government. Issues of trust, openness, and transparency are being frequently and intensely discussed as the public manifests lack of confidence in public servants and governmental institutions. The advent and development of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) is gradually revolutionizing this situation. Open government is an innovative strategy for changing how government works, helping to increase government transparency and accountability at every level. By using network technology to connect the public to government and to one another informed by open data, governments ask for help with solving problems. The end result is more effective institutions and more robust democracy. The chapter has as an objective to discuss on a theoretical level the role of open government mechanisms in introducing a new relation between citizens and policy makers.

Published
2013

42. Human Rights in the Context of the Digital Society - Input to an Ongoing Discussion on Regulatory Issues

Author

Evika Karamagioli and Lasse Berntzen

Subjects
Human rights, business.industry, media_common.quotation_subject, ComputingMilieux_LEGALASPECTSOFCOMPUTING, Public relations, Computer security, computer.software_genre, Democracy, Information and Communications Technology, Political science, Neutrality, business, E-democracy, computer, Dissemination, Information exchange, media_common, Electronic data interchange
Abstract

It is widely recognized that ICT both affect and are affected by the socio-political environment into which it is introduced and functioning. Because of the neutrality of technology, ICT can act as a magnifier and multiplier of the inherent tendencies and characteristics of the spaces in which it is implemented and either support or undermine those values. ICT can be considered not only as a mean of exchanging and disseminating information but can also be a tool to enhance human rights. There is however always an important risk that inappropriate use of ICT could undermine those rights, disenfranchise particular socio-economic groups and attack the fundamental institutions of democracy. The aim of this paper is to discuss existing international regulatory mechanisms related to human rights in the context of the digital society. There are ongoing efforts to introduce new mechanisms to regulate the digital society, and this contribution seeks to highlight current strengths and limitations of existing international regulations governing human rights issues.

Published
2008

44. The debate on social networking and the usability of SNSs in e-governance

Author

Vasilis Koulolias, Evika Karamagioli, and Eirini Souri

Subjects
Public Administration, Sociology and Political Science, e-participation, Social network, Online participation, business.industry, Usability, E-governance, Public relations, Popularity, Computer Science Applications, Information and Communications Technology, Political science, media_common.cataloged_instance, European union, business, media_common
Abstract

Social Network Sites brought citizens enormous benefits in communication and information flow. Given their popularity, researchers came to study and acknowledge their potential in e-Governance. This paper will attempt to examine SNSs: providing their opportunities and challenges; discussing their usability in e-Governance; and scrutinising their potential role in e-Participation. Main argument of the paper is that SNSs' utilisation in e-Participation has benefits since SNSs seem to solve some of the problems of e-Participation, concerning citizens' engagement. Nonetheless, the need to expand our knowledge of these new tools and further investigate how successfully SNSs contribute to fostering political activity still exists.

Published
2010

45. News and Briefs

Author

Somya Joshi, Efthimios Tambouris, Evika Karamagioli, and Yannis Charalabidis

Subjects
Public Administration, Sociology and Political Science, e-participation, Electronic participation, business.industry, Corporate governance, Information technology, E-governance, Public relations, Public administration, Computer Science Applications, Information and Communications Technology, Political science, business
Abstract

The following brief items are outlined: connecting African parliaments and citizens through innovative ICT applications: the Africa4all parliamentary initiative; Highlights of the 2nd International Conference on Electronic Participation – ePart 2010; and the new research roadmap for ICT-enabled governance, from the CROSSROAD project.

Published
2010

46. Challenges and barriers in implementing e-participation tools. One year of experience from implementing Gov2demoss in 64 municipalities in Spain

Author

Vasilis Koulolias and Evika Karamagioli

Subjects
Enthusiasm, Civil society, Public Administration, Sociology and Political Science, Democratic deficit, e-participation, business.industry, Online participation, Corporate governance, media_common.quotation_subject, ComputingMilieux_LEGALASPECTSOFCOMPUTING, Citizen journalism, Public relations, Public administration, Computer Science Applications, Political science, business, E-democracy, media_common
Abstract

ICT tools are empowering citizens' ability to influence governance by making their voices heard. Participatory tools have become standard e-participation features for enabling citizens and civil society organisations to influence policy and to participate more substantively in advocacy. Although such initiatives are implemented with enthusiasm, we argue that local authorities need to decide which tools to use in which contexts and how to combine those tools to enable inclusive engagement. The overall objective of this paper is to present challenges and barriers in implementing Gov2demoss e-participation platform in 64 municipalities in Catalonia in the framework of the Consensus project.

Published
2008

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