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. 2024 Feb;41(2):216-227.
doi: 10.1177/10499091231165276. Epub 2023 Mar 24.

Geographic Information Systems Utilization in Pediatric End-of-Life Research: A Scoping Review

Kerri A Qualls  1 , Radion Svynarenko  1 , Melanie J Cozad  2 , Jessica Keim-Malpass  3 , Guoping Huang  4 , Lisa C Lindley  1
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Geographic Information Systems Utilization in Pediatric End-of-Life Research: A Scoping Review

Kerri A Qualls et al. Am J Hosp Palliat Care. 2024 Feb.

Abstract

Currently, little is known about how geographic information systems (GIS) has been utilized to study end-of-life care in pediatric populations. The purpose of this review was to collect and examine the existing evidence on how GIS methods have been used in pediatric end-of-life research over the last 20 years. Scoping review method was used to summarize existing evidence and inform research methods and clinical practice was used. The Preferred Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses for Scoping Reviews (PRISMA) was utilized. The search resulted in a final set of 17 articles. Most studies created maps for data visualization and used ArcGIS as the primary software for analysis. The scoping review revealed that GIS methodology has been limited to mapping, but that there is a significant opportunity to expand the use of this methodology for pediatric end-of-life care research.

Keywords: GIS; pediatric end-of-life care; pediatric hospice care; pediatric palliative care; scoping review.

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Declaration of Conflicting InterestsThe author(s) declared no potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.

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