Users' guides to the medical literature: how to use an article about mortality in a humanitarian emergency

Edward J Mills¹ , Francesco Checchi² , James J Orbinski³ , Michael J Schull⁴ , Frederick M Burkle Jr⁵ , Chris Beyrer⁶ , Curtis Cooper⁷ , Colleen Hardy⁸ , Sonal Singh⁹ , Richard Garfield¹⁰ , Bradley A Woodruff¹¹ and Gordon H Guyatt¹²

¹Simon Fraser University, British Columbia, Canada

²Department of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK

³St. Michael's Hospital, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

⁴Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

⁵Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, Harvard University, Boston, USA

⁶Center for Public Health and Human Rights, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA

⁷Division of Infectious Diseases, The Ottawa Hospital, Ontario, Canada

⁸International Rescue Committee, Atlanta, GA, USA

⁹Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA

¹⁰National Center for Disaster Preparedness, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, USA

¹¹Nutrition Branch, Division of Nutrition and Physical Activity, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Atlanta, GA, USA

¹²Department of Clinical Epidemiology & Biostatistics, McMaster University, Ontario, Canada