Olaf Jensen, Centre for Maritime Health & Society, Institute of Public Health, Southern Danish University, Esbjerg Denmark IMHA RESEARCH GROUP MEETING & WORKSHOP: “Better and more maritime epidemiological research! - how to improve the culture of research and publication” October 18th, 2014 BARCELONA, SPAIN IMHA Research Database Proposal

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Research: Organisation Digitalised literature database Strategy Training

6 Research basic steps Define the problem and objectives Literature search Study design, population and methods Data collectionData analysis Writing the article with results, discussion, recommendations & publication

7 Systematic literature review – research (part of the EBM) Define the questions Search, the literature to answer the questions Critical evaluation Select the articles to be included Summarise the results and publish the article

8 Evidence based medicine – (EBM) Define the questions Search, the literature to answer the question Critical evaluation Decide and Implement the treatment Follow - prognosis ?

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But not always free access to the materials

But no free access to the PDF fultext

But no global digital access to abstracts and ppts.

Problem: many researchers do not have free access to the relevant literature and the ISMH abstracts – hindering for ”more and better” research and collaboration Objectives: free access to the relevant scientific literature, the ISMH abstracts, ppts (PDF) and other relevant materials Solutions: establish a database so each author can upload their published pdf articles immeditately For some journals, ask for permission to upload the article to be used for free in the IMHA database.

The chair person ask the speakers to sign. The chair delivers the paper and file to the organisers. The organisers add the contact mail and upload the file to the Database with keywords Before uploading, the PPT file can be converted to PDF file format to save data space

Sixtus of Ptoelen, it has been decided that your Writings should be printed in 10 copies. They will be ready in 4 years Hei, check that cat. It stepped on the mobile and send out some funny SMS. Let´s publish them! ”Hillarious Texts from Stupid Cat” Publications before and now

The IMHA Research database is needed for: -MH Research courses -MH Research globally -Systematic literature reviews-research -Evidence based clinical maritime medicine -Evidence based maritime health prevention advice Conclusions

Recommendations: To establish The database as a first priority A working group Guidelines for users Evaluation regularly Amend the errors

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