A Structured Literature Review for Risk Assessment: EMF and Human Health Risk

James R. Murphy; Gail E. Armstrong; Michele Reynolds; Stuart G. Gordon

doi:10.1111/j.1539-6924.1994.tb00031.x

A Structured Literature Review for Risk Assessment: EMF and Human Health Risk

James R. Murphy, Gail E. Armstrong, Michele Reynolds, Stuart G. Gordon

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Abstract

The volume of publications on any given topic makes it difficult to select an appropriate subset of publications for review by an expert panel. This paper proposes a method for selecting a subset using a protocol that attempts to order publications based upon good research methods. The protocol was followed by graduate students with no expert knowledge of the area they were reviewing. They reduced 11730 articles on the topic of EMF and Health risk to 68 articles that were reviewed by an expert panel. The interrater reliability was 96% and 94% of the relevant articles were captured by this process.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	97-100
Number of pages	4
Journal	Risk Analysis
Volume	14
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1539-6924.1994.tb00031.x
State	Published - Feb 1994
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

EMF
Literature synthesis
concensus panel methodology

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality
Physiology (medical)

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