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Joely Wilder Merriman1, John DeAngelis1, David Adler1
1Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY, USA.
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Geographic information system (GIS)-driven research, while relatively early in its tenure, has already reconceptualized the kinds of questions vetted by the Emergency Medicine (EM) researcher. This narrative review provides an overview of geographic information systems and identifies and discusses specific papers with differing methodologic approaches within the published GIS-driven EM literature. GIS applications within three discrete threads of inquiry are described: Access to Health Services, Spatial Epidemiology, and Proactive Resource Allocation. Future directions for GIS applications relevant to the EM researcher are identified.
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