Karen Blackhall Dip IM MA

Coordinator of Searching and Information Management

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Karen is the Information Specialist for The Cochrane Injuries Group. She completed a Masters in Information Management before coming to work at LSHTM. As well as running searches to identify trials for inclusion in systematic reviews and other projects, she maintains a register of trials relevant to the work of the Cochrane Injuries Group.

Affiliation

• Department of Nutrition and Public Health Intervention Research

Teaching

Karen teaches searching skills on the short course; 'Systematic reviews and meta-analyses of health research'. She also teaches searching skills to Masters students external to LSHTM.

Research

As well as working with authors to complete Cochrane systematic reviews, Karen regularly collaborates with researchers on projects examining best practice in Trauma care, injuries and injury prevention.

• Selected publications

• Prognostic models for the early care of trauma patients: a systematic review

  Rehn, M.; Perel, P.; Blackhall, K.; Lossius, H.M.

  Scandinavian Journal of Trauma Resuscitation & Emergency Medicine, 2011; 19

• Caffeine for the prevention of injuries and errors in shift workers.

  Ker, K.; Edwards, P.J.; Felix, L.M.; Blackhall, K.; Roberts, I.;

  Cochrane Database Syst Rev, 2010; 5:CD008508

• Education of children and adolescents for the prevention of dog bite injuries

  Duperrex, O.; Blackhall, K.; Burri, M.; Jeannot, E.

  Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, 2009; (2)

• Anti-fibrinolytic agents in post partum haemorrhage: a systematic review.

  Ferrer, P.; Roberts, I.; Sydenham, E.; Blackhall, K.; Shakur, H.;

  BMC Pregnancy Childbirth, 2009; 9:29

• Educational interventions for the prevention of eye injuries.

  Shah, A.; Blackhall, K.; Ker, K.; Patel, D.;

  Cochrane Database Syst Rev, 2009; (4):CD006527

• Beta-2 receptor antagonists for acute traumatic brain injury

  Ker, K.; Blackhall, K.

  Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, 2008; (1)

• How effective are some common treatments for traumatic brain injury?

  Ker, K.; Perel, P.; Blackhall, K.; Roberts, I.;

  BMJ, 2008; 337:a865

• Finding studies for inclusion in systematic reviews of interventions for injury prevention - the importance of grey and unpublished literature

  Blackhall, K.

  Injury Prevention, 2007; 13(5):359-359

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