Mark Jones

About

D. Mark Jones is Ohio’s 15th State Geologist and serves as Chief of the Division of Geological Survey, overseeing the Ohio Department of Natural Resources' efforts to provide geologic information and services to the public. He has been involved with the Survey since 1996, starting as an intern, and has spent several years in the private sector before returning to the Survey in 2008. His roles have included serving as the Lake Erie geologist and supervising the H.R. Collins Core Laboratory at Alum Creek State Park. Jones is the author or co-author of 12 Survey publications, including The Geological Guidebook to State Parks in the Lake Erie Region. He holds a bachelor’s degree in geology from Cleveland State University and a master’s degree in geology from Kent State University.

Research topics

• Medicine
• Psychology
• Internal medicine
• Intensive care medicine
• Surgery

Selected publications

• Impact of COVID-19 pandemic on utilisation of healthcare services: a systematic review

  BMJ Open · 2021-03-01 · 1433 citations

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  OBJECTIVES: To determine the extent and nature of changes in utilisation of healthcare services during COVID-19 pandemic. DESIGN: Systematic review. ELIGIBILITY: Eligible studies compared utilisation of services during COVID-19 pandemic to at least one comparable period in prior years. Services included visits, admissions, diagnostics and therapeutics. Studies were excluded if from single centres or studied only patients with COVID-19. DATA SOURCES: PubMed, Embase, Cochrane COVID-19 Study Regist…

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• Improving the translation of search strategies using the Polyglot Search Translator: a randomized controlled trial

  Journal of the Medical Library Association JMLA · 2020-04-01 · 597 citations

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  BACKGROUND: Searching for studies to include in a systematic review (SR) is a time- and labor-intensive process with searches of multiple databases recommended. To reduce the time spent translating search strings across databases, a tool called the Polyglot Search Translator (PST) was developed. The authors evaluated whether using the PST as a search translation aid reduces the time required to translate search strings without increasing errors. METHODS: In a randomized trial, twenty participant…

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• Physical interventions to interrupt or reduce the spread of respiratory viruses

  Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews · 2020-11-20 · 328 citations

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  BACKGROUND: Viral epidemics or pandemics of acute respiratory infections (ARIs) pose a global threat. Examples are influenza (H1N1) caused by the H1N1pdm09 virus in 2009, severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) in 2003, and coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by SARS-CoV-2 in 2019. Antiviral drugs and vaccines may be insufficient to prevent their spread. This is an update of a Cochrane Review published in 2007, 2009, 2010, and 2011. The evidence summarised in this review does not include…

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• RELIABILITY AND VALIDITY OF TEXTURE AND COLOUR ENHANCEMENT IMAGING (TXI) TO ASSESS MUCOSAL INFLAMMATION IN ULCERATIVE COLITIS

  Gastrointestinal Endoscopy · 2025-05-01

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• RELIABILITY AND VALIDITY OF LINKED COLOR IMAGING (LCI) TO ASSESS MUCOSAL INFLAMMATION IN ULCERATIVE COLITIS

  Gastrointestinal Endoscopy · 2025-05-01

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Frequent coauthors

• Mark Onslow

  University of Technology Sydney

  109 shared

• Ann Packman

  University of Technology Sydney

  92 shared

• Sue O’Brian

  Google (United States)

  74 shared

• Balasubramanian Venkatesh

  Gold Coast Hospital

  63 shared

• Ross G. Menzies

  University of Sydney

  59 shared

• Zachary T. Thier

  Prisma Health

  49 shared

• Nolan Villani

  Prisma Health

  49 shared

• Kelan Drake-Lavelle

  Prisma Health

  49 shared

Education

• PhD, Australian Stuttering Research Centre

  University of Sydney

  2005

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