Traumatic Spine Injury: Which Discrepancy Between the Research Output and the Actual Burden of the Disease?
World Neurosurg
; 142: e117-e125, 2020 10.
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ABSTRACT
OBJECTIVE:
Traumatic spinal injury (TSI) is a global health issue contributing to morbidity and mortality, especially in low- and middle-income countries. The aim of this study is to compare the epidemiological estimates of TSI with the corresponding amount of published papers for different regions.METHODS:
A bibliometric analysis was performed by collecting the number of publications concerning TSI from the PubMed database. Results were sorted according to the different geographical World Health Organization regions. A "publication-to-volume ratio" was obtained by comparing the average number of documents per year with the number of TSI cases across each region.RESULTS:
A total of 2304 articles were detected from 2008 to 2018. The major publishing regions were North America (AMR-US/Can 843 articles, 36.6%) and Europe (EUR 833, 36.2%), then Western Pacific (WPR 410, 17.8%), Eastern Mediterranean (EMR 73, 3.2%), South-East Asia (SEAR 71, 3.1%), Latin America (AMR-L 55, 2.4%), Africa (AFR 19, 0.8%). The United States is the most publishing country in AMR-US/Can (86.0%), and Germany in EUR (22.4%). In 2018, EUR published 36.6% of papers versus AMR-US/Can 26.5% and WPR 25.7%, thanks to an increase in Chinese publications. The highest publication ratios of 4.63 and 2.68 were found for AMR-US/Can and EUR, respectively. The other were EMR (0.22), WPR (0.18), AMR-L (0.07), SEAR (0.03), and AFR (0.01).CONCLUSIONS:
A marked divide is currently found between countries with a high burden of TSI and those where there is most research interest, estimated as amount of publications. Data demonstrate the need for increased inclusiveness in guidelines generation from high-income countries including collection and analysis from low- and middle-income countries.Palavras-chave
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Coleções:
01-internacional
Base de dados:
MEDLINE
Assunto principal:
Editoração
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Traumatismos da Medula Espinal
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Traumatismos da Coluna Vertebral
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Saúde Global
Limite:
Humans
País/Região como assunto:
Africa
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America do norte
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Asia
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Europa
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Oceania
Idioma:
En
Revista:
World Neurosurg
Assunto da revista:
NEUROCIRURGIA
Ano de publicação:
2020
Tipo de documento:
Article
País de afiliação:
Itália