Traumatic Spine Injury: Which Discrepancy Between the Research Output and the Actual Burden of the Disease?
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Tarih
2020
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Elsevier Science Inc
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info:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccess
Özet
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.
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Global neurosurgery, Public health, Research, Spinal cord, Traumatic spinal injury
Kaynak
World Neurosurgery
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Q3
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Q2
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142
