Quality of publications in emergency medicine

被引:18
作者
Bounes, Vincent [1 ]
Dehours, Emilie [1 ]
Houze-Cerfon, Vanessa [1 ]
Valle, Baptiste [2 ]
Lipton, Robert [2 ,3 ]
Ducasse, Jean-Louis [1 ]
机构
[1] Toulouse Univ Hosp, SAMU 31, Purpan Hosp, Dept Emergency Med, F-31059 Toulouse, France
[2] Bordeaux Pellegrin Univ Hosp, Dept Emergency Med, Bordeaux, France
[3] Univ Michigan, Dept Emergency Med, Ann Arbor, MI 48106 USA
关键词
INFORMED-CONSENT; RESEARCH OUTPUT; FUTURE; BOARD; CARE;
D O I
10.1016/j.ajem.2012.07.026
中图分类号
R4 [临床医学];
学科分类号
1002 ; 100602 ;
摘要
Objective: The objective of this study is to describe emergency medicine (EM) publications in terms of methodology, approval by institutional review board, method of consent, external validity, and setting (eg, prehospital or emergency department). Methods: The 12 top-ranked emergency journals were selected. We manually reviewed the last 30 original articles in each EM journal, to represent more than 2 months of publications for all EM journals (range, 2-6 months). Only clinical original articles on human subjects were included. To ensure accurate data transcription, each article was read at least twice by 2 different reviewers and graded by written criteria using an extraction standard chart. Results: Over the articles reviewed, 330 were analyzed. One hundred eighty-nine (57.3%) were prospective studies; 29 (8.8%) were randomized studies. Two hundred twenty-six studies (68.5%) mentioned an institutional review board approval or a waiver of authorization, and an informed consent was not mentioned in 227 (68.8%) of studies. Fifty-nine (17.9%) were conducted in a prehospital setting. Two hundred thirty-eight (72.1%) of these studies were at single-center institutions; the Unite States contributed 158 (47.9%) of the total publications. Conclusion: This study describes publications in the field of EM. Randomized studies represent 9% of publications, most studies are cross-sectional, and more than half have a retrospective design. We found that, in one-third of the studies, an institutional review board review was not mentioned and informed consent was not specified in two-thirds of the studies. Emergency medicine research volume, quality, and grants activity must increase in order for EM to progress within academic medicine. (c) 2013 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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