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ArticleFrontiers in public health2017

Barriers to Clinical Research in Latin America.

Kathryn Chomsky-Higgins, Theodore A Miclau, Madeline C Mackechnie, Dino Aguilar, Jorge Rubio Avila, Fernando Baldy Dos Reis, Roberto Balmaseda, Antonio Barquet, Alfredo Ceballos, Fernando Contreras and 12 more

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Article in Frontiers in public health, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

13 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

22 authors.

Kathryn Chomsky-HigginsSan Francisco - East Bay Surgery Program, University of California, Oakland, CA, USA.
Theodore A MiclauStanford University, Palo Alto, CA, USA.
Madeline C MackechnieDepartment of Orthopaedic Surgery, Institute for Global Orthopaedics and Traumatology (IGOT), University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA.
Dino AguilarHospital Vivian Pellas, Managua, Nicaragua.
Jorge Rubio AvilaClinica Medica Sur, Guadalajara, Mexico.
Fernando Baldy Dos ReisFederal University of Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil.
Roberto BalmasedaDepartment of Orthopaedic Surgery, Centro de Investigaciones Médico-Quirúricas (CIMEQ), La Habana, Cuba.
Antonio BarquetDepartment of Traumatology and Orthopaedics, AEPSM, Montevideo, Uruguay.
Alfredo CeballosDepartment of Orthopaedic Surgery, Centro de Investigaciones Médico-Quirúricas (CIMEQ), La Habana, Cuba.
Fernando ContrerasHospital San Juan de Dios, San José, Costa Rica.
Igor EscalanteHospital Universitario de Caracas, Caracas, Venezuela.
Nelson EliasVila Velha Hospital, Espírito-Santo, Brazil.
Sergio Iriarte VincentiHospital San Gabriel and Clinica del Sur, La Paz, Bolivia.
Christian LozanoClinica Anglo Americana, Lima, Peru.
Fryda MedinaHospital de Traumtologia Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social, Mexico City, Mexico.
Gavino MerchanHospital de la Policia Nacional, Guayquil, Ecuador.
Julio SegoviaInstituto de Prevision Social, Servicio de Ortopaedia y Traumatologia, Asunción, Paraguay.
Enrique GueradoDepartment of Orthopaedic Surgery, Traumatology, and Rehabilitation, University of Malaga, Hospital Costa del Sol, Marbella, Málaga, Spain.
Jose Eduardo QuinteroHospital Universitario San Jorge, Clinica de Ortopedia y Traumatología, Pereira-Risaralda, Colombia.
Saam MorshedDepartment of Orthopaedic Surgery, Institute for Global Orthopaedics and Traumatology (IGOT), University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA.
Mohit BhandariDivision of Orthopaedic Surgery, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada.
Theodore MiclauDepartment of Orthopaedic Surgery, Institute for Global Orthopaedics and Traumatology (IGOT), University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Enhancing health research capacity in developing countries is a global health priority. Understanding the orthopedic burden of disease in Latin America will require close partnership between more-developed and less-developed countries. To this end, the Osteosynthesis and Trauma Care Foundation assembled a research consortium of Latin-American orthopedic leaders. Prior to the meeting, we surveyed attendees on perceived barriers to conducting research at their institutions. During the event, working groups discussed these barriers, developed strategies for addressing them, and planned future steps for collaboration. The participants established the need for global relationships that allow colleagues from Latin America to access to training and established investigational infrastructure of North American centers to address research questions relevant to their communities. As a result of the discussion, the International Orthopaedic Multicenter Study (INORMUS) in Fracture Care was initiated. Since then, an expanded international working group, Associación de Cirujanos Traumatológicos en las Americas (ACTUAR), has been created with the purpose of promoting increased global partnership for research capacity development.

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PMCPMC5394164

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