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ArticleBMC research notes2019

Evaluating the Published Critical Care Research from the World Health Organization Eastern Mediterranean Region.

Mohamad Elaibaid, Lama H Nazer, Lama Shaikha, Nada Al-Qadheeb, Ruth Kleinpell, Keith M Olsen, Feras Hawari

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Article in BMC research notes, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors.

Mohamad ElaibaidDepartment of Medicine, Ibn Sina University, Khartoum, Sudan.
Lama H NazerDepartment of Pharmacy, King Hussein Cancer Center, Queen Rania Al-Abdallah Street, PO Box 1269, Amman, 11941, Jordan. lnazer@khcc.jo.
Lama ShaikhaDepartment of Pharmacy, King Hussein Cancer Center, Queen Rania Al-Abdallah Street, PO Box 1269, Amman, 11941, Jordan.
Nada Al-QadheebDepartment of Medicine, Hafer Albatin Central Hospital, Hafer Albatin, Saudi Arabia.
Ruth KleinpellVanderbilt University School of Nursing, Nashville, TN, USA.
Keith M OlsenCollege of Pharmacy, University of Nebraska, Omaha, NE, USA.
Feras HawariSection of Pulmonary and Critical Care, King Hussein Cancer Center, Amman, Jordan.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

objectivesEvaluation of published research in a region provides insight into relevant aspects of clinical care and research priorities. This study aimed to provide a comprehensive assessment of the type of critical care research published in the World Health Organization Eastern Mediterranean region (EMR) over a 10-year period.

resultsDuring the study period (2007-2016), the search strategy revealed 4303 publications, of which 1537 were included in the analysis; studies were excluded for the following reasons: not critical care, conducted in non-EMR countries, editorials, case reports, in-vitro or animal studies, as well as those conducted in multiple countries and those that evaluated foreign military personal. Countries varied in the number of publications produced, ranging from none in Somalia to 620 in Iran. The majority of the studies were observational (78%), evaluated adults (73%), and the most common areas of research were infectious (29%) and respiratory (10%) diseases. Median sample size was 120 and the mean (SD) impact factor of the journals in which the articles were published was 1.02 (0.7).

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Biomedical ResearchCritical CareData CollectionHumansJournal Impact FactorMediterranean RegionPublicationsWorld Health OrganizationCritical careDeveloping countriesEastern MediterraneanResearchResearch outputResearch productivity

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PMID30658704
PMCPMC6339311

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