ArticleJournal of general and family medicine2026
Leadership and Research Productivity in Japan's Academic Departments of Regional Healthcare: A Nationwide Cross-Sectional Study.
Article in Journal of general and family medicine, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
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.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
0 citing papers in PubMed.
No citing paper in PubMed yet.
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
6 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
Background: Academic departments related to regional health care in Japan play a crucial role in addressing healthcare disparities and workforce shortages. However, a comprehensive understanding of their structures, leadership, and activities is lacking. This study aimed to provide the first nationwide profile of academic departments related to regional healthcare (chiiki iryou) in Japanese medical schools. Methods: A cross-sectional study of 82 Japanese medical schools was conducted in 2024. Data on departments whose names included Results: A total of 145 chairpersons from 168 eligible departments were included in the analysis. Most of the departments were at national universities (66.1%), were headed by endowed chairpersons (78.0%), who were predominantly male (94.5%). Analysis of chairperson characteristics revealed: (1) a predominance of Internal Medicine specialists (44.1%) and a limited proportion of certified General Medicine specialists (10.3%); (2) limited research output, with 36.6% having no PubMed-indexed articles published during the study period; (3) a research focus primarily on clinical (59.9% of articles) and basic science (15.6% of articles), with few articles focusing on regional healthcare issues. Conclusions: This nationwide study reveals a lack of diversity in chairperson characteristics, with a predominance of Internal Medicine specialists, limited international research output, and a possible mismatch between academic focus and regional healthcare needs.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.