2008 World Congress
of Cardiology - Poster Presentations
J. Boggiano, R.
Miret. Interamerican Research Group of Nursing and Health
Objective: To
analyze the scientific production spilt in symposiums of cardiovascular nursing
in Argentina from May, 2002 up to June, 2007; determining the qualitative and
quantitative characteristics of the articles.
Material and
method: A bibliometric, descriptive, longitudinal and retrospective analysis
was conducted for a 5-year period (2002–2007). The population object of study
they were all the articles published in the simposios of cardiovascular nursing
in Argentina. Both quantitative and qualitative methods were used to study
productivity and collaboration and to conduct an analysis on the subject,
respectively. A previously agreed upon and standardised manual revision was
carried out as a technique for data retrieval. Descriptive statistics and
Statistical Inference indexes (Chi square and simple linear regression
analysis) were used for quantitative analysis. The data were processed using
the SPSS 10.0 statistical package
Results: The
average number of articles published per issue was 9.2 (SD: 1.02), with a
tendency towards an increase 37% of authors were from the hospital setting. The
autonomous region with the highest production output was Buenos Aires city
(44.6%). 53.6% of the articles were undersigned by one single author. The
overall collaboration rate was 2.29, which steadily increased over the five
years of study. The area of knowledge most widely written about was
interventional cardiology of Nursing (49.4%); by another hand, 12 Circulation
Vol 117, No 19 May 13, 2008 a 27.2% were research articles (this articles have
increased significantly over the period under study).
Conclusions: the
increase in the number of articles, specially of research, as well as in the
increase of the index of collaboration, reveals that the quality of the
analyzed articles is good, with an steady improvement over the 5 years since it
was first released in the market. On the other hand, there is still a rather
high percentage of papers undersigned by one single author, which, in a way,
appears to indicate a rather artesian scientific practice.
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