Examining the Gender Gap in Emergency Medicine Research Publications

Objective: During the last three decades newly formed pediatric emergency medicine (PEM) research networks have been publishing research. A desire of these networks is to produce and disseminate research to improve patient health and outcomes. To quantitatively analyze and compare the literature by PEM research networks globally through numeric and visual bibliometrics. Methods: A bibliometric analysis of articles published from 1994 to 2019 (26 years) by authors from PEM research networks globally were retrieved using PubMed, Web of Science (Thompson Reuters) and accessing individual research network databases. Bibliometric analysis was performed utilizing Web of Science, VOSviewer and Dimensions. Research was quantified to ascertain the number of articles, related articles, citations and Altmetric attention score. Results: A total of 493 articles were published across nine research networks in three decades. Pediatric Emergency Care Applied Research Network (PECARN) produced the most articles, citations, and h-index of all networks. We identified three main groupings of productive authors across the networks who collaborate globally. The gender of the first author was female in 46% of publications and the corresponding author(s) was female in 45%. A non-significant moderate positive correlation between the number of years publishing and the number of publications was identified. There was non-significant moderate negative association between the number of countries in a network and total publications per annum. Conclusions: This study is the first bibliometric analysis of publications from PEM research networks that collaborate globally. The gender gap in first authorship compared to high impact medical journals and high impact emergency medicine journals is narrower. Exploring the relationships of numerical bibliometric indicators and visualizations of productivity will benefit the understanding of the generation, reach and dissemination of PEM research within the global research community.

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Recommendations for patient engagement in patient-oriented emergency medicine research

CJEM ◽

10.1017/cem.2018.370 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 20 (3) ◽

pp. 435-442 ◽

Cited By ~ 6

Author(s):

Patrick M. Archambault ◽

Colleen McGavin ◽

Katie N. Dainty ◽

Shelley L. McLeod ◽

Christian Vaillancourt ◽

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Keyword(s):

Emergency Medicine ◽

Literature Review ◽

Patient Engagement ◽

Qualitative Interviews ◽

Future Research ◽

Translation Strategies ◽

Medicine Research ◽

Canadian Association ◽

Knowledge Translation Strategies ◽

National Patient

AbstractObjectiveTo make pragmatic recommendations on best practices for the engagement of patients in emergency medicine (EM) research.MethodsWe created a panel of expert Canadian EM researchers, physicians, and a patient partner to develop our recommendations. We used mixed methods consisting of 1) a literature review; 2) a survey of Canadian EM researchers; 3) qualitative interviews with key informants; and 4) feedback during the 2017 Canadian Association of Emergency Physicians (CAEP) Academic Symposium.ResultsWe synthesized our literature review into categories including identification and engagement, patients’ roles, perceived benefits, harms, and barriers to patient engagement; 40/75 (53% response rate) invited researchers completed our survey. Among respondents, 58% had engaged patients in research, and 83% intended to engage patients in future research. However, 95% stated that they need further guidance to engage patients. Our qualitative interviews revealed barriers to patient engagement, including the need for training and patient partner recruitment.Our panel recommends 1) an overarching positive recommendation to support patient engagement in EM research; 2) seven policy-level recommendations for CAEP to support the creation of a national patient council, to develop, adopt and adapt training material, guidelines, and tools for patient engagement, and to support increased patient engagement in EM research; and 3) nine pragmatic recommendations about engaging patients in the preparatory, execution, and translational phases of EM research.ConclusionPatient engagement can improve EM research by helping researchers select meaningful outcomes, increase social acceptability of studies, and design knowledge translation strategies that target patients’ needs.

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