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The research environment of critical care in three Asian countries: A cross-sectional questionnaire survey

Although inadequate research support for intensivists can be one major reason of the poor research productivity, no study has investigated the current research environment in critical care medicine in Asia. The objective of this study was to describe Asian academia in critical care from the research...

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Autores principales: Kotani, Yuki, Na, Sungwon, Phua, Jason, Shime, Nobuaki, Kawasaki, Tatsuya, Yasuda, Hideto, Jun, Jong Hun, Kawaguchi, Atsushi
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Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9530362/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36203749
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmed.2022.975750
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author Kotani, Yuki
Na, Sungwon
Phua, Jason
Shime, Nobuaki
Kawasaki, Tatsuya
Yasuda, Hideto
Jun, Jong Hun
Kawaguchi, Atsushi
author_facet Kotani, Yuki
Na, Sungwon
Phua, Jason
Shime, Nobuaki
Kawasaki, Tatsuya
Yasuda, Hideto
Jun, Jong Hun
Kawaguchi, Atsushi
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description Although inadequate research support for intensivists can be one major reason of the poor research productivity, no study has investigated the current research environment in critical care medicine in Asia. The objective of this study was to describe Asian academia in critical care from the research environment perspective. We conducted a cross-sectional questionnaire survey targeting all physician members of the Societies of Intensive/Critical Care Medicine in Japan, South Korea, and Singapore. We collected the characteristics of the participants and their affiliated institutions and the research environment. The outcome was the number of peer-reviewed publications. Multivariable logistic regression analyses examined the association between the outcome and the following five research environmental factors (i.e., country of the respondents, availability of secured time for research activities or research supporting staff for the hospital, practice at a university-affiliated hospital, and years of clinical practice of 10 years or longer). Four hundred ninety responded (overall response rate: 5.6%) to the survey between June 2019 and January 2020. Fifty-five percent worked for a university-affiliated hospital, while 35% worked for a community hospital. Twenty-four percent had secured time for research within their full-time work hours. The multivariable logistic model found that a secured time for the research activities [odds ratio (OR): 2.77; 95% confidence interval (CI), 1.46–5.24], practicing at a university-affiliated hospital (OR: 2.61; 95% CI, 1.19–5.74), having clinical experience of 10 years or longer (OR:11.2; 95%CI, 1.41–88.5), and working in South Korea (OR: 2.18; 95% CI, 1.09–4.34, Reference: Japan) were significantly associated with higher research productivity. Intensivists in the three countries had limited support for their research work. Dedicated time for research was positively associated with the number of research publications.
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spelling pubmed-95303622022-10-05 The research environment of critical care in three Asian countries: A cross-sectional questionnaire survey Kotani, Yuki Na, Sungwon Phua, Jason Shime, Nobuaki Kawasaki, Tatsuya Yasuda, Hideto Jun, Jong Hun Kawaguchi, Atsushi Front Med (Lausanne) Medicine Although inadequate research support for intensivists can be one major reason of the poor research productivity, no study has investigated the current research environment in critical care medicine in Asia. The objective of this study was to describe Asian academia in critical care from the research environment perspective. We conducted a cross-sectional questionnaire survey targeting all physician members of the Societies of Intensive/Critical Care Medicine in Japan, South Korea, and Singapore. We collected the characteristics of the participants and their affiliated institutions and the research environment. The outcome was the number of peer-reviewed publications. Multivariable logistic regression analyses examined the association between the outcome and the following five research environmental factors (i.e., country of the respondents, availability of secured time for research activities or research supporting staff for the hospital, practice at a university-affiliated hospital, and years of clinical practice of 10 years or longer). Four hundred ninety responded (overall response rate: 5.6%) to the survey between June 2019 and January 2020. Fifty-five percent worked for a university-affiliated hospital, while 35% worked for a community hospital. Twenty-four percent had secured time for research within their full-time work hours. The multivariable logistic model found that a secured time for the research activities [odds ratio (OR): 2.77; 95% confidence interval (CI), 1.46–5.24], practicing at a university-affiliated hospital (OR: 2.61; 95% CI, 1.19–5.74), having clinical experience of 10 years or longer (OR:11.2; 95%CI, 1.41–88.5), and working in South Korea (OR: 2.18; 95% CI, 1.09–4.34, Reference: Japan) were significantly associated with higher research productivity. Intensivists in the three countries had limited support for their research work. Dedicated time for research was positively associated with the number of research publications. Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-09-20 /pmc/articles/PMC9530362/ /pubmed/36203749 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmed.2022.975750 Text en Copyright © 2022 Kotani, Na, Phua, Shime, Kawasaki, Yasuda, Jun and Kawaguchi. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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Kotani, Yuki
Na, Sungwon
Phua, Jason
Shime, Nobuaki
Kawasaki, Tatsuya
Yasuda, Hideto
Jun, Jong Hun
Kawaguchi, Atsushi
The research environment of critical care in three Asian countries: A cross-sectional questionnaire survey
title The research environment of critical care in three Asian countries: A cross-sectional questionnaire survey
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title_fullStr The research environment of critical care in three Asian countries: A cross-sectional questionnaire survey
title_full_unstemmed The research environment of critical care in three Asian countries: A cross-sectional questionnaire survey
title_short The research environment of critical care in three Asian countries: A cross-sectional questionnaire survey
title_sort research environment of critical care in three asian countries: a cross-sectional questionnaire survey
topic Medicine
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9530362/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36203749
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmed.2022.975750
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