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Anesth Analg 2004;99:1486-1491
© 2004 International Anesthesia Research Society
doi: 10.1213/01.ANE.0000136468.92993.CF


ECONOMICS, EDUCATION, AND HEALTH SYSTEMS RESEARCH

Publications in Anesthesia Journals: Quality and Clinical Relevance

Jakob Lauritsen, MD, and Ann M. Moller, MD

Department of Anesthesia, Herlev University Hospital, Herlev, Denmark

Address correspondence to Jakob Lauritsen, MD, Bakkedraget 18, 2. th, 3400 Hillerod, Denmark. Address e-mail to jakobl{at}dadlnet.dk

Clinicians performing evidence-based anesthesia rely on anesthesia journals for clinically relevant information. The objective of this study was to analyze the proportion of clinically relevant articles in five high impact anesthesia journals. We evaluated all articles published in Anesthesiology, Anesthesia & Analgesia, British Journal of Anesthesia, Anesthesia, and Acta Anaesthesiologica Scandinavica from January to June, 2000. Articles were assessed and classified according to type, outcome, and design; 1379 articles consisting of 5468 pages were evaluated and categorized. The most common types of article were animal and laboratory research (31.2%) and randomized clinical trial (20.4%). A clinically relevant article was defined as an article that used a statistically valid method and had a clinically relevant end-point. Altogether 18.6% of the pages had as their subject matter clinically relevant trials. We compared the Journal Impact Factor (a measure of the number of citations per article in a journal) and the proportion of clinically relevant pages and found that they were inversely proportional to each other.

IMPLICATIONS: We analyzed the proportion of clinically relevant articles in five major anesthesia journals. Using predetermined criteria, 20% of the articles in 5 journals were found to be clinically relevant.




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