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What to choose: internal reporting guidelines or external reporting guidelines? A step closer to answering this dilemma. Introdução à Medicina II. March 2012. Class 8. What to choose: internal reporting guidelines or external reporting guidelines ? A step closer to answering this dilemma.
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What to choose: internal reporting guidelines or external reporting guidelines?A step closer to answering this dilemma Introdução à Medicina II March 2012 Class 8
What to choose: internal reporting guidelines or external reporting guidelines? • A step closer to answering this dilemma SUMMARY • Introduction • Justification • Researchquestion • Aims • Methods • Some results • Expectedresults • References Class 8
What to choose: internal reporting guidelines or external reporting guidelines? • A step closer to answering this dilemma INTRODUCTION Class 8
What to choose: internal reporting guidelines or external reporting guidelines? • A step closer to answering this dilemma INTRODUCTION publishedin Scientificarticles Scientificjournals First scientific journal First medical journal Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society 1665 New England Journal of Medicine 1812 Class 8
What to choose: internal reporting guidelines or external reporting guidelines? • A step closer to answering this dilemma INTRODUCTION Scientificarticles • Contain… • Motivation of the author • Experimental design and execution • Meaning of the results • Conclusions and recommendations • Require… • Clarity • Concision • Organization • Objectivity • Better comprehension • More effective way of using its results To accomplish Class 8
What to choose: internal reporting guidelines or external reporting guidelines? • A step closer to answering this dilemma INTRODUCTION Impactofscientificjournals Average number of times an article published in a given journal was cited in the last two years Impact Factor (IF) JournalCitationReport ISI Web ofKnowledge Impact ≠ Quality Comparison between different scientific areas can induce biased conclusions Class 8
What to choose: internal reporting guidelines or external reporting guidelines? • A step closer to answering this dilemma INTRODUCTION Impactofscientificarticles Presented in the end of the academic work, bibliographies or specific indexes Numberofcitations ISI Web ofKnowledge Impact ≠ Quality • Possible biases: • Size of the articles • IF of the journal in which they are published Class 8
What to choose: internal reporting guidelines or external reporting guidelines? • A step closer to answering this dilemma INTRODUCTION Guidelines Information for the authors on how they must write their manuscript Class 8
What to choose: internal reporting guidelines or external reporting guidelines? • A step closer to answering this dilemma INTRODUCTION Guidelines UniformRequirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals General Reporting Guidelines International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) Vancouver Group (Vancouver, British Columbia, 1978) Firststatements: 1979 Lastupdate: 2010 Class 8
What to choose: internal reporting guidelines or external reporting guidelines? A step closer to answering this dilemma INTRODUCTION Guidelines Refering to a particular type of study and to other specific aspects of science publication Class 8
What to choose: internal reporting guidelines or external reporting guidelines? • A step closer to answering this dilemma JUSTIFICATION Scientificarticles - Relevance for doctors: Medical care is improved by new discoveries and studies that promote a better life perspective for patients. Breakthroughs are published in scientific articles. In order to achieve a better treatment for patients and a good management of resources it is imperative to divulgate the knowledge in the clearest way possible Scientific articles highly effective. Class 8
What to choose: internal reporting guidelines or external reporting guidelines? • A step closer to answering this dilemma JUSTIFICATION Thequalityof a scientificarticle • Influences… • Interest of scientific community • Diffusion and applicability of the results • Depends on… • Sientific content • Way that it is written Problem: It is not known which type of reporting guidelines leads to a better diffusion of the scientific breakthroughs. Highestimpactofthearticlespublished Class 8
What to choose: internal reporting guidelines or external reporting guidelines? • A step closer to answering this dilemma RESEARCH QUESTION Is there any association between the use of internal reporting guidelines and/or external reporting guidelines and the impact of scientific articles published in Journals of General and Internal Medicine? Class 8
What to choose: internal reporting guidelines or external reporting guidelines? • A step closer to answering this dilemma AIMS • Central aim: • Evaluate the association between the use of internal or external reporting guidelines and the impact of scientific articles published in General and Internal Medicine Journals. • Specific aims: • Determine the type of reporting guidelines recommended by each selected scientific journal of General and Internal Medicine. • Measure the impact of different scientific papers published in 2008 in journals with reporting guidelines. • Compare the impact of scientific papers published in journals that present internal reporting guidelines to the impact of the articles published in journals which recommend external reporting guidelines. • Compare the advantages of the use of external reporting guidelines over the use of internal reporting guidelines. Class 8
What to choose: internal reporting guidelines or external reporting guidelines? • A step closer to answering this dilemma • METHODS Class 8
What to choose: internal reporting guidelines or external reporting guidelines? • A step closer to answering this dilemma • METHODS Typeofstudy: • Observationalstudy • Transversal study • Analyticstudy Class 8
What to choose: internal reporting guidelines or external reporting guidelines? • A step closer to answering this dilemma • METHODS Class 8
What to choose: internal reporting guidelines or external reporting guidelines? • A step closer to answering this dilemma • METHODS 1 http:// www.isiknowledge.com Class 8
What to choose: internal reporting guidelines or external reporting guidelines? • A step closer to answering this dilemma • METHODS 2 Class 8
What to choose: internal reporting guidelines or external reporting guidelines? A step closer to answering this dilemma METHODS 2 Class 8
What to choose: internal reporting guidelines or external reporting guidelines? A step closer to answering this dilemma METHODS 3 • Some statisticanalysisisdone to clarifythe motives ofexclusionof some journalsand to verifyhowmanyjournals are included in thestudy. Class 8
What to choose: internal reporting guidelines or external reporting guidelines? • A step closer to answering this dilemma • METHODS 4 • Go to the website oftheselectedjournals • Readthesectionoftheinstructions for authors • Verifyifanyguidelines are presentedandanalyseitstype • Selectjournalsthatpresent some typeofreportingguidelines Class 8
What to choose: internal reporting guidelines or external reporting guidelines? • A step closer to answering this dilemma • METHODS 4 Untilthispoint, mostmethods are commom to bothofthe classes, sothereis a divisionofthetasks. • Class 8 isresponsible for doingthedistributionofthejournalsbetweenthetwo classes and for preparingthedatabase. Class 8
What to choose: internal reporting guidelines or external reporting guidelines? • A step closer to answering this dilemma • METHODS 5 • Thisinformationiscollectedon ISI Web ofKnowledge Class 8
What to choose: internal reporting guidelines or external reporting guidelines? • A step closer to answering this dilemma • METHODS 6 • Titleofthearticle • Authors • Numberofcitations • Journalinwhichit waspublished Class 8
What to choose: internal reporting guidelines or external reporting guidelines? • A step closer to answering this dilemma • METHODS 7 Impactofeacharticle CN – CitationNumber IF – Impact Factor ofthejournal Class 8
What to choose: internal reporting guidelines or external reporting guidelines? A step closer to answering this dilemma METHODS 8 • Separatearticlesinto 3 groups: • Articlespublished in journalsusinginternalreportingguidelines • Articlespublished in journalsusingexternalreportingguidelines (specifyingwhattype) • Articlespublished in journalsusingbothtypesreportingguidelines • Calculatethemeanimpactofthearticles for eachgroup • Apply ANOVA to verifyifthereisevidenceof diference betweengroups Class 8
What to choose: internal reporting guidelines or external reporting guidelines? • A step closer to answering this dilemma SOME RESULTS There are 153journalsof General andInternal Medicine. Class 8
What to choose: internal reporting guidelines or external reporting guidelines? • A step closer to answering this dilemma SOME RESULTS Class 8
What to choose: internal reporting guidelines or external reporting guidelines? A step closer to answering this dilemma SOME RESULTS Class 8
What to choose: internal reporting guidelines or external reporting guidelines? A step closer to answering this dilemma SOME RESULTS MedianvaluesofImpact Factor Class 8
What to choose: internal reporting guidelines or external reporting guidelines? • A step closer to answering this dilemma EXPECTED RESULTS • There will be an association between the use of internal reporting guidelines and/or external reporting guidelines and the impact of scientific papers However… …the differences between those impacts can also be due to: • Impact factor of the journal where the articles are published • Proper characteristics of the study presented in the article Class 8
What to choose: internal reporting guidelines or external reporting guidelines? • A step closer to answering this dilemma EXPECTED RESULTS Itisexpectedthatourstudy serve as… • A guide to the creation (or maintenance) of reporting guidelines for scientific journals of General and Internal Medicine. • A motivation for further studies on this subject, involving other scientific areas Generalization of the results Class 8
What to choose: internal reporting guidelines or external reporting guidelines? • A step closer to answering this dilemma REFERENCES Jacinto T. Informação e conhecimento biomédico, pesquisa bibliográfica, bibliotecas digitais [Biomedicalinformationandknowledge, bibliographicresearch, digital libraries] [slide]. Porto (Portugal): Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade do Porto (PT), Departamento de Ciências da Informação e da Decisão em Saúde; 2011. Portuguese, English. Nahas FX, Ferreira LM. A arte de redigir um trabalho científico [periódico na Internet] 2005;20 Suppl. 2:17-8. Disponível em URL: http://www.scielo.br/acb Nte AR, Awi DD. Writing a scientific paper: getting to the basics. Niger J. Med (2007) Jul-Sep;16(3):212-8. Jacinto T, Morais A, Fonseca JA. How to write a scientific paper - Searching and Managing Biomedical information. Rev Port Pneumol. 2011;17:190-194. Samil LR. Writing and publication of a medical article. Vandenbroucke J P. STREGA, STROBE, STARD, SQUIRE, MOOSE, PRISMA, GNOSIS, TREND, ORION, COREQ, QUOROM, REMARK and CONSORT: for whom does the guideline toll?. ClinEpidemiol. 2009;62:594-596. International Committee of Medical Journal Editors. ICMJE, International Committee of Medical Journal Editors [homepage on the Internet]. [place unknown]: International Committee of Medical Journal Editors; 2009 [cited 2011 Nov 11]. Available from: http://www.icmje.org/ Class 8
What to choose: internal reporting guidelines or external reporting guidelines? • A step closer to answering this dilemma REFERENCES Rodrigues P. Artigos científicos, aspectos e orientações base [Scientificpapers, guidelines and basic aspects] [slide]. Porto (Portugal): Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade do Porto (PT), Departamento de Ciências da Informação e da Decisão em Saúde; 2011. Portuguese, English. CONSORT Group. CONSORT, TRANSPARENT REPORTING OF TRIALS [homepage on the Internet]. [place unknown]: Minervation; [reviewed 2011 May 16; cited 2011 Nov 11]. Available from: http://www.consort-statement.org/ STROBE Group. STROBE Statement, StrengtheningtheReportingofObservationalstudiesinEpidemiology [homepage onthe Internet]. [Bern (Switzerland)]: ISPM – UniversityofBern; 2009 [cited 2011 Nov 11]. Available from: http://www.strobe-statement.org/ SQUIRE Group. SQUIRE, Standards for Quality Improvement Reporting Excellence [homepage on the Internet]. [Lebanon (NH)]: [Publisher unknown]; [cited 2011 Dec 1]. Available from: http://squire-statement.org/ STARD Group. STARD Statement, STAndards for the Reporting of Diagnostic accuracy studies [homepage on the Internet]. [Amsterdam (The Netherlands)]: [Publisher unknown]; [reviewed 2008 Apr 22; cited 2011 Nov 11]. Available from: http://www.stard-statement.org/ Stefánsson E, Kivelä T. Theingredientsof a goodpaper. Acta Ophthalmol. 2010; 88:619-621 Class 8