Archavlis E, Triantafyllou K, Adamopoulos A, Emmanuel T, Tzathas C, Ladas S D
Hepatogastroenterology Unit, 2nd Department of Internal Medicine - Propaedeutic, Attikon University General Hospital, Medical School, Athens University, Athens, Greece.
Dig Dis. 2008;26(1):71-4. doi: 10.1159/000109391. Epub 2007 Dec 14.
In the era of the new millennium, a lot of preclinical and clinical research is published. However, ethico-legal, cost-effectiveness and patient care issues are not addressed equally.
To investigate whether abstracts presented at major international gastroenterology congresses refer to issues relevant to doctor-patient relationship, cost-effectiveness and care.
We reviewed the abstracts on disk CD-ROMs of the United European Gastroenterology Week (UEGW) and the Digestive Disease Week (DDW), for the years 1998-2006. We used the following keywords: ethical/ethically, legal, consent, cost-effective/effectiveness, care, quality and tolerable/tolerability.
Over the study period, 1,612/20,018 (8.05%) and 764/45,628 (1.67%) abstracts including the above keywords were presented at UEGW and DDW congresses (p = 0.013), respectively. Statistically significant more abstracts containing separately any of the key words (apart from 'legal') were presented at the UEGW than at the DDW congress. There was a significant trend of increased referring to these key words over the study period for UEGW (p < 0.041) but not for DDW congresses (p = 0.70).
The abstracts presented at the UEGW refer to ethico-legal, cost-effectiveness and patient care issues more frequently than those presented at the DDW. There is a trend of increased referring to these subjects at the UEGW but not at the DDW.
在新千年时代，发表了大量临床前和临床研究。然而，伦理法律、成本效益和患者护理问题并未得到同等程度的关注。
调查在主要国际胃肠病学大会上发表的摘要是否涉及与医患关系、成本效益和护理相关的问题。
我们回顾了1998 - 2006年期间欧洲胃肠病学联合周（UEGW）和消化疾病周（DDW）光盘上的摘要。我们使用了以下关键词：伦理的/符合伦理地、法律的、同意、成本效益/效益、护理、质量以及可耐受的/耐受性。
在研究期间，分别有1,612/20,018（8.05%）和764/45,628（1.67%）包含上述关键词的摘要在UEGW和DDW大会上发表（p = 0.013）。在UEGW大会上发表的包含任何一个关键词（除“法律的”外）的摘要在统计学上显著多于DDW大会。在研究期间，UEGW大会提及这些关键词的数量有显著增加趋势（p < 0.041），而DDW大会则没有（p = 0.70）。
与在DDW大会上发表的摘要相比，在UEGW大会上发表的摘要更频繁地涉及伦理法律、成本效益和患者护理问题。在UEGW大会上有提及这些主题的增加趋势，但在DDW大会上没有。
