Kumar Senthil P
Department of Physiotherapy, Kasturba Medical College, Manipal University, Mangalore, Karnataka, India.
Indian J Palliat Care. 2011 Sep;17(3):202-9. doi: 10.4103/0973-1075.92337.
Pediatric palliative care clinical practice depends upon an evidence-based decision-making process which in turn is based upon current research evidence.
This study aimed to perform a quantitative analysis of research publications in palliative care journals for reporting characteristics of articles on pediatric palliative care.
This was a systematic review of palliative care journals.
Twelve palliative care journals were searched for articles with "paediatric" or "children" in titles of the articles published from 2006 to 2010. The reporting rates of all journals were compared. The selected articles were categorized into practice, education, research, and administration, and subsequently grouped into original and review articles. The original articles were subgrouped into qualitative and quantitative studies, and the review articles were grouped into narrative and systematic reviews. Each subgroup of original articles' category was further classified according to study designs.
Descriptive analysis using frequencies and percentiles was done using SPSS for Windows, version 11.5.
The overall reporting rate among all journals was 2.66% (97/3634), and Journal of Hospice and Palliative Nursing (JHPN) had the highest reporting rate of 12.5% (1/8), followed by Journal of Social Work in End-of-Life and Palliative Care (JSWELPC) with a rate of 7.5% (5/66), and Journal of Palliative Care (JPC) with a rate of 5.33% (11/206).
The overall reporting rate for pediatric palliative care articles in palliative care journals was very low and there were no randomized clinical trials and systematic reviews found. The study findings indicate a lack of adequate evidence base for pediatric palliative care.
儿科姑息治疗临床实践依赖于循证决策过程，而这又基于当前的研究证据。
本研究旨在对姑息治疗期刊上的研究出版物进行定量分析，以报告儿科姑息治疗文章的特征。
这是对姑息治疗期刊的系统评价。
检索了12种姑息治疗期刊，查找2006年至2010年发表的文章标题中包含“儿科”或“儿童”的文章。比较了所有期刊的报道率。将所选文章分为实践、教育、研究和管理四类，随后又分为原创文章和综述文章。原创文章再细分为定性和定量研究，综述文章分为叙述性综述和系统评价。原创文章类别的每个子类别根据研究设计进一步分类。
使用Windows版SPSS 11.5进行频率和百分位数的描述性分析。
所有期刊的总体报道率为2.66%（97/3634），《临终关怀与姑息护理杂志》（JHPN）的报道率最高，为12.5%（1/8），其次是《临终与姑息护理社会工作杂志》（JSWELPC），报道率为7.5%（5/66），《姑息治疗杂志》（JPC）的报道率为5.33%（11/206）。
姑息治疗期刊中儿科姑息治疗文章的总体报道率非常低，且未发现随机临床试验和系统评价。研究结果表明儿科姑息治疗缺乏足够的证据基础。
