Baeesa Saleh S, Maghrabi Yazid, Msaddi Abdul Karim, Assaker Richard
Division of Neurosurgery, Department of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
Department of Neurosurgery, Neuro Spinal Hospital, Dubai, UAE.
Biomed Res Int. 2017;2017:7560236. doi: 10.1155/2017/7560236. Epub 2017 Feb 21.
The purpose of our study is to evaluate the level of evidence (LOE) of spine surgery publications in the Arab countries and compare it with standard international literature in spine surgery and to determine the stand of the Arab nations academic production with that of the global one. An online search using "PubMed" and "Google Scholar" was carried out, using search terms related to spine surgery such as "Spine surgery," "Scoliosis," "Herniated disc." Each article was reviewed and graded by two reviewers using Oxford Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine (OCEBM) Levels of Evidence scale. We have identified 434 articles that met the inclusion criteria; 56% were level IV studies. The most common study design was case reports (42%). The number of Arab countries with publications in spine surgery was 18 countries. The country with the highest rate of publications was Egypt (26%). The quantity of the published studies increased from 151 in (2000-2008) to 283 in (2009-2015). There is statistical significance between high and low LOE articles ( = 0.0007). We have observed that LOE has not changed significantly over the period of 15 years and that much of the publications are of a low LOE (levels III and IV). We, herein, emphasize the need for spine surgeons in the Arab countries to conduct studies of higher LOE.
我们研究的目的是评估阿拉伯国家脊柱外科出版物的证据水平（LOE），并将其与脊柱外科的国际标准文献进行比较，以确定阿拉伯国家学术成果与全球学术成果的立场。使用“PubMed”和“谷歌学术”进行在线搜索，使用与脊柱外科相关的搜索词，如“脊柱手术”、“脊柱侧弯”、“椎间盘突出”。每篇文章由两名审稿人使用牛津循证医学中心（OCEBM）证据水平量表进行审查和分级。我们确定了434篇符合纳入标准的文章；56%为IV级研究。最常见的研究设计是病例报告（42%）。发表脊柱外科相关文章的阿拉伯国家有18个。发表率最高的国家是埃及（26%）。发表研究的数量从（2000 - 2008年）的151篇增加到（2009 - 2015年）的283篇。高LOE文章和低LOE文章之间存在统计学意义（= 0.0007）。我们观察到，在15年的时间里，LOE没有显著变化，并且大部分出版物的LOE较低（III级和IV级）。在此，我们强调阿拉伯国家的脊柱外科医生需要开展更高LOE的研究。
