Medically Engineered Solutions in Healthcare Incubator, Innovations in Operations Research Center (MESH IO), Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts; Faculty of Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada; and Department of Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts.
Medically Engineered Solutions in Healthcare Incubator, Innovations in Operations Research Center (MESH IO), Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts; Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts; and Department of Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts.
J Am Coll Radiol. 2023 Feb;20(2):276-281. doi: 10.1016/j.jacr.2022.10.005. Epub 2022 Dec 8.
There is a scarcity of literature examining changes in radiologist research productivity during the COVID-19 pandemic. The current study aimed to investigate changes in academic productivity as measured by publication volume before and during the COVID-19 pandemic.
This single-center, retrospective cohort study included the publication data of 216 researchers consisting of associate professors, assistant professors, and professors of radiology. Wilcoxon's signed-rank test was used to identify changes in publication volume between the 1-year-long defined prepandemic period (publications between May 1, 2019, and April 30, 2020) and COVID-19 pandemic period (May 1, 2020, to April 30, 2021).
There was a significantly increased mean annual volume of publications in the pandemic period (5.98, SD = 7.28) compared with the prepandemic period (4.98, SD = 5.53) (z = -2.819, P = .005). Subset analysis demonstrated a similar (17.4%) increase in publication volume for male researchers when comparing the mean annual prepandemic publications (5.10, SD = 5.79) compared with the pandemic period (5.99, SD = 7.60) (z = -2.369, P = .018). No statistically significant changes were found in similar analyses with the female subset.
Significant increases in radiologist publication volume were found during the COVID-19 pandemic compared with the year before. Changes may reflect an overall increase in academic productivity in response to clinical and imaging volume ramp down.
目前关于 COVID-19 大流行期间放射科医生研究生产力变化的文献相对较少。本研究旨在调查 COVID-19 大流行期间，以出版物数量衡量的学术生产力的变化情况。
本单中心回顾性队列研究纳入了 216 名放射科副教授、助理教授和教授的出版物数据。采用 Wilcoxon 符号秩检验比较了为期 1 年的大流行前定义时期（2019 年 5 月 1 日至 2020 年 4 月 30 日期间的出版物）和 COVID-19 大流行期间（2020 年 5 月 1 日至 2021 年 4 月 30 日期间的出版物）的出版物数量变化。
大流行期间的平均年出版物数量明显增加（5.98，SD=7.28），而大流行前期间的平均年出版物数量则减少（4.98，SD=5.53）（z=-2.819，P=.005）。亚组分析表明，与大流行前相比，男性研究人员的平均年大流行前出版物数量（5.10，SD=5.79）与大流行期间的出版物数量（5.99，SD=7.60）相比，出版物数量增加了 17.4%（z=-2.369，P=.018）。对女性亚组进行类似分析未发现统计学上的显著变化。
与前一年相比，COVID-19 大流行期间放射科医生的出版物数量显著增加。这些变化可能反映了临床和影像学工作量减少后，学术生产力的整体提高。
