Department of Neurosciences, College of Medicine and Philippine General Hospital, University of the Philippines Manila, Manila 1000, Philippines.
Institute for Neurosciences, St. Luke's Medical Center Global City, Taguig City 1634, Philippines.
Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2022 Nov 24;19(23):15630. doi: 10.3390/ijerph192315630.
Philippine research productivity in neurology has not been fully characterized. We investigated the research output of adult and child neurologists in the Philippines and correlated this to the Philippine socioeconomic and healthcare indices among different regions. We used electronic databases to retrieve studies published by Filipino neurologists using the 2022 Philippine Neurological Association website as reference. We included all studies published until December 2021. Official government region-specific socioeconomic indices were used. Correlational analysis was completed on bibliometric indices and collected data. We retrieved 746 articles from 274 of 526 Filipino neurologists which were published in 245 publications over 45 years with 12,409 citations. The National Capital Region (NCR) had the most publications ( = 662, 88.7%) and citations ( = 10,377, 83.6%). Research productivity was positively correlated with population, gross domestic product (GDP), health expenditure, number of healthcare establishments, neurologists, and research personnel. The Philippine research landscape is dominated by articles of neurologists belonging to institutions in the NCR, which has the greatest number of neurologists, training institutions, and highest GDP. There is a need to address the disparity seen in other regions to bridge gaps in healthcare, health human resources, and health information through research.
菲律宾的神经病学研究成果尚未得到充分的描述。我们调查了菲律宾成年和儿童神经病学家的研究成果，并将其与菲律宾不同地区的社会经济和医疗保健指数相关联。我们使用电子数据库检索了菲律宾神经病学家发表的研究论文，以 2022 年菲律宾神经病学协会网站为参考。我们收录了截至 2021 年 12 月发表的所有研究。使用了官方政府特定地区的社会经济指数。对文献计量学指标和收集的数据进行了相关分析。我们从 526 名菲律宾神经病学家中的 274 名检索到了 746 篇文章，这些文章发表在 245 种出版物中，历经 45 年，引用次数为 12409 次。首都地区（NCR）发表的文章最多（=662，88.7%）和引用次数最多（=10377，83.6%）。研究成果与人口、国内生产总值（GDP）、卫生支出、医疗保健机构数量、神经病学家和研究人员呈正相关。菲律宾的研究领域主要由属于 NCR 机构的神经病学家的文章主导，该地区拥有最多的神经病学家、培训机构和最高的 GDP。需要解决其他地区存在的差距，通过研究弥合医疗保健、卫生人力资源和卫生信息方面的差距。
