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dc.contributor.author | Wark, Stuart | en |
dc.date.accessioned | 2018-03-20T16:51:00Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2017 | - |
dc.identifier.citation | European Science Editing, 43(4), p. 76-79 | en |
dc.identifier.issn | 0258-3127 | en |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/22694 | - |
dc.description.abstract | Background : It is known that rurally-residing individuals are often at a significant health disadvantage when compared to urban peers. Improving the health of rural residents has been directly identified as a key priority across the world; however, as models of healthcare are primarily derived from evidence-based research, any failure by the researcher base to consider rural needs may result in a poor alignment of health services against actual need. This paper reviews how consistently participants' geographic classification is identified and considered as a factor in research reported in a leading medical journal, The Lancet. Method : Using a predetermined definition of rurality as being locations with a population below 100,000 people, 300 eligible articles were reviewed retrospectively from The Lancet's 2015-2017 editions. The purpose was to establish if the methodology and findings of these 300 research papers actively considered the geographic classification of participants. Results : In approximately 60% of the 300 reviewed studies it was not possible to accurately determine participants' geographic classification. Only 2% of papers focused on rural participants in isolation, with 18% using solely urban residents. The remaining 20% of papers had both rural and urban participants. Conclusion : This sample of The Lancet articles indicates minimal attention has been paid to participants' geographic classification. This failure to consider the relevance of location as a factor in outcomes potentially limits the applicability of research findings to a significant proportion of the community, and raises concerns about using such evidence bases for determining national health frameworks and practice guidelines. | en |
dc.language | en | en |
dc.publisher | European Association of Science Editors | en |
dc.relation.ispartof | European Science Editing | en |
dc.title | A missing factor in the reporting of medical research outcomes: Geographic classification of participants | en |
dc.type | Journal Article | en |
dcterms.accessRights | Gold | en |
dc.subject.keywords | Health Care Administration | en |
dc.subject.keywords | Health and Community Services | en |
dc.subject.keywords | Health Promotion | en |
local.contributor.firstname | Stuart | en |
local.subject.for2008 | 111708 Health and Community Services | en |
local.subject.for2008 | 111712 Health Promotion | en |
local.subject.for2008 | 111709 Health Care Administration | en |
local.subject.seo2008 | 920408 Health Status (e.g. Indicators of Well-Being) | en |
local.subject.seo2008 | 920204 Evaluation of Health Outcomes | en |
local.subject.seo2008 | 920206 Health Inequalities | en |
local.profile.school | School of Rural Medicine | en |
local.profile.email | swark5@une.edu.au | en |
local.output.category | C1 | en |
local.record.place | au | en |
local.record.institution | University of New England | en |
local.identifier.epublicationsrecord | une-20171109-152631 | en |
local.publisher.place | United Kingdom | en |
local.format.startpage | 76 | en |
local.format.endpage | 79 | en |
local.url.open | http://europeanscienceediting.eu/articles/a-missing-factor-in-the-reporting-of-medical-research-outcomes-geographic-classification-of-participants/ | en |
local.peerreviewed | Yes | en |
local.identifier.volume | 43 | en |
local.identifier.issue | 4 | en |
local.title.subtitle | Geographic classification of participants | en |
local.access.fulltext | Yes | en |
local.contributor.lastname | Wark | en |
dc.identifier.staff | une-id:swark5 | en |
local.profile.orcid | 0000-0002-5366-1860 | en |
local.profile.role | author | en |
local.identifier.unepublicationid | une:22878 | en |
local.identifier.handle | https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/22694 | en |
dc.identifier.academiclevel | Academic | en |
local.title.maintitle | A missing factor in the reporting of medical research outcomes | en |
local.output.categorydescription | C1 Refereed Article in a Scholarly Journal | en |
local.search.author | Wark, Stuart | en |
local.uneassociation | Unknown | en |
local.year.published | 2017 | en |
local.fileurl.closedpublished | https://rune.une.edu.au/web/retrieve/7c408e32-d172-4783-89da-9e64f88937a9 | en |
local.subject.for2020 | 420305 Health and community services | en |
local.subject.for2020 | 420603 Health promotion | en |
local.subject.for2020 | 420306 Health care administration | en |
local.subject.seo2020 | 200407 Health status (incl. wellbeing) | en |
local.subject.seo2020 | 200202 Evaluation of health outcomes | en |
local.subject.seo2020 | 200204 Health inequalities | en |
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