Emergency medicine questions on the entrance examination for medical internships and residency training in Spain: analysis of changes between 2010 and 2019.

Objectives: To investigate the presence of fundamental concepts in emergency medicine on the entrance examination taken by candidates for medical internships and residency training in Spain, and to identify changes over time.

Material And Methods: Longitudinal retrospective study. Three independent researchers reviewed questions on the entrance examinations of the past 10 years (2010-2019) and classified them as directly, indirectly, or not related to emergency medicine.

Presentations at 29 conferences of the Spanish Society of Emergency Medicine (SEMES) from 1988 to 2017: a descriptive analysis.

Objectives: To gain greater understanding of the development of emergency medicine in Spain by analyzing the presentations at conferences of the Spanish Society of Emergency Medicine (SEMES) over the past 30 years (1988-2017).

Material And Methods: We examined the programs of all SEMES conferences and described the characteristics of both presentations and presenters. We also analyzed changes occurring between 1988 and 2017 of some of the characteristics observed.

[Scientific publication output of Spanish emergency physicians from 2005 to 2014: a comparative study].

Objectives: To analyze the research output of Spanish emergency physicians between 2005 and 2014 and to compare it to their output in the previous 10-year period (1995-2004) as well as to that of emergency physicians in other countries and Spanish physicians in other specialties.

Material And Methods: Original articles indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded of the Web of Science were included. Documents from Spanish emergency physicians were identified by combining the word Spain and any other search term identifying an emergency service or unit in Spain.

[Analysis of Spanish research collaboration in emergency medicine: 2010-2014].

Objectives: To describe the structure of the Spanish emergency medicine research network or networks, researchers' roles, and patterns of collaboration between hospitals.

Material And Methods: The search for publications was carried out in the SCOPUS database for the 5-year period of 2010 to 2014. We used network analysis software to map ties between researchers and hospitals that had established at least 5 and 10 relationships, respectively, during the period under study.

Analysis of the citation of articles published in the European Journal of Emergency Medicine since its foundation.

Objectives: The aim of this study was to evaluate the evolution of the citation of articles from the European Journal of Emergency Medicine (EJEM) from 1994 (EJEM foundation) to 2015 and identify highly cited articles and their principal characteristics and determine a possible correlation between the citations counted in different databases.

Materials And Methods: We obtained the articles published in EJEM from 1994 to 2015 in ISI-WoS (main source) and Scopus, Google Scholar, and Medline databases (accessory sources). The citations were quantified and their annual evolution and the bibliometric indices derived (impact factor and SCImago Journal Rank) were evaluated.

[Productivity of Spanish emergency physicians: comparison of the 5-year periods 2010-2014 and 2005-2009].

Objectives: To study the publication productivity of Spanish emergency physicians in the 5-year period from 2010 through 2014 and compare it with the previous period (2005-2009).

Material And Methods: Articles authored by emergency physicians affiliated with institutions in Spain were selected from the Science Citation Index-Expanded; conference presentations were excluded. We collected data for year of publication, author information, journal, the journal's impact factor (IF), type of article, cites received, and area of research.

[Analysis of highly cited articles published in Emergencias].

A journal is generally considered to be of higher quality to the extent that it publishes articles that are cited. A journal's articles are not all cited equally, however; rather, citations of only a select group of titles accounts for most of a journal's impact factor. This study aimed to identify the characteristics of Emergencias's most highly cited articles and compare their impact to that of papers by other authors in Spain, in Spanish, and internationally in the field of emergency medicine.

[Spanish doctoral theses in emergency medicine (1978-2013)].

Objectives: To quantitatively analyze the production of Spanish doctoral theses in emergency medicine.

Material And Methods: Quantitative synthesis of productivity indicators for 214 doctoral theses in emergency medicine found in the database (TESEO) for Spanish universities from 1978 to 2013. We processed the data in 3 ways as follows: compilation of descriptive statistics, regression analysis (correlation coefficients of determination), and modeling of linear trend (time-series analysis).

A forerunner of qualitative health research: Risueno's report against the use of statistics.

In this article we discuss and examine the report presented to the Académie Royale de Médicine of Paris by the Spanish doctor Benigno Risueño de Amador in 1836, in which he argued against the calculation of probabilities in the health sciences. In his report, Risueño opposed the proposals put forward by Pierre Louis, precursor of the application of statistics in the health sciences. The report was a pioneering document that rejected the use of statistics in clinical practice and medical research.