Tracing the path of 37,050 studies into practice across 18 specialties of the 2.4 million published between 2011 and 2020.

ABSTRACT: The absence of evidence to assess treatment efficacy partially underpins the unsustainable expenditure of the US healthcare system, a challenge exacerbated by a limited understanding of the factors influencing the translation of clinical research into practice. Leveraging a dataset of >10,000 UpToDate articles, sampled every 3 months between 2011 and 2020, we trace the path of research (37,050 newly added articles from 887 journals) from initial publication to the point-of-care, compared to the 2.4 million uncited studies published during the same time window across 18 medical specialties. Our analysis reveals substantial variation in how specialties prioritize/adopt research, with regards to a fraction of literature cited (0.4-2.4%) and quality-of-evidence incorporated. In 9 of 18 special

SUBMITTER: Abdalla M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10115455 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature