Improving of nursing care and methods of abilitation for extremely low body weight infants: critical evaluation of the contribution of Russian scientists

Abstract

Effective nursing and successful abilitation of extremely low birth weight (ELBW) preterm infants is a complicated medical problem, solution of which is largely owing to improvement of scientific knowledge.

The aims of the work was to find Russian scientific articles which are devoted to the problems of extremely low body weight infants nursing, as well as to study their citation level in national and international databases.

Material and methods. The request was conducted in the Russian-language search system eLIBRARY.RU and in the English-language search system PubMed.

Results. The survey results demonstrate a very modest (0.41%) contribution of Russian researchers to solving the problem at the international level. As for citation, not a single article in Russian published after 2015 was cited more than 7 times.

Discussion. The obtained data reveal a decrease both in level of interests of researches towards the Russian experience of effective nursing of ELBW preterm infants, and in number of domestic studies in domain of discourse.

Conclusion. Fixation on studying only foreign experience poses the risk of further incomplete adaptation of advanced medical technologies to modern realities of Russian Healthcare Service. Reduction in a number of national scientific researches aimed at improving medical care for ELBW preterm infants threatens to turn Russian neonatology from the forefront of Russian pediatric science into stagnating branch of medicine.

Keywords:extremely low birth weight, Russian experience, citedness of publications, public health challenges, neonatology

For citation: Degtyarev D.N. Improving of nursing care and methods of abilitation for extremely low body weight infants: critical evaluation of the contribution of Russian scientists. Neonatologiya: novosti, mneniya, obuchenie [Neonatology: News, Opinions, Training]. 2019; 7 (3): 7-11. doi: 10.24411/2308-2402-2019-13001 (in Russian)

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CHIEF EDITOR
CHIEF EDITOR
Degtyarev Dmitriy Nikolaevich
Doctor of Medical Sciences, Professor, Deputy Director for Scientific Research of the V.I. Kulakov Obstetrics, Gynecology and Perinatology National Medical Research Center of Ministry of Healthсаre of the Russian Federation, Head of the Chair of Neonatology at the Clinical Institute of Children's Health named after N.F. Filatov, I.M. Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University, Chairman of the Ethics Committee of the Russian Society of Neonatologists, Moscow, Russian Federation

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