Abstract

CANEDO ANDALIA, Rubén; ARAUJO RUIZ, Juan A; ARENCIBIA JORGE, Ricardo  and  GUTIERREZ CALZADO, Carlos. La Colaboración Cochrane en Cuba: La producción de informes sobre ensayos clínicos realizados en Cuba en las bases de datos Medline y en el Web of Science. ACIMED [online]. 2003, vol.11, n.6. ISSN 1024-9435.

Pub/Medline database, available in the Internet, was explored aimed at identifying the publication of clinical trial result reports by Cuban authors in national and foreing journals as well as the position of Cuba with regard to the rest of the Iberoamerican countries. The Web of Science was also examined. In Medline, 142 references of clinical trial reports published by Cuban authors were found: 116 in foreing publications and 26 in national journals. Cuba is situated in the 6th place among the 20 countries analyzed according to the production reports where the first author correspond to that country. According the last indicator, Iberoamerica produced a work number similar to those produced by Denmark. Nevertheless, most of the half of this production is located in two countries: Brasil and Mexico. A vision, a conciousness, a frame and also a political willingness of the countries to encourage the clinical research activity of Iberoamerican countries is deeply needed

Keywords : CLINICAL TRIALS; RESEARCH; DATABASES, [utilization]; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; AUTHORSHIP; LATIN AMERICA; CUBA; RESEARCH PROJECTS; DATABASES, BIBLIOGRAPHIC; BIBLIOGRAPHY OF MEDICINE; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; AUTHORSHIP; LATIN AMERICA; CUBA.