%0 Journal Article
%T Scientific production in pharmaceutical care: comparison between Brazil, USA and Spain
%A Tadeu Uggere de Andrade
%A Jaqueliny Louback da Cunha Barbosa
%A L¨ªvia Lopes Moura Laignier
%A Elizangela Faustino da Mata
%J Brazilian Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences
%D 2013
%I Universidade de S?o Paulo
%X The aim of this study was to estimate the evolution of the field of Pharmaceutical Care (PC) by measuring the quality and quantity of the scientific production on the topic of PC in Brazil compared to two pioneering countries in the field, the United States of America (USA) and Spain. The databases Web of Science, Scopus, Medline, Lilacs and SciELO were used as sources for the literature search. Pharmaceutical Care, or the appropriate translations, was used as the search term for the literature search, which was limited to articles published between 1990 and 2009. A score of quality (SQ) was calculated using variables such as impact factor and the frequency of the citations. We included 3265 articles published in 544 journals. We found that there was a steady increase in scientific production since 1990 and that the USA had a higher quality of scientific production than Spain, whereas the Spain produced the highest quantity of articles. In comparison, the Brazilian production of scientific publications on PC is low in terms of both quality and quantity but has increased steadily since 2002. Nevertheless, Brazil has not yet reached the level of the USA or Spain. In conclusion, Brazil's scientific production has evolved over the second decade studied in this work, with particularly high levels of production in the last five years. However, an increase in the quantity and quality of the publications should be encouraged. O objetivo deste estudo foi estimar a evolu  o da ¨¢rea de aten  o farmac¨ºutica (AF) atrav¨¦s da medi  o da qualidade e quantidade da produ  o cient¨ªfica na ¨¢rea de AF no Brasil, comparando-a com os pa¨ªses pioneiros no ramo: Estados Unidos da Am¨¦rica (EUA) e Espanha. Os bancos de dados Web of Science, Scopus, Medline, Lilacs e SciELO foram usados como fontes para a pesquisa. AF ou as respectivas tradu  es foram usadas como descritor para a pesquisa bibliogr¨¢fica sendo inclu¨ªdos artigos publicados no per¨ªodo de 1990 a 2009. A pontua  o da qualidade (PQ) foi calculada, utilizando vari¨¢veis como fator de impacto e frequ¨ºncia das cita  es. Foram cinclu¨ªdos 3.265 artigos publicados em 544 revistas. Verificou-se um aumento constante na produ  o cient¨ªfica desde 1990 sendo que os EUA possu¨ªam maior qualidade, enquanto a maior quantidade de artigos foi produzida na Espanha. Em compara  o, a produ  o brasileira na AF ¨¦ baixa em qualidade e quantidade, mas tem aumentado desde 2002. Apesar disso, o Brasil ainda n o atingiu o n¨ªvel dos EUA ou Espanha. Em conclus o, o Brasil apresentou expressiva evolu  o na ¨²ltima d¨¦cada com maior desenvolvimento nos ¨²l
%K Aten  o Farmac¨ºutica
%K Brasil
%K Brasil
%K Espanha
%K Espanha
%K Estados Unidos da Am¨¦rica
%K Estados Unidos da Am¨¦rica
%K Pharmaceutical care
%K Brazil
%K Brazil
%K Spain
%K Spain
%K United States of America
%K United States of America
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