Junichi Saito, Kazuyoshi Hirota, Yusuke Mazda, Kazuyoshi Aoyama, Koichi Suehiro, Fumimasa Amaya, Kiyoshi Morita, Junzo Takeda
To explore the current status of anesthesia research activity in Japan, we analyzed the number of abstracts presented at the Japanese Society of Anesthesiologists (JSA) annual meetings by several factors including gender, society branches, and subspecialty categories. The number of abstracts at JSA annual meetings has declined sharply since 2016 with no gender gap. A decrease in the neurological field predated the overall decline, but other subspecialty categories showed a similar decline. Although the Tokyo, Tokai-Hokuriku, and Kyushu branches were responsible for more than half of the reduction, the trend was similar among all branches...
April 2024: Journal of Anesthesia