Evaluation of prevention, diagnosis and treatment strategies in the covid-19 pandemic: Lessons learned and future perspectives

Abstract

A documentary review was carried out on the production and publication of research papers on the study of the variables Prevention, Treatment and Covid-19 Strategies. The purpose of the bibliometric analysis proposed in this document was to know the main characteristics of the volume of publications registered in the Scopus database during the period 2020-2022 by Latin American institutions, achieving the identification of 150 publications. The information provided by this platform was organized by means of figures, categorizing the information by Year of Publication, Country of Origin, Area of Knowledge, and Type of Publication. Once these characteristics were described, a qualitative analysis was carried out to determine the position of different authors on the proposed topic. Among the main findings of this research, it is found that Brazil, with 83 publications, was the Latin American country with the highest scientific production registered in the name of authors affiliated with institutions of that country. The Area of Knowledge that made the greatest contribution to the construction of bibliographic material referring to the study of Prevention, Treatment, and Covid-19 Strategies was Medicine with 105 published documents, and the most used type of publication during the above-mentioned period was Journal Articles with 67% of the total scientific production.