Garcia-Rivero AA

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ABSTRACT

Introduction: fibromyalgia is defined as a clinical condition whose most notable sign is the presence of pain with more than three months of evolution, musculoskeletal origin, generalized character and undetermined etiology. It causes a high consumption of healthcare resources, as well as a significant personal and labor cost, so that, although it is not an alarming health problem, the continuous increase in incidence figures would lead to it becoming. Aim: to describe the Latin American scientific production on fibromyalgia. Methods: it was developed a descriptive bibliometric study of the Latin American scientific production about Fibromyalgia using PubMed database. 380 documents were analyzed. Results: there was a continuous increase in the number of articles per year, 2016 was the highest production with 57 documents. Of the most productive journals were Revista Brasileira de Reumatologia and Clinical Rheumatology, with 29 and 18 articles respectively. When analyzing the co-occurrence of terms of the 12077 important words, in 198 of them there was co-occurrence 30. Conclusions: the scientific production of fibromyalgia in journals indexed in PubMed database increased each year; the most productive authors belong to governmental institutions. There was international collaboration, especially with countries such as Spain, the United States, Italy and Canada.