Objectives To analyze the status quo of projects on pension services funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), with the aim of enlarging the perspective and horizon of related studies, and improving both the quantity and quality of such projects in NSFC. Methods NSFC website was systematically searched to collect information of pension service projects funded by NSFC from 2008 to 2017. SPSS 19.0 software was subsequently applied to analyze the characteristics of the projects in terms of study type, regional distribution, profession and institution, and fund scale, etc. Results A total of 39 projects on pension service were included, among which 12 were focused on related strategies (30.8%), 11 on related models (28.2%), and 6 on the effects of different interventions (15.4%). The 39 projects were unbalanced in terms of geographical distribution, institutions and research types. Conclusions NSFC should facilitate the research of pension service by expanding the related fund scale, increasing the fund support, strengthening the exchange of domestically different regions, and enhancing international cooperation.
ObjectiveTo analyze the trend of disease spectrum and main diagnosis and therapeutic technologies in respiratory intensive care unit (RICU) in recent years, and find out the trend of change of patient’s characteristics and commonly used interventions in order to provide evidence for planning discipline development and improving personnel training program.MethodsPatients information and main diagnosis and therapeutic technologies of 1503 inpatients in RICU of Shenzhen People's Hospital from January, 2017 to December, 2020 were collected. The changes of disease spectrum and diagnosis and treatment technologies in different years were compared and analyzed.ResultsAmong all the patients, 66.3% were directly admitted into RICU, 12.1% were transferred from respiratory department, and 21.6% were transferred from other departments. The proportion of patients with non-respiratory diseases as principal diagnosis had an increasing trend, from 18.8% in 2017 to 37.3% in 2020 (P<0.05). The diseases with most obvious increasing trend were sepsis, nervous system diseases, circulatory system diseases and extra-pulmonary malignancies (P<0.05). The use of respiratory related diagnosis and therapeutic technologies was gradually increasing, meanwhile, the use of non-traditional respiratory related technologies, especially continuous renal replacement therapy, was also increasing. There was no significant difference in fatality rate among different years (P>0.05).ConclusionsThe number of patients with extra-pulmonary diseases and the use of non-traditional respiratory related diagnosis and therapeutic technologies in RICU were increasing. The development of RICU and the allocation of technical personnel needed to be improved accordingly.