Situation of Scientific Research and Publication in Colombia and at the Risaralda Department: Review of Indicators in the Context of the Creation of the Office for Scientific Research of COODESURIS

Progress and advance in health sciences, globally, have been driven by multiple factors, that have let offer a better context and tools at diagnostic, therapeutic and preventive levels, either at individual health level but also at collective health. All that based and supported in scientific research. In the current reflexion article different bibliometric indicators that allow us to understand the current reality in which Risaralda department is located from a health scientific research and where is ubicated at the country and this one in Latin America and which can be the role of the creation of a scientific research office at the Cooperativa de Entidades de Salud de Risaralda (COODESURIS), which has more than dozen of department hospital associated, in the perspectives for the upcoming months and years in the region, is reviewed and analyzed.