Research Centre of Rural Healthcare Services, School of Medicine and Health Management, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science & Technology, Wuhan, China.
Research Centre of Rural Healthcare Services, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science & Technology, Wuhan, China.
Int J Integr Care. 2014 Jun 12;14:e017. eCollection 2014 Apr.
Integrated care could not only fix up fragmented health care but also improve the continuity of care and the quality of life. Despite the volume and variety of publications, little is known about how 'integrated care' has developed. There is a need for a systematic bibliometric analysis on studying the important features of the integrated care literature.
To investigate the growth pattern, core journals and jurisdictions and identify the key research domains of integrated care.
We searched Medline/PubMed using the search strategy '(delivery of health care, integrated [MeSH Terms]) OR integrated care [Title/Abstract]' without time and language limits. Second, we extracted the publishing year, journals, jurisdictions and keywords of the retrieved articles. Finally, descriptive statistical analysis by the Bibliographic Item Co-occurrence Matrix Builder and hierarchical clustering by SPSS were used.
As many as 9090 articles were retrieved. Results included: (1) the cumulative numbers of the publications on integrated care rose perpendicularly after 1993; (2) all documents were recorded by 1646 kinds of journals. There were 28 core journals; (3) the USA is the predominant publishing country; and (4) there are six key domains including: the definition/models of integrated care, interdisciplinary patient care team, disease management for chronically ill patients, types of health care organizations and policy, information system integration and legislation/jurisprudence.
Integrated care literature has been most evident in developed countries. International Journal of Integrated Care is highly recommended in this research area. The bibliometric analysis and identification of publication hotspots provides researchers and practitioners with core target journals, as well as an overview of the field for further research in integrated care.
综合医疗不仅可以修复碎片化的医疗保健，还可以提高医疗服务的连续性和生活质量。尽管相关出版物数量众多、种类繁多，但对于“综合医疗”的发展情况却知之甚少。因此，需要对综合医疗文献进行系统的文献计量分析，以研究其重要特征。
调查综合医疗文献的增长模式、核心期刊和管辖区域，确定其主要研究领域。
我们使用搜索策略“(医疗保健的提供，整合 [MeSH 术语]) 或综合医疗 [标题/摘要]”，在 Medline/PubMed 中进行无时间和语言限制的搜索。其次，我们提取检索文章的出版年份、期刊、管辖区域和关键词。最后，使用 Bibliographic Item Co-occurrence Matrix Builder 进行描述性统计分析，使用 SPSS 进行层次聚类。
共检索到 9090 篇文章。结果包括：(1) 1993 年后，综合医疗文献的数量呈垂直上升；(2) 所有文献均由 1646 种期刊记录，其中有 28 种核心期刊；(3) 美国是主要的出版国；(4) 有六个关键领域，包括：综合医疗的定义/模型、跨学科患者护理团队、慢性病患者的疾病管理、医疗保健组织和政策类型、信息系统集成和立法/判例法。
综合医疗文献在发达国家最为明显。在这个研究领域，强烈推荐《综合医疗国际期刊》。通过文献计量分析和确定研究热点，可以为研究人员和从业者提供核心目标期刊，并概述综合医疗领域，为进一步研究提供参考。
