Systematic evaluation of evidence-based orthopedic definitions and visual analysis of evidence-based orthopedic literature

Abstract

Objective Systematically search the international and national literature on evidence-based orthopaedics to evaluate the definition of evidence-based orthopaedics and analyze the current state of research.Methods PubMed, Web of Science, EMbase, CNKI, VIP, CBM databases, and Baidu, Google were searched by computer. Evidence-based orthopedic related literature was included to extract evidence-based orthopedic definitions and related information, and Citespace software was used to analyze the literature.Results In terms of evidence-based orthopaedic definitions, a total of 6 definitions of evi-dence-based orthopedics were obtained from 1 Chinese literature, 3 English literature, 1 Chinese book, and 1 English book. In terms of evidence-based orthopaedic literature, the number of articles published in Chinese (462) and English (583) showed a trend of in-creasing and then decreasing with the year; Prof. Bhandari, Mohit is the most prominent expert in this field. The most published institution in China is the West China Hospital, Sichuan University and the foreign institutions are Harvard University, University of Toronto and McMaster University. The United States and Canada are the leaders in this field. Most of the Chinese studies are focused on evidence-based care, clinical teaching and treatment; most of the international studies are focused on follow up and treatment.Conclusion Evidence-based orthopedics definitions vary widely and cannot express the connotations completely and accurately. Research on evidence-based orthopaedics is in-adequate, and there is a need to strengthen theoretical research on evidence-based or-thopaedics and evidence-based research in the field of orthopedics.

Keywords

• evidence-based orthopedic
• definition
• visual analysis