Hospital a Domicilio (Jul 2017)
Bibliometric analysis of Spanish scientific production indexed in MEDLINE, about hospital-based home care services
Abstract
Aim: To analyze the Spanish scientific production, indexed in MEDLINE, about hospital-based home care services. Method: Cross-sectional descriptive study. The main indicators on scientific production were calculated and analyzed, using bibliometric technique. The search was performed in the MEDLINE bibliographic database, through PubMed, by constructing a final equation by boolean union of the filters previously tested in the scientific literature. The date of the search was May 2017. Results: A total of 105 references were obtained from the consultation. The most productive year was 2009 with 11 articles. The most frequent documentary typology was the original article with 91 documents (96.7%), with the Productivity Index being 1.96. The evolution of the publications was upward, adjusting to a linear model, giving a coefficient of determination R2 = 0.96 and p <0.001. The age of the documents analyzed was 9.1 ± 0.5 years, with a median of 8 years. We identified published papers from 73 institutions as the first signer (out of a total of 99). Conclusion: The original article is the main documentary typology in the scientific production on home care services, hospital-based with Spanish affiliation, with obsolescence superior to that of other areas of the health sciences. The co-author -media of signatory authors- is low, and there are no large inter-institutional research groups.
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