Bibliometric analysis on nursing research status of deep venous thrombosis in China

Abstract

Objective By using bibliometric analysis method, the current situation and existing problems of deep venous thrombosis nursing in China were discussed to provide reference for future research in this field. Methods We searched and analyzed the literature about the nursing of deep venous thrombosis in 12 Chinese nursing core journals through Sino-Med, CNKI and Wanfang Datebase from 1st January 2011 to 31st October 2017. We used the bibliometrics to analyze research type, research contents, research object, intervention technique, evaluation indicator and keywords. The data was done with statistical treatment using SPSS 19.0 software. Results Totally 291 articles were included. About 42.3% articles were experimental or quasi-experimental study. The main intervention method was single physical prevention (30.1%) , but the comprehensive intervention approaches was just 10.6%. The prevention of deep vein thrombosis was the main research content (55.0%) , risk assessment and therapy of thrombosis was both 11.3%. The patients of knee and hip arthroplasty, cancer, lower limb or hip fracture were the main study population. The incidence of thrombosis was the most times as evaluating indexes, the incidence of bleeding was the lowest. Conclusions There were more intervention studies about nursing of deep vein thrombosis in China, however, the intervention method was single, the quality and depth of research still need to be improved, and risk assessment of thrombosis was in the initial stage. In future, nurses should put more comprehensive intervention approaches into clinical research, pay more attention on risk assessment of thrombosis, identify the risk factors of thrombosis, focus on the high risk population of thrombosis, establish the thrombosis management process in high risk department, and implement the model of continuing nursing in therapy of DVT patients. Key words: Deep vein thrombosis; Nursing; Literature analysis; Bibliometrics