Abstract
To map the scientific production about biofilms formation and prevention on urinary catheters. It is a bibliometric, exploratory, and descriptive research performed in Web of Science™, in three stages, and utilizing HistCite™ software. In this regard, descriptors “Biofilm*” AND “Urinary Catheter*” were utilized within the period between 1945 and 2016. A total of 329 articles about biofilm on urinary catheter were found from 1985 to 2016. These articles were written by 1,262 authors from 452 institutions located in 50 countries. The relation among the 15 selected articles, the most impacting ones, evidences the existence of experimental researches; most of them was in vitro. The control of biofilm formation on urinary catheters remains as a major challenge in the health area, because new ways are necessary to improve the prevention and minimization of this phenomenon.
Highlights
Health care-related infection (HCI) has a direct impact on the safety and quality of health care
The aim of this research was to map the scientific production in the ISI Web of Knowledge / Web of ScienceTM main collection regarding the formation and prevention of biofilms in urinary catheters, aiming to identify their main contributions to the subject under analysis and their interrelationships in citations identified between these texts
The bibliometric analysis revealed 329 articles about biofilm formation in urinary catheters between 1985 and 2016. These articles were published in 167 different journals indexed to the Web of ScienceTM, as well as written by 1,262 authors related to 452 institutions located in 50 countries
Summary
Health care-related infection (HCI) has a direct impact on the safety and quality of health care. It may involve the individual in institutions of hospital and / or outpatient care, as a day or home hospital and may be associated with some assistance procedure (therapeutic or diagnostic) (FURLAN et al, 2019a; MATOS et al, 2018; FURLAN et al, 2019b; SOUSA et al, 2017b). 50% of patients with a short-term urinary catheter (less than 7 days) acquire infections during this period. For patients with a long-term catheter (28 days or more) the risk of infection is 100% (MATOS et al, 2018; FURLAN et al, 2019b). The presence of biofilm in invasive devices, such as urinary catheters, is still an unmanaged threat. We highlight the importance of structural and organizational biofilm research in order to understand the most intrinsic cellular and molecular characteristics during its development (BATISTA et al, 2018; SANTOS-JUNIOR et al, 2018)
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