Klinik Uygulama Rehberlerinin Gelişimi: Bilim Haritalama Analizi

Abstract

The aims of this study are to see the development of clinical practice guides (CPG) in the field of social sciences, to evaluate its development especially in terms of health management, to identify the prominent subjects in the future, and to discover the relationships among the important subjects of CPGs. Bibliometric mapping method has been used in this study. The studies analyzed by bibliometric mapping were downloaded from the Web of Science Core Collection database and analyzed by the SciMAT science mapping program. The analysis was conducted with the data arranged within the time frames of '1990-1999', '2000-2009' and '2010-2019'. 'Words' were used as the primary analysis parameter. The data gathered from published studies were assessed by strategic diagrams, overlap map, thematic evolution map as well as thematic network map. Performance analysis of the emerging themes was done with the information of h-index and the total citation number of the studies included in bibliometric mapping. This study showed that the most publications on CPG were released in 2017, the USA was the high-ranking country in these publications, the important motor themes were determined as 'clinical guidelines' in the first period, 'clinical practice guidelines' and 'quality' in the second period, and 'management' and 'implementation' in the third period. It can be concluded that, in parallel with the increase of the publications on CPGs, the number of new relevant keywords will continue to increase. It is also evaluated that the studies on applying CPGs into practice, determining the experiences and attitudes of healthcare professionals towards CPGs, diminishing the obstacles on the way of implementing CPGs, evaluating CPGs from the managerial point of view and the effects of CPGs on the healthcare services in terms of quality, efficiency and outcomes will continue to increase soon.