Research status of clinical pathway：a review based on bibliometrics analysis

Abstract

Objective To study the research status of clinical pathway trend and development in our country in recent years , so as to provide a reference for the further research and development of clinical pathway.Methods The CMB, CNKI,VIP, Wanfang academic database were searched as the platform and related literatures research on clinical path were collected .Results A total of 4 811 literatures were identified , of which 1 929 studies were published in core jourals .Although the number of literatures had an increasing tendency year by year , the core documents of studies had a decreasing tendency .The study content were about clinic, nursing, hospital management , training and so on, and the largest published volume research was related to clinical nursing pathway which had 1 567 （32.57%） studies.Conclusions Clinical pathway study is in a high rapid development and in wide and deep expand on contents , but the development of research area is not balanced , supporting systems , information management facilities , and effect evaluation system on clinical pathway is lacking . Key words: Clinical pathway; Nursing care; Bibliometrics