A bibliometric analysis of researches on intensive care unit physical environment from 2013 to 2017
10.3760/cma.j.issn.1674-2907.2019.19.019
- VernacularTitle:2013—2017年ICU物理环境相关研究的文献计量学分析
- Author:
Kaiyue GAO
1
;
Weijia WANG
;
Chunrong HUANG
;
Yamin WANG
;
Jing ZHENG
Author Information
1. 中山大学护理学院,广州 510080
- Keywords:
Intensive care unit;
Physical environment;
Bibliometrics
- From:
Chinese Journal of Modern Nursing
2019;25(19):2456-2461
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
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Abstract:
Objective? To retrieve and analyze the related researches on intensive care unit(ICU) physical environment from 2013 to 2017, and to provide reference for further improvement of the physical environment and quality of medical and nursing care in ICU. Methods? Relevant literature on ICU physical environment included from 2013 to 2017 by the China National Knowledge Infrastructure(CNKI), Wanfang Data Knowledge Service Platform, VIP Database for Chinese Technical Periodicals, Sinomed, Pubmed, Web of Science,and Scopus database were retrieved and analyzed bibliometrically on the internal and external features of the articles by Excel and CiteSpace software. Results? A total of 287 domestic and oversea papers on ICU physical environment were retrieved, the number of published articles showed an overall stable trend. The biggest number of published articles went to Guangdong Province, accounting for 14.1% of the articles in Chinese language. The United States had the biggest number of published papers in English language (43.8%). Literature journals mainly focused on infection control, critical medicine and critical care nursing journals, with the largest number of articles published by a single author(23.0%). The main types of research were clinical research (79.1%), fund-supported literature accounted for 26.5% of all the articles, and research directions were mainly about infection (40.0%), "nosocomial infection" and "pathogenic bacteria", "environment" and"object surface", "premature infant" and "growth and development", "sleep" and "noise" were closely related. Conclusions? The researches on ICU physical environment involves aspects including object surface, noise, light, air quality, temperature and ward design. Infection control in ICU environment and the influences of ICU physical environment on patient's biological rhythm and the growth and development of preterm infants are hot research issues in recent years. However, the geographical distribution of research is not balanced,and the overall quality of research evidence needs to be improved.
