A co-word cluster analysis on hot-spots of foreign nursing research on liver transplantation / 中国实用护理杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective:To analyze the research hotspots of foreign liver transplantation nursing, and explore the current research trends in this field.Methods:The subject words of liver transplantation nursing literature included in Web of Science were used as the research object, the retrieval time was from the establishment of the database to November 24, 2021, and Bicomb software was used for word frequency analysis, and SPSS software was used carry out systematic clustering analysis on high-frequency keywords.Results:Two hundred and ninety-four articles were finally included and published in 169 journals. Thirty high-frequency subject words were extracted, accounting for 47.60% of the total frequency. Through co-word cluster analysis, it is found that research hotspots include 7 categories pediatric liver transplantation and family, quality of life and transitional care, postoperative complications and psychology, organ donation and ethics, treatment compliance, intensive care and psychiatry, nutrition and symptoms management.Conclusions:It is suggested that the future nursing research of liver transplantation in China should focus on pediatric living donor liver transplantation and family management, symptom management of liver transplantation recipients, nutrition management of pediatric liver transplantation recipients, psychiatric complications after transplantation in ICU, nursing ethics of liver transplantation, etc. So as to improve the nursing development level of liver transplantation in China.