Visualization Analysis of Evolution Pathway, Research Hotspots and Fronts of Clinical Pharmacy Services / 医药导报

ABSTRACT

Objective To reveal the evolution, research hotspots and research fronts of clinical pharmacy services. Methods Documents related to clinical pharmacy services from 2000 to 2015 in Web of Science Core Collection database are included.Documents are visually analyzed through a number of co-citation maps, which identified the critical node documents in the revolution of clinical pharmacy services research by knowledge visualization tool, CiteSpace. Its functions of clustering and burst terms detection were also applied to analyze the research hotspots and research fronts. Results This paper determined the distribution of documents on time period, journals, countries and research institutions. Critical node documents perfectly showed the evolution pathway of clinical pharmacy services, main cluster groups and burst terms and documents, indicating the research hotspots and research fronts. Conclusion The research hotspots focus on 3 aspects.1 .Practice, including the service model and content of clinical pharmacy services;its interventions in diseases of emergency, organ transplantation, cardiovascular disea-ses and diabetes;surveys on developing clinical pharmacy services;genotype-guided individualized dosing;remote pharmacy serv-ices.2.Evaluation, including the assessment of the effects of pharmacists' interventions, service quality evaluation, and pharmaco-economic evaluation.3.Pharmacists' career development, including Pharmacists' training pattern, qualification, pharmacy residen-cy programs and job satisfaction.