Analysis of research hot-spots and development trends of county-level TCM hospitals in China based on CiteSpace / 国际中医中药杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective:To analyze the current development status, research hot-spots and development trends of county-level Chinese hospitals in China.Methods:By retrieving the papers of county-level Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) hospitals in China National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI), Chinese Science and Technology Periodicals Full-text Database (VIP), Wanfang and China Biomedical Database (SinoMed ) with CiteSpace 5.5.R2 software to draw maps of the author, institution and keyword and make analysis.Results:A total of 598 papers are included in this study, and the trend of publications shows an upward trend and then a downward trend. Researchers conduct research in the form of forming research teams. The research institutions are mainly medical colleges and scientific research institutions. The most frequently showed keyword is "medical reform". The keyword knowledge map shows that the research content mainly involves medical reform, problem analysis and countermeasures, economic operation efficiency, TCM service capability, data envelopment analysis and so on.Conclusions:The county-level TCM hospitals generally show sound development trend in China. The research trend is dominated by county-level TCM hospitals. Scale development has been transformed into the study of hospital operation efficiency. County-level TCM hospitals need to start from their own actual conditions, strengthen cooperation in the form of teams and strengthen academic cooperation among institutions, so as to realize the basic TCM services for ordinary people.