Bernardis, Alessandra; Gonzalez-Jaramillo, Valentina; Ebneter, Andreas S; Eychmüller, Steffen (2023). Palliative care and COVID-19: a bibliometric analysis. (In Press). BMJ supportive & palliative care BMJ Publishing Group 10.1136/spcare-2022-004108
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OBJECTIVE
To assess the impact of COVID-19 on the palliative care (PC) publication trend in the last 10 years and the collaboration between countries and main topics that were discussed in the papers.
METHODS
We used Scopus to identify publications on PC between 2012 and 2021 and publications about PC and COVID-19 between 2020 and 2021. We used VOSviewer to assess the main topics using the keywords from the papers and to assess country collaboration.
RESULTS
1937 publications resulted. An increase in publications about PC was observed during the pandemic, only partially explained by OVID-19-related publications. Cancer-related PC publications were the ones with the most marked increase. We identified six clusters in the distribution of the keywords: bioethics, cancer, nursing home/telemedicine, public health, caring and PC following the WHO definition. The countries with higher number of publications were the United States and England.
CONCLUSION
We showed an increase in the number of PC publications in the last 2 years that was only partially explained by COVID-19-related publications. Most of the publications increase was due to cancer-related publications, since, during the time of the pandemic, publications on cancer and PC increased markedly, while those on heart failure, lung disease and dementia, remained constant.
Item Type: |
Journal Article (Original Article) |
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Division/Institute: |
04 Faculty of Medicine > Department of Haematology, Oncology, Infectious Diseases, Laboratory Medicine and Hospital Pharmacy (DOLS) > Clinic of Medical Oncology 04 Faculty of Medicine > Department of Haematology, Oncology, Infectious Diseases, Laboratory Medicine and Hospital Pharmacy (DOLS) > Clinic of Radiation Oncology |
UniBE Contributor: |
Gonzalez Jaramillo, Valentina |
Subjects: |
600 Technology > 610 Medicine & health |
ISSN: |
2045-4368 |
Publisher: |
BMJ Publishing Group |
Language: |
English |
Submitter: |
Pubmed Import |
Date Deposited: |
31 Jan 2023 13:53 |
Last Modified: |
01 Feb 2023 15:37 |
Publisher DOI: |
10.1136/spcare-2022-004108 |
PubMed ID: |
36702518 |
Uncontrolled Keywords: |
COVID-19 end of life care ethics family management supportive care terminal care |
BORIS DOI: |
10.48350/177977 |
URI: |
https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/177977 |
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