Análisis bibliométrico y temático de la producción científica existente en la base de datos bibliográfica MEDLINE sobre medicamentos peligrosos en las Unidades de Hospitalización a Domicilio

Objective: Analyze and characterize, through bibliometric technique, the scientific documentation related to hazardous drugs in home care services based in the hospital, indexed in the MEDLINE bibliographic database Methods: Cross-sectional descriptive study. The data was obtained from the MEDLINE database, through PubMed, by interrogating the study terms in the descriptor, title and summary fields. Search date was May 2018. Results: A total of 74 references were analyzed. The number of originals was 32 (43.2%), identifying 56 institutions, with a Cooperation Index of 1.4 ± 0.1 authors / article. The predominant language was Japanese with 36 (48.6%) articles. The obsolescence, according to the Burton-Kebler Index, was 15 years and the Price Index was 9.5%. The core of Bradford included 1 journal. The most widely used descriptor was “ Home Care Services, Hospital-Based ” on 52 (70.3%) occasions and the most represented theme area Health Care Category, 134 (34.4%) times. Conclusions: The scientific production on hazardous drugs in home care services based in the hospital is a declining and not uniform thematic area, with a great fragmentation, without large reference groups or a solid base from which further studies can be continued. Japanese is the majority language. The descriptors and the thematic areas are in accordance with the studied area, although it would be convenient, given the increasing awareness with handling hazardous drugs, the development of a specific MeSH descriptor, indexed in the MEDLINE database. The thematic classification fully corresponds to the subject matter investigated.