Research areas and trends in family-centered care in the 21st century: a bibliometric review.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Family-centered care (FCC) is a model of care provision that sees a patient's loved ones as essential partners to the health care team and positively influences the psychological safety of patients and loved ones.

Objectives

This review aims to present an overview of impactful publications, authors, institutions, journals, countries, fields of application and trends of FCC in the 21^st century as well as suggestions on further research.

Methods

The Web of Science Database was searched for publications on FCC between January 2000 and Dezember 2023. After screening for duplicates, VOS Viewer and CiteSpace were used to analyze and visualize the data.

Results

Scientific interest in FCC has grown and resulted in the scientific output of 4,836

SUBMITTER: Hribersek M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11201138 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature