Visualization analysis of research hotspots in domestic patient-report outcome
Objective To understand the overall situation of the research field of patients reporting outcomes(PRO)in China,and analyze the research development and research hotspots.Methods The related research litera-ture on PRO were searched by computer in China CNKI,VIP,Wanfang database,and China Biomedical Database(SinoMed)from the establishment to May 2,2023.NoteExpress software was used to merge and remove duplicates,and CiteSpace6.1.R6 software was used to draw and analyze the knowledge map of authors and keywords.Results A total of 378 literatures were included,which were from 149 journals.Among them,Journal of Nurse Training had the most articles(43 articles),the author with the highest number of articles was Yuan Changrong,and the fre-quency of scale in keywords was the highest(64 times).Conclusion The number of papers on PRO is on the rise,and the research focuses are the development and reliability and validity test of assessment tools,quality of life,and canc-er population.Assessment tools and cancer diseases are the research frontiers in recent 3 years.