Authors

1Juan Francisco Guillén Ríos, 2José Antonio Jiménez Hernández, 2Rosa Murillo Murillo

Position

¹Diplomado en Enfermería. Licenciado en Documentación. Residencia Personas Mayores de Espinardo, Murcia.²Diplomada/o en Enfermería. Licenciada/o en Documentación. Hospital Universitario Virgen de Arrixaca, Murcia.

Contact address

C/ Las Minas, 9. La Algaida. 30.

Contact email: jfgr2@alu.um.es

Abstract

Objective: to analyse Spanish scientific papers in Nursing on subjects relating to healthcare administration indexed that have been indexed in the CUIDEN database in the period from 1990 to 2001.
Material and methods: bibliometric, retrospective and descriptive study. All articles that complied with the search strategy were selected (Spanish Nursing papers on healthcare administration). Data was analysed to obtain bibliometric indicators (productivity, collaboration and subjects).
Results: a total of 313 papers were obtained, averaging 26 per year, with peak values between 1992 and 1995. The journals with the largest number of papers are Atención Primaria and Rol de Enfermería, with 28 papers each. The production of papers is distributed into 80 regular publications that are divided into 2 journals with 28 articles each and 34 journals with just one single publication. Hospitals rank first in the writing of this sort of papers. By geographical regions, Andalusia is the most productive autonomous region and by provinces, Barcelona is the most productive. The collaboration index was 2.7 authors per paper. The most commented subject in the papers was the control of healthcare quality.
Conclusion: the tendency is to publish in journals that stand out for their large circulation, production and repercussion, however, these papers are not specialised in healthcare management. This can make it rather difficult for the investigator whose aim is to address this subject or to support his or her study on previous knowledge, preventing him or her from making a comparative discussion with other papers.

Keywords:

Bibliometric; administration; managementnursing

Versión en Español

Título:

La literatura científica española en Enfermería sobre administración sanitaria (1990-2001)