International Research Status and Hot Spot Analysis of InterRAI HC Based on Bibliometrics

Background The interRAI Home Care (interRAI HC) is a commonly used international assessment tool, which plays an important role in guiding medical staff to provide home-based care service for the elderly. However, there is a lack of systematic analysis on the use of this tool. Objective To summarize the hot spots of the international researches on the application of interRAI HC, so as to provide a reference for its application in the home-based care of community-dwelling older adults and future research in China. Methods On October 2022, PubMed was searched for literature related to interRAI HC application from inception to 2022-10-01. BICOMB 2.0 software was used to extract information such as the year and journal of publication, country of the first author, and subject terms to generate lexical matrix and co-occurrence matrix of high-frequency subject terms. gCLUTO 1.0 software was used for biclustering analysis of lexical matrix and strategic diagram graph was plotted. Results A total of 301 related papers were retrieved, which were mainly published in British and American academic journals with a fluctuating upward trend of annual publication. A total of 292 major subject terms were extracted and 28 high-frequency subject terms were identified by BICOMB 2.0 software, resulting in four clustering results, including health risk assessment, quality of care monitoring, psychological condition assessment and comprehensive geriatric assessment. Conclusion InterRAI HC plays an important role in health risk assessment, quality of care monitoring, psychological condition assessment of older adults and caregivers, and comprehensive geriatric assessment. The application of interRAI HC is still in the exploratory stage in China, and researchers can promote the development of home-based care of community-dwelling older adults in China on the basis of foreign experiences.

https://www.chinagp.net/CN/10.12114/j.issn.1007-9572.2022.0848