BAI Fei 1,2,3,4,5 , LI Meixuan 1,2,3,4 , LI Rui 2,3,4 , CAO liujiao 2,3,4 , SHANG Wenru 1,6 , XIN Tianjiao 2 , CHEN Kaiyue 2 , LI Yanfei 1,2,3,4 , XING Xin 1,7 , LI Xiuxia 1,2,3,4 , YANG Kehu 1,2,3,4
  • 1. Evidence Based Medicine Center, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730000, P. R. China;
  • 2. Evidence Based Social Science Research Center, School of Public Health, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730000, P. R. China;
  • 3. Key Laboratory of Evidence Based Medicine and Knowledge Translation of Gansu Province, Lanzhou 730000, P. R. China;
  • 4. Health Technology Assessment Center, School of Public Health, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730000, P. R. China;
  • 5. National Center for Medical Service Administration, Beijing 100000, P. R. China;
  • 6. National Health Commission Key Laboratory of Health Technology Assessment, School of Public Health, Fudan University, Shanghai 200032, P. R. China;
  • 7. School of Public Health, Gansu University of Chinese Medicine, Lanzhou 730000, P. R. China;
LI Xiuxia, Email: yangkh-ebm@lzu.edu.cn
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Objective To analyze the research status and hot spots of health technology assessment (HTA). Methods Databases including China National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI) and PubMed were searched to collect published studies on HTA. The software of BICOMS-2 and VOSviewer 1.6.10 was used to draw the network diagram and to conduct cluster analysis of keywords. Results A total of 1170 studies in Chinese and 8584 studies in English were included. The number of HTA-related publications increased annually, among which countries with the most publications were the United States, the United Kingdom, and Canada. Fudan University had the largest number of studies published in Chinese and York University had the largest number of studies published in English. The research topics mainly focused on hospital HTA, HTA decision transformation research, pharmacoeconomic evaluation, etc. The most frequent diseases were cancer and depression. Emerging keywords were real-word evidence, randomized controlled trials, cost-benefit analysis, etc. Conclusion HTA-related studies increase annually. Many HTA-related studies are performed in developed countries, such as the United States and the United Kingdom. The relevant research topics involve hospital HTA, HTA decision-making transformation research, and pharmacoeconomic evaluation. Current research focus is on the evaluation of health economics in the field of cancer based on the evidence of real-world research and randomized controlled trials.

Citation: BAI Fei, LI Meixuan, LI Rui, CAO liujiao, SHANG Wenru, XIN Tianjiao, CHEN Kaiyue, LI Yanfei, XING Xin, LI Xiuxia, YANG Kehu. Bibliometric analysis of health technology assessment. Chinese Journal of Evidence-Based Medicine, 2022, 22(4): 450-456. doi: 10.7507/1672-2531.202112008 Copy

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