Objective To review the research hotspots and cutting-edge dynamics in the field of hospital operations management, providing references for relevant research in our country. Methods Using CiteSpace 6.1.R6 software, we conducted a visual analysis of English literature in the field of hospital operations management collected from the Web of Science database Core Collection from the establishment of the database to December 31st 2022. Result A total of 808 articles were included, with the first article in the field of hospital operations management published in 1980 since the establishment of the Web of Science database. Over the 42-year period, annual publications had shown an increasing trend. Research outcomes were concentrated in institutions and researchers from Europe and the United States, but academic collaboration among institutions and authors was not particularly close. The hotspots in related fields mainly focused on aspects of care quality, management, and performance. Conclusions Studies on hospital operations management in China are in the early stage, and the international influence of research outcomes needs to be further strengthened. The research frontier has shifted from healthcare quality and safety to internal financial performance, human resource management, and resource allocation. Research on the application of technological methods in hospital operations management will continue to emerge.
Objective To review the literature written in English on hospital performance research and provide theoretical and practical references for research in the field of hospital performance in China. Methods Literature related to hospital performance published from 1972 to 2022 in the Web of Science Core Collection was retrieved. Microsoft Excel 2021 was used to analyze the annual publication volume of English literature in the field of hospital performance. CiteSpace 6.1.R6 software was used for co-occurrence analysis of countries/regions, institutions and authors, research hotspots and frontiers. Results A total of 1447 articles were ultimately included. The analysis of annual publication volume showed that the overall publication volume in the field of hospital performance was on the rise. The co-occurrence analysis of countries/regions indicated that the United States had the highest output of academic papers (548), followed by the United Kingdom and China (120 and 89 respectively). The most productive institution was Harvard University in the United States, and the most productive scholar was Harlan M. Krumholz from the Yale University School of Medicine in the United States. The most frequently occurring keyword was “care”. The clustering analysis of keywords revealed that the keywords in the field of hospital performance research were clustered into 12 categories. The top 5 keywords with the highest burst intensity included “acute myocardial infarction” “indicator” “US hospital” “predictor” and “administrative data”. Keywords such as “public hospital” “financial performance” “performance measurement” “framework” and “organizational performance” began to emerge in 2020 and had continued to the present. Conclusions The research hotspot in the field of hospital performance has shifted from focusing on individual performance to organizational performance. There is still a lot of room for research in this field in China, and the exploration of hospital performance evaluation and management models may continue to be research hotspots in this field in the future.
Objective To compare and analyze hospital operation and management models between China and foreign countries, in order to provide reference and guidance for the continuous improvement of hospital management in China. Methods The NVivo software was used to conduct a qualitative comparative analysis of domestic and foreign literature on hospital operation and management models in China National Knowledge Infrastructure, Wanfang, Web of Science, and PubMed until December 2022, and a model for the differences in operation and management between Chinese and foreign hospitals was further constructed. Results Finally, 33 Chinese literature and 21 English literature were selected as the raw materials for NVivo qualitative analysis. A comparative analysis of the operation and management models of Chinese and foreign hospitals from four dimensions: structure, process, results, and continuous improvement showed that there were differences in operation and management systems, talents, processes, finance, refinement, and innovation between Chinese and foreign hospitals. Conclusion Hospital operation and management needs to be deeply integrated with business work, improve the construction of hospital operation and management system, strengthen the competence of operation talents, pay attention to resource cost-benefit analysis, attach importance to the two-way integration of business and finance, optimize the adjustment of operation and management structure, and attach importance to the innovation drive of new technology application, in order to promote the scientific, standardized, refined, and informationalized level of hospital operation and management.