Home > Research > Publications & Outputs > Continuous sedation (CS) until death

Research

Associated organisational units

Links

Text available via DOI:

Keywords

View graph of relations

Continuous sedation (CS) until death: mapping the literature by bibliometric analysis

Research output: Contribution to Journal/Magazine › Journal article › peer-review

Published

Standard

Continuous sedation (CS) until death: mapping the literature by bibliometric analysis. / Papavasiliou, Evie; Payne, Sheila; Brearley, Sarah et al.
In: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management, Vol. 45, No. 6, 06.2013, p. 1073-1082.

Research output: Contribution to Journal/Magazine › Journal article › peer-review

Harvard

Papavasiliou, E, Payne, S, Brearley, S, Brown, J & Seymour, J 2013, 'Continuous sedation (CS) until death: mapping the literature by bibliometric analysis', Journal of Pain and Symptom Management, vol. 45, no. 6, pp. 1073-1082. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2012.05.012

APA

Papavasiliou, E., Payne, S., Brearley, S., Brown, J., & Seymour, J. (2013). Continuous sedation (CS) until death: mapping the literature by bibliometric analysis. Journal of Pain and Symptom Management, 45(6), 1073-1082. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2012.05.012

Vancouver

Papavasiliou E, Payne S, Brearley S, Brown J, Seymour J. Continuous sedation (CS) until death: mapping the literature by bibliometric analysis. Journal of Pain and Symptom Management. 2013 Jun;45(6):1073-1082. doi: 10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2012.05.012

Author

Papavasiliou, Evie ; Payne, Sheila ; Brearley, Sarah et al. / Continuous sedation (CS) until death : mapping the literature by bibliometric analysis. In: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management. 2013 ; Vol. 45, No. 6. pp. 1073-1082.

Bibtex

@article{17ac91df443a49198cdbbc25765f7221,
title = "Continuous sedation (CS) until death: mapping the literature by bibliometric analysis",
abstract = "ContextSedation at the end of life, regardless of the nomenclature, is an increasingly debated practice at both clinical and bioethical levels. However, little is known about the characteristics and trends in scientific publications in this field of study.ObjectivesThis article presents a bibliometric analysis of the scientific publications on continuous sedation until death.MethodsFour electronic databases (MEDLINE, PubMed, Embase, and PsycINFO{\textregistered}) were searched for the indexed material published between 1945 and 2011. This search resulted in bibliographic data of 273 published outputs that were analyzed using bibliometric techniques.ResultsData revealed a trend of increased scientific publication from the early 1990s. Published outputs, diverse in type (comments/letters, articles, reviews, case reports, editorials), were widely distributed across 94 journals of varying scientific disciplines (medicine, nursing, palliative care, law, ethics). Most journals (72.3%) were classified under Medical and Health Sciences, with the Journal of Pain and Symptom Management identified as the major journal in the field covering 12.1% of the total publications. Empirical research articles, mostly of a quantitative design, originated from 17 countries. Although Japan and The Netherlands were found to be the leaders in research article productivity, it was the U.K. and the U.S. that ranked top in terms of the quantity of published outputs.ConclusionThis is the first bibliometric analysis on continuous sedation until death that can be used to inform future studies. Further research is needed to refine controversies on terminology and ethical acceptability of the practice, as well as conditions and modalities of its use.",
keywords = "Bibliometrics, Chronic Pain, Humans, Hypnotics and Sedatives, Incidence, Palliative Care, Periodicals as Topic, Physician's Practice Patterns, Risk Assessment, Stress, Psychological, Survival Analysis, Survival Rate, Terminal Care",
author = "Evie Papavasiliou and Sheila Payne and Sarah Brearley and Jayne Brown and Jane Seymour",
year = "2013",
month = jun,
doi = "10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2012.05.012",
language = "English",
volume = "45",
pages = "1073--1082",
journal = "Journal of Pain and Symptom Management",
issn = "0885-3924",
publisher = "Elsevier Inc.",
number = "6",

}

RIS

TY - JOUR

T1 - Continuous sedation (CS) until death

T2 - mapping the literature by bibliometric analysis

AU - Papavasiliou, Evie

AU - Payne, Sheila

AU - Brearley, Sarah

AU - Brown, Jayne

AU - Seymour, Jane

PY - 2013/6

Y1 - 2013/6

N2 - ContextSedation at the end of life, regardless of the nomenclature, is an increasingly debated practice at both clinical and bioethical levels. However, little is known about the characteristics and trends in scientific publications in this field of study.ObjectivesThis article presents a bibliometric analysis of the scientific publications on continuous sedation until death.MethodsFour electronic databases (MEDLINE, PubMed, Embase, and PsycINFO®) were searched for the indexed material published between 1945 and 2011. This search resulted in bibliographic data of 273 published outputs that were analyzed using bibliometric techniques.ResultsData revealed a trend of increased scientific publication from the early 1990s. Published outputs, diverse in type (comments/letters, articles, reviews, case reports, editorials), were widely distributed across 94 journals of varying scientific disciplines (medicine, nursing, palliative care, law, ethics). Most journals (72.3%) were classified under Medical and Health Sciences, with the Journal of Pain and Symptom Management identified as the major journal in the field covering 12.1% of the total publications. Empirical research articles, mostly of a quantitative design, originated from 17 countries. Although Japan and The Netherlands were found to be the leaders in research article productivity, it was the U.K. and the U.S. that ranked top in terms of the quantity of published outputs.ConclusionThis is the first bibliometric analysis on continuous sedation until death that can be used to inform future studies. Further research is needed to refine controversies on terminology and ethical acceptability of the practice, as well as conditions and modalities of its use.

AB - ContextSedation at the end of life, regardless of the nomenclature, is an increasingly debated practice at both clinical and bioethical levels. However, little is known about the characteristics and trends in scientific publications in this field of study.ObjectivesThis article presents a bibliometric analysis of the scientific publications on continuous sedation until death.MethodsFour electronic databases (MEDLINE, PubMed, Embase, and PsycINFO®) were searched for the indexed material published between 1945 and 2011. This search resulted in bibliographic data of 273 published outputs that were analyzed using bibliometric techniques.ResultsData revealed a trend of increased scientific publication from the early 1990s. Published outputs, diverse in type (comments/letters, articles, reviews, case reports, editorials), were widely distributed across 94 journals of varying scientific disciplines (medicine, nursing, palliative care, law, ethics). Most journals (72.3%) were classified under Medical and Health Sciences, with the Journal of Pain and Symptom Management identified as the major journal in the field covering 12.1% of the total publications. Empirical research articles, mostly of a quantitative design, originated from 17 countries. Although Japan and The Netherlands were found to be the leaders in research article productivity, it was the U.K. and the U.S. that ranked top in terms of the quantity of published outputs.ConclusionThis is the first bibliometric analysis on continuous sedation until death that can be used to inform future studies. Further research is needed to refine controversies on terminology and ethical acceptability of the practice, as well as conditions and modalities of its use.

KW - Bibliometrics

KW - Chronic Pain

KW - Humans

KW - Hypnotics and Sedatives

KW - Incidence

KW - Palliative Care

KW - Periodicals as Topic

KW - Physician's Practice Patterns

KW - Risk Assessment

KW - Stress, Psychological

KW - Survival Analysis

KW - Survival Rate

KW - Terminal Care

U2 - 10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2012.05.012

DO - 10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2012.05.012

M3 - Journal article

C2 - 23026544

VL - 45

SP - 1073

EP - 1082

JO - Journal of Pain and Symptom Management

JF - Journal of Pain and Symptom Management

SN - 0885-3924

IS - 6

ER -