Trends in patient safety education research for healthcare professional students over the past two decades: a bibliometric and content analysis

Figures & data

Table 1. The top 10 institutions on PS in education.

Rank	Institution	Year	Centrality	Publicati-Ons	Citation	Average Citation/Pub-Lications	Country
1	Johns Hopkins University	2008	0.13	14	547	39.07	The United States
2	University of Technol Sydney	2017	0.11	12	212	17.67	Australia
3	University of Toronto	2003	0.06	11	868	78.91	Canada
4	University of Sydney	2010	0.02	8	180	22.5	Australia
5	University of Sunshine Coast	2019	0.01	7	59	8.42	Australia
6	University of Calgary	2012	0.03	6	237	39.5	Canada
7	Columbia University	2008	0	6	68	11.33	The United States
8	Brigham & Womens Hospital	2006	0.09	6	130	21.67	The United States
9	Case Western Reserve University	2012	0.02	5	62	12.4	The United States
10	University of Leeds	2019	0.01	5	150	30	England

Figure 1. This study’s technical roadmap.

Figure 2. Publication volume of articles.

Figure 3. Institutional cooperation chart.

Figure 4. Worldwide map of the number of publications by country.

Table 2. The top 10 countries/regions on patient safety in education.

Rank	Country/Regions	Year	Centrality	Count(%)	Citations	Average Citation/Publication
1	The United States	2004	0.27	263(35.54%)	5889	22.39
2	England	2001	0.57	68(9.18%)	1507	22.16
3	Australia	2009	0.07	60(8.10%)	1036	17.27
4	Canada	2003	0.1	48(6.48%)	1563	32.56
5	South Korea	2012	0	26(3.51%)	335	12.88
6	Peoples R China	2010	0	18(2.43%)	377	20.94
7	Germany	2010	0.1	17(2.29%)	216	12.71
8	Italy	2012	0.14	16(2.16%)	343	21.43
9	Sweden	2014	0	16(2.16%)	142	8.87
10	Netherlands	2010	0.07	14(1.89%)	168	12.00

Table 3. Top 10 prolific journals and co-cited journals on PS in education.

Ra-Nk	Journal	Public-Ations	Citation	Average Citation/Publications	IF	JCR	Co-Cited Journal	IF	JCR
1	Nurse Education Today	53	1112	20.98	3.278	Q1	Acad Med	7.840	Q1
2	Journal Of Nursing Education	48	698	14.54	1.104	Q2	Nurs Educ Today	3.278	Q1
3	Bmc Medical Education	36	509	14.13	2.372	Q2	Med Educ	7.647	Q1
4	Clinical Simulation In Nursing	23	224	9.73	2.245	Q1	j Nurs Educ	1.104	Q2
5	Medical Teacher	20	580	29	1.933	Q2	Qual Saf Health Care	1.702	Q2
6	Nurse Education In Practice	19	428	22.52	2.241	Q1	Bmj Qual Saf	5.539	Q1
7	Journal Of Interprofessional Care	19	181	9.53	1.868	Q3	j Interpr Of Care	2.663	Q3
8	Bmj Quality & Safety	17	716	42.11	5.539	Q1	Jama- j Am Med Assoc	11.38	Q1
9	Academic Medicine	16	996	62.25	7.84	Q1	Nurse Educ Pract	2.241	Q1
10	Nurse Educator	15	186	12.4	1.044	Q1	j Adv Nurs	2.534	Q1

Table 4. Bradford’s Law distribution of PS in education’s journals.

Zone	Number of journal articles	Number of journals	Number of articles
“core” journal	>19	7	218
“relevant” journal	6–18	21	173
“fringe” journal	≤5	108	182

Figure 5. The dual-map overlay of PS in education’s journals.

Figure 6. The frequency diagram of PSE’s authors.

Figure 7. The thermodynamic diagram of PS in education’s authors.

Figure 8. The keyword analysis of patient safety in education.

Table 5. Top 20 high-frequency keywords.

Keywords	Frequency A	Serial number B	A*B	Keywords	Frequency A	Serial number B	A*B
patient safety	179	1	179	curriculum	25	11	275
simulation	64	2	128	education	22	12	264
nursing student	55	3	165	quality improv	20	13	260
nursing education	51	4	204	attitude	17	14	238
medical education	49	5	245	student	15	15	225
nursing	47	6	282	medication error	13	16	208
interprofessional education	33	7	231	Interprofess-ion	12	17	204
medical error	32	8	256	competence	11	18	198
education	29	9	261	safeties	11	19	209
medical student	27	10	270	teamwork	10	20	200

Figure 9. Keyword clustering map of PS in education’s keywords.

Table 6. Content analysis.

Cluster no and color	Cluster theme	sub-Cluster theme	Codes (keywords)
	Quality Improvement of PS Teaching and Learning	Medical Specialty Education	medical student, medical error, quality improvement, curriculum, science, professionalism, quality, error, quality improvement
		Quality Improvement Case Study Teaching
		Teaching Quality Assurance
	PS Teaching Content	Teamwork and Communication Skills	student, health, evaluation, interprofessional, communication, teamsteeps, simulation, medical student, self-reported confidence, medical error, health care, teamwork, communication
		Medical Error
		Multidisciplinary Collaboration
	Specialized Teaching in PS	Self-efficacy	self-adaptation, safety, nurses, student, medication safety, questionnaire, validation, speaking-up, speak up, interprofessional education
		Verbal Expression
		Cultural-adaptation
	Integrating PS and Clinical Teaching	PS Management	care, prevalence, program, interruption, management, physician, schools, medicine, hospitalized-patient, barriers, adverse drug events, adverse event, simulation, no blame, accidental falls
		Healthcare Organizations and Personnel
		Clinical Safety Risks
		Hospitalized Patients
	PS Teaching Assessment Content	Teaching mode and content	model, improvement, experiences, technology, impact, satisfaction, emergency, guide, experience, performance, competence, knowledge, perception, attitude, skill, performance
		Evaluation of Teaching Effectiveness
		Program Standards
		Assessment of Learning Effectiveness
	PSE Catalog	Nursing Education	nurse, medication safety, medical student education, medical error, medicine, physician
		Medical Education

Figure 10. Keywords of PSE’s co-occurrence.