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