Value-Based Healthcare: A bibliometric analysis based on SCOPUS and web of science databases

Value-Based Healthcare (VBH) system is an emerging theme, which focuses on quality of care, rather than the cost of treatment. This concept impresses on improving patient outcomes while keeping the costs low. This study presents the meaning and growth of the concept "Value-based healthcare" with the help of bibliometric analysis. A total of 820 research documents from both SCOPUS and Web of Science databases were retrieved and evaluated. "Value Based Healthcare" documents are compared for both the SCOPUS and WoS databases concerning publications trends, most active authors, author wise contribution to the sources and sub research topics, core sources, top authors production over time, global cited documents, thematic maps, world cloud, country-wise collaboration network and map, author keywords based network, historiograph and spectroscope. The study concludes that Value Based Healthcare is a new and evolving concept and is mostly adopted in the healthcare subspecialties like radiology and surgery. The collaboration is mostly between developed countries. Moreover, personalized medicine and accountable care are the current niche themes in the domain of Value Based Healthcare.