Data Mining in Nursing: A Bibliometric Analysis (1990-2017)

To explore the current trends and future directions of data mining in nursing, we systematically searched English and Chinese databases (from 1990 to 2017) with data mining and nursing related keywords. We found 407 papers, which increased rapidly in the recent five years. Data mining was the most widely used in clinical nursing (50.6%). Chinese papers focused on exploring new nursing knowledge and rules, while English papers focused on promoting nursing practice by data mining.