Patient safety in Primary Health Care: a bibliometric study of the Brazilian scientific production

Abstract A bibliometric review study, which aimed to map the scientific productions on patient safety in primary health care in the Brazilian context, carried out in the databases SCIELO, LILACS, BDENF, IBECS, from 2013 to 2022. The sample body integrated 23 articles. The year with the highest publication was 2019 (30.4%); the regions with the highest representation of studies were Southeast (43.5%) and South (34.8%); most of the studies were linked to public institutions, and the main authors had the training of nurses (74%). The most used methodological approach was quantitative (48%), the largest number of publications in journals with Qualis/Capes A1, and the main theme was patient safety culture (30.5%). The analysis of keywords identified the terms "health and quality" as central elements to patient safety. Three articles with homonymous titles were found that used the same collection instrument. It is concluded that the scientific production in this field was little expressive in the North, Northeast and Midwest regions. There was a predominance of authors from a single professional category and greater representativeness of an object of study, the safety culture. Low encouragement was observed to scientific production aimed at the involvement of the user in their own security.