Scientific production on quality and safety in obstetric care: bibliometric study

Objective: to analyze the frequency of words correlated with the title and abstract of scientific production on quality and safety in obstetric care in the light of Zipf's law (word frequency). Method: This is a bibliometric study that makes it possible to understand the patterns of scientific productivity over the years. The databases LILACS, MEDLINE, Bdenf and SCOPUS (Elsivier) were searched using the following descriptors from DeCS: obstetrics, patient safety, quality of health care; the Boolean operator AND was linked to these terms. Results: after the bibliometric survey, 14 related articles were identified that covered the topic under study. These articles were published in 13 different journals. Conclusion: based on the results presented, it is evident that among the 14 articles recruited -from 2014 to 2021 -there were predominant studies whose approach is intrinsically related to the theme of quality and safety in obstetric care.