Bibliometric Study on Planning and Control in the Health Environment

Research assists in the creation of new tools, ideas, processes, among others that aim to facilitate progress and social management. Certain areas need some special attention, such as the health sector, which works to achieve maximum standardization of processes, enhancing quality, as the consequences of a failure can be fatal. Thus, to assist in these processes, the general objective of this paper is to analyze the concepts focused on Planning and Control in health environments. For this, a bibliometric survey of articles available in two large databases - Scopus and Science Direct - was performed using keywords of the theme: “Health & Care & Planning and Control”, between 2002 and 2019. Then, applied filters to determine the works that were, in fact, within the theme. Thus, a qualitative survey of the planning and control within the hospital scope and its characteristics was obtained.