Palliative care and nursing in dissertations and theses in Portugal: a bibliometric study.

Objective: To identify the academic scientific production on palliative care in master dissertations and PhD theses carried out by nurses in Portugal.

Method: A descriptive retrospective study of bibliometric type with search for the abstracts available in repositories of higher education institutions in the period 2000-2014.

Results: Of the 1814 papers identified, 249 met the inclusion criteria (ten doctoral theses and 239 master dissertations).