摘要目的：分析民营医院相关研究现状，为促进民营医院的发展提供建议和参考。方法以CNKI 为检索对象，以文题含“民营医院”或“社会资本办医”或以“民营医院”或“社会资本办医”为关键词作为标准，检索得到建库以来至2013年末的有效文献853篇，并在此基础上进行计量分析。结果民营医院的文章数量逐年增加；在文章地域分布上以经济发达地区为主；关于医院内部管理的文章数量最多(384篇，占45.02%)，其次为外部管理和发展现状与对策(分别占27.43%和22.39%)。结论民营医院文章数量的增加与国家政策的支持有关；民营医院研究呈现不均衡状态，其生存发展存在一定障碍。

abstractsObjective To analyze the research status of private hospitals in China for policy recommendations of their development.Methods Using CNKI as the object to retrieve,and key words of"private hospital ","social capital to run hospitals" or the titles of'"private hospitals ","social capital to run hospitals" to retrieve 853 articles that are valid and published since end of 2013,for a biliometric analysis.Results The number of articles published were increasing year by year;the most of the articles published in the developed southern areas;the number of articles in hospital internal management was the largest (384 articles,45.02%),followed those on external management and development situation and countermeasures (accounting for 27.43% and 22.39% respectively).Conclusion The increase of articles on private hospitals is connected with the support of national policy,the research of private hospitals is not in balance and its development environment is not favorable.