Business organisations are subject to high pressure to ensure their sustainability and
competitiveness. In the case of healthcare institutions, moreover, there are unique characteristics
where human resource management is of vital importance. The workforce in these institutions is
at a critical moment where the shortages of qualified staff, burnout, or job dissatisfaction represent
some of the detrimental aspects for the performance of the organisation, and more importantly, they
diminish the quality of patient care. The promotion of organisational commitment is positioned as
one of the tools that organisations have to face this problem. This paper aims to increase knowledge
about research trends that analyse organisational commitment in healthcare institutions. To this end,
using bibliometric techniques, a sample of 448 publications on this subject from journals indexed in
Web of Science between 1992 and 2020 is analysed. . The most analysed
topics have been job satisfaction, the implications of stress and high turnover, burnout syndrome,
and the possibility of leaving the job. On the other hand, issues emerged such as empowerment in the
workplace and others related to organisational management such as quality of service or performance.
Finally, there is a lack of research that deals more deeply with other groups working in health centres,
such as doctors or administrative staff. There is also a need for further development in the analysis
of the implications of the ideological psychological contract in relation to normative organisational
commitment in the field of healthcare organisations. The contribution of this work focusses on
expanding knowledge about commitment in healthcare organisations and creating points of support
for future research as well as helping healthcare managers make decisions in HR management
