Abstract
Objective: To characterize, through an integrative review and bibliometric indicators, the scientific production published in online journals about the reversion of elimination intestinal stomies. Method: Documentary literature review study, carried out the Portal Regional da Biblioteca Virtual de Saúdewith the strategy: (tw: ("reversion" OR "closure")) AND (tw:("colostomy" OR "ileostomy" OR "ostomy" OR "stoma" OR "ostoma")). Complete articles have been included, available online, in the Portuguese, English or Spanish languages, without temporal cut. The analysis was based on the distribution of simple and relative frequencies. Results: The corpus consisted of 41 articles, of which 63.4% were located in the Medical Literature and Retrivial System Online. The year 2014 had the largest number of publications, with 14.6% of the articles, 34.1% of the studies were conducted in Brazil and the RevistaBrasileira de Coloproctologia obtained the highest number of publications, with 17%. All studies were performed by physicians. It was verified that 80.5% corresponded to original articles and 48.8% were quantitative. Conclusion: The studies were developed by physicians, directed to surgery, especially, to questions related to surgical techniques and to the pre and postoperative. It is understood that there is a need for productions that glimpse nursing care perspectives related to this theme.