OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Medical Care is 5. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Patient Experience for Hispanic Older Adults Varies by Language Preference	239
Imputing Race and Ethnicity	148
Building Data Capacity to Study Economic Outcomes for PCOR	135
Advancing Data Capacity for Economic Outcomes in Patient-Centered Outcomes Research	61
Medication Safety Events After Acute Myocardial Infarction Among Veterans Treated at VA Versus Non-VA Hospitals	55
Acknowledgments	52
Measuring Equity in the Hospital Setting	50
Early COVID-19 Attitudes and Behaviors and Their Associations With Later Infection	48
Change Over Time in Hospital Care for Medicaid Beneficiaries	45
Planned Home Births in the United States Have Outcomes Comparable to Planned Birth Center Births for Low-Risk Birthing Individuals	44
Outcomes of Community-Acquired Acute Kidney Injury	44
Health Care Access and COVID-19 Vaccination in the United States	42
Alternative Approaches to Ensuring Adequate Nurse Staffing	40
Cost-effectiveness of a Low-cost Educational Messaging and Prescription-fill Reminder Intervention to Improve Medication Adherence Among Individuals With Intellectual and Developmental Disability and	36
Patient-reported Outcomes Among Vulnerable Populations in the Medicare Bundled Payments for Care Improvement Initiative	34
National Overview of Nonprofit Hospitals’ Community Benefit Programs to Address Housing	33
Veterans’ Use of Telehealth for Veterans Health Administration Community Care Urgent Care During the Early COVID-19 Pandemic	32
Medicare Advantage Chart Reviews Are Associated With Billions in Additional Payments for Some Plans: Erratum	28
Management of Neck or Back Pain in Ambulatory Care	26
Prevalence and Correlates of Unmet Medical and Social Needs in Virginia’s Medicaid Managed Long Term Services and Supports Program	25
Individuals Eligible for Lung Cancer Screening Less Likely to Receive Screening When Enrolled in Health Plans With Deductibles	25
Uptake of Biosimilar Among Privately Insured Patients Undergoing Infliximab Treatment	24
Determining of the Right Amount of High-risk Neonatal Care	24
Federal Data for Conducting Patient-centered Outcomes Research on Economic Outcomes	21
Exploring Heterogeneity in Cost-Effectiveness Using Machine Learning Methods	20

Association of a Medicare Outpatient Payment Reform With Hospital-Primary Care Integration	19
Health Workforce for Health Equity	19
The Use of Medical Scribes in Primary Care Settings	19
Temporal and Geographic Patterns of Documentation of Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Keywords in Clinical Notes	18
Statistical Methods for Risk Adjustment in Health Care	18
Delayed and Forgone Health Care Among Adults With Limited English Proficiency During the Early COVID-19 Pandemic	18
Impact of Medical Training Programs on Time-to-Fill Physician Vacancies at the Veterans Health Administration	17
The Transforming Outcomes for Patients Through Medical Home Evaluation and reDesign (TOPMED) Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial	17
Response to Letter to the Editor by Drs Cook and Stange	17
Effects of Repealing the ACA Individual Mandate Penalty on Insurance Coverage and Marketplace Enrollment	16
Editorial Board	16
Burnout and Physician Gender	16
Enhancing Cancer Economic Data Resources	16
Nonprofit Hospital Community Benefits	15
Reduced Cognitive Burden and Increased Focus	15
Editorial Board	15
A Cost Analysis of Rethink the Strip	15
Measuring Inconsistency in Quality Across Patient Groups to Target Quality Improvement	15
Quality and Cost in Community Health Centers	15
Preventing Maternal Mortality	14
Usual Source of Care and Contraceptive Use	14
Processes of Care and Associated Factors in Patients With Stroke by Immigration Status	13
Impact of Nurse Residency Program on Time-to-Fill Nurse Vacancies at the Veterans Health Administration	13
Bias and Long-Term Impact on Patient-Centered Innovation	13
Highly Stable Beneficiary Attribution in Medicare’s Comprehensive Primary Care Plus Model	13
The Medical Costs of Determining Eligibility and Waiting for a Kidney Transplantation	12
Creative Health Services Research	12
Primary Care Nurse Practitioner Work Environments and Hospitalizations and ED Use Among Chronically Ill Medicare Beneficiaries	12
The Impact of Nurse Practitioner Care and Accountable Care Organization Assignment on Skilled Nursing Services and Hospital Readmissions	12
The Nudging Effect of a Reminder Letter to Reduce Duplicated Medications	12
Medicare Advantage and Home Health Care	12
Building Data Infrastructure for Disease-Focused Health Economics Research	12
(RE-)AIMing for Rapid Uptake	11
Charting a National Path for Well-Being Through Healthy People 2030	11
Telemedicine Postpandemic: Where Do We Go From Here? Erratum	11
Response to Mental Health Utilization in Youth and Young Adults	11
Hospital-to-Home-Health Transition Quality (H3TQ) Index	10
Financial Well-Being of U.S. Military Veterans and Health Impact	10
Conditional Effects of Race on Operative and Nonoperative Outcomes of Emergency General Surgery Conditions	10
Development of a Common Data Model for a Multisite and Multiyear Study of Virtual Visit Implementation	10
Economic Evaluation	10
Is Bigger Better?	10
Institutional Postacute Care Use May Help Reduce Readmissions for Ischemic Stroke Patients	9
Prediction of In-hospital Mortality Among Intensive Care Unit Patients Using Modified Daily Laboratory-based Acute Physiology Score, Version 2	9
Impacts of Individual Patient Language and Neighborhood Ethnic Enclave on COVID-19 Test Positivity Among Hispanic/Latinx Patients in San Francisco	9
The Price of Practice Change	9
Defining and Validating Criteria to Identify Populations Who May Benefit From Home-Based Primary Care	9
Predicting High-risk and High-cost Patients for Proactive Intervention	9
Predicting Unplanned Health Care Utilization and Cost	9
Home Health Agencies With High Quality of Patient Care Star Ratings Reduced Short-Term Hospitalization Rates and Increased Days Independently at Home	9

Racial/Ethnic Differences in 30-Day Mortality for Heart Failure and Pneumonia in the Veterans Health Administration Using Claims-based, Clinical, and Social Risk-adjustment Variables	8
A Critical Interplay Between Nutritional Assistance and Health Care Expenditure	8
Collaborative Care Cost-Sharing and Referral Rates in Colorado	8
Association of Continuity of Care With Health Care Utilization and Expenditures Among Patients Discharged Home After Stroke or Transient Ischemic Attack	8
Mapping the Location of Health Centers in Relation to “Maternity Care Deserts”	8
A Multi-site Case Study of Care Coordination Between Primary Care and Specialty Care	8
Association of Physical Therapy Treatment Frequency in the Acute Care Hospital With Improving Functional Status and Discharging Home	8
Do Chargemaster Prices Matter?	8
Methodologic Approaches for Using Electronic Medical Records to Identify Experiences of Violence in Transgender and Cisgender People: Closing the Gap Between Diagnostic Coding and Lived Experiences	8
Pragmatic Considerations in Incorporating Stakeholder Engagement Into a Palliative Care Transitions Study	8
Impacts of Initial Prescription Length and Prescribing Limits on Risk of Prolonged Postsurgical Opioid Use	8
Understanding VA’s Use of and Relationships With Community Care Providers Under the MISSION Act	8
Caregiver Burden in Caregivers of Children With Special Health Care Needs and Association With Chronic Pain	8
Trends in Differences Across Subgroups of Adults in Preventive Services Utilization	8
Association Between a National Behavioral Weight Management Program and Veterans Affairs Health Expenditures	8
Rural Veterans’ Experiences With Outpatient Care in the Veterans Health Administration Versus Community Care	8
Applied Rapid Qualitative Analysis to Develop a Contextually Appropriate Intervention and Increase the Likelihood of Uptake	7
Association of Antidepressant Prescription Filling With Treatment Indication and Prior Prescription Filling Behaviors and Medication Experiences	7
Length of Stay Prediction With Standardized Hospital Data From Acute and Emergency Care Using a Deep Neural Network	7
Comparing Driving Miles for Department of Veterans Affairs–delivered Versus Department of Veterans Affairs–purchased Cataract Surgery	7
The Prescription Drug User Fee Act	7
First Year of Skilled Nursing Facility Value-based Purchasing Program Penalizes Facilities With Poorer Financial Performance	7
Assessing and Augmenting Predictive Models for Hospital Readmissions With Novel Variables in an Urban Safety-net Population	7
All Public Health is Local	7
Affordable Care Act Medicaid Expansion was Associated With Reductions in the Proportion of Hospitalizations That are Potentially Preventable Among Hispanic and White Adults	7
County-level Factors and Treatment Access Among Insured Women With Opioid Use Disorder	7
Mental Health Care Needs and Access to Care for Adults With Intellectual Disabilities	7
Differences in Health Care Utilization of High-Need and High-Cost Patients of Federally Funded Health Centers Versus Other Primary Care Providers	7
Patterns and Correlates of Nurse Departures From the Health Care Workforce	7
Identifying Sources of Inter-Hospital Variation in Episode Spending for Sepsis Care	7
Allen Fremont’s Contributions to Health Equity	7
Should We Keep Spackling the Cracks Across the Health Care Continuum or Build a New Path Forward With Safer Transitions of Care?	7
Monitoring Diversity in Faculty Using Applicant Flow Data	7
Characteristics and Readmission Risks Following Sepsis Discharges to Home	7
Effects of Adult Medicaid Dental Benefits Elimination on Child Dental Care Use	6
Health Care Workers’ Perspectives on Collecting Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity in the Adult Primary Care Setting	6
Assessment of International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision, Clinical Modification (ICD-10-CM) Code Assignment Validity for Case Finding of Medication-related Hypoglycemia Acute Care Visits	6
Rural-Urban Differences in Health Care Unaffordability During the Postpartum Period	6
Adoption of Patient Engagement Strategies by Physician Practices in the United States	6
Increasing Health Equity Through Innovative Strategies	6
A Perspective on the Measurement of Whole Person Health	6
A Spatial Epidemiologic Analysis of Opioid Use Disorder Treatment in New York State	6
Statistical Methods to Evaluate Surrogate Markers	6
Enhancing Patient Experience	6
Measuring What Matters Most	6
Measuring the Well-Being of the Whole Person in Clinical Care, Health Research, and Population Health Evaluation	6
Paper of Association of Social Determinants of Health With Adherence to Second-generation Antipsychotics for People With Bipolar Disorders in a Medicaid Population	6
Community Urgent Care Use Following Implementation of the Veterans Affairs Maintaining Internal Systems and Strengthening Integrated Outside Networks Act	6
Treatment Utilization for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder in a National Sample of Veterans and Nonveterans	5
Opening Pandora’s Box	5
Veterans’ Experiences of and Preferences for Patient-Centered, Measurement-Based PTSD Care	5
Examining Veterans’ Experiences With In Vitro Fertilization Provided Under P.L. 114–223	5
Clinical Outcomes Among High-Risk Primary Care Patients With Diabetic Kidney Disease	5
The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Health Care Utilization Among Insured Individuals With Common Chronic Conditions	5
Effect of Medically Tailored Meals on Clinical Outcomes in Recently Hospitalized High-Risk Adults	5
The Impact of Language on Emergency Department Visits, Hospitalizations, and Length of Stay Among Home Care Recipients	5
Developing an Integrated Longitudinal Dataset for Patient-Centered Outcome Measures in Cost-Related Medication Nonadherence	5
Evaluating Not-For-Profit Hospital Community Benefit Spending	5
Comparing Continuous and Binary Group-based Trajectory Modeling Using Statin Medication Adherence Data	5
The Costs of Implementing a Conversation Aid for Uterine Fibroids in Multiple Health Care Settings	5
Delivering the Right Care, at the Right Time, in the Right Place, From the Right Pocket	5
Costs to Implement a Pediatric Weight Management Program Across 3 Distinct Contexts	5
Continuity of Nursing Care in Home Health	5
Racial and Ethnic Differences in Heroin, Methamphetamine, and Cocaine Use, Treatment, and Mortality Trends in 3 National Data Sources—United States, 2010-2019	5
Adding New Components to a Composite Quality Metric	5
Cancer-Related Financial Hardship Screening as Part of Practice Transformation	5
Elective Surgical Delays Due to COVID-19: The Patient Lived Experience: Erratum	5
Development and Evaluation of Messages for Reducing Overscreening of Breast Cancer in Older Women	5
Short-term Focused Feedback	5
Health System Perspective on Cost for Delivering a Decision Aid for Prostate Cancer Using Time-driven Activity-based Costing	5
Community-Level Social Vulnerability and Hip and Knee Joint Replacement Surgery Receipt Among Medicare Enrollees With Arthritis	5
Value of Nurse Practitioner Inpatient Hospital Staffing	5
Veterans Health Administration Is Working Urgently to Reduce High Rates of Suicide Among American Indian and Alaska Native Veteran	5
The American Public Health Association Endorses Single-Payer Health System Reform	5
Severe Maternal Morbidity in Georgia, 2009–2020	5
Comparing Postoperative Readmission Rates Between Veterans Receiving Total Knee Arthroplasty in the Veterans Health Administration Versus Community Care	5
Medicare Durable Medical Equipment Competitive Bidding Program	5