OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Australian Health Review is 2. 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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
Incidence of adverse incidents in residential aged care	37
A whole-of-health system approach to improving care of frail older persons	33
The Clinical Trials Assistance Pilot: reducing the financial burden of cancer clinical trials for patients in regional New South Wales	25
Case study of a stepped-care psychological service for healthcare professionals working in critical care	18
Making the move to a learning healthcare system: has the pandemic brought us one step closer?	16
Table of Contents	16
Queensland Rural Generalist Pathway: why do trainees separate without achieving a Rural Generalist end point?	16
It is time to stop blaming the pandemic	15
Did the coronavirus vaccination program in a rural and regional area work? Health outcomes of the vaccination program in Wide Bay	15
Patient and family complaints concerning nursing and midwifery care: applying a taxonomy to classify and analyse consumer complaints	13
Preferences of parents for mental health services to suit children with chronic medical conditions	12
If not now, when? Implementation failure of a rights- and value-based policy agenda for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health	12
Creating COVID-19 surge capacity at an elective surgical centre: a model for perioperative care	11
Policy Reflections on digital health	11
Funding models for clinical education in allied health	11
Digital dashboards: a speech pathology case study	11
Table of Contents	11
The impact of self-assessment and surveyor assessment on site visit performance under the National General Practice Accreditation scheme	10
A whole-of-community program of advance care planning for end-of-life care	10
Table of Contents	9
Health systems model for chronic disease secondary prevention in rural and remote areas – Chronic disease: Road to health	9
What would it take to improve the uptake and utilisation of mHealth applications among older Australians? A qualitative study	9
One career, many pathways, no direction: the challenge facing Allied Health clinician researchers	9
Use of priority and provisional approval pathways by the Australian Therapeutic Goods Administration in approving new medicines: a cross-sectional study	8
An economic evaluation of point-of-care ultrasound for children presenting to the emergency department with suspected septic arthritis of the hip	8

COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy, acceptance and informational needs in an Australian cancer population: a cross-sectional survey	8
Local and regional workforce return on investment from sponsoring rural generalist-based training for medical students	8
Medicare Benefits Schedule (MBS) Review Advisory Committee post-implementation review of MBS telehealth items: abolition of initial telehealth consultations for non-general practitioner specialists	7
Inappropriate antibiotic prescribing: understanding clinicians’ perceptions to enable changes in prescribing practices	7
Developing economic measures for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander families on out-of-pocket healthcare expenditure	7
Development of the ‘AusPROM’ recommendations for elective surgery patients	6
The contribution of rural primary health care to the coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccination program	6
Cognitive impairment in older hospital inpatients: prevalence, care needs and carer perceptions	6
Accurate calculations of out-of-pocket costs for mental healthcare consultations	6
Royal Commission into Aged Care recommendations on minimum staff time standard for nursing homes	6
Understanding end-of-life care in Australian hospitals	6
A framework for de-identification of free-text data in electronic medical records enabling secondary use	6
Promoting the personal importation of therapeutic goods: recent legislative amendments to advertising regulations may impact consumer access and understanding	6
Comparison of the quality of documentation between electronic and paper medical records in orthopaedic trauma patients	6
What have been the clinical outcomes of the Project Synergy/InnoWell digital health platform?	5
Implementation of an organisational wide approach to improving policy documents using plain language: a case study	5
Mental health reform: where are we in 2024?	5
Exploring experiences and perceptions of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples readmitted to hospital with chronic disease in New South Wales, Australia: a qualitative study	5
Improving dementia and palliative care through the co-design of an integrated model of care	5
Characteristics and outcomes of patients receiving review requests for pre-medical emergency team deterioration: a cohort study	5
Allied health service delivery in residential aged care and the impact of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic: a survey of the allied health workforce	5
Leading health reform: a critical review of ‘leadership’ within allied health competency standards	5
Enabling clinician engagement in safety and quality improvement	5
Closing the Gap in Aboriginal health disparities: is there a place for Elders in the neoliberal agenda?	5
We have to set the bar higher: towards consumer leadership, beyond engagement or involvement	5
The cultural shift towards a value-based approach to healthcare	5
Virtual visiting in the intensive care unit: implementation, utilisation and provider acceptance in an Australian metropolitan health service	5
Actual and projected gaps in the provision of residential aged care in New South Wales, Australia	5
Public health service board members’ understanding of care quality in residential aged care services	5
Medicare reimbursed telehealth exercise physiology services were underutilised through the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic: an ecological study	5
Is the strategy to fix healthcare in shared value?	5
Designing and implementing a bundle of care for patients with early-stage breast cancer: lessons from a pilot program	4
Perceived benefits of accessing a children’s sensory garden in a healthcare setting	4
Client and staff perspectives regarding effective work injury rehabilitation	4
Trajectories of hospital service use in the last 12months of life by people with chronic kidney disease: a retrospective cohort study	4
Driving value-based healthcare through a new vision for Queensland’s health system	4
An analysis of legislation and policies that guide maternity leave decision making in Australian midwifery students	4
What’s in a name? Why the proposed title change for podiatric surgeons is a step backward	4
Adapting to change: exploring perceptions and demands of the coronavirus (COVID-19) workforce changes – an Australian multi-institutional radiation oncology survey	4
What is needed to mainstream artificial intelligence in health care?	4
Experiences and learnings from developing and implementing a co-designed value-based healthcare framework within Victorian public oral health sector	4
Patients’ reasons for leaving an emergency department without being seen: results from a survey-based cohort study during the COVID-19 pandemic	4
Can I record this? A scoping review of Australian hospital policies governing consultation recording	4
Do Australian state and territory cancer plans include survivorship-related objectives and propose quality survivorship outcomes and measures?	3
Healthcare practitioner use of real-time prescription monitoring tools: an online survey	3
Reverse triage in COVID surge planning: a case study of an allied health supported clinical care pathway in an acute hospital setting	3
Value-based health care for Aboriginal peoples with chronic conditions in the Northern Territory: a cohort study	3
Emerging health and social policy considerations for safe and quality end-of-life care in Australia – the evidence, gaps and challenges	3
Utilisation of Medicare chronic disease management item numbers for people with cancer in Queensland, Australia	3
An undignified disaster reality for Australians with disability	3

Qualitative evaluation of an integrated respiratory and palliative care service: patient, caregiver and general practitioner perspectives	3
Exploring strengths and weaknesses in health services research culture and capacity	3
A conceptual framework to support hospitals to measure and realise financial benefits from process improvement programs: perspectives from Australia, USA and UK	3
Evaluating an implementation of the Australian National Guidelines for the On-Screen Display of Discharge Summaries	3
Bringing organisations together during a pandemic: the case of an intersectoral community support group	3
Examining the health and well-being profile of people experiencing primary homelessness: the social work perspective at a major metropolitan teaching hospital	3
A digitally enabled health workforce for Australia	3
Learning and development needs for successful staff and consumer partnerships on healthcare quality improvement committees: a co-produced cross-sectional online survey	3
Time to analgesia for musculoskeletal presentations in Tasmanian emergency departments: a case-controlled comparative observational study investigating the impact of advanced practice physiotherapists	3
Utility of a digital app to enhance patient–nurse communications and patient involvement in bedside handover: patient and nurse perceptions	3
External validation of the Health Care Homes hospital admission risk stratification tool in the Aboriginal Australian population of the Northern Territory	3
Pattern of hospital admissions and costs associated with acute rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease in Australia, 2012–2017	3
Enhancing person-centred care and access to primary care for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples	3
Exploring palliative care practice and learning needs of allied health professionals in the Loddon Mallee region of Victoria: a cross-sectional survey	3
In-house testing for COVID-19: effects on length of stay, isolation and the need for inpatient rehabilitation	3
Geospatial distribution of tertiary hospitals across Australian cities	3
Implementing a hip fracture registry and financial incentive program to enhance best practice in hip fracture care in Western Australia	3
Characteristics of patients aged 50–74 years with a request for an immunochemical faecal occult blood test in the Australian general practice setting	3
Implementation and evaluation of a university–hospital partnership program for Type 2 diabetes	3
The more things change, the more they stay the same: enduring inequity in Indigenous health	3
Medicare-reimbursed psychiatric consultations before and after telehealth expansion in Australia: a time series study	3
Delivering complex surgical services: lessons learned from the evolution of a specialised pelvic exenteration centre	3
Hepatitis B immune status of staff in smaller acute healthcare facilities	3
Estimating the true number of people with acute rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease from two data sources using capture–recapture methodology	3
<i>Corrigendum to</i>: Healthcare practitioner use of real-time prescription monitoring tools: an online survey	3
Socio-environmental models of allied health disability support: an exploration of narrative experiences in the Australian National Disability and Insurance Scheme	3
General practice accreditation – does time spent on-site matter?	2
An assessment of the accuracy of surgical time estimation by orthopaedic theatre staff	2
Podiatric surgery: a canary in the coalmine for professional monopolies	2
Scope of practice regulation in medicine: balancing patient safety, access to care and professional autonomy	2
Exploring interdisciplinary communication pathways for escalating pre-medical emergency team deterioration: a mixed-methods study	2
Reforming allied health service provision in residential aged care to improve the rehabilitation reach: a feasibility study	2
Effect of comorbidities on inpatient rehabilitation outcomes following non-traumatic lower limb amputations in Australia and New Zealand	2
Birthing in regional Australia: women’s decision making surrounding birthplace	2
Federated health system governance in the post-COVID-19 era	2
Translational research in Australian mental health policy: a scoping review	2
The Commonwealth Criminal Code restricts the use of carriage services to access voluntary assisted dying in Victoria: a perspective	2
Issues for reregulation of private hospital insurance in Australia	2
Patient satisfaction with a consumer codesigned lower limb cellulitis leaflet	2
Improving the pre-medical emergency team: the case for a behavioural theoretical lens	2
The incidence of personal importation of prescription medicines among Australians 45 and older: a cross-sectional survey	2
Corrigendum to: Measuring clinician experience in value-based health care initiatives: a 10-item core clinician experience measure	2
Assessing the research capacity and culture of allied health workforce in a national private healthcare organisation	2
Is there unwarranted variation in obstetric practice in Australia? Obstetric intervention trends in Queensland hospitals	2
Patient experiences and outcomes in a South Australian stand-alone Hospital in the Home program	2
A community of practice to address system-based issues and promote clinical leadership among trainee medical officers in a large public health service: an evaluation of a trainee-led forum	2
Prospective cohort study of an Australian cancer care services-led model of emergent care	2
Referral reasons to a Victorian mental health triage service for individuals living with young-onset dementia	2
Perceptions of research capacity in public health organisations: comparison of NSW metropolitan and non-metropolitan Local Health Districts	2
Bevacizumab for blinding eye disease – is it time for the PBS to list for off-label use?	2
Do people with multiple sclerosis receive appropriate support from the National Disability Insurance Scheme matching their level of disability? A description of disease ‘burden and societal cost in pe	2
Disease and economic burden of infections in hospitalised children in New South Wales, Australia	2
The economic burden of myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome in Australia	2
Table of Contents and Advertisements	2
Creating a framework for change: transitioning to value-based healthcare in Queensland	2
How patient centric is health policy development? The case of the Parliamentary Inquiry into Sleep Health Awareness in Australia	2
Application of the Australian Bureau of Statistics Socio-Economic Indexes for Areas in cardiovascular disease research: a scoping review identifying implications for research	2
Obstacles in establishing a national disease registry in Australia: lessons from the development of the CHAANZ Congenital Heart Disease Registry	2
The unfulfilled promises of electronic health records	2
Enhancing the capacity of the health workforce to deliver best practice diabetes care	2
Corrigendum to: A survey of Australian public opinion on using comorbidity to triage intensive care patients in a pandemic	2
Table of Contents	2
Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on South Australia’s emergency departments: evidence from two lockdowns	2
Intensive care utilisation after elective surgery in Australia and New Zealand: getting the balance right	2
Consumer experiences of care coordination for people living with chronic conditions and other complex needs: an inclusive and co-produced research study	2
Pandemic planning: data, information and evidence	2
Futile treatment – when is enough, enough?	2
The profile, clinical characteristics, and outcomes of alcohol- and non-alcohol-related patient presentations to Queensland emergency departments: a multi-site observational study	2
Establishment of the first Australian public and health-professional palliative care advice service: exploring caller needs and gaps in care	2
Editorial	2
Outlier or handover: outcomes for General Medicine inpatients	2
Clinical governance in New Zealand: perceptions from registered health professionals in health care delivery compared with social insurance	2
Clinical research imperatives: principles and priorities from the perspective of Allied Health executives and managers	2
The financial implications of investigating false-positive and true-positive mammograms in a national breast cancer screening program	2
Cost and economic determinants of paediatric tonsillectomy	2
Maintaining the health of people with and without COVID-19 during isolation: a case study	2
Better Access: substantial shift to telehealth for allied mental health services during COVID-19 in Australia	2
COVID-19 revisited – is a national pandemic plan possible?	2
Emergency department presentations and 30-day mortality in patients from residential aged care facilities	2