OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Australian Health Review is 3. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
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Should Australian laws regulating embryo research be reformed? A call for commonwealth review	22
Geospatial distribution of tertiary hospitals across Australian cities	20
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Data linkage for healthcare research: basics and important considerations	14
Corrigendum to: A survey of Australian public opinion on using comorbidity to triage intensive care patients in a pandemic	14
Environmental impact of travel to neurosurgery outpatient appointments in South Australia	13
Outlier or handover: outcomes for General Medicine inpatients	13
Sociodemographic and clinical factors affecting advance care planning: results from a large community cohort in New South Wales, Australia	12
Translational research in Australian mental health policy: a scoping review	12
Development of a novel and more holistic approach for assessing impact in health and medical research: the Research Impact Assessment Framework	11
Exploring interdisciplinary communication pathways for escalating pre-medical emergency team deterioration: a mixed-methods study	11
Chronic diseases and their behavioural risk factors among South Asian immigrants in Australia	11
Enhancing person-centred care and access to primary care for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples	10
Adaptive leadership in health care: a rapid review	10
Do Australian state and territory cancer plans include survivorship-related objectives and propose quality survivorship outcomes and measures?	10
Worsening psychological wellbeing of Australian hospital clinical staff during three waves of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic	10
Reforming allied health service provision in residential aged care to improve the rehabilitation reach: a feasibility study	10
Lessons from the ‘legitimate’ misuse of Medicare Benefits Schedule Item 45503	9
Taking a value based commissioning approach to non-clinical and clinical support services	9
Risk of hospital admission or emergency department presentation due to diabetes complications: a retrospective cohort study in Tasmania, Australia	9
Clinical documentation requirements for the accurate coding of hospital-acquired urinary tract infections in Australia	9
The current state of legislation and education of Traditional Chinese Medicine in Australia	8
Identifying opportunities to optimise the electronic medical record for allied health professionals: a concept mapping study	8
Physiotherapy-led lung ultrasound in acute cardiorespiratory physiotherapy	8

Is a wholistic quality improvement program to reduce hospital-acquired complications economically viable in an Australian local health service?	8
Corrigendum to: Telehealth use in Voluntary Assisted Dying: a systematic review	8
Navigating medication safety with electronic medical records: insights from a dual-phase implementation in paediatric, neonatal and maternity care	8
Exploring the unique value of clinician scientist roles to the health services in which they are employed: a scoping review	7
Workforce training needs to address social and emotional wellbeing in home-based Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander aged care	7
Feasibility of an allied health led, workplace delivered Long COVID service for hospital staff: a mixed-methods study	7
Higher fees and out-of-pocket costs in radiotherapy point to a need for funding reform	7
What factors affect the recruitment and retention of allied health professionals working in hospitals? A systematic literature review	7
Corrigendum to : Out-of-pocket payments: impacts on healthcare decision-making and system and individual level measures to minimise the burden	7
A ‘True North Statement for Care’: charting the course to better care for all Australians	6
Corrigendum to: Variation in direct healthcare costs to the health system by residents living in long-term care facilities: a Registry of Senior Australians study	6
Mapping service standards and guidelines to support accreditation processes – a case study of a collaborative effort worth replicating	6
Is HealthPathways viewed as a useful and trustworthy source of information by health professionals?	6
Consumer involvement in health service research: a cross-sectional survey of staff in an Australian public hospital and health service	6
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A guide to using measures of socio-economic status, remoteness and population denominators from the Australian Bureau of Statistics for epidemiological studies	6
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Health policy evaluation in rural and remote Australia: a qualitative exploration and lessons from the Northern Territory	6
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Changes in paediatric Ambulatory Care Sensitive Conditions in Victoria, 2018–20: the COVID-19 effect?	6
Evaluation of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Outpatient Clinic: a mixed-methods study	5
Effect and illustrative costs of downscheduling on government subsidised dispensings of triptans in Australia: a 10-year analysis	5
Evaluating the weighting of extracurricular involvement in standardised curriculum vitae scoring criteria for entrance into Australian medical and surgical speciality training programs	5
Allied health matters for people with young-onset dementia on the National Disability Insurance Scheme	5
Emergency clinician perceptions of patients who present frequently to the emergency department: a snapshot of current practice	5
Clinician perspectives on rapid transition to telehealth during COVID-19 in Australia – a qualitative study	5
The role of Medicare policy in fertility treatment decisions: perceptions of Australians considering, undertaking or who have undertaken medically assisted reproduction treatment	5
Lived Experience Advisor Program initiative: harnessing consumer leadership for best care	5
Is cost a barrier to general practice for Australians with mental illness?	5
‘The time for experimenting on patients is over’: a policy scan and qualitative study of doctors’ experience with the oversight of clinical innovation in Australia	5
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Evaluating the research capacity and culture of an urban Mental Health and Wellbeing Program	5
Promoting access to voluntary assisted dying: an interpretivist exploratory study of health services in Queensland, Australia	5
Factors associated with Pharmaceutical Benefits Advisory Committee decisions for listing medicines for diabetes and its associated complications	5
External validation of the Health Care Homes hospital admission risk stratification tool in the Aboriginal Australian population of the Northern Territory	4
Client and staff perspectives regarding effective work injury rehabilitation	4
Trajectories of hospital service use in the last 12 months 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
If not now, when? Implementation failure of a rights- and value-based policy agenda for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health	4
Challenges for mental health planning in Australia	4
General practice experiences of Australia’s COVID-19 vaccine rollout: lessons for primary care reform	4
The influence of specialty training selection criteria on medical students’ career pathway choices in Australia	4
Health systems model for chronic disease secondary prevention in rural and remote areas – Chronic disease: Road to health	4
Profile and clinical characteristics of alcohol-related hospital admissions within four public hospitals in New South Wales between 2011 and 2021	4
Editorial	4
‘Booking’ fees for private hospital patients	4
Patient and family complaints concerning nursing and midwifery care: applying a taxonomy to classify and analyse consumer complaints	4
Pandemic planning: data, information and evidence	4
An undignified disaster reality for Australians with disability	4
From integrated care to value-based healthcare in New South Wales	4

Peripheral intravenous catheter policies and procedures across Queensland: a document review and analysis of underpinning evidence and alignment with clinical standards	4
Perceived benefits of accessing a children’s sensory garden in a healthcare setting	4
An analysis of legislation and policies that guide maternity leave decision making in Australian midwifery students	4
Surgical site infection surveillance in Australian public and private hospitals: a comparative analysis	4
Corrigendum to: Measuring clinician experience in value-based health care initiatives: a 10-item core clinician experience measure	4
Pattern of hospital admissions and costs associated with acute rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease in Australia, 2012–2017	4
The Clinical Trials Assistance Pilot: reducing the financial burden of cancer clinical trials for patients in regional New South Wales	4
Accurate calculations of out-of-pocket costs for mental healthcare consultations	4
The carbon footprint of total knee replacements	4
Projecting the future: modelling Australian dialysis prevalence 2021–30	4
Chronic breathlessness is associated with much longer lengths of hospital stay	4
The effect of dietitian universal nutrition assessment and malnutrition documentation on patient nutritional care and revenue in an acute care hospital	4
Making good on the promise of genomics in healthcare: the NSW Health perspective	4
Assessing the value of online palliative care information	4
Adapting to change: exploring perceptions and demands of the coronavirus (COVID-19) workforce changes – an Australian multi-institutional radiation oncology survey	4
Australia’s healthcare workforce at breaking point: time for bold reform	3
What kind of intelligence belongs in aged care? Why values – not just data – must drive artificial intelligence adoption in aged care systems	3
Influence of nurses in the implementation of artificial intelligence in health care: a scoping review	3
Comparison of patient responses to telehealth satisfaction surveys in rural and urban populations in Queensland	3
Table of Contents and Advertisements	3
The treatment gap for deep brain stimulation in Parkinson’s disease: a comparative analysis of cost and utilisation in high-income countries	3
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Mandatory and statutory compliance screening for undergraduate nursing students in Australia: a review of compliance requirements	3
Prevalence and characteristics of potentially avoidable unplanned readmissions: a retrospective cohort study	3
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The development and implementation of the Northern Health lung cancer digital care pathway: a case study in service change	3
A novel format for management of intravenous medication guidelines – a pharmacist-led guideline working group	3
Developing best practice principles for enhancing engagement with consumers from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds in cancer services	3
Costs of major complications in people with and without diabetes in Tasmania, Australia	3
Exploring equity of care for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples within the state-wide Musculoskeletal Physiotherapy Screening Clinic and Multi-disciplinary Service in Queensland Health	3
Corrigendum to : Is Australia’s lack of national clinical leadership hampering efforts with the oral health policy agenda?	3
Hospital visiting hours – do they need to be revised?	3
Worsening general health and psychosocial wellbeing of Australian hospital allied health practitioners during the COVID-19 pandemic	3
Scope of practice regulation in medicine: balancing patient safety, access to care and professional autonomy	3
The unfulfilled promises of electronic health records	3
Creating a framework for change: transitioning to value-based healthcare in Queensland	3
Rheumatic heart disease 2025 – current status and future challenges	3
A pilot model of care to achieve next-day discharge in patients undergoing hip and knee arthroplasty in an Australian public hospital setting	3
Environmental, Social and Governance principles in Australian publicly funded healthcare: an extension of value-based care	3
Physicians’ legal duty to disclose more cost-effective treatment options: an examination of Australian civil law applied to personal importation	3
Potential therapeutic value of new drugs approved in Australia: a retrospective cohort study	3
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Hospitalisations and emergency department presentations by older individuals accessing long-term aged care in Australia	3
Paramedic to general practitioner referral pathways within Australian jurisdictional ambulance clinical practice guidelines: a document analysis	3
Clinical concern and the deteriorating patient: a review of rapid response 2018–20	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
The financial implications of investigating false-positive and true-positive mammograms in a national breast cancer screening program	3
The profile, clinical characteristics, and outcomes of alcohol- and non-alcohol-related patient presentations to Queensland emergency departments: a multi-site observational study	3
Partnering with consumers and practising clinicians to establish research priorities for public hospital maternity services	3
The value equation: realising value based-health care’s disruptive potential	3