OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Scandinavian Journal of Primary Health Care is 1. 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
Rapid implementation of remote digital primary care in Stockholm and implications for further system-wide implementation: practitioner’s and manager’s experience of the Always Open mobile application	39
Task shifting for musculoskeletal disorders in Norwegian primary care: a qualitative interview study of general practitioners and specialist musculoskeletal physiotherapists	18
Older patients’ experiences of access to and use of e-consultations with the general practitioner in Norway: an interview study	17
The effect of educational intervention on use of psychotropics in defined daily doses and related costs – a randomized controlled trial	13
New reimbursement model in Icelandic primary care in 2017: first-year comparison of public and private primary care	11
Healthcare use in the year preceding a diagnosis of pancreatic cancer: a register-based cohort study in Denmark	11
The role of functioning in predicting nursing home placement or death among older home care patients	10
Symptoms, symptom severity, and contact with primary health care among nonhospitalized COVID-19 patients: a Norwegian web-based survey	10
How often do nurses suspect violence and domestic violence in local emergency medical communication centre? A cross-sectional study	10
Contacts to general practice in the 12 months preceding a diagnosis of an abdominal cancer: a national register-based cohort study	9
Do they cope or mope? A survey of GPs’ experiences with the changes in the Norwegian Cervical Cancer Screening Programme	9
Disparities in prevalence of heart failure between the genders in relation to age, multimorbidity and socioeconomic status in southern Sweden: a cross-sectional study	9
Physician factors associated with medical errors in Norwegian primary care emergency services	9
Experiences with a structured conversation tool: a qualitative study on feasibility in general practice in Norway	9
Primary care doctors in acute call-outs to severe trauma incidents in Norway – associations with factors related to patients and doctors	9
Quality in general practice – state of affairs or dynamic process?	8
More women than men achieve PhDs in Swedish family medicine but scientific impact was not gender skewed - a secular trend analysis 1980–2020.	8
Strategies for achieving efficiency in the general practitioner’s everyday life	8
Treatment of alcohol dependence in Swedish primary care: perceptions among general practitioners	7
A ‘normal’ life: a qualitative study exploring parents’ experiences of everyday life with a child diagnosed with atopic dermatitis and atopic comorbidities	7
‘Never change a winning team’: GPs’ perspectives on discontinuation of long-term antidepressants	7
‘But there are so many referrals which are totally … only generating work and irritation’: a qualitative study of physicians’ and nurses’ experiences of work tasks in primary care in Sweden	7
Agenda navigation in consultations covering multiple topics. A qualitative case study from general practice	7
Organizational influences on the use of low-value care in primary health care – a qualitative interview study with physicians in Sweden	7
Variation of GP antibiotic prescribing tendency for contacts with out-of-hours primary care in Denmark – a cross-sectional register-based study	7

‘Illuminating determinants of implementation of non-dispensing pharmacist services in home care: a qualitative interview study’	6
In safe hands: a qualitative study on older adults’ experiences of a tailored primary health care unit	6
Primary care physicians’ experiences of video and online chat consultations: a qualitative descriptive study	6
‘Do you have a future when you are 93?’ Frail older person’s perceptions about the future and end of life – a qualitative interview study in primary care	6
Cognitive and emotional reactions to pictorial-based risk communication on subclinical atherosclerosis: a qualitative study within the VIPVIZA trial	6
Awareness of parental illness: a grounded theory of upholding family equilibrium in parents on long-term sick-leave in primary health care	6
Confidentiality matters! Adolescent males’ views of primary care in relation to psychosocial health: a structural equation modelling approach	6
Photo-supported conversations about well-being (BeWell ^TM ) for patients with exhaustion disorders – a controlled clinical intervention study	5
Quality improvement work in general practice; a Norwegian focus group study	5
Factors influencing antibiotic prescribing for respiratory tract infections in primary care – a comparison of physicians with different antibiotic prescribing rates	5
Adjudications and tinkering with care for socially vulnerable patients with type 2 diabetes in general practice	5
Physical activity on prescription in Swedish primary care: a survey on use, views, and implementation determinants amongst general practitioners	5
To neutrally offer or strongly recommend? General practitioners’ perspectives on screening for gestational diabetes according to the national guideline in Norway	5
Exploring the impact of mental and work-related stress on sick leave among middle-aged women: observations from the population study of women in Gothenburg, Sweden	5
How do patients experience and use home blood pressure monitoring? A qualitative analysis with UTAUT 2	5
Men’s views on causes and consequences of erectile dysfunction or premature ejaculation in a primary care population: a qualitative study	5
Psychiatric disorders and the cancer diagnostic process in general practice: a combined questionnaire and register study exploring the patients’ experiences in Denmark	5
Patient perspectives on multidimensional learning and person-centred care: interviews with persons living with type 2 diabetes	5
Antibiotic treatment recommendations for acute respiratory tract infections in Scandinavian general practices—time for harmonization?	5
Evaluating general practitioners’ focused lung ultrasound competence and findings in patients with suspected community-acquired pneumonia in general practice	5
“Returning to the core tasks”: a qualitative interview study about how general practitioners in home health care solved problems during the COVID-19 pandemic	5
Providing information at the initial consultation to patients with low back pain across general practice, chiropractic and physiotherapy – a cross-sectorial study of Danish primary care	5
Ethical challenges causing moral distress: nursing home staff’s experiences of working during the COVID-19 pandemic	4
Incidence of short-term community hospital stays and clinical profiles of patients: the Finnish Community Hospital Cohort Study	4
Respiratory tract infections in Norwegian primary care 2006–2015: a registry-based study	4
B-phosphatidylethanol testing to identify hazardous alcohol use in primary health care—a game changer and a challenge for general practitioners: a qualitative study	4
Managing mental health in chronic care in general practice: a feasibility study of the Healthy Mind intervention	4
Phone triage nurses’ assessment of respiratory tract infections – the tightrope walk between gatekeeping and service providing. A qualitative study	4
A systems perspective on gaps in the person-centered sick leave and rehabilitation process: a Swedish interview study	4
Influences of COVID-19 pandemic on hospital-at-home functions in Finland – a questionnaire survey	4
Health care services for older people in COVID-19 pandemic times – A Nordic comparison	4
Using online health information for unknown symptoms common among young adults: a qualitative analysis of health-related web pages illustrating the need for numeracy skills, the ability to deal with u	4
General practitioners’ willingness to participate in research networks in Germany	4
Exploring colorectal cancer patients’ diagnostic pathways and general practitioners’ assessment of the diagnostic processes: a Danish survey study	4
Primary care patients with mild or stable chronic obstructive pulmonary disease need more support in disease management: a secondary analysis of a cluster randomized controlled trial	3
‘They never mentioned this in medical school!’ A qualitative analysis of medical students’ reflective writings from general practice	3
Health care professionals’ experiences of supporting persons with metabolic risk factors to increase their physical activity level – a qualitative study in primary care	3
Late-effect awareness and follow-up of cancer in general practice	3
Defensive medicine in Danish general practice. Types of defensive actions and reasons for practicing defensively	3
Implementing advance care planning in Swedish healthcare settings – a qualitative study of professionals’ experiences	3
Association between received treatment elements and satisfaction with care for patients with knee osteoarthritis seen in general practice in Denmark	3
The in- and outpatient health care use of patients with COPD before and after initiation of home care: a registry study from Norway	3
Roles and responsibilities in substance use prevention in the school setting: views among Finnish school personnel representatives	3
Prescribing antibiotics: the use of diagnostic tests in general practice. A register-based study	3
Correction	3
Direct access from general practice to transvaginal ultrasound for early detection of ovarian cancer: a feasibility study	3
Systematic Coronary Risk Evaluation 2 (SCORE2), arterial stiffness, and subclinical coronary atherosclerosis in a population-based study	3
Development over time in point-of-care test use in Danish daytime and out-of-hours general practice: a register-based study	3
A possible association between early life factors and burden of functional bowel symptoms in adulthood	3
Is general practitioner involvement in the initiation of opioids for chronic non-cancer pain associated with opioid dose and concurrent drug use?	3

Patients in general practice share a common pattern of symptoms that is partly independent of the diagnosis	3
Interventions regarding physicians’ sickness certification practice – a systematic literature review with meta-analyses	3
Personal responsibility for health? A phenomenographic analysis of general practitioners’ conceptions	3
Handheld transabdominal ultrasound, after limited training, may confirm first trimester viable intrauterine pregnancy: a prospective cohort study	3
General practitioners’ clinical decision-making in patients that could have cancer: a vignette study comparing the Baltic states with four Nordic countries	3
Cancer patients have a reduced likelihood of dying in hospital with advance care planning in primary health care and a summarizing palliative plan: a prospective controlled non-randomized intervention	2
Exploring general practice staff perspectives on a teaching concept based on instruction videos for diabetic retinopathy screening – an interview study	2
Self-injurious thoughts and behaviours as the reason for contact to Norwegian emergency primary care centres: an observational study	2
Medical encounters with young unaccompanied refugees: a qualitative study among general practitioners and physicians in migrant health clinics in Norway and Denmark	2
Daytime contacts and general practitioner consultations, and pain as a reason for encounter in children with cerebral palsy; a Norwegian national registry linkage study	2
Digital consultation in primary healthcare: the effects on access, efficiency and patient safety based on provider experience; a qualitative study	2
Does C-reactive protein predict time to recovery and benefit from oseltamivir treatment in primary care patients with influenza-like illness? A randomized controlled trial secondary analysis	2
Relationally competent attitudes and actions: a systematic review of general practice literature	2
Management of child maltreatment suspicions in general practice: a mixed methods study	2
Year 2021 – the year of hope and health care workers	2
Health care utilization related to the introduction of designated GPs at care homes in Denmark: a register-based study	2
Comparing visual and automated urine dipstick analysis in a general practice population	2
Interrater and intrarater agreement on heart murmurs	2
Suicide prevention training: self-perceived competence among primary healthcare professionals	2
The feasibility and outcome of a community-based primary prevention program for cardiovascular disease in the 21st century	2
Implementation of lung ultrasonography by general practitioners for lower respiratory tract infections: a feasibility study	2
Primary healthcare professionals’ attitudes toward patients with current or previous drug use	2
Cognitive dysfunction in diabetes – the ‘forgotten’ diabetes complication: a narrative review	2
How to support researchers in the primary care setting?	2
Extended prenatal and postnatal home visits in a vulnerable area in Sweden—a pilot study	2
I would rather be vaguely right than precisely wrong	2
GP strategies to avoid imaging overuse. A qualitative study in Norwegian general practice	2
Reflections of nurses and primary healthcare managers on integrating hospital at home into public primary healthcare services: a Norwegian focus group study	1
Clinical practice enhanced by interdisciplinary theoretical perspectives	1
Socioeconomic status affects achievement of blood pressure target in hypertension: contemporary results from the Swedish primary care cardiovascular database	1
Who should talk with patients about their end-of-life care wishes? A nationwide survey of the Hungarian population	1
Artificial intelligence in the GPs office: a retrospective study on diagnostic accuracy	1
Use of point-of-care tests in pharyngotonsillitis – a registry-based study in primary health care	1
Time to treat the climate and nature crisis as one indivisible global health emergency	1
The incidence and prevalence of Dupuytren’s disease in primary care: results from a text mining approach on registration data	1
Effects of an interactive web-based support system via mobile phone on preference-based patient participation in patients living with hypertension – a randomized controlled trial in primary care	1
Experiences and views of Dutch general practitioners regarding physician-assisted death for patients suffering from severe mental illness: a mixed methods approach	1
What would primary care practitioners do differently after a delayed cancer diagnosis? Learning lessons from their experiences	1
General practice variation in peptic ulcer prophylaxis: a nationwide register-based study	1
Heart failure patients without echocardiography are more commonly diagnosed in hospital care and are associated with higher mortality compared to primary care	1
Exploring expectations and readiness for healthy lifestyle promotion in Swedish primary health care: a qualitative analysis of managers, facilitators, and professionals	1
General practitioners’ experiences of being involved in local public health work in Norway. A qualitative study	1
Danish general practitioners as gatekeepers for gynaecological patients in regions with different density of resident specialists in gynaecology: in which situations and to whom do they refer? A cross	1
Functioning of post-COVID-19 patients: a cross-sectional study at the outpatient clinic for long-term effects	1
Discovering strengths in patients with medically unexplained symptoms – a focus group study with general practitioners	1
Interpersonal contact and altered sensory conditions in video consultation – a qualitative interview study in Danish general practice	1
The voice of the self: a typology of general practitioners’ emotional responses to situational and contextual stressors	1
Healthcare seeking – who, when and why?	1
Pluralistic task shifting for a more timely cancer diagnosis. A grounded theory study from a primary care perspective	1
Factors associated with development of retinopathy in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus at onset and within three years after diagnosis	1
Stakeholder views on work participation for workers with depression and intersectoral collaboration in depression care: a focus group study with a salutogenic perspective	1
Changes in location and number of nurse consultations as the supply of general practitioners decreases in primary health care: six-year register-based follow-up cohort study in the city of Vantaa, Fin	1
They paid attention to the whole of me in some way, both physically, mentally, and everything in between: a qualitative study of patients’ experiences of interdisciplinary rehabilitation (PREVSAM) in	1
Impediments to and impact of checklists on performance of emergency interventions in primary care: an in situ simulation-based randomized controlled trial	1
Treatment of nicotine dependence needs be strengthened in primary health care	1
Importance of continuity of care from a patient perspective – a cross-sectional study in Swedish health care	1
Antibiotic prescribing in Danish general practice in the elderly population from 2010 to 2017	1
The impact on primary care of a large waterborne campylobacter outbreak in Norway: a controlled observational study	1
Construction and validation of a morbidity index based on the International Classification of Primary Care	1
Randomised control trials using short messaging services (SMS) in hypertension treatment – convenient telemedicine interventions	1
Forearm fractures – are we counting them all? An attempt to identify and include the missing fractures treated in primary care	1
Changes in analgesic prescriptions in Dutch general practice	1
General practitioners’ knowledge and practice in consultations with (potential) torture victims: a qualitative pilot study from Norway	1
Patient experiences with depression care in general practice: a qualitative questionnaire study	1
Observational study of diagnosis and management in adult primary hypothyroidism in southwest of Sweden	1
Association between recorded medication reviews in primary care and adequate drug treatment management – a cross-sectional study	1
Exploring general practice research in Germany: a systematic review of dissertation topics from 1965–2023	1
Sex and gender differences in primary care help-seeking for common somatic symptoms: a longitudinal study	1
Suitability of issuing sickness certifications in remote consultations during the COVID-19 pandemic. A mixed method study of GPs’ experiences	1
Hypertension management in primary health care: a survey in eight regions of Sweden	1
Facilitators and barriers in diagnosing rheumatoid arthritis as described by general practitioners: a Danish study based on focus group interviews	1
Promoting health literacy and sense of coherence in primary care patients with long-term impaired work ability—a pilot study	1
Correction	1
Throat infections and use of streptococcal antigen test and antibiotic treatment in general practice; a web-based survey	1
The burden of persistent symptom diagnoses in primary care patients: a cross-sectional study	1
General practitioners’ barriers to cross-sectoral collaboration on pregnant women with vulnerabilities: a cross-sectional survey in Danish general practice	1
Healthcare professionals’ experiences with highly qualified nurses working in acute care teams in primary healthcare settings	1