OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Australian Journal of Rural Health 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
National analysis of the Modified Monash Model, population distribution and a socio‐economic index to inform rural health workforce planning	77
Mental health and well‐being impacts of COVID‐19 on rural paramedics, police, community nurses and child protection workers	33
Remote health service vulnerabilities and responses to the COVID‐19 pandemic	33
Destinations of nursing and allied health graduates from two Australian universities: A data linkage study to inform rural placement models	21
Effectiveness of patient activation interventions on chronic obstructive pulmonary disease self‐management outcomes: A systematic review	21
Position statement: Research and reconciliation with Indigenous peoples in rural health journals	20
Utility and outcomes among Indigenous and non‐Indigenous patients requiring domiciliary oxygen therapy in the regional and rural Australian population	18
Differences in psychosocial distress among rural and metropolitan health care workers during the COVID‐19 pandemic	16
Graduate rural work outcomes of the first 8 years of a medical school: What can we learn about student selection and clinical school training pathways?	16
Next steps for drowning prevention in rural and remote Australia: A systematic review of the literature	16
‘Re‐placing’ professional practice	16
Systematic review of quantitative studies assessing the relationship between environment and mental health in rural areas	15
Why do doctors work in rural areas in high‐income countries? A qualitative systematic review of recruitment and retention	15
Importance of attachment to place in growing a sustainable Australian Rural Health Workforce: A rapid review	14
Survival of rural telehealth services post‐pandemic in Australia: A call to retain the gains in the ‘new normal’	14
What shapes research and research capacity building in rural health services? Context matters	14
Interprofessional education in the rural environment to enhance multidisciplinary care in future practice: Breaking down silos in tertiary health education	13
Addressing the lack of research in rural communities through building rural health service research: Establishment of a research unit in Colac, a medium rural town	12
A systematic review of the preferences of rural and remote youth for mental health service access: Telehealth versus face‐to‐face consultation	12
Predictors of compassion satisfaction and compassion fatigue in health care workers providing health and rehabilitation services in rural and remote locations: A scoping review	12
Profile and rural exposure for nursing and allied health students at two Australian Universities: A retrospective cohort study	11
Conducting community rehabilitation review sessions via videoconference: A feasibility study	11
What are the perspectives of speech pathologists, occupational therapists and physiotherapists on using telehealth videoconferencing for service delivery to children with developmental delays? A syste	11
Assessing cultural safety in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health	11
Psychological impact of neonatal intensive care unit admissions on parents: A regional perspective	11

Studying nursing at Australian satellite university campuses: A review of teaching, learning and support	11
Co‐design with aboriginal and torres strait islander communities: A journey	10
Retention of General Practitioners in remote areas of Canada and Australia: A meta‐aggregation of qualitative research	10
Benefits of and barriers to telehealth for the informal caregivers of elderly individuals in rural areas: A scoping review	10
Workplace locations of allied health and nursing graduates who undertook a placement in the Northern Territory of Australia from 2016 to 2019: An observational cohort study	10
Nursing in a different world: Remote area nursing as a specialist–generalist practice area	10
Impact of the COVID‐19 pandemic on medical student placements in rural Queensland: A survey study	10
Impact of COVID‐19 on rural and remote student placements in Australia: A national study	9
Personalised music for residents with dementia in an Australian rural aged‐care setting	9
Impact of an outpatient telestroke clinic on management of rural stroke patients	9
Intuitive eating is positively associated with indicators of physical and mental health among rural Australian adults	9
Rural emergency departments: A systematic review to develop a resource typology relevant to developed countries	9
Building a rural workforce through identifying supports for rural, mature‐aged nursing and allied health students: A systematic scoping review	9
The psychosocial experiences and supportive care preferences of organ transplant recipients and their carers who live in regional Australia	9
Evaluation of the Allied Health Rural Generalist Program 2017‐2019	8
Individuals of refugee background resettled in regional and rural Australia: A systematic review of mental health research	8
Navigating the space between co‐design and mahitahi: Building bridges between knowledge systems on behalf of communities	8
The evolution of the teledentistry landscape in Australia: A scoping review	8
‘Biggest factors in having cancer were costs and no entitlement to compensation’—The determinants of out‐of‐pocket costs for cancer care through the lenses of rural and outer metropolitan Western Aust	8
Why are some drought‐affected farmers less distressed than others? The association between stress, psychological distress, acceptance, behavioural disengagement and neuroticism	8
Evaluation of a young adult renal and transplant transition clinic in a regional setting: Supporting young adults and parents' transition to self‐management	8
Does undertaking rural placements add to place of origin as a predictor of where health graduates work?	8
Return of the unexpected: Rural workforce recruitment and retention in the era of COVID‐19	8
Rural emergency care facilities may be adapting to their context: A population‐level study of resources and workforce	8
Factors that influence workplace location choices in the different allied health professions: A systematic review	8
Connecting with social and emotional well‐being in rural Australia: An evaluation of ‘We‐Yarn’, an Aboriginal gatekeeper suicide prevention workshop	8
What do dental students value about their rural placements—Is clinical experience enough?	8
Marŋgithirri guŋga’yunarawu ga guŋga’yunyarawu marŋgithinyarawu Learning to connect and connecting to learn: Preparing the rural and remote allied health workforce through a co‐created student‐	8
Research training incorporating education and mentoring for rural and regional allied health professionals: An evaluation study	7
Effectiveness of telehealth palliative care Needs Rounds in rural residential aged care during the COVID‐19 pandemic: A hybrid effectiveness‐implementation study	7
Community co‐produced mental health initiatives in rural Australia: A scoping review	7
Understanding and addressing psychological distress experienced by farmers, from the perspective of rural financial counsellors	7
Barriers and enablers to structured care delivery in Australian rural primary care	7
‘I can't go, I can't afford it’: Financial concern amongst health students undertaking rural and remote placements during COVID‐19	7
Clinician and consumer perceptions of head and neck cancer services in rural areas: Implications for speech pathology service delivery	6
Geographical distribution of 3 allied health professions in South Australia: A summary of access and disadvantage	6
Cardiac rehabilitation in rural and remote areas of North Queensland: How well are we doing?	6
Co‐designing research with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander consumers of mental health services, mental health workers, elders and cultural healers	6
Lived experience of parents and carers of people receiving services in rural areas under the National Disability Insurance Scheme	6
Australia's Rural Health Multidisciplinary Training program: Preparing for the rural health workforce that Australia needs	6
The changing psychiatry workforce in Australia: Still lacking in rural and remote regions	6
Critically reviewing the policies used by colleges to select doctors for specialty training: A kink in the rural pathway	6
Farm‐related injury deaths in Australia (2001–20)	6
Rural placements during undergraduate training promote future rural work by nurses, midwives and allied health professionals	6
Low back pain presentations to rural, regional, and metropolitan emergency departments	6
Who cares about Aboriginal Aged Care? Evidence of home care support needs and use in rural South Australia	6
Developing the geographic classification for health, a rural‐urban classification for New Zealand health research and policy: A research protocol	6
Community awareness of speech pathology: A regional perspective	5
Rural employment: A get‐go for recent nursing and allied health graduates?	5
Acceptability and feasibility of telehealth outpatient video‐link consultations: A national cross‐sectional survey of surgeons prior to the COVID‐19 pandemic	5

Prevalence and risk factors associated with alcohol consumption among indigenous people in Sabah Borneo Island	5
Comparing rivers to lakes: Implications for drowning prevention	5
Healthcare professionals' experiences and perceptions of artificial intelligence in regional and rural health districts in Australia	5
How might access to postgraduate medical education in regional and rural locations be best improved? A scoping review	5
Exploring nurse practitioner practice in Australian rural primary health care settings: A scoping review	5
Design, development and implementation of the virtual, coordination, access, referral and escalation service in western New South Wales	5
COVID‐19 and mental health and well‐being in rural Australia	5
Offsite primary care providers using telehealth to support a sustainable workforce in rural and remote general practice: A rapid review of the literature	5
Importance of cardiac rehabilitation in rural and remote areas of Australia	5
‘It all comes back to community!’: A qualitative study of Aboriginal Elders promoting cultural well‐being	5
Towards more effective health workforce governance: The case of overseas‐trained doctors	5
Rural disability workforce perspective on effective inter‐disciplinary training—A qualitative pilot study	5
Responding to rural allied health workforce challenges in the public health system: Evaluation of the Allied Health Rural Generalist Pathway pilot in western New South Wales	5
Road traffic fatalities in rural and remote Australia from 2006 to 2017: The need for targeted action	5
Activity levels of inpatients admitted to two rehabilitation units in regional hospitals: An observational study	4
Sustaining rural interprofessional initiatives in the current landscape: A short report on interprofessional education in rural health services in Queensland	4
Rural pharmacists and stakeholders perspectives of expanded pharmacy practice: A descriptive study	4
Investigating first‐year graduate paramedics’ reason for current work location: A cross‐sectional, data linkage study	4
Barriers and enablers faced by regional and rural schools in supporting student mental health: A mixed‐methods systematic review	4
Building rural health research and scholarship – NHMRC Open access revisions and impact on rural health outcomes	4
Rural health is a crisis that can be solved, here and now	4
A mixed‐methods evaluation of a health‐promoting café located in a small health service in rural Victoria, Australia	4
Selection, training and employment to encourage early‐career doctors to pursue a rural postgraduate training pathway	4
Factors associated with medical students’ interest in remote and very remote practice in Australia: A national study	4
Scoping review: Language assessment practices for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children in Australia and guidelines for clinical practice	4
Characteristics of nursing and allied health student placements in the Northern Territory over time (2017‐2019) and placement satisfaction	4
Predictors of dementia knowledge in a rural general public sample	4
Starting from scratch: Developing and sustaining a rural research team lessons from a nutrition and dietetics case study	4
Rural primary care workforce views on trauma‐informed care for parents experiencing complex trauma: A descriptive study	4
Teen Clinic — An integrated primary healthcare model that improves access for young people in rural communities	4
Strength of cross‐sector collaborations in co‐designing an extended rural and remote nursing placement innovation: Focusing on student learning in preference to student churning	4
Collaborative care: Primary health workforce and service delivery in Western New South Wales—A case study	4
Delivering introductory physiotherapy clinical placements incorporating simulated learning experiences in rural settings	4
Co‐design of a nurse‐led model of care to increase access to medical abortion and contraception in rural and regional general practice: A protocol	4
Aged care in rural Australia	4
‘Empowering clinicians in smaller sites’: A qualitative study of clinician's experiences with a rural Virtual Paediatric Feeding Clinic	4
Effects of employing primary care doctors in hospital to improve the quality of care and health outcomes of rural patients: A systematic scoping review	4
Effects of a family dyadic partnership program for people with hypertension in a rural community: A pilot randomised controlled trial	4
Poorer first aid after burn is associated with remoteness in Australia: Where to from here?	4
Optimising medical retrieval processes and outcomes in remote areas in high‐income countries: A scoping review	4
Group clinical supervision for allied health professionals	4
Effect of depression awareness and management training on the attitudes of rural primary health care workers	4
Guide for community leaders to meet the challenges of personal preparation in the event of a disaster	4
Perceptions, concerns and reported behaviours in response to the first wave of the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic across metropolitan, regional, rural and remote Australian communities	4
From co‐design to co‐production: Approaches, enablers, and constraints in developing a public health, capacity‐building solution	4
Social prescribing: A new paradigm with additional benefits in rural Australia	4
How rural is rural? The relationship between rural background of medical students and their career location intentions	4
Influence of rurality on general practitioner registrars' participation in their practice's after‐hours roster: A cross‐sectional study	4
How do nurses use early warning system vital signs observation charts in rural, remote and regional health care facilities: A scoping review	3
Co‐designing community‐focused rural placements for collaborative practice	3
Use of a quality improvement strategy to introduce co‐design of the mental health discharge plan in rural and remote New South Wales	3
Disability workforce and the NDIS planning process in regional, rural and remote regions of Australia: Scoping review	3
Provision of health services for elderly populations in rural and remote areas in Australia: A systematic scoping review	3
ICIRAS: Research and reconciliation with indigenous peoples in rural health journals	3
Fifteen years of shared care for paediatric oncology, haematology and palliative patients across Queensland: The role of Regional Case Managers	3
Importance of research higher degree training availability in rural and remote regions	3
Rural general practitioner confidence in diagnosing and managing dementia: A two‐stage, mixed methods study of dementia‐specific training	3
Perspectives of supervisors of allied health and nursing students undertaking work‐integrated learning placements in the Northern Territory: The view from here	3
Travel‐associated cost savings to patients and the health system through provision of specialist head and neck surgery outreach clinics in rural New South Wales, Australia	3
Telehealth experiences of vulnerable clients living in Tasmania	3
Impact of clinical placement sites on general practice as a career preference for Australian medical students	3
‘Immunisation, I haven't had a problem, but once again the transport, making an appointment, the time that you waste and all of those things are an issue’—Understanding childhood under‐immunisation in	3
Satisfaction with general practitioner obstetrician‐led maternity care in rural Western Australia	3
Five years on: Influences on early career health professionals from a rural interprofessional pre‐registration immersion program	3
An exploration of mental health, stress and well‐being concerns among health students undertaking rural placements in Australia during the early stages of the COVID‐19 pandemic	3
Rapid multi‐professional training for COVID‐19 in rural hospitals	3
Physiotherapy students' empathy towards Australians living in rural settings: A pre‐test post‐test evaluation of a stand‐alone rural simulation activity	3
Models of remote professional supervision for psychologists in rural and remote locations: A systematic review	3
Geographic variation in health system performance in rural areas of New South Wales, Australia	3
Supporting health students on rural placements: A scoping review	3
Prevention pays: COVID‐19 tells us it's time for a Sovereign Health Fund for disease prevention	3
Incidence and factors impacting PTSD following the 2005 Eyre Peninsula bushfires in South Australia – A 7 year follow up study	3
Exploring the impact of remoteness on people with head and neck cancer: Utilisation of a state‐wide dataset	3
Revised model for evaluating visiting health care services in rural and remote settings	3
Understanding the elements of a quality rural/remote interprofessional education activity: A rough guide	3