International Journal for Quality in Health Care

Article	Citations
French Abstracts for Volume 34, Issue 1, 2022	55
Burden of ischemic stroke in mainland China and Taiwan province from 1990 to 2019: with forecast for the next 11 years	40
An invitation to join the IJQHC reviewer community—a call for peer-reviewers	37
Correction to: Is primary care a patient-safe setting? Prevalence, severity, nature, and causes of adverse events: numerous and mostly avoidable	30
Factors influencing the indication of coronary angiography in patients presenting with chest pain unspecified: an analysis of two decades (1994–2014)	23
The impact of outsourcing bed-based aged care services on quality of care: A multisite observational study	22
Addressing wounded healers’ burnout and moral distress: starts and ends with integrity	20
Implementing structured handoffs to verify operating room blood delivery using a quality academy training program: an interrupted time-series analysis	19
Transforming Emergency Care: Lessons from Innovations Beyond Healthcare	19
Psychological safety, Job satisfaction, and the Intention to Leave among German early-career physicians	19
Integration of persistence in the 5P-medicine approach for age-related chronic diseases	17
Discharge to post–acute care and other predictors of prolonged length of stay during the initial COVID-19 surge: a single site analysis	16
Optimizing warfarin and dual oral anticoagulation practices in an academic clinic during a merger amid the COVID-19 pandemic in a marginalized population	16
A ‘COVID Compass’ for navigating the pandemic	14
International, national and local trends in the spread of COVID-19: a geographic view of COVID-19 spread and the role to be played by coproduction	14
Evaluation of the Association of Length of Stay in Hospital and Outcomes	14
The cross-national applicability of lean implementation measures and hospital performance measures: a case study of Finland and the USA	14
Portuguese Abstracts	13
Portuguese Abstracts for Volume 34, Issue 2, 2022	12
Boxed in but out of the box: novel approaches to addressing obstacles to specialty care	12
Patient-reported outcome measures in mental health clinical research: a descriptive review in comparison with clinician-rated outcome measures	12
Home before Hospital: a whole of system re-design project to improve rates of home-based dialysis therapy: Experience and outcomes over 8 years	12
Adherence to evidence-based guidelines for prevention of urinary retention in hip surgery patients: a multicentre observational study	12
Reduction in use of MRI and arthroscopy among patients with degenerative knee disease in independent treatment centers versus general hospitals: a time series analysis	12
COVID-19 lockdown impact on quality of treatment and outcomes of STEMI and stroke patients in a large tertiary medical center: an observational study	12

A quality assurance initiative on improving cefazolin perioperative redose compliance	10
Medical visits and health-care expenditures of patients attending orthopedic clinics during the COVID-19 pandemic in Japan: LIFE Study	10
Combined lumbar spine MRI and CT appropriateness checklist: a quality improvement project in Saskatchewan, Canada	10
The cost of a first and second hospital-wide accreditation in Flanders, Belgium	9
French Abstracts for Volume 33, Issue 3, 2021	9
Spanish Abstracts for Volume 31, Issue 6, 2019	9
Scaling up quality in an anesthesia practice	9
Portuguese Abstracts, Volume 36, Issue 1, 2024	9
A prospective randomized controlled study of the effect of standardized nursing intervention for cancer pain on the quality of life of patients	9
Improving community care for patients discharged from hospital through zone-wide implementation of a seamless care transition policy	9
Spanish Abstracts for Volume 31, Issue 8, 2019	9
Implementing a screening algorithm for early recognition of sepsis in hospitalized children: a quality improvement project	9
Spanish Abstracts for Volume 34, Issue 3, 2022	8
Correction to: Barriers and facilitators to health professionals’ engagement in quality improvement initiatives: a mixed-methods systematic review	8
Portuguese Abstracts, Volume 35, Issue 4, 2023	8
Provider–patient experiences and HIV care utilization among people living with HIV who inject drugs in St. Petersburg, Russia	8
A meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials comparing breast-conserving surgery and mastectomy in terms of patient survival rate and quality of life in breast cancer	8
Leaving the hospital on time: hospital bed utilization and reasons for discharge delay in the Netherlands	8
An analysis of complaints about hospital care in the Republic of Ireland	7
It’s time to protect nursing students from workplace violence	7
A meta-review of methods of measuring and monitoring safety in primary care	7
How safe is prehospital care? A systematic review	7
Finding space for kindness: public protection and health professional regulation	7
A scoping review of clinical handover mnemonic devices	7
Governance and management in healthcare organizations: their different roles in driving safety and quality	7
Revolutionizing patient safety with artificial intelligence: the potential of natural language processing and large language models	7
Exploring the impact of employee engagement and patient safety	7
The influence mechanism analysis of family doctor team effectiveness: a mixed-method approach	6
The impact of elective surgery postponement during COVID-19 on emergency bellwether procedures in a large tertiary centre in Singapore	6
Adverse events reporting during the COVID-19 pandemic in a Danish region: a retrospective analysis	6
Correction to: Perceived reliability of medical device alarms—a major determinant of medical errors driven by frozen medical thinking	6
Underreporting of adverse events to health authorities by healthcare professionals: a red flag-raising descriptive study	6
Barriers and facilitators to health professionals’ engagement in quality improvement initiatives: a mixed-methods systematic review	6
Improving care safety by characterizing task interruptions during interactions between healthcare professionals: an observational study	6
Setting standards in residential aged care: identifying achievable benchmarks of care for long-term aged care services	6
Nurses’ perception of medication administration errors and factors associated with their reporting in the neonatal intensive care unit	6
Provider experience and satisfaction with a novel ‘virtual team rounding’ program during the COVID-19 pandemic	6
Case management in emergency care: impact evaluation of the CARED Program	5
French Abstract for Volume 34, Issue 3, 2022	5
Factors Associated With Self-Reported Medical Errors Among Healthcare Workers: A Cross-Sectional Study From Oman	5
A study of prehospital EMS response time and influencing factors in the main urban area of Chongqing, China	5
Patient-reported indicators in mental health care: towards international standards among members of the OECD	5
Health system performance assessment: embedding resilience through performance intelligence	5
Combining failure modes and effects analysis and cause–effect analysis: a novel method of risk analysis to reduce anaphylaxis due to contrast media	5
Impact of an educational intervention on WHO surgical safety checklist and pre-operative antibiotic use at a referral hospital in southwestern Uganda	5
Leveraging collaborative learning for improved heart failure care: insights from Argentina	5
Control charts in healthcare quality monitoring: a systematic review and bibliometric analysis	5
The global, regional, and national burden and quality of care index of kidney cancer; a global burden of disease systematic analysis 1990–2019	5
Point-of-care dashboards promote coproduction of healthcare services for patients with inflammatory bowel disease	5
Safeguarding quality of care in active conflict: priority issues and interventions in Sudan	5

Portuguese Abstracts for Volume 34, Issue 3, 2022	5
Adapting lean management to prevent healthcare-associated infections: a low-cost strategy involving Kamishibai cards to sustain bundles’ compliance	5
Is evidence of effectiveness a driver for clinical decision support selection? A qualitative descriptive study of senior hospital staff	5
Attitude toward perioperative safety among operation room clinicians at Ethiopian University Hospital	5
International research priorities for integrated care and cross-boundary working: an electronic Delphi study	5
Patient- and family-centred care transition interventions for adults: a systematic review and meta-analysis of RCTs	5
Triage nurse–initiated X-ray radiography in minor trauma	4
Second victim support structures in anaesthesia: a cross-sectional survey in Belgian anaesthesiologists	4
Perceived reliability of medical device alarms—a major determinant of medical errors driven by frozen medical thinking	4
Measuring shared decision-making in younger and older adults with depression	4
Spanish Abstracts for Volume 32, Issue 7, 2020	4
Safety climate, leadership and patient views associated with hip fracture care quality and clinician perceptions of hip fracture care performance	4
With much of England’s NHS under severe pressure, should health inequalities be a priority?	4
Spanish Abstracts for Volume 31, Issue 7, 2019	4
Mapping the quality of basic and comprehensive emergency obstetric care services in Haiti	4
Verbal descriptors of the frequency of side effects: implementation of EMA recommendations in patient information leaflets in Poland	4
Quality improvement in anaesthesia practices: letter to the editor	4
Key lessons to improve care—factors contributing to delayed discharges and cost implications: medical conditions and rehabilitation delays at a tertiary rehabilitation center in Saudi Arabia	4
Effect of COVID-19 on hospital visits in Ningbo, China: an interrupted time-series analysis	4
Spanish Abstracts for Volume 34, Issue 2, 2022	4
Medication adherence as mandatory indicator in healthcare safety	3
Abdominal surgical trajectories associated with failure to rescue. A nationwide analysis	3
Adjuvant zoledronic acid therapy for postmenopausal women with early breast cancer in China: a cost-effectiveness analysis	3
French abstracts for Volume 35, Issue 2, 2023	3
The future of global graduate training in quality improvement and patient safety	3
An invitation to contribute to a dynamic community committed to quality without borders: the rise of a global francophone network focused on healthcare improvement	3
Assessment of the reliability of the IHI Global Trigger Tool: new perspectives from a Brazilian study	3
A cost-effectiveness analysis of the Chronic Disease Management Program in patients with hypertension in Korea	3
Multidisciplinary perspectives on roles of hospital pharmacists in tertiary settings: a qualitative study	3
French abstracts for Volume 35, Issue 3, 2023	3
The effect of distraction on the quality of patient handoff: a randomized study*	3
Barriers to evidence-based practice implementation in physiotherapy: a systematic review and meta-analysis	3
A comparative study of home healthcare quality in urban and rural home health agencies throughout the USA (2010–22)	3
Design and validation of indicators for the comprehensive measurement of quality of care for type 2 diabetes and acute respiratory infections in ambulatory health services	3
Development and validation of a patient satisfaction survey for pharmaceutical service at primary care settings	3
The development of indicators to measure the quality of care in geriatric rehabilitation	3
Express check-in: developing a personal health record for patients admitted to hospital with medical emergencies: a mixed-method feasibility study	3
A multiphase, multicentre development and validation of two maturity tools assessing the implementation of the FlaQuM co-creation roadmap	3
Diagnostic performance of a newly launched Canadian fast-track ultrasound clinic by rheumatologists for the diagnosis of giant cell arteritis	3
A beacon to guide others: improving chronic disease management through targeted, evidence-based primary healthcare quality measures	3
Applying models of co-production in the context of health and well-being. A narrative review to guide future practice	3
Time to review reflective practice?	3
Making health and healthcare really matter in less resourced countries	2
Monitoring for adverse drug events of high-risk medications with a computerized clinical decision support system: a prospective cohort study	2
Clinical indicators to monitor health care in low back pain: a scoping review	2
Facilitators and barriers to the implementation of surgical safety checklist: an integrative review	2
Environmental sustainability and quality care: Not one without the other	2
Supporting equitable access to kidney transplant in remote Western Australia using continuous quality improvement	2
Spanish Abstracts for Volume 35, Issue 2, 2023	2
Use and De-implementation of Fecal Occult Blood Tests in the Acute Care Setting: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis	2
Incident Reporting Reduction during the Covid-19 Pandemic in a Tertiary Italian Hospital. A Retrospective Analysis	2
Are operating room distractions, interruptions and disruptions associated with performance and patient safety? A systematic review and meta-analysis	2
Documentation quality of patient-directed discharge and early warning interactions in an adult inpatient service	2
Effects of gait adaptation training on augmented reality treadmill for patients with stroke in community ambulation	2
Addressing overestimation and insensitivity in the 85% target for average bed occupancy	2
Suicide and stigma: connections and challenges	2
Advancing Quality Management in the Medical Devices Industry: Strategies for Effective ISO 13485 Implementation	2
Exploring the relation between clinician ratings and patient-reported experience and outcomes	2
Investigating drivers of telecare acceptance to improve healthcare quality for independently living older adults	2
How personnel diversity and affective bonds affect performance-based financing: a moderator analysis of a difference-in-difference estimator	2
Reform of mental health systems: what does the future look like and how to get there?	2
Single-use negative pressure wound therapy to prevent surgical site complications in high-risk patients undergoing caesarean sections: a real-world study	2
A qualitative study exploring challenges and solutions to negotiating goals of care at the end of life in hospital settings	2
Quo Vadis? Face-to-face visits	2
The impact of hospital command centre on patient flow and data quality: findings from the UK National Health Service	2
Reporting patient experiences within elective perioperative care: a scoping review	2
Best practice: quality assessment outcomes of the Practice Enhancement Program among family physicians in Saskatchewan, Canada	2
Predictors of job satisfaction and intention to stay in the job among health-care providers in Uganda and Zambia	2
Public expectations on regulatory requirements for the management of hospital ‘never events’ in Germany	2
Application of DRGs in hospital medical record management and its impact on service quality	2
Correction to: Pilot testing of the International Council of Cardiovascular Prevention and Rehabilitation Registry	2
Multiple case study of processes used by hospitals to select performance indicators: do they align with best practices?	2
Physicians’ perspectives on clinical indicators: systematic review and thematic synthesis	2
Outcomes of completed quality activities in an Australian tertiary hospital, 2015–2019	2
Implementation research on measuring quality in primary care: balancing national needs with learning from the Eastern Mediterranean Region	2
French Abstract for Volume 34, Issue 4, 2022	2
Disparities in unmet health service needs among people with disabilities in China	2
Careggi Re-Engineered Discharge project: standardize discharge and improve care coordination between healthcare professionals	2
Applying health-six-sigma principles helps reducing the variability of length of stay in the emergency department	2
Epidemiology of falls in 25 Australian residential aged care facilities: a retrospective longitudinal cohort study using routinely collected data	2

Constructing nursing quality indicators for intraoperative acquired pressure injury in cancer patients based on guidelines	2
Patient-centered care: the North Star to guide us during uncertainty into a better day	2
Quality improvement collaborative to optimize heart failure care in patients from a network of clinics in Argentina during the COVID-19 pandemic	2
A quality improvement initiative using peer audit and feedback to improve compliance	2
Increasing venous thromboembolism risk assessment through a whole hospital-based intervention: a pre-post service evaluation to demonstrate quality improvement	2
Validity of 16 AHRQ Patient Safety Indicators to identify in-hospital complications: a medical record review across nine Swiss hospitals	2
A hybrid Shewhart chart for visualizing and learning from epidemic data	2
Exploring the development of safety culture among physicians with text mining of patient safety reports: a retrospective study	2
Community pantries: a health service of great quality for the most affected ones	1
Psychometric properties of the person-centred coordinated care experience questionnaire (P3CEQ) in a Norwegian radiotherapy setting	1
Effect analysis of multi-department cooperation in improving etiological submission rates before antibiotic treatment	1
Virtue ethics, the next step in quality improvement?	1
Overcoming telemental health disparities during the COVID-19 pandemic	1
The cost of dispensing errors in Iranian health system: a retrospective evaluation	1
Effect of a prioritization score on the inter-hospital transfer time management of severe COVID-19 patients: a quasi-experimental intervention study	1
Optimizing neurosurgery clinic operations: a comparative study of interventions in Finland’s public healthcare system	1
Holding up the crystal ball: using regulatory intelligence insights to support quality in healthcare	1
Health system resilience, accreditation, high-quality care, and continuous quality improvement: what is the destination and how do we get there?	1
Engaging healthcare professionals and patient representatives in the development of a quality model for hospitals: a mixed-method study	1
A starter’s guide to learning and teaching how to coproduce healthcare services	1
Healthcare quality assessments: no guarantees of same outcomes for different socio-economic stroke patients	1
Accreditation and clinical outcomes: shorter length of stay after first-time hospital accreditation in the Faroe Islands	1
Policy, accreditation and leadership: creating the conditions for effective coproduction of health, healthcare and science	1
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on emergency care of acute myocardial infarction: findings from the Taiwan Clinical Performance Indicator	1
Effects of an educational intervention for rational cardiac enzyme requisitions in critically ill patients: a pre–post intervention study	1
Effect of automated unit dose dispensing with barcode scanning on medication administration errors: an uncontrolled before-and-after study	1
Implementing co-production to enhance patient safety: the introduction of the patient safety consent tool, an example of a simple local solution to a common challenge	1
Near real-time patient experience feedback with data relay to providers: a systematic review of its effectiveness	1
Advancing quality in low human development index scoring countries; the need for standardized and shared quality measurement and reporting	1
Practice patterns and survival outcomes for muscle-invasive bladder cancer: real-life experience in a general population setting	1
Science-informed practice: an essential epistemologic contributor to health-care coproduction	1
Sharps injuries among healthcare workers in Liberia and Ghana: a cross-sectional survey	1
COVID-19 in aged care homes: a comparison of effects initial government policies had in the UK (primarily focussing on England) and Australia during the first wave	1
Israeli COVID lockdowns mildly reduced overall use of preventive health services, but exacerbated some disparities	1
Interruption of initial patient assessment in the emergency department and its effect on patient perception of care quality	1
Accelerating improvement: The Pediatric Acute Care Cardiology Collaborative data timeliness project	1
Co-worker unprofessional behaviour and patient safety risks: an analysis of co-worker reports across eight Australian hospitals	1
Targeted ordering of investigations reduces costs of treatment for surgical inpatients	1
Using space technology approach to improve quality in emergency departments in India: a quality improvement program	1
Use of wireless geographic locating system to improve medical equipment utilization and medical quality	1
Crossover of the patient satisfaction surveys, adverse events and patient complaints for continuous improvement in radiotherapy department	1
Multi-prong quality improvement initiatives improve sepsis prevention and reduce surgical site infection after childbirth	1
Patient-reported outcome measurement of symptom distress is feasible in most clinical scenarios in palliative care: an observational study involving routinely collected data	1
From assurance to coproduction: a century of improving the quality of health-care service	1
Heeding frontline voice for better quality and safer care	1
Are adverse events related to the completeness of clinical records? Results from a retrospective records review using the Global Trigger Tool	1
Evaluating factors associated with the cancellation and delay of elective surgical procedures: a systematic review	1
Understanding complaints made about surgical departments in a UK district general hospital	1
Person-centered care (PCC): the people’s perspective	1
Seeking systems-based facilitators of safety and healthcare resilience: a thematic review of incident reports	1
Redesigning patient flow in orthopedics and radiology clinics via a three-phase ‘Kaizen’ improvement approach and interrupted time series analysis	1
Process management program to prevent falls in hospitalized patients with neuropsychiatric disorders: a quality improvement program	1
Portuguese Abstracts for Volume 33, Issue 3, 2021	1
Quality gap in venous thromboembolism prophylaxis practices in inpatients: Assessment of prophylaxis practices in a University Hospital	1
The care needs of the elderly in China’s elderly care institutions: a narrative synthesis	1
What does the future of quality improvement look like?	1
Using patient-reported outcome measures in psychiatric hospital care: an observational study describing an iterative implementation process in Denmark	1
‘The big value of it is getting the patient seen by the right person at the right time’: clinician perceptions of the value of allied health primary contact models of care	1
Understanding what it will take to sustain improvement in healthcare	1
Medication reuse programs: a narrative review of the literature	1
EPERCAS study (Strategies for Preventing Medication Administration Errors in Nursing Homes). Preparation of a list of strategies to prevent the most frequent medication administration errors in the re	1
Spanish Abstracts for Volume 35, Issue 4, 2023	1
Core elements of excellent hospital leadership: lessons from the five top-performing hospitals in China	1
Placing patient safety at the heart of value-based healthcare	1
A qualitative study exploring patient shadowing as a method to improve patient-centred care: 10 principles for a new gold standard	1
Designing clinical indicators for common residential aged care conditions and processes of care: the CareTrack Aged development and validation study	1
North-south inequalities in healthcare response to Covid-19 in Italy	1
Spanish Abstracts for Volume 33, Issue 3, 2021	1
Measuring quality of care for universal health coverage in the Western Pacific	1
Care in the future—reconciling health system and individual resilience	1
Is a hospital quality policy based on a triad of accreditation, public reporting and inspection evidence-based? A narrative review	1
Outcomes among patients admitted for non-ST-segment myocardial infarction in the pre-pandemic and pandemic COVID-19 era: Israel Nationwide study	1
Predictors of patient-reported quality of care in low- and middle-income countries: a four-country survey of person-centered care	1
Expanded perspectives: integrating clinicians’ insights for comprehensive patient-reported outcomes in value-based healthcare	1
Job burnout facing Chinese general practitioners in the context of COVID-19	1
The silent threat: investigating sleep disturbances in hospitalized patients	1
Benefit of linking hospital resource information and patient-level stroke registry data	0
Organizational capacity for patient and family engagement in hospital planning and improvement: interviews with patient/family advisors, managers and clinicians	0
Intravenous iron staining: real-world incidence, preventability, and mitigation tools from a long-term quality improvement project	0
Effect of integrated medicines management on quality of discharge medication information—a secondary endpoint in a randomized controlled trial	0
Cost-effectiveness evaluations should be based on trials, not models	0
Assessing quality of critical care during an ongoing health emergency—a novel approach to evaluate quality of care at Lebanese public ICUs during COVID-19	0
Promoting human rights-based deinstitutionalization in Lithuania by applying the World Health Organization’s QualityRights Assessments	0
Analyzing and mitigating the risks of patient harm during operating room to intensive care unit patient handoffs	0
Examining the joint effect of clinical quality, meaningful use of HIT and patient–caregiver interaction on mortality rates in US acute care hospitals	0
Impact of COVID-19 lockdowns on health disparities: Lessons from Israel on preventive health utilization	0
How is the Theoretical Domains Framework applied in designing interventions to support healthcare practitioner behaviour change? A systematic review	0
How safe is virtual healthcare?	0
Pilot testing of the International Council of Cardiovascular Prevention and Rehabilitation Registry	0
Five-year analysis of hospital complaints at a Japanese tertiary teaching hospital	0
Implementation remains the biggest challenge to the effective use of PROMs and PREMs, so what can we do about it?	0
Addressing the continuing challenges of developing and implementing clinical practice guidelines	0
Gender in the consolidated criteria for reporting qualitative research (COREQ) checklist	0
Promoting holistic and inclusive care for women: a call for updated health policies	0
Artificial intelligence (AI) and human virtues: Towards a moral and quality health care system	0