OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of International Journal for Quality in Health Care 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Portuguese Abstracts	57
Addressing wounded healers’ burnout and moral distress: starts and ends with integrity	49
Spanish Abstracts for Volume 34, Issue 3, 2022	40
It’s time to protect nursing students from workplace violence	32
Health system performance assessment: embedding resilience through performance intelligence	30
An analysis of complaints about hospital care in the Republic of Ireland	28
Indirect effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on healthcare contacts, quality of care, and social disparities across essential healthcare domains	25
Developing and validating a Global Trigger Tool for assessing frequency, level of harm, and preventability of adverse drug events in pediatric inpatients units	21
Title: Cost-Related Medication Nonadherence in Adults with Hypertension in the United States: Implications for Healthcare Quality	19
Implementation of regional Acute Stroke Care Map increases thrombolysis rates in urban areas of China: an interrupted time series analysis	18
Correction to: Pilot testing of the International Council of Cardiovascular Prevention and Rehabilitation Registry	17
Dying in hospital: a retrospective medical record analysis on care in the dying phase in intensive care units and general wards	17
Epidemiology of falls in 25 Australian residential aged care facilities: a retrospective longitudinal cohort study using routinely collected data	16
Multidisciplinary perspectives on roles of hospital pharmacists in tertiary settings: a qualitative study	16
The impact of hospital command centre on patient flow and data quality: findings from the UK National Health Service	15
Disparities in unmet health service needs among people with disabilities in China	15
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	14
The future of global graduate training in quality improvement and patient safety	12
Spanish Abstracts for Volume 35, Issue 4, 2023	12
Adapting lean management to prevent healthcare-associated infections: a low-cost strategy involving Kamishibai cards to sustain bundles’ compliance	12
Time to review reflective practice?	12
Optimizing neurosurgery clinic operations: a comparative study of interventions in Finland’s public healthcare system	11
Practice patterns and survival outcomes for muscle-invasive bladder cancer: real-life experience in a general population setting	11
Effect of automated unit dose dispensing with barcode scanning on medication administration errors: an uncontrolled before-and-after study	11
Placing patient safety at the heart of value-based healthcare	10

Making health and healthcare really matter in less resourced countries	10
Advancing quality in low human development index scoring countries; the need for standardized and shared quality measurement and reporting	10
Careggi Re-Engineered Discharge project: standardize discharge and improve care coordination between healthcare professionals	10
North-south inequalities in healthcare response to Covid-19 in Italy	10
Understanding what it will take to sustain improvement in healthcare	10
Investigating drivers of telecare acceptance to improve healthcare quality for independently living older adults	10
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on emergency care of acute myocardial infarction: findings from the Taiwan Clinical Performance Indicator	10
Effects of a team Quality Improvement method in a national clinical audit programme of four clinical specialties in Ministry of Health hospitals in Saudi Arabia	9
Cluster randomized controlled trial: A matter of independence	9
Outcomes of completed quality activities in an Australian tertiary hospital, 2015–2019	9
‘Low-value’ clinical care in general practice: a cross-sectional analysis of low-value care in early-career GPs’ practice	9
Spanish Abstracts for Volume 33, Issue 3, 2021	9
Association between patient choice of provider and patient-reported experience	9
Impact of the physical therapy–managed spinal orthoses program on cost of care in the hospital setting: a retrospective interrupted time-series study	9
The maturity of lean management in a large academic medical center in Finland: a qualitative study	9
Portuguese Abstracts for Volume 35, Issue 1, 2023	8
Coproduction in the management of individuals with cleft lip and palate in South Africa: the Ekhaya Lethu model	8
Improving patient safety governance and systems through learning from successes and failures: qualitative surveys and interviews with international experts	8
Reducing the risks of nuclear war: the role of health professionals	8
Improving primary care access to respirologists using eConsult	8
Barriers, facilitators and implementation strategies to implement ‘Patient’s Own Medication’ and ‘Self-administration of Medication’ in hospitals	8
Variation in hospital performance measures from the Turkey Ministry of Health	8
Using patient-reported outcome measures and patient-reported experience measures to elevate the quality of healthcare	7
Spanish Abstracts for Volume 33, Issue 1, 2021	7
The effect of applying telehealth education to home care of infants after congenital heart disease surgery	7
How should medical society face patient feedback in online review platforms?	7
Developing quality measures for non-pharmacological prevention and rehabilitation in primary health care for chronic conditions: a consensus study	7
Research on obstetric ward planning combining lean thinking and mixed-integer programming	7
Effect of a waiting room communication strategy on imaging rates and awareness of public health messages for low back pain	7
Promoting human rights-based deinstitutionalization in Lithuania by applying the World Health Organization’s QualityRights Assessments	7
Systematic recording and discussion of intraoperative adverse events using ClassIntra: results of a qualitative context analysis before implementation	7
Patients experience more support, information and involvement after first-time hospital accreditation: a before and after study in the Faroe Islands	7
Using guideline-based clinical decision support in oncological multidisciplinary team meetings: A prospective, multicenter concordance study	7
Training the next generation of journal editors: The case for editorial apprenticeship programmes	6
Nosocomial COVID: the moral and clinical imperative for worldwide data collection and action	6
The role of co-production in Learning Health Systems	6
Promoting holistic and inclusive care for women: a call for updated health policies	6
Resilience and regulation—antithesis or a smart combination for future healthcare service improvement?	6
Clinical resilience: toward a unified definition	6
Gender in the consolidated criteria for reporting qualitative research (COREQ) checklist	6
Five-year analysis of hospital complaints at a Japanese tertiary teaching hospital	6
Delayed discharges at a tertiary rehabilitation centre in Saudi Arabia: contributing factors and cost impact	6
Hospital accreditation: an umbrella review	6
A ‘COVID Compass’ for navigating the pandemic	5
French Abstracts for Volume 34, Issue 1, 2022	5
Implementing a screening algorithm for early recognition of sepsis in hospitalized children: a quality improvement project	5
Transforming Emergency Care: Lessons from Innovations Beyond Healthcare	5
Finding space for kindness: public protection and health professional regulation	5
Reduction in use of MRI and arthroscopy among patients with degenerative knee disease in independent treatment centers versus general hospitals: a time series analysis	5
How safe is prehospital care? A systematic review	5

Point-of-care dashboards promote coproduction of healthcare services for patients with inflammatory bowel disease	5
Boxed in but out of the box: novel approaches to addressing obstacles to specialty care	5
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	5
Governance and management in healthcare organizations: their different roles in driving safety and quality	5
International research priorities for integrated care and cross-boundary working: an electronic Delphi study	5
Comparative analysis of routine clinical debriefings and incident reports: insights for patient safety and teamwork enhancement	4
Impact of an educational intervention on WHO surgical safety checklist and pre-operative antibiotic use at a referral hospital in southwestern Uganda	4
Spanish Abstracts for Volume 34, Issue 2, 2022	4
Advancing quality management in the medical devices industry: strategies for effective ISO 13485 implementation	4
Look-alike, sound-alike medication perioperative incidents in a regional Australian hospital: assessment using a novel medication safety culture assessment tool	4
Accelerating improvement: The Pediatric Acute Care Cardiology Collaborative data timeliness project	4
Evaluating factors associated with the cancellation and delay of elective surgical procedures: a systematic review	4
Navigating the complex terrain of patient safety: challenges, strategies, and the importance of ongoing evaluation and knowledge sharing	4
Effects of gait adaptation training on augmented reality treadmill for patients with stroke in community ambulation	4
Mapping the quality of basic and comprehensive emergency obstetric care services in Haiti	4
French Abstract for Volume 34, Issue 3, 2022	4
Reform of mental health systems: what does the future look like and how to get there?	4
Interruption of initial patient assessment in the emergency department and its effect on patient perception of care quality	4
Implementation research on measuring quality in primary care: balancing national needs with learning from the Eastern Mediterranean Region	4
New ways of working: health professional development for effective coproduction	4
Quality as strategy, the evolution of co-production in the Region Jönköping health system, Sweden: a descriptive qualitative study	4
Use and de-implementation of fecal occult blood tests in the acute care setting: a systematic review and meta-analysis	4
How personnel diversity and affective bonds affect performance-based financing: a moderator analysis of a difference-in-difference estimator	4
Combined lumbar spine MRI and CT appropriateness checklist: a quality improvement project in Saskatchewan, Canada	4
Sharps injuries among healthcare workers in Liberia and Ghana: a cross-sectional survey	4
Measuring quality of care for universal health coverage in the Western Pacific	4
Combining failure modes and effects analysis and cause–effect analysis: a novel method of risk analysis to reduce anaphylaxis due to contrast media	3
In Good Hands: exploring patient safety in the Philippines	3
Anti-Indigenous racism in Canadian healthcare: a scoping review of the literature	3
A simulation study on the association of HRO communication patterns and surgical team performance	3
Organisational capacity for family engagement during COVID: Ensuring family communication needs are met for better engagement with care	3
The double use of PROMs to improve patient–provider communication and to compare providers: a potential conflict?	3
Organizational capacity for patient and family engagement in hospital planning and improvement: interviews with patient/family advisors, managers and clinicians	3
Implementation and outcomes of a statewide TBI screening program for underserved populations	3
The utility of website-based quality improvement tools for health professionals: a systematic review	3
Developing online medical service quality indicators in China from the perspective of online and offline integration: a modified Delphi–analytic hierarchy process study	3
Developing clinical care programs: Experience from a Colombian clinical center	3
Healthcare quality assessments: no guarantees of same outcomes for different socio-economic stroke patients	3
Using telemedicine to improve the quality of life of parents of infants with CHD surgery after discharge	3
Predicting non-response in patient-reported outcome measures: results from the Swiss quality assurance programme in cardiac inpatient rehabilitation	3
French Abstracts for Volume 33, Issue 3, 2021	3
International approaches for implementing accreditation programmes in different healthcare facilities: a comparative case study in Australia, Botswana, Denmark, and Jordan	3
A prospective randomized controlled study of the effect of standardized nursing intervention for cancer pain on the quality of life of patients	3
The accuracy of the Global Trigger Tool is higher for the identification of adverse events of greater harm: a diagnostic test study	3
Effect of China’s long-term care insurance on health outcomes of older disabled people: role of institutional care	3
Patient safety in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: how can we do better?	3
Are clinicians using routinely collected data to drive practice improvement? A cross-sectional survey	3
Some Important Principles for Implementing Lean Management in Healthcare Organizations	3
Development and Validation of a Quality Indicator System for Outpatient Service in Shenzhen, China	3
COVID-19 response: a perspective from Pakistan	3
Improving the quality of hospital sterilization process using failure modes and effects analysis, fuzzy logic, and machine learning: experience in tertiary dental centre	3
Effects of an educational intervention for rational cardiac enzyme requisitions in critically ill patients: a pre–post intervention study	3
Burden of ischemic stroke in mainland China and Taiwan province from 1990 to 2019: with forecast for the next 11 years	3
Portuguese Abstracts for Volume 34, Issue 2, 2022	3
Interpreting the lived experiences of home caregivers in the families of patients with COVID-19 in Iran: a phenomenological study	3
Spanish Abstracts for Volume 33, Issue 2, 2021	3
Patient experience and nurse staffing level in South Korea	3
Modelling the effect of COVID-19 mass vaccination on acute hospital admissions	3
Pilot testing of the International Council of Cardiovascular Prevention and Rehabilitation Registry	3
Addressing the challenge of reducing low-value care	3
How to effectively engage patients and families in quality improvement: a deep, transparent partnership	3
Coproducing value during the COVID-19 pandemic	3
Potentially avoidable hospitalizations and associated factors among older people in French Guiana using the French National Health Data System	3
The second victim phenomenon: comprehensive support and systemic change in healthcare	3
Can guidelines rein in oxygen use? A retrospective cross-sectional study using routinely collected data	3
Examining the joint effect of clinical quality, meaningful use of HIT and patient–caregiver interaction on mortality rates in US acute care hospitals	3