OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Health Services Research & Policy 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Staff experiences of implementing patient-initiated follow-up (PIFU) in the NHS in England: findings from a rapid qualitative evaluation	84
Organizing to address overtreatment in cancer care near the end of life: Evidence from Denmark	35
From purges to broken partnerships: an international response to the global impact of Trump’s war on science	26
What happens when private general practitioners receive incentivisation offers from pharmaceutical sales representatives? A qualitative study in Pakistan	23
Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on people with disabilities and implications for health services research	19
Tools for the identification of victims of domestic abuse and modern slavery in remote services: A systematic review	19
Audit of submissions: July 2023–June 2024	18
Immigrants’ and refugees’ experiences of access to health and social services during the COVID-19 pandemic in Toronto, Canada	17
A qualitative exploration of the perceived barriers and enablers of providing mental health care in rural Australian general practice	17
Navigating the micro-politics of major system change: The implementation of Sustainability Transformation Partnerships in the English health and care system	16
The impact and legacy of COVID-19 on community-based multidisciplinary teams organising integrated health and social care for older people with long-term conditions: Findings from the evaluation of th	15
Looking back as thoughts turn to the future of the Journal of Health Services Research & Policy	13
Counseling and other factors associated with contraceptive use among active duty US military servicewomen	13
Improving the quality of residential care for people with disabilities — What is the experience of inspectors when implementing care quality regulations in Ireland?	13
The role of family caregivers in critical illness survivor recovery at home: A qualitative study	12
The views of older people on community-based multi-disciplinary team caseloads and informal carers about health and care services in two Integrated Care Pioneer sites in England	10
Expected wait times for access to a disease-modifying Alzheimer’s treatment in England: A modelling study	10
Protected appointment-based waiting list strategies are associated with waiting time reductions in outpatient and community health services: A systematic review and meta-analysis	9
Job preferences of Chinese primary health care workers: A discrete choice experiment	8
CORRECTION NOTICE “Family physician services and blood pressure control in China: A population-based retrospective cohort study”	8
Using arts-based research in applied health care: An example from an evaluation of NHS dental contract reform in Wales	8
State-level heterogeneity in associations between structural stigma and individual health care access: A multilevel analysis of transgender adults in the United States	7
Factors influencing the match between patient needs and primary care services: Patient and healthcare provider perspectives from two Canadian provinces	7
Addressing health worker migration in Africa	7
Tackling disrespect in health care: The relevance of socio-relational equality	7

Trauma and resilience informed research principles and practice: A framework to improve the inclusion and experience of disadvantaged populations in health and social care research	7
A pilot study examining the impact of a pragmatic process for improving the cultural responsiveness of non-Aboriginal alcohol and other drug treatment services using routinely collected data in Austra	7
Collaborative and integrated working between general practice and community pharmacies: A realist review of what works, for whom, and in which contexts	7
Does income matter for the policy effect of public long-term care insurance on informal care use in China? A quasi-experimental study	7
Engaging health care professionals in quality improvement: A qualitative study exploring the synergies between projects of professionalisation and institutionalisation in quality improvement collabora	7
Patient and multidisciplinary health professional perceptions of an Australian geriatric evaluation and management and rehabilitation hospital in the home service	6
Challenges, benefits, and strategies for delivering pregnancy care to people with disabilities: A qualitative study of service providers and decision-makers in Ontario, Canada	6
Remote care – good for some, but not for all?	6
‘I’m a bit of an invisible worker’ – Health care and social sector students’ experiences of casual and temporary agency work	6
Audit of submissions: July 2021–June 2022	6
Case mix-based changes in health status: A prospective study of elective surgery patients in Vancouver, Canada	5
How state language access policies and communications mediate access to critical healthcare information	5
Encouraging openness in health care: Policy and practice implications of a mixed-methods study in the English National Health Service	5
Disrespect in health care: An epistemic injustice	5
Financing primary health care in low- and middle-income countries: A research and policy agenda	5
A qualitative study on addressing COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy in marginalised communities in the UK - Professional and public perspectives	5
Rapid adaptation of first contact physiotherapy services for musculoskeletal patients in the UK and Australia during the COVID-19 pandemic: A multiple case study	5
High health care use prior to elective surgery for osteoarthritis is associated with poor postoperative outcomes: A Canadian population-based cohort study	5
The adverse impacts of racism and whiteness on indigenous health	4
Engagement in child psychiatry department appointments: An analysis of electronic medical records in one safety-net hospital in New England, USA	4
How can specialist investigation agencies inform system-wide learning for patient safety? A qualitative study of perspectives on the early years of the English Healthcare Safety Investigation Branch	4
Has the NHS national extended access scheme delivered its policy aims? A case study of two large scale extended access providers	4
Challenges to the delivery of clinical diabetes services in Ghana created by the COVID-19 pandemic	4
Care homes and primary care in England working together: A multi-method qualitative study	4
Locked down or locked out? Trends in psychiatric emergency services utilization during the COVID-19 pandemic	4
A patienthood that transcends the patient: An analysis of patient research partners’ narratives of involvement in a Canadian arthritis patient advisory board	3
Health care utilization and costs among coordinated care patients in Southeastern Ontario: A difference-in-differences study of a double propensity score-matched cohort	3
Exercise prescription in the management of chronic disease falling through an evidence-practice gap: Perspectives of doctors and nurses in specialist settings	3
Learning from the past and building for the future: Who is Journal of Health Services Research & Policy for?	3
The role and functions of community-based multidisciplinary teams in two integrated care and support Pioneers: Perspectives from local system leaders	3
Enablers and barriers to military veterans seeking help for mental health and alcohol difficulties: A systematic review of the quantitative evidence	3
The role of collaborative governance in translating national cancer programs into network-based practices: A longitudinal case study in Canada	3
A scoping review of how the candidacy framework has been used in research on access to general practice	3
Health care delivery of kidney transplantation to indigenous Māori in Aotearoa New Zealand: A qualitative interview study with clinician stakeholders	3
Evaluating the role of community-based multi-disciplinary teams in England’s Pioneer integrated health and social care programme: Setting the scene	3
The appropriateness of self-care policy for urinary tract infections among women from racialised minorities and low-income households in the United Kingdom: A qualitative study	3
‘Come and work here!’ a qualitative exploration of local community-led initiatives to recruit and retain health care staff in remote and rural areas of the UK	2
Identifying potentially low value surgical care: A national ecological study in England	2
‘By identifying myself as Métis, I didn’t feel safe…’: Experiences of navigating racism and discrimination among Métis women, Two-Spirit and gender diverse community members in Victoria, Canada	2
Rapid evidence assessment of student-assisted assessment and brief intervention clinics: Addressing the gaps in rural and remote health care	2
What determines health insurance ownership in Nepal? Findings from the Nepal multiple indicator cluster survey 2019	2
Moving toward integrated care for perinatal opioid use disorder and mental health in an urban safety-net hospital: A formative implementation evaluation	2
Minding the gaps: Recognising ancillary staff contributions in care homes during the COVID-19 pandemic	2
Fostering equitable change in health services: Using critical reflexivity to challenge dominant discourses in low back pain care in Australia	2
Measuring the value of solidarity: The abem financial assistance program for out-of-pocket payments on pharmacy medicines in Portugal	2
Beyond mitigation: Adaptation, policy and resilience for health services facing climate change	2
Moral distress: A structural problem with individual solutions	2
A qualitative study of the dynamics of access to remote antenatal care through the lens of candidacy	2
Substitution or addition: An observational study of a new primary care initiative in the Netherlands	1
What can the era of big data and big data analytics mean for health services research?	1

We can evaluate rapidly, but should we? Researchers’ and research funders’ perspectives on the uses, challenges and limitations of rapid health care evaluation	1
Staff experiences of training and delivery of remote home monitoring services for patients diagnosed with COVID-19 in England: A mixed-methods study	1
Readmission trends before and after a national reconfiguration of emergency departments in Denmark	1
Audit of submissions: July 2024-June 2025	1
Taskification in general practice: A solution to, or an aggravator of, the workforce crisis?	1
Professionalising patient safety? Findings from a mixed-methods formative evaluation of the patient safety specialist role in the English National Health Service	1
Review of residential and nursing care home policies on safety incident reporting in England	1
Impact of COVID-19 in mental health trusts	1
The impact of congenital cytomegalovirus infection among families and caregivers: A qualitative analysis of responses to a public consultation on newborn screening in the UK	1
Engagement of patient and family advisors in health system redesign in Canada	1
Persistent use of body mass index policies as a barrier to surgery: Prevalence and analysis of policies across England in 2025	1
Scale and spread of innovation in health and social care: Insights from the evaluation of the New Care Model/Vanguard programme in England	1
Family physician services and blood pressure control in China: A population-based retrospective cohort study	1
Navigating North Carolina’s Medicaid transformation: Caregivers’ perspectives through a family-centered lens	1
Assessing the resilience of a key health service: The response of acute surgical provision in England to the disruption of the COVID-19 pandemic	1
Tackling health inequalities: What exactly do we mean? Evidence from health policy in England	1
Optimising the prescribing of drugs that may cause dependency: An evidence and gap map of systematic reviews	1
Evaluating the role of community-based multi-disciplinary teams in integrated health and social care in England: Overview of findings from the Pioneer evaluation and their implications for health and	1
Critically ill patients are not just luggage: The experiences of health workers on the transportation of critically ill patients in hospitals in Tanzania	1
Voluntary self-disclosed Indigenous identity of patients in four Canadian health care settings: A multiple-site qualitative case study	1
University students’ access to mental health services: A qualitative study of the experiences of health service professionals through the lens of candidacy in England	1
Indigenous identity identification in administrative health care data globally: A scoping review	1
Experiential learning from rapid evaluation in health and care	1
What is the quality of care at the end of life? Qualitative findings from a nationally-representative post-bereavement survey across England and Wales	1
Help and support for gambling harm among United Kingdom Armed Forces personnel: A mixed-methods study	1