OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Primary Health Care Research and Development 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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
Telemedicine maybe an effective solution for management of chronic disease during the COVID-19 epidemic	23
Integrating primary care and public health to enhance response to a pandemic	20
Innovation in primary health care responses to COVID-19 in Sub-Saharan Africa	15
Advancing multimorbidity management in primary care: a narrative review	14
Perception of adults toward electronic cigarettes: a cross-sectional study from Jordan	13
COVID-19 pandemic and the great impulse to telemedicine: the basis of the WONCA Europe Statement on Telemedicine at the WHO Europe 70th Regional Meeting September 2020	13
Revisiting the four core functions (4Cs) of primary care: operational definitions and complexities	12
COVID-19 disease severity to predict persistent symptoms: a systematic review and meta-analysis	11
The impact of COVID-19 on the care of people living with noncommunicable diseases in low- and middle-income countries: an online survey of physicians and pharmacists in nine countries	11
The effects of supported employment interventions in populations of people with conditions other than severe mental health: a systematic review	10
Parental childhood vaccine hesitancy and predicting uptake of vaccinations: a systematic review	10
The role of community participation in primary health care: practices of South African health committees	9
Understanding and working with different worldviews to co-design cultural security in clinical mental health settings to engage with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander clients	9
Coping with COVID-19 pandemic: reflections of older couples living alone in urban Odisha, India	7
Healing the Past by Nurturing the Future: Aboriginal parents’ views of what helps support recovery from complex trauma	7
Iranian primary health care network: challenges and ways forward	7
Strengthening health system building blocks: configuring post-COVID-19 scenario in Pakistan	7
Effective and meaningful participation or limited participation? A study of South African health committee legislation	6
Strengthening the primary health care response to COVID-19: an operational tool for policymakers	6
Task shifting from general practitioners to practice assistants and nurses in primary care: a cross-sectional survey in 34 countries – RETRACTED	6
Aboriginal community-controlled aged care: principles, practices and actions to integrate with primary health care	6
Effects of free maternal policies on quality and cost of care and outcomes: an integrative review	6
Integration of health care in the Basque Country during COVID-19: the importance of an integrated care management approach in times of emergency	6
Sources of psychological distress among primary care physicians during the COVID-19 pandemic’s first wave in Spain: a cross-sectional study	6
Income, workload, and any other factors associated with anticipated retention of rural doctors?	5

Understanding the impact of COVID-19 pandemic on health-related quality of life amongst Iranian patients with beta thalassemia major: a grounded theory	5
Adherence to guideline recommendations for urinary tract infections in adult women: a cross-sectional study	5
Patient and public involvement in a UK National Institute for Health Research Programme Grant for Applied Research: experiences from the Chronic Headache Education and Self-management Study (CHESS)	5
Achieving the potential of mHealth in medicine requires challenging the ethos of care delivery	5
Prevalence of anemia and associated risk factors among pregnant women attending antenatal care in Bangladesh: a cross-sectional study	5
The development of aboriginal brain injury coordinator positions: a culturally secure rehabilitation service initiative as part of a clinical trial	5
Amigos de Fibro (Fibro Friends): development of an educational program for the health promotion of fibromyalgia patients	5
Reflections on China’s primary care response to COVID-19: roles, limitations and implications	5
‘I’m a bit of a champion for it actually’: qualitative insights into practitioner-supported self-collection cervical screening among early adopting Victorian practitioners in Australia	5
Strengthening approaches to respond to the social and emotional well-being needs of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people: the Cultural Pathways Program	5
Community pharmacist interventions in ear health: a scoping review	5
Improving the way healthcare professionals deliver different news to families during pregnancy or at birth: a qualitative study	5
Burnout in primary healthcare physicians and nurses in Turkey during COVID-19 pandemic	5
Development of an antimicrobial stewardship implementation model involving collaboration between general practitioners and pharmacists: GPPAS study in Australian primary care	5
Analysis of inequality in the distribution of general practitioners in China: evidence from 2012 to 2018	5
Chronic Care Model in Italy: a narrative review of the literature	5
Self-reported reasons for reducing or stopping antidepressant medications in primary care: thematic analysis of the diamond longitudinal study	4
Editorial: Challenge and resilience: primary care in a COVID-19 world	4
Community midwives’ and health visitors’ experiences of research recruitment: a qualitative exploration using the Theoretical Domains Framework	4
A referral aid for smoking cessation interventions in primary care: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial	4
Older people living at home: experiences of healthy ageing	4
Occupational therapy services in primary care: a scoping review	4
Views and experiences of family physicians about Syrian refugee patients in Turkey: a qualitative research	4
Organization of primary care	4
Does improving indoor air quality lessen symptoms associated with chemical intolerance?	4
The role of Aboriginal leadership in community health programmes	4
Task shifting from general practitioners to practice assistants and nurses in primary care: a cross-sectional survey in 34 countries	4
The role of organization of care in GPs’ prevention practice	3
“This is not my decision; I have no alternative”. Perceptions and experiences of marriage age and family planning among Syrian women and men: a primary care study	3
Evaluation of a Japanese brief CBT-I administered by a nurse: a pilot study	3
Health system-related barriers to prenatal care management in low- and middle-income countries: a systematic review of the qualitative literature	3
Understanding healthcare providers’ experiences with video recording of patient consultations	3
National electronic primary health care database in monitoring performance of primary care in Kyrgyzstan	3
Depressive symptoms among clients attending monk healers and primary care clinics in Thailand: a comparative follow-up study	3
Analysis of deprescription strategies of proton pump inhibitors in primary care: a narrative review	3
What causes delays in diagnosing blood cancers? A rapid review of the evidence	3
The prevalence of diagnosed specific back pain in primary health care in Region Västra Götaland: a register study of 1.7 million inhabitants	3
Perceived appropriateness of alcohol screening and brief advice programmes in Colombia, Mexico and Peru and barriers to their implementation in primary health care – a cross-sectional survey	3
Research progress of health care in Yemeni children during the war: review	3
Dementia-related continuing education for rural interprofessional primary health care in Saskatchewan, Canada: perceptions and needs of webinar participants	3
Knowledge, attitudes, and practices regarding vaccination among community pharmacists	3
Measures to prevent nosocomial transmissions of COVID-19 based on interpersonal contact data	3
Depressive symptoms among primary healthcare workers during the novel SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus pandemic in the Muscat governorate	3
The implementation of the nationwide out-of-hours phone number 1733 in Belgium: analysis of efficiency and safety	3
Dementia and primary care teams: obstacles to the implementation of Portugal’s Dementia Strategy	3
General practitioners’ knowledge of gout and its management: a case study in Beijing	3
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on pharmacy personnel in primary care	3
Exploring primary healthcare practitioners’ experiences regarding the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa	3
Awareness and attitudes toward epilepsy among medical students and interns in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia	3
The population characteristics of the main leukocyte subsets and their association with chronic diseases in a community-dwelling population: a cross-sectional study	3

Primary care trainee nursing associates in England: a qualitative study of higher education institution perspectives	2
Strategies to improve the implementation of healthy eating, physical activity and obesity prevention policies, practices or programmes within childcare service	2
Stakeholders’ perspectives on facilitative supervision implementation in north-western Ghana: an exploration of adherence and quality of primary healthcare	2
The perspectives of patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus on marketing mix elements in primary health care: a quantitative study from Lithuania	2
Developing Iranian sub-national Primary Health Care Measurement Framework: a study protocol	2
Patient and primary care practitioners’ perspectives on consultations for fibromyalgia: a qualitative evidence synthesis	2
Primary health care workers perspective towards cancer in Fiji: a qualitative study	2
The Roth score as a triage tool for detecting hypoxaemia in general practice: a diagnostic validation study in patients with possible COVID-19	2
The health of detainees and the role of primary care: Position paper of the European Forum for Primary Care	2
District nurses’ experiences of using a clinical decision support system and an assessment tool at elderly care units in primary health care: a qualitative study	2
Expectations, values, preferences and experiences of Hungarian primary care population when accessing services: Evaluation of the patient’s questionnaires of the international QUALICOPC study	2
A focus group study of older Chinese people with CVD patients in the North West of the UK	2
Association between vaccination and preventive routines on COVID-19-related mortality in nursing home facilities: a population-based systematic retrospective chart review	2
Strengthening primary health care: contributions of young professional-led communities of practice	2
Early diagnosis of symptomatic ovarian cancer in primary care in the UK: opportunities and challenges	2
Infection preparedness of community health workers: implications for maternal and neonatal health services in Pakistan	2
Working in hospitals during a pandemic: investigating the resilience among medical staff during COVID-19 outbreak through qualitative and quantitative research	2
A broad view of pharmaceutical services in multidisciplinary teams of public Primary Healthcare Centers: a mixed methods study in a large city in Brazil	2
Primary care and COVID-19	2
Translating fathers’ support for breastfeeding into practice	2
Building Indigenous health workforce capacity and capability through leadership – the Miwatj health leadership model	2
Integrated primary health care services in two protracted refugee camp settings at the Thai–Myanmar border 2000–2018: trends on mortality and incidence of infectious diseases	2
Factors associated with low knowledge about sexually transmitted infections in subnormal agglomerate, in the Brazilian Amazon	2
Different definitions of multimorbidity and their effect on prevalence rates: a retrospective study in German general practices	2
How does English national end-of-life care policy impact on the experience of older people at the end of life? Findings from a realist evaluation	2
Mental and physical health profile of Syrian resettled refugees	2
A scoping review exploring reablement models of training and client assessment for older people in primary health care	2
Migrant Middle Eastern women with gestational diabetes seven years after delivery – positive long-term development of beliefs about health and illness shown in follow-up interviews	2
COVID-19 and non-communicable diseases in complex vulnerable populations: evidence from Jordan	2
Preferences of people in choosing a family physician in rural areas: a qualitative inquiry from Iran	2
A longitudinal qualitative study of the UK general practice workforce experience of COVID-19	2
‘They’re all individuals, none of them are on the same boat’: barriers to weight management in general practice from the rural nurse perspective	1
Can a new role, the (Trainee) Associate Psychological Practitioner (T/APP), add value in General Practice? Results from the pilot year evaluation	1
Evaluation of health-related knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors of undergraduate students by cardiovascular risk factors	1
‘It looks like a breadbox’: a pilot study investigating implementation of the Pepi-Pod® program with Aboriginal families in metropolitan South Australia	1
District nurses’ experiences of giving initial health care assessment to young adults applying for mental illness in primary care: a qualitative interview study	1
Impact of culturally tailored shared medical appointments on diabetes self-care ability and knowledge in African Americans	1
Developing weight navigation program to support personalized and effective obesity management in primary care settings: protocol for a quality improvement program with an embedded single-arm pilot stu	1
Priority setting and cross-country learning: the relevance of TO-REACH for primary care	1
Biographical continuation: recovery of stroke survivors and their family caregivers in Taiwan	1
Roadmap for large-scale implementation of point-of-care testing in primary care in Central and Eastern European countries: the Hungarian experience	1
What factors empower general practitioners for early cancer diagnosis? A 20-country European Delphi Study	1
Effectiveness of caregiver-mediated intervention: a pilot study for children with neurodevelopmental disorders	1
Developing a post-stroke home care checklist for primary care professionals in Turkey: a modified Delphi study	1
Management of chronic kidney disease: perspectives of Brazilian primary care physicians	1
COVID-19: using the crisis as an opportunity to strengthen Primary Health Care	1
The role of primary health care in long-term care facilities during the COVID-19 pandemic in 30 European countries: a retrospective descriptive study (Eurodata study)	1
A situational analysis of primary health care centers in Brazil: challenges and opportunities for addressing mental illness and substance use-related stigma	1
Effects of diabetes self-management education program on lowering blood glucose level, stress, and quality of life among females with type 2 diabetes mellitus in Thailand	1
Clinicians’ experiences with cancer patients living longer with incurable cancer: a focus group study in the Netherlands	1
Knowledge, attitudes and behaviors of family physicians about childhood vaccinations that are not in the routine vaccination schedule: a cross-sectional study	1
Risk perception of cardiovascular disease among Turkish adults: a cross-sectional study	1
A qualitative examination of the implementation of a perinatal collaborative care program	1
Predicting Covid-19 preventive behaviors based on constructs of health belief model	1
Evaluation of a healthcare walk-in centre in an immigrant-dense area from the perspective of Swedish-born patients	1
Meaningful professional activities from family medicine practitioners’ perspectives: a study from Saudi Arabia	1
Amigos de Fibro (Fibro Friends): validation of an e-book to promote health in fibromyalgia	1
Exploring readiness for implementing goal-oriented care in primary care using normalization process theory	1
Healthy and unhealthy eating after a behaviour change intervention in primary care	1
Saving lives by asking questions: nurses’ experiences of suicide risk assessment in telephone counselling in primary health care	1
How practice nurses engage with parents during their consultations about the MMR vaccine: a qualitative study	1
Current status and needs in the primary healthcare system in Yangon, Myanmar: a mixed-method evaluation	1
Barriers to healthcare and their relationship to well-being and social support for autistic adults during COVID-19	1
Clinical decision rules in primary care: necessary investments for sustainable healthcare	1
What do they get out of it? Considering a partnership model in health service research	1
Barriers and facilitators to implementing a cancer risk assessment tool (QCancer) in primary care: a qualitative study	1
Gestational diabetes: changed health beliefs in migrant women from five Asian countries living in Sweden: a prospective qualitative study	1
Barriers to health care access and utilization among aged indigents under the Livelihood Empowerment Against Poverty Programme (LEAP): the perspective of users and service providers in north-western G	1
Using general practitioners with an extended role in spinal practice for the initial assessment of patients referred to spinal surgeons: preliminary experience and challenges	1
Dignity encounters: the experiences of people with long-term illnesses and their close relatives within a primary healthcare setting	1
Educational interventions by nurses in caregivers with their elderly patients at home	1
Engaging community pharmacists in tuberculosis-directly observed treatment: a mixed-methods study	1
Good versus poor prescribers: the comparison of prescribing competencies in primary care	1
Migration and health: exploring healthy ageing of immigrants in European societies	1