OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Primary Health Care Research and Development is 2. 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 2020-10-01 to 2024-10-01.)

Article	Citations
Telemedicine maybe an effective solution for management of chronic disease during the COVID-19 epidemic	32
Integrating primary care and public health to enhance response to a pandemic	25
Revisiting the four core functions (4Cs) of primary care: operational definitions and complexities	24
Innovation in primary health care responses to COVID-19 in Sub-Saharan Africa	23
Advancing multimorbidity management in primary care: a narrative review	21
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	18
The effects of supported employment interventions in populations of people with conditions other than severe mental health: a systematic review	16
Perception of adults toward electronic cigarettes: a cross-sectional study from Jordan	16
Parental childhood vaccine hesitancy and predicting uptake of vaccinations: a systematic review	14
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	14
COVID-19 disease severity to predict persistent symptoms: a systematic review and meta-analysis	13
Healing the Past by Nurturing the Future: Aboriginal parents’ views of what helps support recovery from complex trauma	12
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	12
Prevalence of anemia and associated risk factors among pregnant women attending antenatal care in Bangladesh: a cross-sectional study	12
Chronic Care Model in Italy: a narrative review of the literature	11
Effects of free maternal policies on quality and cost of care and outcomes: an integrative review	10
The role of community participation in primary health care: practices of South African health committees	10
Coping with COVID-19 pandemic: reflections of older couples living alone in urban Odisha, India	9
Burnout in primary healthcare physicians and nurses in Turkey during COVID-19 pandemic	9
Strengthening health system building blocks: configuring post-COVID-19 scenario in Pakistan	9
Iranian primary health care network: challenges and ways forward	9
Occupational therapy services in primary care: a scoping review	8
Income, workload, and any other factors associated with anticipated retention of rural doctors?	8
Strengthening the primary health care response to COVID-19: an operational tool for policymakers	8
Amigos de Fibro (Fibro Friends): development of an educational program for the health promotion of fibromyalgia patients	8

Analysis of inequality in the distribution of general practitioners in China: evidence from 2012 to 2018	8
Integration of health care in the Basque Country during COVID-19: the importance of an integrated care management approach in times of emergency	7
Sources of psychological distress among primary care physicians during the COVID-19 pandemic’s first wave in Spain: a cross-sectional study	7
‘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	7
The development of aboriginal brain injury coordinator positions: a culturally secure rehabilitation service initiative as part of a clinical trial	7
Improving the way healthcare professionals deliver different news to families during pregnancy or at birth: a qualitative study	7
Task shifting from general practitioners to practice assistants and nurses in primary care: a cross-sectional survey in 34 countries	7
Aboriginal community-controlled aged care: principles, practices and actions to integrate with primary health care	7
Does improving indoor air quality lessen symptoms associated with chemical intolerance?	7
Development of an antimicrobial stewardship implementation model involving collaboration between general practitioners and pharmacists: GPPAS study in Australian primary care	6
Knowledge, attitudes, and practices regarding vaccination among community pharmacists	6
Community pharmacist interventions in ear health: a scoping review	6
Task shifting from general practitioners to practice assistants and nurses in primary care: a cross-sectional survey in 34 countries – RETRACTED	6
Research progress of health care in Yemeni children during the war: review	6
Saving lives by asking questions: nurses’ experiences of suicide risk assessment in telephone counselling in primary health care	6
Achieving the potential of mHealth in medicine requires challenging the ethos of care delivery	6
The prevalence of diagnosed specific back pain in primary health care in Region Västra Götaland: a register study of 1.7 million inhabitants	6
Understanding the impact of COVID-19 pandemic on health-related quality of life amongst Iranian patients with beta thalassemia major: a grounded theory	6
Adherence to guideline recommendations for urinary tract infections in adult women: a cross-sectional study	6
Strengthening approaches to respond to the social and emotional well-being needs of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people: the Cultural Pathways Program	6
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	6
Analysis of deprescription strategies of proton pump inhibitors in primary care: a narrative review	6
Effective and meaningful participation or limited participation? A study of South African health committee legislation	6
Early diagnosis of symptomatic ovarian cancer in primary care in the UK: opportunities and challenges	6
Older people living at home: experiences of healthy ageing	5
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on pharmacy personnel in primary care	5
Editorial: Challenge and resilience: primary care in a COVID-19 world	5
Awareness and attitudes toward epilepsy among medical students and interns in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia	5
Exploring primary healthcare practitioners’ experiences regarding the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa	5
“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	5
Organization of primary care	5
Self-reported reasons for reducing or stopping antidepressant medications in primary care: thematic analysis of the diamond longitudinal study	5
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	5
Reflections on China’s primary care response to COVID-19: roles, limitations and implications	5
The role of Aboriginal leadership in community health programmes	5
The health of detainees and the role of primary care: Position paper of the European Forum for Primary Care	5
What causes delays in diagnosing blood cancers? A rapid review of the evidence	5
Association between vaccination and preventive routines on COVID-19-related mortality in nursing home facilities: a population-based systematic retrospective chart review	5
Working in hospitals during a pandemic: investigating the resilience among medical staff during COVID-19 outbreak through qualitative and quantitative research	5
Management of chronic kidney disease: perspectives of Brazilian primary care physicians	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
Depressive symptoms among clients attending monk healers and primary care clinics in Thailand: a comparative follow-up study	5
Patient and primary care practitioners’ perspectives on consultations for fibromyalgia: a qualitative evidence synthesis	5
Community midwives’ and health visitors’ experiences of research recruitment: a qualitative exploration using the Theoretical Domains Framework	4
Translating fathers’ support for breastfeeding into practice	4
The implementation of the nationwide out-of-hours phone number 1733 in Belgium: analysis of efficiency and safety	4
A focus group study of older Chinese people with CVD patients in the North West of the UK	4
Health system-related barriers to prenatal care management in low- and middle-income countries: a systematic review of the qualitative literature	4
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	4
A scoping review exploring reablement models of training and client assessment for older people in primary health care	4

Different definitions of multimorbidity and their effect on prevalence rates: a retrospective study in German general practices	4
A longitudinal qualitative study of the UK general practice workforce experience of COVID-19	4
Views and experiences of family physicians about Syrian refugee patients in Turkey: a qualitative research	4
A referral aid for smoking cessation interventions in primary care: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial	4
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	4
Mental and physical health profile of Syrian resettled refugees	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
Knowledge, attitudes and behaviors of family physicians about childhood vaccinations that are not in the routine vaccination schedule: a cross-sectional study	3
Expectations, values, preferences and experiences of Hungarian primary care population when accessing services: Evaluation of the patient’s questionnaires of the international QUALICOPC study	3
District nurses’ experiences of giving initial health care assessment to young adults applying for mental illness in primary care: a qualitative interview study	3
COVID-19: using the crisis as an opportunity to strengthen Primary Health Care	3
A qualitative examination of the implementation of a perinatal collaborative care program	3
Public–private partnership in primary health care: an experience from Iran	3
Exploring readiness for implementing goal-oriented care in primary care using normalization process theory	3
Understanding healthcare providers’ experiences with video recording of patient consultations	3
Building Indigenous health workforce capacity and capability through leadership – the Miwatj health leadership model	3
Dementia-related continuing education for rural interprofessional primary health care in Saskatchewan, Canada: perceptions and needs of webinar participants	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
The Roth score as a triage tool for detecting hypoxaemia in general practice: a diagnostic validation study in patients with possible COVID-19	3
Depressive symptoms among primary healthcare workers during the novel SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus pandemic in the Muscat governorate	3
Factors associated with low knowledge about sexually transmitted infections in subnormal agglomerate, in the Brazilian Amazon	3
Evaluation of a Japanese brief CBT-I administered by a nurse: a pilot study	3
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	3
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)	3
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	3
National electronic primary health care database in monitoring performance of primary care in Kyrgyzstan	3
Measures to prevent nosocomial transmissions of COVID-19 based on interpersonal contact data	3
The experiences of physiotherapy independent prescribing in primary care: implications for practice	3
The role of organization of care in GPs’ prevention practice	3
Primary care trainee nursing associates in England: a qualitative study of higher education institution perspectives	2
COVID-19 and non-communicable diseases in complex vulnerable populations: evidence from Jordan	2
How do determinants of health relate to children’s quality of life? A cross-sectional study in Izmir, Turkey	2
A situational analysis of primary health care centers in Brazil: challenges and opportunities for addressing mental illness and substance use-related stigma	2
Barriers to healthcare and their relationship to well-being and social support for autistic adults during COVID-19	2
Primary care and COVID-19	2
Perspectives towards cultural competence and receptivity to cultural competence training: a qualitative study on healthcare professionals	2
Barriers and facilitators to implementing a cancer risk assessment tool (QCancer) in primary care: a qualitative study	2
Clinicians’ experiences with cancer patients living longer with incurable cancer: a focus group study in the Netherlands	2
Strategies to improve the implementation of healthy eating, physical activity and obesity prevention policies, practices or programmes within childcare service	2
Roadmap for large-scale implementation of point-of-care testing in primary care in Central and Eastern European countries: the Hungarian experience	2
Engaging community pharmacists in tuberculosis-directly observed treatment: a mixed-methods study	2
Effectiveness of four interventions in improving community health workers’ performance in western Kenya: a quasi-experimental difference-in-differences study using a longitudinal data	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
Developing Iranian sub-national Primary Health Care Measurement Framework: a study protocol	2
Can a new role, the (Trainee) Associate Psychological Practitioner (T/APP), add value in General Practice? Results from the pilot year evaluation	2
Reduction of anxiety symptoms among women within a collaborative care model and women’s health settings	2
Clinical decision rules in primary care: necessary investments for sustainable healthcare	2
Primary health care workers perspective towards cancer in Fiji: a qualitative study	2
What are the experiences of nurses delivering research studies in primary care?	2
What do they get out of it? Considering a partnership model in health service research	2
Preferences of people in choosing a family physician in rural areas: a qualitative inquiry from Iran	2
Diagnosis of acute cystitis in primary care: symptom-based versus urinalysis-based diagnosis	2
Predicting Covid-19 preventive behaviors based on constructs of health belief model	2
Strengthening primary health care: contributions of young professional-led communities of practice	2
Quality of prescription writing in Brazilian primary health care	2
Evaluation of a healthcare walk-in centre in an immigrant-dense area from the perspective of Swedish-born patients	2
Stakeholders’ perspectives on facilitative supervision implementation in north-western Ghana: an exploration of adherence and quality of primary healthcare	2
Developing a post-stroke home care checklist for primary care professionals in Turkey: a modified Delphi study	2
Effectiveness of caregiver-mediated intervention: a pilot study for children with neurodevelopmental disorders	2
‘It looks like a breadbox’: a pilot study investigating implementation of the Pepi-Pod® program with Aboriginal families in metropolitan South Australia	2
Speaking the same language – a scoping review to identify the terminology associated with social prescribing	2
Good versus poor prescribers: the comparison of prescribing competencies in primary care	2
Do family physicians perceive electronic cigarette use as a harm reduction strategy for smokers? A survey from Istanbul	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
A scoping review of best practices in home enteral tube feeding	2
Training and development experiences of nursing associate trainees based in primary care across England: a qualitative study	2
Connecting unattached patients to comprehensive primary care: a rapid review	2
The perspectives of patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus on marketing mix elements in primary health care: a quantitative study from Lithuania	2
Using general practitioners with an extended role in spinal practice for the initial assessment of patients referred to spinal surgeons: preliminary experience and challenges	2
Infection preparedness of community health workers: implications for maternal and neonatal health services in Pakistan	2