OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Primary Health Care Research and Development is 4. 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
Prevalence of anemia and associated risk factors among pregnant women attending antenatal care in Bangladesh: a cross-sectional study	12
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
Chronic Care Model in Italy: a narrative review of the literature	11
The role of community participation in primary health care: practices of South African health committees	10
Effects of free maternal policies on quality and cost of care and outcomes: an integrative review	10
Iranian primary health care network: challenges and ways forward	9
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
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
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
Does improving indoor air quality lessen symptoms associated with chemical intolerance?	7
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
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
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
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
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
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
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