OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of BMC Health Services Research is 45. 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
Comparison of the market share of public and private hospitals under different Medical Alliances: an interrupted time-series analysis in rural China	290
Impact of early death recording on international comparison of acute myocardial infarction mortality – administrative hospital data study using the example of Germany and the United States	219
Determinants of respectful maternity care among women who gave childbirth in Southern Ethiopia	207
Registered nurse case managers’ work experiences with a person-centered collaborative healthcare model: an interview study	175
Evaluation of pharmacist’s practices regarding the antimicrobials dispensing: a simulated patient study	153
Factors contributing to healthcare professionals’ adaptive capacity with hospital standardization: a scoping review	144
A rapid realist review on leadership and career advancement interventions for women in healthcare	134
A comparative analysis of non-invasive prenatal testing in Ontario and Quebec: the role of governing style in health technology innovation & adoption	113
Postabortion and safe abortion care coverage, capacity, and caseloads during the global gag rule policy period in Ethiopia and Uganda	111
Pilot implementation study of a web-based men’s health screening app in primary care during COVID-19: a mixed-methods approach	104
Decision-makers’ experiences with rapid evidence summaries to support real-time evidence informed decision-making in crises: a mixed methods study	103
Exploring what works well and less well in a community-based drop-in hub providing health and wellbeing services for people experiencing homelessness: a participatory action evaluation of service coor	97
Burden of invasive pneumococcal disease, non-invasive all-cause pneumonia, and acute otitis media in hospitalized US children: a retrospective multi-center study from 2015 to 2020	92
Reimagining community relationships for organizational learning: a scoping review with implications for a learning health system	82
Mapping the road to elimination: a 5-year evaluation of implementation strategies associated with hepatitis C treatment in the veterans health administration	82
The impact of direct health facility financing on MNCH service provision: results from a comparative, before-after study in Pwani Region, Tanzania	78
A scoping review on implementation processes and outcomes of models of care for low back pain in primary healthcare	71
Values of welfare technologies: a qualitative study of how employees in Swedish care for older adults understand and justify the use of new technology	71
The impact of COVID-19 on hepatitis B and C virus prevention, diagnosis, and treatment in Bangladesh compared with Japan and the global perspective	70
The Tennessee Medicaid medication therapy management program: early stage contextual factors and implementation outcomes	65
Implementation of advance care planning in the routine care for acutely admitted patients in geriatric units: protocol for a cluster randomized controlled trial	63
Completeness of medication information in admission notes from emergency departments	62
Acceptability and feasibility of HIV recent infection surveillance by healthcare workers using a rapid test for recent infection at HIV testing sites — Malawi, 2019	58
Economic impact of generic antiretrovirals in France for HIV patients’ care: a simulation between 2019 and 2023	57
Does power distance in healthcare teams linked to patient satisfaction? A multilevel study of interprofessional care teams in a referral hospital in Indonesia	55

Investigating the quality of hemovigilance process using the first two steps of Six Sigma model: a cross-sectional study	54
Measuring provider well-being: initial validation of a brief engagement survey	54
“After viral load testing, I get my results so I get to know which path my life is taking me”: qualitative insights on routine centralized and point-of-care viral load testing in western Kenya from th	53
Sociodemographic and work-related factors associated with psychological resilience in South African healthcare workers: a cross-sectional study	53
Quality of life among health care workers with and without prior COVID-19 infection in Bangladesh	52
‘If we don’t assess the patient’s vision, we risk starting at the wrong end’: a qualitative evaluation of a stroke service knowledge translation project	51
Health expenditure trajectory and gastric cancer incidence in the National Health Insurance Senior Cohort: a nested case-control study	51
“Syndemic moral distress”: sexual health provider practices in the context of co-occurring, socially produced sexual and mental health epidemics	51
Exploring the use of body worn cameras in acute mental health wards: a mixed-method evaluation of a pilot intervention	51
How are fast tracks organized in adult and pediatric emergency departments in Switzerland? A cross-sectional survey	50
Application of the LDA model to identify topics in telemedicine conversations on the X social network	50
A scoping review of the impact of extreme weather events on health outcomes and healthcare utilization in rural and remote areas	50
Measuring case severity: a novel tool for benchmarking and clinical documentation improvement	49
Effect of an educational intervention for telephone triage nurses on out-of-hours attendance: a pragmatic randomized controlled study	49
On prioritising global health’s triple crisis of sepsis, COVID-19 and antimicrobial resistance: a mixed-methods study from Malawi	48
Self-referral to inpatient treatment program in a community mental health Centre in Central Norway: investigating the implementation, professionals’ experiences and costs	48
“After all, we are all sick”: multi-stakeholder understanding of stigma associated with integrated management of HIV, diabetes and hypertension at selected government clinics in Uganda	47
Health care providers’ perceptions of using misoprostol in the treatment of incomplete abortion in Malawi	46
Validity and reliability of the Chinese version of the partners at care transitions measure	46
Description of the nationally implemented National Health Service digital diabetes prevention programme and rationale for its development: mixed methods study	45
Considerations, barriers and enablers of deprescribing among healthcare professionals in Ogun State, Southwest, Nigeria: a cross-sectional survey	45
Prediction of COVID-19 patients’ participation in financing informal care using machine learning methods: willingness to pay and willingness to accept approaches	45
Improving Clerkship to Enhance Patients’ Quality of care (ICEPACQ): a baseline study	45
Activities used by evidence networks to promote evidence-informed decision-making in the health sector– a rapid evidence review	45
Cost-effectiveness analysis of rituximab versus natalizumab in patients with relapsing remitting multiple sclerosis	45