OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of BMC Health Services Research is 39. 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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
Insurance status and traumatized patients’ outcomes: a report from the national trauma registry of Iran	235
Comparing reproductive intentions before and during the COVID-19 pandemic: a cross-sectional study	150
The roles of primary care doctors in the COVID-19 pandemic: consistency and influencing factors of doctor's perception and actions and nominal definitions	140
Stakeholder views of the development of a clinical quality registry for interventional radiology: a qualitative study	133
Characteristics and risk factors of pharmacist misconduct in New Zealand: a retrospective nationwide analysis	116
Barriers and enablers for implementation of digital-linked diagnostics models at point-of-care in South Africa: stakeholder engagement	113
Non-communicable disease prevention in Kosovo: quantitative and qualitative assessment of uptake and barriers of an intervention for healthier lifestyles in primary healthcare	111
‘It’s about time’: policymakers’ and health practitioners’ perspectives on implementing fertility care in the Gambian health system	101
Real-time evaluation and adaptation to facilitate rapid recruitment in a large, prospective cohort study	98
The role of a community conversation intervention in reducing stigma related to lower limb lymphoedema in Northern Ethiopia	97
Inventory management practices: implications on the pharmaceuticals expenditure of rabies vaccine in public health facilities, Namibia	90
Decision-makers’ experiences with rapid evidence summaries to support real-time evidence informed decision-making in crises: a mixed methods study	88
The implementation of person-centred plans in the community-care sector: a qualitative study of organizations in Ontario, Canada	85
Cost burden and net monetary benefit loss of neonatal hypoglycaemia	78
Experiences of patients with cancer at health care facilities in Japan: results from a nationwide survey	76
Barriers and facilitators of access to HIV prevention, care, and treatment services among people living with HIV in Kerman, Iran: a qualitative study	72
Methodology to derive preference for health screening programmes using discrete choice experiments: a scoping review	71
“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	66
“Augmenting the referral pathway for retinal services among diabetic patients at Reiyukai Eiko Masunaga Eye Hospital, Nepal: a non-randomized, pre-post intervention study”	65
Primary health care facilities capacity gaps regarding diagnosis, treatment and knowledge of schistosomiasis among healthcare workers in North-western Tanzania: a call to strengthen the horizontal sys	64
Structured Counselling and Regular Telephonic follow up to improve Referral flow and compliance in Nepal for Diabetic Retinopathy(SCREEN-D Study): a randomised controlled trial	62
Factors associated with formal and informal resource utilization in nursing home patients with and without dementia: cross-sectional analyses from the COSMOS trial	56
Economic hardship among principal family caregivers of cancer patients at Khartoum oncology hospital 2020: a cross-sectional study	56
Effects of the cefazolin shortage on the sales, cost, and appropriate use of other antimicrobials	56
Evaluating a peer-to-peer health education program in Australian public housing communities during the COVID-19 pandemic	51

Moving toward precision in prenatal evidence-based home visiting to achieve good birth outcomes: assessing the alignment of local programs with their national models	49
Access to health services during the Colombian armed conflict: a challenge for the population with disabilities in the department of Meta	49
Using the RE-AIM framework to evaluate the implementation of scaling-up the Friendship Bench in Zimbabwe – a quantitative observational study	48
An eReferral Management & Triage System for minor Oral surgery referrals from primary care dentists: a cost-effectiveness evaluation	47
Going above and beyond: a qualitative study on the experiences and perspectives of HIV healthcare providers in Greece	46
Co-payments and equity in care: enhancing hospitalisation policy for Palestine refugees in Lebanon	44
Chlamydia-related knowledge, opinion to opportunistic testing, and practices of providers among different sexually transmitted infections related departments in hospitals in Shenzhen city, China	44
Factors influencing inequality in government health expenditures within African regional economic communities	43
Gap analysis of diabetes-related foot disease management systems in Pacific Islands Countries and Territories	43
Readiness to deliver quality curative care for under-five children at health posts in Ethiopia	42
Coverage, inequity and predictors of hepatitis B birth vaccination in Myanmar from 2011–2016: results from a national survey	42
Multicenter audit of operating room staff compliance with the surgical safety checklist: a cross-sectional study from a low- and middle-income country	41
Machine learning-driven prediction of medical expenses in triple-vessel PCI patients using feature selection	40
South to south collaboration: advancing quality of abortion care through health care professionals exchange program	40
How does digital literacy affect the health status of senior citizens? Micro-level evidence from the CFPS data	39
Patients’ loyalty to primary care institutions and associated factors in China: a cross-sectional study	39