OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of BMC Health Services Research is 53. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Health care providers’ perceptions of using misoprostol in the treatment of incomplete abortion in Malawi	372
The impact of direct health facility financing on MNCH service provision: results from a comparative, before-after study in Pwani Region, Tanzania	363
Investigating the quality of hemovigilance process using the first two steps of Six Sigma model: a cross-sectional study	312
“Syndemic moral distress”: sexual health provider practices in the context of co-occurring, socially produced sexual and mental health epidemics	286
How are fast tracks organized in adult and pediatric emergency departments in Switzerland? A cross-sectional survey	225
Enhancing the value of the oncology thoracic surgery care pathway: a TDABC and ABC analysis	224
Health professionals’ preferences with the use of pegfilgrastim on-body injector at oncology centers in 8 cities in Colombia	128
Healthcare workers’ perceptions of how eHealth applications can support self-care for patients undergoing planned major surgery	125
Accessibility and difficulties of COVID-19-related healthcare services for Vietnamese migrants in Japan: a cross-sectional online survey	125
Determinants of respectful maternity care among women who gave childbirth in Southern Ethiopia	117
How do staff work in NHS hospital operations management meetings to support resilience in everyday service delivery? A qualitative study	102
Electronic discharge summary design: a step towards electronic health record ophthalmology patients	96
COVID-19-related sickness absence among 4,721 NHS staff in England and its relation with long COVID symptoms: findings from NHS CHECK	96
“Where will we find them?” They are just like droppings	91
Considerations, barriers and enablers of deprescribing among healthcare professionals in Ogun State, Southwest, Nigeria: a cross-sectional survey	91
Service availability and readiness of tuberculosis units’ clinics to manage diabetes mellitus in Lubumbashi, Democratic Republic of the Congo	88
Development and validation of a patient experience assessment questionnaire for evaluating hospital care in Iran	88
“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	86
Access to health services during the Colombian armed conflict: a challenge for the population with disabilities in the department of Meta	85
The Turkish version of the quality in psychiatric care–inpatient scale: translation, cross-cultural adaptation, and psychometric evaluation	85
Sociodemographic and work-related factors associated with psychological resilience in South African healthcare workers: a cross-sectional study	83
Looking back to inform the future: a review of published paramedicine research	81
Physicians’ perspectives on the government-led first action plan for healthcare reform: the medical payment system in South Korea	79
Determining the influence of the primary and specialist network of care on patient and system outcomes among patients with a new diagnosis of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)	76
Investigating the relationship between consultation length and quality of tele-dermatology E-consults in China: a cross-sectional standardized patient study	76

Personalized care for complex lives: initial outcomes of a behaviorally-informed complex care intervention	76
Dimensions and components of hospital-at-home care: a systematic review	71
Social prescribing practices and learning across the North West Coast region: essential elements and key challenges to implementing effective and sustainable social prescribing services	69
“We should be able to make our own decision”: transparency, dialogue, and equity as key values of Ontario based Personal Support Workers during the COVID-19 pandemic	68
Associations between patient safety culture and workplace safety culture in hospital settings	65
The effect of cooling vest along with hospital full-body protection equipment on physiological and cognitive indicators among hospital nurses: an interventional study	65
Factors associated with health CEO turnover - a scoping review	65
“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	65
Collaborative approaches to health education: perspectives of parents and teachers on self-care and managing common health issues in UK primary schools	64
Burnout trajectories among healthcare workers during a pandemic, and predictors of change	64
Multimorbidity and quality of primary care after release from prison: a prospective data-linkage cohort study	63
Impact of COVID-19 pandemic on non-communicable diseases care and service deliveries in Sub-Saharan Africa: A systematic review	63
Pilot implementation study of a web-based men’s health screening app in primary care during COVID-19: a mixed-methods approach	60
BLS competency of doctors and nurses serving during the war in Gaza: insights from a cross-sectional study	60
Supporting menstrual health in homeless services: provider-informed strategies for multilevel change	59
Structural validation of two person-centred practice inventories PCPI-S and PCPI-C - French version	59
Development and initial evaluation of a digital service package for community-dwelling older females with pelvic floor dysfunction	58
Reablement – relevant factors for implementation: an exploratory sequential mixed-methods study design	58
Standardizing second victim support: development of the RESCUE certification framework for health care institutions	57
Barriers and facilitators to accessing and providing palliative care to people with cancer in the Bathinda district in Punjab: a qualitative study	57
Which questionnaires can be used to elicit patients’ preferences regarding patient-provider consultations? Results of a scoping review	56
Decision-makers’ experiences with rapid evidence summaries to support real-time evidence informed decision-making in crises: a mixed methods study	55
Correction: Differences in medical costs among urban lung cancer patients with different health insurance schemes: a retrospective study	55
Correction: The complexity of leadership in coproduction practices: a guiding framework based on a systematic literature review	55
Correction: Do health professionals’ attitudes towards alcohol use matter for alcohol prevention efforts? Results from the WIRUS-OHS study	55
Effect of an educational intervention for telephone triage nurses on out-of-hours attendance: a pragmatic randomized controlled study	53
Diagnostic safety in the policy landscape - a comparative policy document analysis of Australian and Aotearoa New Zealand vs US health care and research policy	53
Completeness of medication information in admission notes from emergency departments	53
Drivers of primary care appointment volumes before and after the COVID-19 pandemic: a longitudinal study	53