OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of BMJ Quality & Safety is 8. 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
Towards comprehensive fidelity evaluations: consideration of enactment measures in quality improvement interventions	105
Can virtual reality simulations improve macrocognition?	82
COVID-19 hospital prevalence as a risk factor for mortality: an observational study of a multistate cohort of 62 hospitals	68
It’s time for the field of geriatrics to invest in implementation science	66
Prevention in adults of transmission of infection with multidrug-resistant organisms: an updated systematic review from Making Healthcare Safer IV	58
We will take some team resilience, please: Evidence-based recommendations for supporting diagnostic teamwork	52
Hip fracture in the COVID-19 era: what can we say about care and patient outcomes?	48
Interruptive alerts: only one part of the solution for clinical decision support	40
Pragmatic randomised trial assessing the impact of peer comparison and therapeutic recommendations, including repetition, on antibiotic prescribing patterns of family physicians across British Columbi	38
Unacceptable behaviours between healthcare workers: just the tip of the patient safety iceberg	37
How can we finally reduce repetitive routine laboratory tests for hospitalised patients?	37
Correction: The Irish National Adverse Event Study-2 (INAES-2): longitudinal trends in adverse event rates in the Irish healthcare system	35
Call for emergency action to limit global temperature increases, restore biodiversity and protect health	34
Progressing patient safety in the Emergency Medical Services	33
Quality of care for secondary cardiovascular disease prevention in 2009–2017: population-wide cohort study of antiplatelet therapy use in Scotland	32
Quality and Safety in the Literature: November 2022	31
Quality and safety in the literature: January 2023	30
Have we forgotten the moral justification for patient-centred care?	29
Nursing implications of an early warning system implemented to reduce adverse events: a qualitative study	29
Engagement and fidelity of a cardiovascular disease prevention-focused digital health intervention in cardiology outpatient waiting rooms: a mixed-methods study	27
Sustaining quality improvement efforts: emerging principles and practice	27
Practice or perfect? Coaching for a growth mindset to improve the quality of healthcare	27
Helping healthcare teams to debrief effectively: associations of debriefers’ actions and participants’ reflections during team debriefings	25
Quality of acute myocardial infarction care in England and Wales during the COVID-19 pandemic: linked nationwide cohort study	25
Barcode medication administration technology use in hospital practice: a mixed-methods observational study of policy deviations	24

Why hospital falls prevention remains a global healthcare priority	24
Delayed diagnosis of serious paediatric conditions in 13 regional emergency departments	22
Correction: Comparing peripherally inserted central catheter-related practices across hospitals with different insertion models: a multisite qualitative study	22
Assessing patient work system factors for medication management during transition of care among older adults: an observational study	21
Understanding the challenges and successes of implementing ‘hybrid’ interventions in healthcare settings: findings from a process evaluation of a patient involvement trial	21
Assessing quality of direct-to-consumer telemedicine in China: a cross-sectional study using unannounced standardised patients	20
An anthropologist’s insight into healthcare data – multiple and rich of contradictions	20
Role of communicating diagnostic uncertainty in the safety-netting process: insights from a vignette study	20
‘Show me the data!’ Using time series to display performance data for hospital boards	19
To improve quality, leverage design	19
Approach to systematically examine the usefulness of quality measures in practice: Minnesota’s nursing home quality indicators and scoring approach	19
Sustaining interventions in care homes initiated by quality improvement projects: a qualitative study	19
Looking back on the history of patient safety: an opportunity to reflect and ponder future challenges	19
Association of volume and prehospital paediatric care quality in emergency medical services: retrospective analysis of a national sample	18
Addressing social determinants of health in primary care: a quasi-experimental study using unannounced standardised patients to evaluate the impact of audit/feedback on physicians' rates of identifyin	18
Factors associated with proximal femoral fractures in older adults during hospital stay: a cross-sectional study	18
Quality and Safety in the Literature: March 2022	18
Temporal structures that determine consistency and quality of care: a case study in hyperacute stroke services	18
Interventions targeted at reducing diagnostic error: systematic review	17
Unintended consequences of the 18-week referral to treatment standard in NHS England: a threshold analysis	17
Types and effects of feedback for emergency ambulance staff: a systematic mixed studies review and meta-analysis	17
Top-down and bottom-up approaches to low-value care	17
Integration and connection: the key to effectiveness of large-scale pharmacist-led medication reviews?	17
Cluster randomised evaluation of a training intervention to increase the use of statistical process control charts for hospitals in England: making data count	17
SEIPS 101 and seven simple SEIPS tools	16
Communication about sexual orientation and gender between clinicians, LGBT+ people facing serious illness and their significant others: a qualitative interview study of experiences, preferences and re	16
General practitioners retiring or relocating and its association with healthcare use and mortality: a cohort study using Norwegian national data	16
Patient-reported harm from NHS treatment or care, or the lack of access to care: a cross-sectional survey of general population prevalence, impact and responses	15
Changing the patient safety mindset: can safety cases help?	15
Under-reporting of falls in hospitals: a multisite study in South Korea	15
Scoping review identifying interventions that have been tested to optimise the experience of people from ethnic minority groups receiving systemic anticancer therapy (SACT)	15
Accuracy of telephone triage for predicting adverse outcomes in suspected COVID-19: an observational cohort study	15
Grand rounds in methodology: when are realist reviews useful, and what does a ‘good’ realist review look like?	15
Inequalities exacerbated: an all-too-familiar story	15
National cross-sectional cohort study of the relationship between quality of mental healthcare and death by suicide	14
Reporting on implementation trials with null findings: the need for concurrent process evaluation reporting	14
The Evolving Economics of Implementation	14
Racial and ethnic disparities in common inpatient safety outcomes in a children’s hospital cohort	14
Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the incidence and mortality of hospital-onset bloodstream infection: a cohort study	14
Beyond improvement skills: what do clinicians, managers, patients and others need to do to make improvement happen?	14
Co-produced capability framework for successful patient and staff partnerships in healthcare quality improvement: results of a scoping review	14
Understanding patient safety during earthquakes: a phenomenological study of disaster response	13
Why is safety in intrapartum electronic fetal monitoring so hard? A qualitative study combining human factors/ergonomics and social science analysis	13
Use of structured handoff protocols for within-hospital unit transitions: a systematic review from Making Healthcare Safer IV	13
Should electronic differential diagnosis support be used early or late in the diagnostic process? A multicentre experimental study of Isabel	13
‘My Five Moments’: understanding a user-centred approach to hand hygiene improvement within a broader implementation strategy	13
Measuring gist-based perceptions of medication benefit-to-harm ratios	13
Measurement and Monitoring of Safety Framework: a qualitative study of implementation through a Canadian learning collaborative	12
Quality and Safety in the Literature: May 2022	12
Clinical decision-making and algorithmic inequality	12

Embracing carers: when will adult hospitals fully adopt the same practices as children’s hospitals?	12
Is hospital-onset bacteraemia and fungaemia an actionable quality measure?	11
Identifying patients with additional needs isn’t enough to improve care: harnessing the benefits and avoiding the pitfalls of classification	11
Economic analysis of surgical outcome monitoring using control charts: the SHEWHART cluster randomised trial	11
Implications of resource constraints and high workload on speaking up about threats to patient safety: a qualitative study of surgical teams in Ghana	11
Adding value to the diagnostic process	11
Is targeting healthcare’s carbon footprint really the best we can do to help address the climate crisis?	11
Incidence and characteristics of adverse events in paediatric inpatient care: a systematic review and meta-analysis	11
Filling a gap in safety metrics: development of a patient-centred framework to identify and categorise patient-reported breakdowns related to the diagnostic process in ambulatory care	11
Learning from successes: designing medication adherence intervention research so that we can learn what works and why	10
Correction: It’s time for the field of geriatrics to invest in implementation science	10
Need to systematically identify and mitigate risks upon hospitalisation for patients with chronic health conditions	10
Interrupting false narratives: applying a racial equity lens to healthcare quality data	10
Correction:Effectiveness of a multifaceted quality improvement intervention to improve patient outcomes after total hip and knee arthroplasty: a registry nested cluster randomised controlled trial<	10
Ensuring safe and equitable discharge: a quality improvement initiative for individuals with hypertensive disorders of pregnancy	10
Targets: unintended and unanticipated effects	9
Common contributing factors of diagnostic error: A retrospective analysis of 109 serious adverse event reports from Dutch hospitals	9
Moving the needle: using quality improvement to address gaps in sickle cell care	9
Negotiating the polypharmacy paradox: a video-reflexive ethnography study of polypharmacy and its practices in primary care	9
Evaluating equity in performance of an electronic health record-based 6-month mortality risk model to trigger palliative care consultation: a retrospective model validation analysis	9
Impact of a financial incentive on early rehabilitation and outcomes in ICU patients: a retrospective database study in Japan	9
Comparing secondary prevention for patients with coronary heart disease and stroke attending Australian general practices: a cross-sectional study using nationwide electronic database	9
The problem with uptake as a quality metric for population-based screening programmes	9
What and when to debrief: a scoping review examining interprofessional clinical debriefing	9
Reducing unnecessary diagnostic phlebotomy in intensive care: a prospective quality improvement intervention	9
Work addiction and quality of care in healthcare: Working long hours should not be confused with addiction to work	9
Quality and safety in the literature: January 2024	9
Safety netting: time to stop relying on verbal interventions to manage diagnostic uncertainty?	9
Five golden rules for successful measurement of improvement	8
Development and validation of the Overall Fidelity Enactment Scale for Complex Interventions (OFES-CI)	8
Elusive but hopefully not illusive: coordinating care for patients with heart failure with preserved ejection fraction	8
Randomised controlled trial of audit-and-feedback strategies to reduce imaging overutilisation in the emergency department	8
Quality improvement collaborative to increase access to caesarean sections: lessons from Bihar, India	8
Monitoring patients’ sexual orientation and gender identity: Can we ask? Should we ask? How do we ask?	8
The need for quality self-management support in cancer care	8
What do clinical practice guidelines say about deprescribing? A scoping review	8
Locum doctor working and quality and safety: a qualitative study in English primary and secondary care	8
Predictors and population health outcomes of persistent high GP turnover in English general practices: a retrospective observational study	8
Patient-level and hospital-level variation and related time trends in COVID-19 case fatality rates during the first pandemic wave in England: multilevel modelling analysis of routine data	8
Effective use of interdisciplinary approaches in healthcare quality: drawing on operations and visual management	8
Effect of implementing a heart failure admission care bundle on hospital readmission and mortality rates: interrupted time series study	8