OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Health Economics Review 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
COVID-19 and the efficiency of health systems in Europe	75
Cost analysis of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD): a systematic review	66
Micro-costing in health and medicine: a critical appraisal	39
Health system efficiency in OECD countries: dynamic network DEA approach	37
COVID-19 healthcare cost and length of hospital stay in Turkey: retrospective analysis from the first peak of the pandemic	25
Hospitalization budget impact during the COVID-19 pandemic in Spain	25
A systematic review and meta-analysis of unmet needs for healthcare and long-term care among older people	23
How innovation can be defined, evaluated and rewarded in health technology assessment	22
The fragile healthcare system in Lebanon: sounding the alarm about its possible collapse	22
The costs associated with stroke care continuum: a systematic review	21
Which factors increase informal care hours and societal costs among caregivers of people with dementia? A systematic review of Resource Utilization in Dementia (RUD)	20
Systematic review and validity assessment of methods used in discrete choice experiments of primary healthcare professionals	16
How can a joint European health technology assessment provide an ‘additional benefit’ over the current standard of national assessments?	16
Epidemics, pandemics and income inequality	15
Does less working time improve life satisfaction? Evidence from European Social Survey	14
Economic burden of lung cancer in Turkey: a cost of illness study from payer perspective	14
Can adaptive clinical trials help to solve the productivity crisis of the pharmaceutical industry? - a scenario analysis	14
Application study of the EQ-5D-5L in oncology: linking self-reported quality of life of patients with advanced or metastatic colorectal cancer to clinical data from a German tumor registry	14
The comparison of catastrophic health expenditure and its inequality between urban and rural households in China	13
Practices of decision making in priority setting and resource allocation: a scoping review and narrative synthesis of existing frameworks	13
Forgone healthcare and financial burden due to out-of-pocket payments in Bangladesh: a multilevel analysis	12
Using point-of-care diagnostic testing for improved antibiotic prescription: an economic model	12
Analysis on the equity differential on household healthcare financing in developing countries: empirical evidence from Tanzania, East Africa	12
Cardiovascular drug shortages in Lebanon: a broken heart	12
Health insurance coverage in Ethiopia: financial protection in the Era of sustainable development goals (SDGs)	12

Food insecurity and health outcomes during the coronavirus pandemic in South Africa: a longitudinal study	11
An equity analysis on the household costs of accessing and utilising maternal and child health care services in Tanzania	11
Exploring dynamics in catastrophic health care expenditure in Nigeria	11
Health economic evaluations comparing faecal microbiota transplantation with antibiotics for treatment of recurrent Clostridioides difficile infection: a systematic review	11
Economic evaluation of strategies against coronavirus: a systematic review	10
Endogenous health risks, poverty traps, and the roles of health insurance in poverty alleviation	10
The impact of hospital price and quality transparency tools on healthcare spending: a systematic review	9
Convergence in public health expenditure across the Sub-Saharan African countries: does club convergence matter?	9
Cost-effectiveness analysis of sintilimab plus pemetrexed and platinum versus chemotherapy alone as first-line treatment in metastatic non-squamous non–small cell lung cancer in China	9
Health shock, medical insurance and financial asset allocation: evidence from CHFS in China	9
The cost-utility of early use of high-flow nasal cannula in bronchiolitis	9
Comparative study of the effect of National Health Insurance Scheme on use of delivery and antenatal care services between rural and urban women in Ghana	9
Effect of COVID-19 on demand for healthcare in Togo	9
Quality of public health insurance and individuals’ consumption structure upgrades: evidence from China	8
Assessing the efficiency of health systems in achieving the universal health coverage goal: evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa	8
Advancing universal health coverage in the COVID-19 era: an assessment of public health services technical efficiency and applied cost allocation in Cambodia	8
The addition of neoadjuvant pertuzumab for the treatment of HER2+ breast cancer: a cost estimate with real-world data	7
Nonparametric estimation of a primary care production function in urban Brazil	7
Multiple effects health economic evaluation of the Ahead of The Game Study for mental health promotion in sporting club communities	7
Factors related to excessive out-of-pocket expenditures among the ultra-poor after discontinuity of PBF: a cross-sectional study in Burkina Faso	7
The economic impact of anastomotic leak after colorectal cancer surgery	6
Investing preventive care and economic development in ageing societies: empirical evidences from OECD countries	6
The effect of altruism on COVID-19 vaccination rates	6
Health economic evaluation of digital nursing technologies: a review of methodological recommendations	6
Shaping a research agenda to ensure a successful European health technology assessment: insights generated during the inaugural convention of the European Access Academy	5
The impact of health insurance enrollment on health outcomes in Kenya	5
Predicting high health-cost users among people with cardiovascular disease using machine learning and nationwide linked social administrative datasets	5
Economic effects of healthy ageing: functional limitation, forgone wages, and medical and long-term care costs	5
Overcoming COVID-19 in China despite shortcomings of the public health system: what can we learn?	5
What drives different treatment choices? Investigation of hospital ownership, system membership and competition	5
Pooled coverage of community based health insurance scheme enrolment in Ethiopia, systematic review and meta-analysis, 2016–2020	5
Structural changes in the Russian health care system: do they match European trends?	5
Economic burden of chronic migraine in OECD countries: a systematic review	5
The intangible costs of overweight and obesity in Germany	5
The role of Iran's context for the development of health technology assessment: challenges and solutions	5
Cost of a lymphedema treatment mandate - 16 years of experience in the Commonwealth of Virginia	4
Analytical methods to assess the impacts of activity-based funding (ABF): a scoping review	4
Cost-effectiveness of a photopethysmographic procedure for screening for atrial fibrillation in 6 European countries	4
A choice experiment assessment of stated early response to COVID-19 vaccines in the USA	4
Should we adjust health expenditure for age structure on health systems efficiency? A worldwide analysis	4
Cost of provision of essential health Services in Public Health Centers of Jimma zone, Southwest Ethiopia; a provider perspective, the pointer for major area of public expenditure	4
A comparative study of bibliometric analysis on old adults’ cognitive impairment based on Web of Science and CNKI via CiteSpace	4
Transcatheter aortic valve implantation against conventional aortic valve replacement surgery in high-risk patients with aortic stenosis; a cost-effectiveness analysis	4
The healthcare inequality among middle-aged and older adults in China: a comparative analysis between the full samples and the homogeneous population	4
Economic analysis of sugammadex versus neostigmine for reversal of neuromuscular blockade for laparoscopic surgery in China	4
Patient preferences for epilepsy treatment: a systematic review of discrete choice experimental studies	4
Distributed education enables distributed economic impact: the economic contribution of the Northern Ontario School of Medicine to communities in Canada	4
Out- Of- Pocket health expenditure and household consumption patterns in Benin: Is there a crowding out effect?	4
Quality of life and cost consequence of delays in endovascular treatment for acute ischemic stroke in China	4
Hospital unit costs in Jordan: insights from a country facing competing health demands and striving for universal health coverage	4

Effects of the free healthcare policy on maternal and child health in Burkina Faso: a nationwide evaluation using interrupted time-series analysis	4
Custom-made health-care: an experimental investigation	4
Impact of diabetes diagnosis on dental care utilization: evidence from Finland	4
Efficiency and management factors: finding the balance in Thalassaemia care centres	4