OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of American Journal of Medical Quality is 1. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Using the Electronic Health Record for Crisis Allocation	24
President’s Message	20
Lessons Learned: Building a Comprehensive Telehealth Quality Program	17
Lessons Learned From Rapid Deployment of 100% Mortality Review for Patients With COVID-19 Across a Health System	17
The Emerging Value-Based Care Industry: Paving the Road Ahead	16
Osteoporosis Screening for Male Veterans in a Resident Based Primary Care Clinic at Northport Veterans Affairs Medical Center	13
Stronger: The 2022 Vizient Connections Summit Report	12
From HRO to HERO	11
Safety of Alcohol-Based Hand Sanitizers in Behavioral Health Facilities	11
Hematologic Malignancy Episodes Exceed Target Price in Oncology Care Model	11
Feasibility and Effectiveness of a Quality Improvement Curriculum for Combined Medicine Subspecialty Fellows	11
The Role of the Physical Environment in Shaping Interruptions and Disruptions in Complex Health Care Settings	10
Uncovering Latent Failures Using Human Factors Approach as a Diagnostic Tool for Quality Improvement in Orthopedic Surgery	9
An Analysis of Exposure Keratopathy Cases to Promote Changes in Eye Care Practice in Intensive Care Units	9
Why We Still Kill Patients	8
A New Metric to the Efficiency of the Ventilator Liberation Process	8
Demographics and Medical Comorbidities as Risk Factors for Increased Episode of Care Costs Following Lumbar Fusion in Medicare Patients	7
Advancing Measurement of the Sources and Consequences of Burnout in a Comprehensive Cancer Center	7
QI Consultation Service: Piloting a Novel Approach to Improving Quality Improvement Initiatives in an Academic Psychiatry Department	7
Improving Maternal Health Care Quality and Outcomes: Evaluation of a Pregnancy Medical Home	7
The Impact of a Novel Use of Volunteers on Patient Satisfaction	6
Clinician Perceptions of Receiving Different Forms of Feedback on their Opioid Prescribing	6
Perception of Ridesharing Among Veterans With Cardiovascular Diseases in the Era of the MISSION Act	6
The Real-World Foundation of Adapting Clinical Guidelines for the Digital Age	6
Improving Cancer Care Through Digital Health Coaching	5

A Comprehensive Approach to Improvements in Interdepartmental Communication and Workflow Between IR and General Medicine	5
Evaluation of a New Hospital Building’s Impact on Clinical Outcomes and Consumer Experience in Medical Inpatients	5
Quality Control for Spine Registries: Development and Application of a New Protocol	5
A Quality Education	5
Looking Ahead to the Future of ACMQ	5
Before-After Study of a Checklist to Improve Acute Care to ICU Handoffs	5
Peer Support for Caregivers: An Acute Care Quality Improvement Initiative	5
“Together We Will Soar”: A Report on the 2023 Vizient Connections Summit	5
Ongoing Simulation-Based Procedural Practice	5
Promoting Safe Gun Storage Among Veterans to Prevent and Reduce Gun-Related Suicide and Accidents: A VA Resident Clinic Pilot Initiative	5
A Physician Conduct Improvement Program to Address Disruptive Behavior in a Health Care Setting	5
Evolution and Evaluation of a Quality and Patient Safety Fellowship for Practicing Health Professionals	4
Implementing Self-Measured Blood Pressure in Primary Care: A Feasible and Systematic Approach	4
Developing a Quality Improvement Initiative to Reduce Emergency Department Length of Stay in a Large-Scale Hospital Under Routinized Prevention and Control of COVID-19	4
De-Implementation of Routine Vein Mapping to Increase Timely Referral for Dialysis Access	3
Lack of Standardized Coding Limits Accuracy of Electronic Clinical Quality Measure for Pulmonary Embolism Diagnosis	3
Improving Barriers to Timely Colonoscopies: A New Approach to Overcoming Gaps in Medical Care	3
The Institute for Health care Quality, Safety, and Efficiency	3
The Clinical Safety and Effectiveness Course: Ten Years of Experiential Training in Quality Improvement for Practicing Professionals	3
Book Review: The Journey’s End	3
How Physician Self-Perceptions Affect the Impact of Peer Comparison Feedback on Opioid Prescribing	3
Closing the Communication Gap: Assessing the Alignment Between UME and GME Competencies	3
A Learning Health System Approach to Hospital Quality Performance Benchmarking: The Composite Hospital Quality Index	3
Independent Risk Factors for Less Than “Top Box” Doctor Communication Patient Experience Survey Scores in an Urban Teaching Hospital	3
Reflections on 3 Years of Innovation: Recognizing the Need for Innovation Beyond the Clinical Care Pathway	3
Commentary: Modernizing Guidelines Development to Speed the Transfer of Science to Patient Care	3
Integrating Social Drivers of Health into Hospital Ratings with Application to the 100 Top Hospitals Study	2
Implementation of an Electronic Health Record Intervention to Improve Resident Documentation and Communication about Overnight Cross-Cover Events	2
Identification of Patient Safety Threats in a Post-Intensive Care Clinic	2
Preventing Opioid-Related Toxicity at a Regional VA Medical Center: A Resident-Led Interprofessional Quality Improvement Project	2
Leape’s Making Healthcare Safe: Both Invaluable and Incomplete	2
Aspiration Pneumonia Prevention Protocol at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital: Utilizing a Mandatory Yale Swallow Protocol	2
IDEAL PICU Rounds: Improving Daily Efficiency by Applying Lean Principles	2
Engaging Physicians in Quality Improvement in a Hospital Setting	2
Navigating the Code—How Revolutionary Technology Transforms the Patient-Physician Journey by Barry P. Chaiken	2
What’s New at ACMQ for 2022?	2
A Resident-driven Quality Improvement Project to Increase Primary Care Follow-up after Congestive Heart Failure Exacerbation: Use of a Quality and Safety Award	2
Use of Inpatient Subspecialty Consults Among Hospitalists	2
Standardizing Sepsis Patient Education: A Quality Improvement Process	2
Implementation of Quality Improvement System in a National Health System	2
Optimizing Utilization of SGLT2 Inhibitors in Patients With Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus and Chronic Kidney Disease in a VA Primary Care Clinic: An Interdisciplinary Quality Improvement Project	2
Announcing Exciting New Developments at ACMQ	2
Physician Burnout and Medical Errors: Exploring the Relationship, Cost, and Solutions	2
Avoiding Retained Surgical Items at an Academic Medical Center: Sustainability of a Surgical Quality Improvement Project	2
Evaluation of the Rothman Index in Predicting Readmission after Colorectal Resection	2
CDC’s Adapting Clinical Guidelines for the Digital Age Lacks Real-World Context	2
Communication in Health Care	2
High Reliability Organization Principles Improve VA Workplace Burnout	1
Personality Predicts the Efficacy of a Physician Leadership Development Program	1
Delivery of ERAS Care in an Academic Hospital	1

Engaging GME Learners in Health System-Aligned Improvement Work in the Clinical Learning Environment	1
Building a Real-Time Remote Patient Monitoring Patient Safety Program for COVID-19 Patients	1
Understanding Barriers and Assessing Education Intervention on Prescribing Naltrexone for Alcohol Use Disorder	1
Discharge Disposition and Clinical Outcomes After Spine Surgery	1
Integrating Physicians Into Lean Quality Improvement Through a Structured Educational Program	1
Implementing Effective Care in a University Population Based on National Vaccination Recommendations	1
Improving Parental Knowledge of Medically Complex Neonates Through Scheduled Conferences	1
Patient Experience as a National Quality Metric	1
Capturing the Patient Voice for Diabetes Eye Exams	1
Achieving a High-Reliability Laboratory: Operational Strategies Designed to Promote Patient Safety and Heighten Quality in the Clinical Lab	1
Do Skilled Nursing Facilities That Provide More Rehabilitation Therapy Have Lower Rehospitalization Rates?	1
Quality Improvement Interventions to Enhance Physician Billing: A Systematic Review	1
Community-based, Hospital-Affiliated Medical Group Becomes a Successful Accountable Care Organization	1
Building High-Performance Team Dynamics for Rapid Response Events in a US Tertiary Hospital: A Quality Improvement Model for Sustainable Process Change	1
Improving Provider Compliance with Recommended Lab Monitoring for Patients on Mood Stabilizers and Atypical Antipsychotics	1
The Use of a Checklist to Optimize Electrolyte Replacement in the ICU	1
Front-Line Health Care Workers’ COVID-19 Infection Contamination Risks: A Human Factors and Risk Analysis Study of Personal Protective Equipment	1
A High-reliability Organization Mindset	1
National Documentation and Coding Practices of Noncompliance: The Importance of Social Determinants of Health and the Stigma of African-American Bias	1
Performance of the Simplified HOSPITAL Score for Risk Assessment of Hospital Readmission in a Brazilian Tertiary Public Hospital	1
The Effect of Individualized Surgeon Comparative Feedback on Arthroplasty Outcomes: An Interrupted Time Series Analysis	1
The Healthcare Improvement and Innovation in Quality (THINQ) Collaborative: A Novel Quality Improvement Training Program for Undergraduate and Postgraduate Students	1
Is the Promise of PROMs Being Realized? Implementation Experience in a Large Orthopedic Practice	1
A Novel Method to Improve the Identification of Time of Intubation for Retrospective EHR Data Analysis During a Time of Resource Strain, the COVID-19 Pandemic	1
Increasing Influenza Vaccinations Within the Emergency Department of a Veterans Affairs Medical Center	1
Relationship Between Working Conditions, Worker Outcomes, and Patient Care	1
The Clinical Learning Environment: Past, Present, and Future	1
The Way to Building Humanized Health Care	1
Evaluation of a Custom EMR-embedded Handoff Support Application’s Impact on Resident Handoff Behaviors and Perceptions of Handoff Quality	1
How Hospitalists in Training Are Improving Quality of Patient Care in Dutch Hospitals	1
Effect of ED Prompt on Improving Provider Documentation of Repeat Vital Signs in Children Presenting With Fever and Tachycardia	1
Implementation of a Standardized Alteplase Administration Algorithm to Improve Hemodialysis Adequacy	1
Improving Delivery of Sepsis Care in a Veterans Affairs Emergency Department	1
Comparative Perspectives on Diagnostic Error Discussions Between Inpatient and Outpatient Pediatric Providers	1
Implementing Social Determinant of Health Screening in a Family Medicine Clinic: A Pilot Study	1
A Century of Surgical Quality: Origins, Evolution, and Future Directions	1
Assessment and Optimization of Practices with Patients with Limited English Proficiency in an Urban Emergency Department	1
Promoting a Culture of Civility in High-Reliability Organizations	1
Enhancing Sepsis Outcomes: A 7-Year Multidisciplinary Endeavor	1
A Financial and Operational Model Estimating the Value of Interprofessional Collaboration at a Large Academic Institution	1