OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Quality Management in Health Care is 2. 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
Real-Time Location Systems for Quality Improvement: Promises, Challenges, and Recommendations	15
More Than Words: An Invited Commentary Regarding “Quantitative Patient-Reported Experience Measures Derived From Natural Language Processing Have a Normal Distribution and No Ceiling Effect”	11
Primary Care Quality Improvement Through Patient-Centered Medical Homes and the Impact on Emergency Department Utilization for Children With Autism and Mental Health Disorders	10
Interprofessional Collaboration and Patient/Family Engagement on Rounds in a Comprehensive Stroke Center: A Mixed-Methods Study	10
Effect of a Post-Discharge Telephone-Based Intervention Led by Social Workers to Reduce Heart Failure Readmissions	10
Leadership Strategies to Increase Psychological Safety of Nurses: A Longitudinal Study	10
Generation of Indicators to Assess Quality of Health Care in Hospital at Home Through e-Delphi	9
Call for Papers	9
Lean Management Helps to Reduce Errors in Histopathology: A Real-life Experience From a Tertiary Care Public Sector Hospital	8
Optimizing Transfer of Postcesarean Patients to Postoperative Ward Through a Quality Improvement (QI) Project: Curtailing Delays, Improving Care	8
Enhancing Patient Safety Awareness Among Medical Students: A Pilot Study	7
Decreased Length of Stay and Opioid Usage After Liver Cancer Surgery With Enhanced Recovery Pathway Implementation	7
Peer Audit and Feedback: A Documentation-Focused Quality Improvement Project	7
Potential Reinforcement of Health Misconceptions in YouTube Videos: Example of Elbow Enthesopathy (Tennis Elbow)	7
The Development and Endorsement of a Performance Measure for Stroke Misdiagnosis in the Emergency Department	6
Mitigating Medical Adverse Events Following Spinal Surgery: The Effectiveness of a Postoperative Quality Improvement (QI) Care Bundle	6
Integrative Medicine: An Opportunity for Improving Quality of Care in the Inpatient Setting	6
Lessons Learned From Provider Minder: A Provider Tracking Application for Improving Stroke Risk Screening in Sickle Cell Anemia	6
Hospital Performance Assessment: A Global Perspective	5
The Potential of Patient Stories to Advance Birth Equity	5
Patient-Engagement Health Information Technology and Quality Process Outcomes in Federally Qualified Health Centers	5
Guidelines for Triage of COVID-19 Patients Presenting With Multisystemic Symptoms	5
Using the Electronic Medical Record to Increase Laboratory Test Monitoring in Ocular Inflammation Patients: A Quality Improvement Study	5
A Simple Screening Tool Reduces Unnecessary Preoperative Evaluation for Cataract Surgery	4
Refocusing on Patient-Centered Outcomes for Quality Improvement in Healthcare	4

Establishing Nursing-Sensitive Quality Indicators for the Central Sterile Supply Department: A Modified Delphi Study	4
Time for a Paradigm Shift to Help Older Adults Thrive After Hospitalization	4
Balancing Clinician Workload Through Strategic Patient Panel Designs	4
Choosing Wisely and Promoting High-Value Care and Staff Safety During the COVID-19 Pandemic in a Large Safety Net System	4
Patient Comments and Patient Experience Ratings Are Strongly Correlated With Emergency Department Wait Times	4
To Help Hospital Providers Sit at the Bedside, Choose the Right Seat	4
Reduction of Chest Drain Overuse Through Implementation of a Pleural Drainage Order Set	4
Information for Authors	3
Reducing Unnecessary Complete Blood Count Ordering Through Education and Standardization: A Quality Improvement Initiative	3
Driving in the Wrong Direction: Exploring the Unintended Consequences of an Early Discharge Program on Length of Stay in Hospital Setting	3
Building Cultural and Clinical Bridges: Post-Merger Strategies to Create Synergy, Increase Quality, and Reduce Costs	3
Prediction of Breast Cancer Remission	3
Advancing Behavioral Health Through Measurement-Based Care and the Intermountain Psychotherapy Institute	3
USPSTF Dismisses Predictive Medicine and Data Science	3
Intravenous Iron Prescribing Appropriateness Through Adherence to a Provincial Order Set for Inpatients: A Retrospective Study	3
Letter to the Editor on “Burnout Among Family Physicians in the United States: A Review of the Literature”	3
A Comparative Evaluation of Prolonged Hospitalization in Japanese Hospitals: Analysis Based on a Risk-Adjusted Indicator for Pneumonia	3
Call for Reviewers	3
COVID-19 Inpatient Caseloads in General Hospitals Did Not Affect Quality Indicator Compliance Rates in Israel	2
Accelerating Dyad Leadership Effectiveness: A Quality Improvement Effort in Clinical Programs	2
Implementation of a Standardized Approach to the Category II Fetal Heart Tracing	2
Call for Papers	2
Initiating the Conversation: Prioritizing Women’s Reproductive Health in Primary Care	2
Categorizing Care Delays and Their Impact on Hospital Length of Stay	2
Intermountain as a Learning Health System: Key Successes and Future Directions	2
The Integration of Quality Improvement and Health Care Simulation: A Scoping Review	2
Information for Authors	2
Perception of Health Care Professionals Toward Hospital Accreditation at Johns Hopkins Aramco Healthcare	2
Quality Objectives in Standardized Quality Management Systems	2
Intermountain Healthcare's Hospital-Level Care at Home Program	2
Cost-Related Barriers to Medication Adherence in Uveitis Patients Enrolled in NIH's All of Us Program	2
Effectiveness of Resident Education on Thromboembolism Prophylaxis: Insights From a Quality Improvement Project Improving the Appropriate Use of Thromboembolism Prophylaxis Among Resident Inpatient Te	2
Accelerating Clinical Practice Integration: IV Fluid Best Practice Implementation in a Merged Health System	2
The Desire Path: Integrating Patient Safety and Patient-Centeredness in Health Care Design	2
Effectiveness of Huddles in Improving the Patient Safety Attitudes Among Clinical Team Members	2
Application of Management by Objectives in the Standardized Management of Orthopedic Nursing Safety Adverse Events: A Prospective Study	2
“Nothing Is More Powerful than Words:” How Patient Experience Narratives Enable Improvement	2
Improving Quality in Chronic Diseases in the Outpatient Setting Using a CNS-Led Care Management Program	2