International Journal for Quality in Health Care

Article	Citations
French Abstracts for Volume 34, Issue 1, 2022	57
Burden of ischemic stroke in mainland China and Taiwan province from 1990 to 2019: with forecast for the next 11 years	49
An invitation to join the IJQHC reviewer community—a call for peer-reviewers	39
Correction to: Is primary care a patient-safe setting? Prevalence, severity, nature, and causes of adverse events: numerous and mostly avoidable	31
Addressing wounded healers’ burnout and moral distress: starts and ends with integrity	29
Transforming Emergency Care: Lessons from Innovations Beyond Healthcare	25
Finding space for kindness: public protection and health professional regulation	24
A ‘COVID Compass’ for navigating the pandemic	23
Spanish Abstracts for Volume 34, Issue 3, 2022	20
International, national and local trends in the spread of COVID-19: a geographic view of COVID-19 spread and the role to be played by coproduction	20
Portuguese Abstracts	18
Home before Hospital: a whole of system re-design project to improve rates of home-based dialysis therapy: Experience and outcomes over 8 years	17
Boxed in but out of the box: novel approaches to addressing obstacles to specialty care	17
Portuguese Abstracts for Volume 34, Issue 2, 2022	17
Reduction in use of MRI and arthroscopy among patients with degenerative knee disease in independent treatment centers versus general hospitals: a time series analysis	17
Portuguese Abstracts, Volume 36, Issue 1, 2024	16
French Abstracts for Volume 33, Issue 3, 2021	16
Spanish Abstracts for Volume 31, Issue 8, 2019	15
Spanish Abstracts for Volume 31, Issue 6, 2019	14
A prospective randomized controlled study of the effect of standardized nursing intervention for cancer pain on the quality of life of patients	13
Correction to: Barriers and facilitators to health professionals’ engagement in quality improvement initiatives: a mixed-methods systematic review	13
The global, regional, and national burden and quality of care index of kidney cancer; a global burden of disease systematic analysis 1990–2019	12
Portuguese Abstracts, Volume 35, Issue 4, 2023	12
Factors Associated With Self-Reported Medical Errors Among Healthcare Workers: A Cross-Sectional Study From Oman	12
Exploring the impact of employee engagement and patient safety	11

How safe is prehospital care? A systematic review	11
Correction to: Perceived reliability of medical device alarms—a major determinant of medical errors driven by frozen medical thinking	11
The impact of elective surgery postponement during COVID-19 on emergency bellwether procedures in a large tertiary centre in Singapore	11
Medical visits and health-care expenditures of patients attending orthopedic clinics during the COVID-19 pandemic in Japan: LIFE Study	10
Scaling up quality in an anesthesia practice	10
The impact of outsourcing bed-based aged care services on quality of care: A multisite observational study	10
A meta-review of methods of measuring and monitoring safety in primary care	10
An analysis of complaints about hospital care in the Republic of Ireland	10
Provider–patient experiences and HIV care utilization among people living with HIV who inject drugs in St. Petersburg, Russia	9
Improving care safety by characterizing task interruptions during interactions between healthcare professionals: an observational study	9
Nurses’ perception of medication administration errors and factors associated with their reporting in the neonatal intensive care unit	9
Discharge to post–acute care and other predictors of prolonged length of stay during the initial COVID-19 surge: a single site analysis	9
Governance and management in healthcare organizations: their different roles in driving safety and quality	9
It’s time to protect nursing students from workplace violence	9
Implementing a screening algorithm for early recognition of sepsis in hospitalized children: a quality improvement project	9
Integration of persistence in the 5P-medicine approach for age-related chronic diseases	8
The cost of a first and second hospital-wide accreditation in Flanders, Belgium	8
Is evidence of effectiveness a driver for clinical decision support selection? A qualitative descriptive study of senior hospital staff	8
A scoping review of clinical handover mnemonic devices	8
Barriers and facilitators to health professionals’ engagement in quality improvement initiatives: a mixed-methods systematic review	8
Factors influencing the indication of coronary angiography in patients presenting with chest pain unspecified: an analysis of two decades (1994–2014)	8
Adherence to evidence-based guidelines for prevention of urinary retention in hip surgery patients: a multicentre observational study	7
Attitude toward perioperative safety among operation room clinicians at Ethiopian University Hospital	7
Setting standards in residential aged care: identifying achievable benchmarks of care for long-term aged care services	7
Control charts in healthcare quality monitoring: a systematic review and bibliometric analysis	7
A meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials comparing breast-conserving surgery and mastectomy in terms of patient survival rate and quality of life in breast cancer	7
International research priorities for integrated care and cross-boundary working: an electronic Delphi study	7
Optimizing warfarin and dual oral anticoagulation practices in an academic clinic during a merger amid the COVID-19 pandemic in a marginalized population	7
Patient- and family-centred care transition interventions for adults: a systematic review and meta-analysis of RCTs	7
A study of prehospital EMS response time and influencing factors in the main urban area of Chongqing, China	7
Adverse events reporting during the COVID-19 pandemic in a Danish region: a retrospective analysis	7
Provider experience and satisfaction with a novel ‘virtual team rounding’ program during the COVID-19 pandemic	6
The cross-national applicability of lean implementation measures and hospital performance measures: a case study of Finland and the USA	6
Dying in hospital – A retrospective medical record analysis on care in the dying phase in intensive care units and general wards	6
Leaving the hospital on time: hospital bed utilization and reasons for discharge delay in the Netherlands	6
Underreporting of adverse events to health authorities by healthcare professionals: a red flag-raising descriptive study	6
Health system performance assessment: embedding resilience through performance intelligence	6
Patient-reported outcome measures in mental health clinical research: a descriptive review in comparison with clinician-rated outcome measures	6
Implementing structured handoffs to verify operating room blood delivery using a quality academy training program: an interrupted time-series analysis	6
Revolutionizing patient safety with artificial intelligence: the potential of natural language processing and large language models	6
Combined lumbar spine MRI and CT appropriateness checklist: a quality improvement project in Saskatchewan, Canada	6
Improving community care for patients discharged from hospital through zone-wide implementation of a seamless care transition policy	6
Combining failure modes and effects analysis and cause–effect analysis: a novel method of risk analysis to reduce anaphylaxis due to contrast media	6
COVID-19 lockdown impact on quality of treatment and outcomes of STEMI and stroke patients in a large tertiary medical center: an observational study	6
A quality assurance initiative on improving cefazolin perioperative redose compliance	6
Developing and validating a Global Trigger Tool for assessing frequency, level of harm, and preventability of adverse drug events in pediatric inpatients units	5
Factors associated with harm in reported patient safety incidents and characteristics during health screenings in Korea: a secondary data analysis	5
Case management in emergency care: impact evaluation of the CARED Program	5
Prevalence and contributing factors of intravenous medication administration errors in emergency departments: a prospective observational study	5
The influence mechanism analysis of family doctor team effectiveness: a mixed-method approach	5

Safeguarding quality of care in active conflict: priority issues and interventions in Sudan	5
Psychological safety, job satisfaction, and the intention to leave among German early-career physicians	5
Evaluation of the Association of Length of Stay in Hospital and Outcomes	5
Point-of-care dashboards promote coproduction of healthcare services for patients with inflammatory bowel disease	5
Indirect effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on healthcare contacts, quality of care, and social disparities across essential healthcare domains	5
Spanish Abstracts for Volume 31, Issue 7, 2019	4
Portuguese Abstracts for Volume 34, Issue 3, 2022	4
Medication adherence as mandatory indicator in healthcare safety	4
Reform of mental health systems: what does the future look like and how to get there?	4
Application of DRGs in hospital medical record management and its impact on service quality	4
Environmental sustainability and quality care: Not one without the other	4
Correction to: Pilot testing of the International Council of Cardiovascular Prevention and Rehabilitation Registry	4
Spanish Abstracts for Volume 32, Issue 7, 2020	4
Key lessons to improve care—factors contributing to delayed discharges and cost implications: medical conditions and rehabilitation delays at a tertiary rehabilitation center in Saudi Arabia	4
Patient-centered care: the North Star to guide us during uncertainty into a better day	4
French abstracts for Volume 35, Issue 2, 2023	4
Multiple case study of processes used by hospitals to select performance indicators: do they align with best practices?	4
Spanish Abstracts for Volume 34, Issue 2, 2022	4
From Compliance to Excellence: How Can ISO 13485 Standards Transform Quality, Safety and Innovation in Medical Devices?	4
French Abstract for Volume 34, Issue 3, 2022	4
Constructing nursing quality indicators for intraoperative acquired pressure injury in cancer patients based on guidelines	4
French abstracts for Volume 35, Issue 3, 2023	4
Validity of 16 AHRQ Patient Safety Indicators to identify in-hospital complications: a medical record review across nine Swiss hospitals	4
Leveraging collaborative learning for improved heart failure care: insights from Argentina	3
Quality improvement collaborative to optimize heart failure care in patients from a network of clinics in Argentina during the COVID-19 pandemic	3
Public expectations on regulatory requirements for the management of hospital ‘never events’ in Germany	3
Triage nurse–initiated X-ray radiography in minor trauma	3
Predictors of job satisfaction and intention to stay in the job among health-care providers in Uganda and Zambia	3
A cost-effectiveness analysis of the Chronic Disease Management Program in patients with hypertension in Korea	3
Disparities in unmet health service needs among people with disabilities in China	3
Spanish Abstracts for Volume 35, Issue 2, 2023	3
Effect of COVID-19 on hospital visits in Ningbo, China: an interrupted time-series analysis	3
Measuring shared decision-making in younger and older adults with depression	3
Increasing venous thromboembolism risk assessment through a whole hospital-based intervention: a pre-post service evaluation to demonstrate quality improvement	3
Effects of gait adaptation training on augmented reality treadmill for patients with stroke in community ambulation	3
Adapting lean management to prevent healthcare-associated infections: a low-cost strategy involving Kamishibai cards to sustain bundles’ compliance	3
With much of England’s NHS under severe pressure, should health inequalities be a priority?	3
A hybrid Shewhart chart for visualizing and learning from epidemic data	3
Adjuvant zoledronic acid therapy for postmenopausal women with early breast cancer in China: a cost-effectiveness analysis	3
Epidemiology of falls in 25 Australian residential aged care facilities: a retrospective longitudinal cohort study using routinely collected data	3
Express check-in: developing a personal health record for patients admitted to hospital with medical emergencies: a mixed-method feasibility study	3
Documentation quality of patient-directed discharge and early warning interactions in an adult inpatient service	3
Safety climate, leadership and patient views associated with hip fracture care quality and clinician perceptions of hip fracture care performance	3
Impact of an educational intervention on WHO surgical safety checklist and pre-operative antibiotic use at a referral hospital in southwestern Uganda	3
Exploring the relation between clinician ratings and patient-reported experience and outcomes	3
Abdominal surgical trajectories associated with failure to rescue. A nationwide analysis	3
Best practice: quality assessment outcomes of the Practice Enhancement Program among family physicians in Saskatchewan, Canada	3
Suicide and stigma: connections and challenges	3
Design and validation of indicators for the comprehensive measurement of quality of care for type 2 diabetes and acute respiratory infections in ambulatory health services	3
Mapping the quality of basic and comprehensive emergency obstetric care services in Haiti	3
Incident Reporting Reduction during the Covid-19 Pandemic in a Tertiary Italian Hospital. A Retrospective Analysis	3
A qualitative study exploring challenges and solutions to negotiating goals of care at the end of life in hospital settings	3
Verbal descriptors of the frequency of side effects: implementation of EMA recommendations in patient information leaflets in Poland	3
Addressing overestimation and insensitivity in the 85% target for average bed occupancy	3
Development and validation of a patient satisfaction survey for pharmaceutical service at primary care settings	3
Applying health-six-sigma principles helps reducing the variability of length of stay in the emergency department	3
A quality improvement initiative using peer audit and feedback to improve compliance	3
Barriers to evidence-based practice implementation in physiotherapy: a systematic review and meta-analysis	3
A beacon to guide others: improving chronic disease management through targeted, evidence-based primary healthcare quality measures	3
The impact of hospital command centre on patient flow and data quality: findings from the UK National Health Service	3
Quality improvement in anaesthesia practices: letter to the editor	3
Clinical indicators to monitor health care in low back pain: a scoping review	2
Effect analysis of multi-department cooperation in improving etiological submission rates before antibiotic treatment	2
Physicians’ perspectives on clinical indicators: systematic review and thematic synthesis	2
How personnel diversity and affective bonds affect performance-based financing: a moderator analysis of a difference-in-difference estimator	2
Multidisciplinary perspectives on roles of hospital pharmacists in tertiary settings: a qualitative study	2
The development of indicators to measure the quality of care in geriatric rehabilitation	2
Effect of a prioritization score on the inter-hospital transfer time management of severe COVID-19 patients: a quasi-experimental intervention study	2
Use and de-implementation of fecal occult blood tests in the acute care setting: a systematic review and meta-analysis	2
North-south inequalities in healthcare response to Covid-19 in Italy	2
Using patient-reported outcome measures in psychiatric hospital care: an observational study describing an iterative implementation process in Denmark	2
Understanding complaints made about surgical departments in a UK district general hospital	2
Overcoming telemental health disparities during the COVID-19 pandemic	2
The cost of dispensing errors in Iranian health system: a retrospective evaluation	2
Applying the Human Factors Analysis and Classification System within root cause analysis to prevent medical errors and enhancing patient safety culture: insights from a medical center	2
Perceived reliability of medical device alarms—a major determinant of medical errors driven by frozen medical thinking	2
Practice patterns and survival outcomes for muscle-invasive bladder cancer: real-life experience in a general population setting	2
The future of global graduate training in quality improvement and patient safety	2
Applying models of co-production in the context of health and well-being. A narrative review to guide future practice	2
A multiphase, multicentre development and validation of two maturity tools assessing the implementation of the FlaQuM co-creation roadmap	2

Reporting patient experiences within elective perioperative care: a scoping review	2
Protocols for ischaemic stroke in Flemish hospitals: correlation between availability and content versus adherence	2
Job burnout facing Chinese general practitioners in the context of COVID-19	2
Quo Vadis? Face-to-face visits	2
Quality gap in venous thromboembolism prophylaxis practices in inpatients: Assessment of prophylaxis practices in a University Hospital	2
Policy, accreditation and leadership: creating the conditions for effective coproduction of health, healthcare and science	2
Science-informed practice: an essential epistemologic contributor to health-care coproduction	2
Supporting equitable access to kidney transplant in remote Western Australia using continuous quality improvement	2
French Abstract for Volume 34, Issue 4, 2022	2
Are operating room distractions, interruptions and disruptions associated with performance and patient safety? A systematic review and meta-analysis	2
An invitation to contribute to a dynamic community committed to quality without borders: the rise of a global francophone network focused on healthcare improvement	2
The care needs of the elderly in China’s elderly care institutions: a narrative synthesis	2
Diagnostic performance of a newly launched Canadian fast-track ultrasound clinic by rheumatologists for the diagnosis of giant cell arteritis	2
A comparative study of home healthcare quality in urban and rural home health agencies throughout the USA (2010–22)	2
Associations of Hospital Unit Occupancy with Inpatient Falls and Fall-Risk Assessment Completion: A Retrospective Cohort Study	2
Determinants of quality in the independent and public hospital sectors in England	2
Health system resilience, accreditation, high-quality care, and continuous quality improvement: what is the destination and how do we get there?	2
Time to review reflective practice?	2
What does the future of quality improvement look like?	2
Patient-reported outcome measurement of symptom distress is feasible in most clinical scenarios in palliative care: an observational study involving routinely collected data	2
Targeted ordering of investigations reduces costs of treatment for surgical inpatients	2
Predictors of patient-reported quality of care in low- and middle-income countries: a four-country survey of person-centered care	2
Portuguese Abstracts for Volume 33, Issue 3, 2021	2
Exploring the development of safety culture among physicians with text mining of patient safety reports: a retrospective study	2
Advancing quality management in the medical devices industry: strategies for effective ISO 13485 implementation	2
Implementation research on measuring quality in primary care: balancing national needs with learning from the Eastern Mediterranean Region	2
Is a hospital quality policy based on a triad of accreditation, public reporting and inspection evidence-based? A narrative review	1
A qualitative study exploring patient shadowing as a method to improve patient-centred care: 10 principles for a new gold standard	1
‘The big value of it is getting the patient seen by the right person at the right time’: clinician perceptions of the value of allied health primary contact models of care	1
Psychometric properties of the person-centred coordinated care experience questionnaire (P3CEQ) in a Norwegian radiotherapy setting	1
Portuguese Abstracts for Volume 35, Issue 2, 2023	1
Medication reuse programs: a narrative review of the literature	1
Portuguese Abstracts for Volume 33 Issue 4, 2021	1
Spanish Abstracts for Volume 35, Issue 4, 2023	1
Seeking systems-based facilitators of safety and healthcare resilience: a thematic review of incident reports	1
Portuguese Abstracts for Volume 34, Issue 4, 2022	1
Crossover of the patient satisfaction surveys, adverse events and patient complaints for continuous improvement in radiotherapy department	1
Improving results management processes in an acute hospital using a multi-faceted approach	1
Accreditation and clinical outcomes: shorter length of stay after first-time hospital accreditation in the Faroe Islands	1
Cost of postoperative complications after general surgery at a major Canadian academic centre	1
Placing patient safety at the heart of value-based healthcare	1
Designing clinical indicators for common residential aged care conditions and processes of care: the CareTrack Aged development and validation study	1
Measuring quality of care for universal health coverage in the Western Pacific	1
Spanish Abstracts for Volume 33, Issue 3, 2021	1
Sharps injuries among healthcare workers in Liberia and Ghana: a cross-sectional survey	1
Outcomes of completed quality activities in an Australian tertiary hospital, 2015–2019	1
Effect of automated unit dose dispensing with barcode scanning on medication administration errors: an uncontrolled before-and-after study	1
Using space technology approach to improve quality in emergency departments in India: a quality improvement program	1
Use of wireless geographic locating system to improve medical equipment utilization and medical quality	1
Co-worker unprofessional behaviour and patient safety risks: an analysis of co-worker reports across eight Australian hospitals	1
Improving primary care through multidisciplinary teamwork: possibilities and challenges	1
Evaluating factors associated with the cancellation and delay of elective surgical procedures: a systematic review	1
Accelerating improvement: The Pediatric Acute Care Cardiology Collaborative data timeliness project	1
Near real-time patient experience feedback with data relay to providers: a systematic review of its effectiveness	1
Engaging healthcare professionals and patient representatives in the development of a quality model for hospitals: a mixed-method study	1
Expanded perspectives: integrating clinicians’ insights for comprehensive patient-reported outcomes in value-based healthcare	1
New ways of working: health professional development for effective coproduction	1
Cluster randomized controlled trial: A matter of independence	1
Virtue ethics, the next step in quality improvement?	1
Impact of the physical therapy–managed spinal orthoses program on cost of care in the hospital setting: a retrospective interrupted time-series study	1
Heeding frontline voice for better quality and safer care	1
Spanish Abstracts for Volume 35, Issue 1, 2023	1
EPERCAS study (Strategies for Preventing Medication Administration Errors in Nursing Homes). Preparation of a list of strategies to prevent the most frequent medication administration errors in the re	1
Quality as strategy, the evolution of co-production in the Region Jönköping health system, Sweden: a descriptive qualitative study	1
Single-use negative pressure wound therapy to prevent surgical site complications in high-risk patients undergoing caesarean sections: a real-world study	1
Development and Validation of a Quality Indicator System for Outpatient Service in Shenzhen, China	1
Israeli COVID lockdowns mildly reduced overall use of preventive health services, but exacerbated some disparities	1
Portuguese Abstracts, Volume 35, Issue 3, 2023	1
Facilitators and barriers to the implementation of surgical safety checklist: an integrative review	1
Interruption of initial patient assessment in the emergency department and its effect on patient perception of care quality	1
Creating transformative change in the disabilities field: promoting both bottom-up and top-down inclusion through the UNCRPD and QualityRights Toolkit	1
Optimizing neurosurgery clinic operations: a comparative study of interventions in Finland’s public healthcare system	1
Holding up the crystal ball: using regulatory intelligence insights to support quality in healthcare	1
Making health and healthcare really matter in less resourced countries	1
The sustainability of hospital accreditation models: a cross-sectional study	1
Core elements of excellent hospital leadership: lessons from the five top-performing hospitals in China	1
Process management program to prevent falls in hospitalized patients with neuropsychiatric disorders: a quality improvement program	1
Navigating the complex terrain of patient safety: challenges, strategies, and the importance of ongoing evaluation and knowledge sharing	1
Dedicated teams to optimize quality and safety of surgery: A systematic review	1
Investigating drivers of telecare acceptance to improve healthcare quality for independently living older adults	1
French Abstracts for Volume 34, Issue 2, 2022	1
Understanding what it will take to sustain improvement in healthcare	1
The power of the patient’s voice in the modern health care system	1
The silent threat: investigating sleep disturbances in hospitalized patients	1
French Abstracts for Volume 35, Issue 1, 2023	1
A starter’s guide to learning and teaching how to coproduce healthcare services	1
Defining value in health care: a scoping review of the literature	1
Monitoring for adverse drug events of high-risk medications with a computerized clinical decision support system: a prospective cohort study	1
Characteristics of quality activities in a tertiary teaching hospital in Western Australia	1
Spanish Abstracts for Volume 34, Issue 1, 2022	1
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on emergency care of acute myocardial infarction: findings from the Taiwan Clinical Performance Indicator	1
Person-centered care (PCC): the people’s perspective	1
Implementing co-production to enhance patient safety: the introduction of the patient safety consent tool, an example of a simple local solution to a common challenge	1
Look-alike, sound-alike medication perioperative incidents in a regional Australian hospital: assessment using a novel medication safety culture assessment tool	1
Care in the future—reconciling health system and individual resilience	1