International Journal for Quality in Health Care

Article	Citations
Portuguese Abstracts	60
Addressing wounded healers’ burnout and moral distress: starts and ends with integrity	51
Spanish Abstracts for Volume 34, Issue 3, 2022	41
Health system performance assessment: embedding resilience through performance intelligence	32
It’s time to protect nursing students from workplace violence	32
An analysis of complaints about hospital care in the Republic of Ireland	28
Indirect effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on healthcare contacts, quality of care, and social disparities across essential healthcare domains	26
Developing and validating a Global Trigger Tool for assessing frequency, level of harm, and preventability of adverse drug events in pediatric inpatients units	23
Implementation of regional Acute Stroke Care Map increases thrombolysis rates in urban areas of China: an interrupted time series analysis	19
Cost-related medication nonadherence in adults with hypertension in the USA: implications for healthcare quality	19
Correction to: Pilot testing of the International Council of Cardiovascular Prevention and Rehabilitation Registry	18
Dying in hospital: a retrospective medical record analysis on care in the dying phase in intensive care units and general wards	18
Disparities in unmet health service needs among people with disabilities in China	17
Epidemiology of falls in 25 Australian residential aged care facilities: a retrospective longitudinal cohort study using routinely collected data	16
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	15
Adapting lean management to prevent healthcare-associated infections: a low-cost strategy involving Kamishibai cards to sustain bundles’ compliance	15
Quality of care for newly diagnosed patients with rheumatoid arthritis in South Korea: A nationwide cohort study	15
The impact of hospital command centre on patient flow and data quality: findings from the UK National Health Service	15
The future of global graduate training in quality improvement and patient safety	15
Time to review reflective practice?	14
Spanish Abstracts for Volume 35, Issue 4, 2023	12
Effect of automated unit dose dispensing with barcode scanning on medication administration errors: an uncontrolled before-and-after study	12
Multidisciplinary perspectives on roles of hospital pharmacists in tertiary settings: a qualitative study	12
Practice patterns and survival outcomes for muscle-invasive bladder cancer: real-life experience in a general population setting	11
Understanding what it will take to sustain improvement in healthcare	11

Optimizing neurosurgery clinic operations: a comparative study of interventions in Finland’s public healthcare system	11
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on emergency care of acute myocardial infarction: findings from the Taiwan Clinical Performance Indicator	10
Placing patient safety at the heart of value-based healthcare	10
Advancing quality in low human development index scoring countries; the need for standardized and shared quality measurement and reporting	10
Making health and healthcare really matter in less resourced countries	10
Careggi Re-Engineered Discharge project: standardize discharge and improve care coordination between healthcare professionals	10
‘Low-value’ clinical care in general practice: a cross-sectional analysis of low-value care in early-career GPs’ practice	9
Spanish Abstracts for Volume 33, Issue 3, 2021	9
North-south inequalities in healthcare response to Covid-19 in Italy	9
Impact of the physical therapy–managed spinal orthoses program on cost of care in the hospital setting: a retrospective interrupted time-series study	9
Outcomes of completed quality activities in an Australian tertiary hospital, 2015–2019	9
Effects of a team Quality Improvement method in a national clinical audit programme of four clinical specialties in Ministry of Health hospitals in Saudi Arabia	9
Cluster randomized controlled trial: A matter of independence	9
Investigating drivers of telecare acceptance to improve healthcare quality for independently living older adults	9
Comparing continuity of care before and after disability registration: A retrospective cohort study	8
Continuous Glucose Monitoring in Type 2 Diabetes: A Systematic Review of Barriers and Opportunities for Care Improvement	8
Variation in hospital performance measures from the Turkey Ministry of Health	8
The maturity of lean management in a large academic medical center in Finland: a qualitative study	8
Portuguese Abstracts for Volume 35, Issue 1, 2023	8
Association between patient choice of provider and patient-reported experience	8
Improving patient safety governance and systems through learning from successes and failures: qualitative surveys and interviews with international experts	8
Barriers, facilitators and implementation strategies to implement ‘patient’s own medication’ and ‘self-administration of medication’ in hospitals	8
Reducing the risks of nuclear war: the role of health professionals	8
Patients experience more support, information and involvement after first-time hospital accreditation: a before and after study in the Faroe Islands	7
Coproduction in the management of individuals with cleft lip and palate in South Africa: the Ekhaya Lethu model	7
Improving primary care access to respirologists using eConsult	7
Effect of a waiting room communication strategy on imaging rates and awareness of public health messages for low back pain	7
The effect of applying telehealth education to home care of infants after congenital heart disease surgery	7
Promoting human rights-based deinstitutionalization in Lithuania by applying the World Health Organization’s QualityRights Assessments	7
How should medical society face patient feedback in online review platforms?	7
Developing quality measures for non-pharmacological prevention and rehabilitation in primary health care for chronic conditions: a consensus study	7
Research on obstetric ward planning combining lean thinking and mixed-integer programming	7
Clinical resilience: toward a unified definition	6
Using guideline-based clinical decision support in oncological multidisciplinary team meetings: A prospective, multicenter concordance study	6
Spanish Abstracts for Volume 33, Issue 1, 2021	6
Nosocomial COVID: the moral and clinical imperative for worldwide data collection and action	6
Resilience and regulation—antithesis or a smart combination for future healthcare service improvement?	6
Using patient-reported outcome measures and patient-reported experience measures to elevate the quality of healthcare	6
Five-year analysis of hospital complaints at a Japanese tertiary teaching hospital	6
Training the next generation of journal editors: The case for editorial apprenticeship programmes	6
Systematic recording and discussion of intraoperative adverse events using ClassIntra: results of a qualitative context analysis before implementation	6
Delayed discharges at a tertiary rehabilitation centre in Saudi Arabia: contributing factors and cost impact	6
A ‘COVID Compass’ for navigating the pandemic	5
The role of co-production in Learning Health Systems	5
Boxed in but out of the box: novel approaches to addressing obstacles to specialty care	5
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	5
Governance and management in healthcare organizations: their different roles in driving safety and quality	5
Promoting holistic and inclusive care for women: a call for updated health policies	5
Safety Rounds as a Strategy for Continuous Quality and Safety Improvement in Healthcare Processes	5
French Abstracts for Volume 34, Issue 1, 2022	5

International research priorities for integrated care and cross-boundary working: an electronic Delphi study	5
Transforming Emergency Care: Lessons from Innovations Beyond Healthcare	5
Hospital accreditation: an umbrella review	5
Gender in the consolidated criteria for reporting qualitative research (COREQ) checklist	5
Reduction in use of MRI and arthroscopy among patients with degenerative knee disease in independent treatment centers versus general hospitals: a time series analysis	5
Implementing a screening algorithm for early recognition of sepsis in hospitalized children: a quality improvement project	5
Combined lumbar spine MRI and CT appropriateness checklist: a quality improvement project in Saskatchewan, Canada	5
Reform of mental health systems: what does the future look like and how to get there?	4
How safe is prehospital care? A systematic review	4
COVID-19 response: a perspective from Pakistan	4
How personnel diversity and affective bonds affect performance-based financing: a moderator analysis of a difference-in-difference estimator	4
New ways of working: health professional development for effective coproduction	4
Interruption of initial patient assessment in the emergency department and its effect on patient perception of care quality	4
Coproducing value during the COVID-19 pandemic	4
Developing online medical service quality indicators in China from the perspective of online and offline integration: a modified Delphi–analytic hierarchy process study	4
Use and de-implementation of fecal occult blood tests in the acute care setting: a systematic review and meta-analysis	4
Advancing quality management in the medical devices industry: strategies for effective ISO 13485 implementation	4
Mapping the quality of basic and comprehensive emergency obstetric care services in Haiti	4
French Abstract for Volume 34, Issue 3, 2022	4
Finding space for kindness: public protection and health professional regulation	4
Navigating the complex terrain of patient safety: challenges, strategies, and the importance of ongoing evaluation and knowledge sharing	4
Look-alike, sound-alike medication perioperative incidents in a regional Australian hospital: assessment using a novel medication safety culture assessment tool	4
Evaluating factors associated with the cancellation and delay of elective surgical procedures: a systematic review	4
Measuring quality of care for universal health coverage in the Western Pacific	4
Developing clinical care programs: Experience from a Colombian clinical center	4
Potentially avoidable hospitalizations and associated factors among older people in French Guiana using the French National Health Data System	4
Accelerating improvement: The Pediatric Acute Care Cardiology Collaborative data timeliness project	4
Impact of an educational intervention on WHO surgical safety checklist and pre-operative antibiotic use at a referral hospital in southwestern Uganda	4
Implementation research on measuring quality in primary care: balancing national needs with learning from the Eastern Mediterranean Region	4
Spanish Abstracts for Volume 34, Issue 2, 2022	4
Point-of-care dashboards promote coproduction of healthcare services for patients with inflammatory bowel disease	4
Comparative analysis of routine clinical debriefings and incident reports: insights for patient safety and teamwork enhancement	4
Effects of an educational intervention for rational cardiac enzyme requisitions in critically ill patients: a pre–post intervention study	4
Quality as strategy, the evolution of co-production in the Region Jönköping health system, Sweden: a descriptive qualitative study	4
Development and Validation of a Quality Indicator System for Outpatient Service in Shenzhen, China	4
The second victim phenomenon: comprehensive support and systemic change in healthcare	4
Sharps injuries among healthcare workers in Liberia and Ghana: a cross-sectional survey	4
Effects of gait adaptation training on augmented reality treadmill for patients with stroke in community ambulation	4
Spanish Abstracts for Volume 33, Issue 2, 2021	3
Effect of China’s long-term care insurance on health outcomes of older disabled people: role of institutional care	3
Anti-Indigenous racism in Canadian healthcare: a scoping review of the literature	3
Adherence to evidence-based guidelines for prevention of urinary retention in hip surgery patients: a multicentre observational study	3
A quality assurance initiative on improving cefazolin perioperative redose compliance	3
French Abstracts for Volume 33, Issue 3, 2021	3
How to effectively engage patients and families in quality improvement: a deep, transparent partnership	3
Pilot testing of the International Council of Cardiovascular Prevention and Rehabilitation Registry	3
International approaches for implementing accreditation programmes in different healthcare facilities: a comparative case study in Australia, Botswana, Denmark, and Jordan	3
Using telemedicine to improve the quality of life of parents of infants with CHD surgery after discharge	3
Improving the quality of hospital sterilization process using failure modes and effects analysis, fuzzy logic, and machine learning: experience in tertiary dental centre	3
Implementation and outcomes of a statewide TBI screening program for underserved populations	3
Patient safety in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: how can we do better?	3
Addressing the challenge of reducing low-value care	3
The utility of website-based quality improvement tools for health professionals: a systematic review	3
Discharge to post–acute care and other predictors of prolonged length of stay during the initial COVID-19 surge: a single site analysis	3
Burden of ischemic stroke in mainland China and Taiwan province from 1990 to 2019: with forecast for the next 11 years	3
Safeguarding quality of care in active conflict: priority issues and interventions in Sudan	3
In Good Hands: exploring patient safety in the Philippines	3
Are clinicians using routinely collected data to drive practice improvement? A cross-sectional survey	3
Interpreting the lived experiences of home caregivers in the families of patients with COVID-19 in Iran: a phenomenological study	3
Modelling the effect of COVID-19 mass vaccination on acute hospital admissions	3
The accuracy of the Global Trigger Tool is higher for the identification of adverse events of greater harm: a diagnostic test study	3
A simulation study on the association of HRO communication patterns and surgical team performance	3
Some important principles for implementing lean management in healthcare organizations	3
Organisational capacity for family engagement during COVID: Ensuring family communication needs are met for better engagement with care	3
Patient experience and nurse staffing level in South Korea	3
Scaling up quality in an anesthesia practice	3
Combining failure modes and effects analysis and cause–effect analysis: a novel method of risk analysis to reduce anaphylaxis due to contrast media	3
Portuguese Abstracts for Volume 34, Issue 2, 2022	3
Can guidelines rein in oxygen use? A retrospective cross-sectional study using routinely collected data	3
Organizational capacity for patient and family engagement in hospital planning and improvement: interviews with patient/family advisors, managers and clinicians	3
Examining the joint effect of clinical quality, meaningful use of HIT and patient–caregiver interaction on mortality rates in US acute care hospitals	3
A prospective randomized controlled study of the effect of standardized nursing intervention for cancer pain on the quality of life of patients	3
Predicting non-response in patient-reported outcome measures: results from the Swiss quality assurance programme in cardiac inpatient rehabilitation	3
The double use of PROMs to improve patient–provider communication and to compare providers: a potential conflict?	3
Quo Vadis? Face-to-face visits	2
Health system resilience, accreditation, high-quality care, and continuous quality improvement: what is the destination and how do we get there?	2
Reducing postoperative opioid pill prescribing via a quality improvement approach	2
What does the future of quality improvement look like?	2
Portuguese Abstracts for Volume 34, Issue 4, 2022	2
Measuring shared decision-making in younger and older adults with depression	2

Improving results management processes in an acute hospital using a multi-faceted approach	2
Addressing overestimation and insensitivity in the 85% target for average bed occupancy	2
Person-centered care (PCC): the people’s perspective	2
Holding up the crystal ball: using regulatory intelligence insights to support quality in healthcare	2
Accreditation and clinical outcomes: shorter length of stay after first-time hospital accreditation in the Faroe Islands	2
Provider experience and satisfaction with a novel ‘virtual team rounding’ program during the COVID-19 pandemic	2
Outcomes among patients admitted for non-ST-segment myocardial infarction in the pre-pandemic and pandemic COVID-19 era: Israel Nationwide study	2
Clinical indicators to monitor health care in low back pain: a scoping review	2
Crossover of the patient satisfaction surveys, adverse events and patient complaints for continuous improvement in radiotherapy department	2
French Abstract for Volume 34, Issue 4, 2022	2
Improving first-pass success rates during emergency intubation at an academic emergency department: a quality improvement initiative	2
Associations of hospital unit occupancy with inpatient falls and fall-risk assessment completion: a retrospective cohort study	2
Portuguese Abstracts for Volume 35, Issue 2, 2023	2
Underreporting of adverse events to health authorities by healthcare professionals: a red flag-raising descriptive study	2
Care in the future—reconciling health system and individual resilience	2
A hybrid Shewhart chart for visualizing and learning from epidemic data	2
Correction to: Effects of early palliative care intervention on medical resource use among end-of-life patients	2
‘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	2
Improving primary care through multidisciplinary teamwork: possibilities and challenges	2
Patient-reported outcome measures in mental health clinical research: a descriptive review in comparison with clinician-rated outcome measures	2
A qualitative study exploring patient shadowing as a method to improve patient-centred care: 10 principles for a new gold standard	2
The development of indicators to measure the quality of care in geriatric rehabilitation	2
Monitoring for adverse drug events of high-risk medications with a computerized clinical decision support system: a prospective cohort study	2
Defining value in health care: a scoping review of the literature	2
The cost of dispensing errors in Iranian health system: a retrospective evaluation	2
The power of the patient’s voice in the modern health care system	2
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	2
Portuguese Abstracts for Volume 33 Issue 4, 2021	2
Incident Reporting Reduction during the Covid-19 Pandemic in a Tertiary Italian Hospital. A Retrospective Analysis	2
Promoting systemic incident analysis in healthcare—key challenges and ways forwards	2
Case management in emergency care: impact evaluation of the CARED Program	2
Creating transformative change in the disabilities field: promoting both bottom-up and top-down inclusion through the UNCRPD and QualityRights Toolkit	2
Co-worker unprofessional behaviour and patient safety risks: an analysis of co-worker reports across eight Australian hospitals	2
Patient- and family-centred care transition interventions for adults: a systematic review and meta-analysis of RCTs	2
Applying models of co-production in the context of health and well-being. A narrative review to guide future practice	2
Physicians’ perspectives on clinical indicators: systematic review and thematic synthesis	1
Patient-centered care: the North Star to guide us during uncertainty into a better day	1
Application of DRGs in hospital medical record management and its impact on service quality	1
Diagnostic performance of a newly launched Canadian fast-track ultrasound clinic by rheumatologists for the diagnosis of giant cell arteritis	1
Factors associated with harm in reported patient safety incidents and characteristics during health screenings in Korea: a secondary data analysis	1
Heeding frontline voice for better quality and safer care	1
The impact of elective surgery postponement during COVID-19 on emergency bellwether procedures in a large tertiary centre in Singapore	1
Using patient-reported outcome measures in psychiatric hospital care: an observational study describing an iterative implementation process in Denmark	1
Evaluating the implementation and use of patient-reported outcome measures in a mental health hospital in Denmark: a qualitative study	1
Leveraging collaborative learning for improved heart failure care: insights from Argentina	1
Improving compliance with personal protective equipment among anaesthetists through behaviour-changing interventions during the coronavirus disease 2019(COVID-19) pandemic	1
An invitation for contributions to a themed issue on artificial intelligence and safety and quality in health care	1
Best practice: quality assessment outcomes of the Practice Enhancement Program among family physicians in Saskatchewan, Canada	1
Effect of nationwide concurrent drug utilization review program on drug–drug interactions and related health outcome	1
Attitude toward perioperative safety among operation room clinicians at Ethiopian University Hospital	1
The attitudes of hospital directors towards normalising accreditation standards: A qualitative descriptive study for Saudi Arabia	1
The influence mechanism analysis of family doctor team effectiveness: a mixed-method approach	1
Patient-reported outcomes as hospital performance measures: the challenge of confounding and how to handle it	1
Factors Associated With Self-Reported Medical Errors Among Healthcare Workers: A Cross-Sectional Study From Oman	1
Spanish Abstracts for Volume 32, Issue 7, 2020	1
French abstracts for Volume 35, Issue 3, 2023	1
Applying health-six-sigma principles helps reducing the variability of length of stay in the emergency department	1
Reporting patient experiences within elective perioperative care: a scoping review	1
Exploring the relation between clinician ratings and patient-reported experience and outcomes	1
Home before Hospital: a whole of system re-design project to improve rates of home-based dialysis therapy: Experience and outcomes over 8 years	1
Process management program to prevent falls in hospitalized patients with neuropsychiatric disorders: a quality improvement program	1
Factors associated with having home care physicians as an integrated source of medications for chronic conditions among homebound patients	1
Characteristics of quality activities in a tertiary teaching hospital in Western Australia	1
Risk identification and prediction of complaints and misconduct against health practitioners: a scoping review	1
Public expectations on regulatory requirements for the management of hospital ‘never events’ in Germany	1
Spanish Abstracts for Volume 31, Issue 10, 2019	1
Patient coaching in secondary care: healthcare professionals’ views on target group, intervention and coach profile	1
The impact of outsourcing bed-based aged care services on quality of care: A multisite observational study	1
Advancing the accreditation economy: a critical reflection	1
Improving care safety by characterizing task interruptions during interactions between healthcare professionals: an observational study	1
Prevalence and determinants of defensive medicine among physicians: a systematic review and meta-analysis	1
Optimizing warfarin and dual oral anticoagulation practices in an academic clinic during a merger amid the COVID-19 pandemic in a marginalized population	1
Telling the story of complex change: an Impact Framework for the real world	1
The cost of a first and second hospital-wide accreditation in Flanders, Belgium	1
Nurses’ perception of medication administration errors and factors associated with their reporting in the neonatal intensive care unit	1
Multiple case study of processes used by hospitals to select performance indicators: do they align with best practices?	1
Development and validation of a patient satisfaction survey for pharmaceutical service at primary care settings	1
Documentation quality of patient-directed discharge and early warning interactions in an adult inpatient service	1
Psychological safety, job satisfaction, and the intention to leave among German early-career physicians	1
Effect analysis of multi-department cooperation in improving etiological submission rates before antibiotic treatment	1
A novel conceptual approach to lean: value, psychological conditions for engagement with work and perceived organizational support in hospital care	1
Expanded perspectives: integrating clinicians’ insights for comprehensive patient-reported outcomes in value-based healthcare	1
Reducing last-minute cancellations of elective urological surgery—effectiveness of specialist nurse preoperative assessment	1
Protocols for ischaemic stroke in Flemish hospitals: correlation between availability and content versus adherence	1
Portuguese Abstracts, Volume 36, Issue 1, 2024	1
Abdominal surgical trajectories associated with failure to rescue. A nationwide analysis	1
Spanish Abstracts for Volume 31, Issue 9, 2019	1
Rebooting effective clinical supervision practices to support healthcare workers through and following the COVID-19 pandemic	1
Integration of persistence in the 5P-medicine approach for age-related chronic diseases	1
Impact of the early phase of the COVID pandemic on cancer treatment delivery and the quality of cancer care: a scoping review and conceptual model	1
Evaluation of the Association of Length of Stay in Hospital and Outcomes	1
What makes a good quality indicator set? A systematic review of criteria	1
Control charts in healthcare quality monitoring: a systematic review and bibliometric analysis	1
A meta-review of methods of measuring and monitoring safety in primary care	1
French abstracts for Volume 35, Issue 2, 2023	1