International Journal for Quality in Health Care

Article	Citations
Indirect effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on healthcare contacts, quality of care, and social disparities across essential healthcare domains	42
Dying in hospital: a retrospective medical record analysis on care in the dying phase in intensive care units and general wards	34
Quality certifications in Andalusian primary care: current status, barriers, and facilitators	22
Health system performance assessment: embedding resilience through performance intelligence	21
Portuguese Abstracts	19
Developing and validating a Global Trigger Tool for assessing frequency, level of harm, and preventability of adverse drug events in pediatric inpatients units	19
Addressing wounded healers’ burnout and moral distress: starts and ends with integrity	18
Spanish Abstracts for Volume 34, Issue 3, 2022	17
Cost-related medication nonadherence in adults with hypertension in the USA: implications for healthcare quality	16
Implementation of regional Acute Stroke Care Map increases thrombolysis rates in urban areas of China: an interrupted time series analysis	16
It’s time to protect nursing students from workplace violence	15
An analysis of complaints about hospital care in the Republic of Ireland	14
Coproducing data-driven organizational safety with patients: development and cognitive testing of a multisetting patient-reported safety concern tool	13
The impact of hospital command centre on patient flow and data quality: findings from the UK National Health Service	13
Spanish Abstracts for Volume 35, Issue 4, 2023	13
Adapting lean management to prevent healthcare-associated infections: a low-cost strategy involving Kamishibai cards to sustain bundles’ compliance	13
The future of global graduate training in quality improvement and patient safety	13
Multidisciplinary perspectives on roles of hospital pharmacists in tertiary settings: a qualitative study	12
Quality of care for newly diagnosed patients with rheumatoid arthritis in South Korea: a nationwide cohort study	12
Impact of pay-for-performance program on postoperative infection and revision risk in diabetic patients with hip replacement: a Taiwanese Cohort Study	12
Correction to: Pilot testing of the International Council of Cardiovascular Prevention and Rehabilitation Registry	12
Time to review reflective practice?	11
Characteristics of Paediatric Patients Requiring Rapid Response System Activations	11
Investigating drivers of telecare acceptance to improve healthcare quality for independently living older adults	11
Epidemiology of falls in 25 Australian residential aged care facilities: a retrospective longitudinal cohort study using routinely collected data	11

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	11
Practice patterns and survival outcomes for muscle-invasive bladder cancer: real-life experience in a general population setting	10
Advancing quality in low human development index scoring countries; the need for standardized and shared quality measurement and reporting	10
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on emergency care of acute myocardial infarction: findings from the Taiwan Clinical Performance Indicator	9
Equity in universal health coverage: do individuals with disabilities benefit equally?	9
Reviewing the Validity of Existing Measures of Emergency Physician Workload—A Scoping Review	9
Optimizing neurosurgery clinic operations: a comparative study of interventions in Finland’s public healthcare system	9
Optimizing Goals of Care research in general medicine: a multifaceted problem	9
Making health and healthcare really matter in less resourced countries	9
Careggi Re-Engineered Discharge project: standardize discharge and improve care coordination between healthcare professionals	9
Understanding what it will take to sustain improvement in healthcare	9
Outcomes of completed quality activities in an Australian tertiary hospital, 2015–2019	9
Comparing continuity of care before and after disability registration: a retrospective cohort study	8
Placing patient safety at the heart of value-based healthcare	8
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	8
Cluster randomized controlled trial: A matter of independence	8
Improving therapeutic engagement and observations on inpatient mental health wards in the English National Health Service: lessons from using quality improvement to scale up interventions	8
Spanish Abstracts for Volume 33, Issue 3, 2021	8
‘Low-value’ clinical care in general practice: a cross-sectional analysis of low-value care in early-career GPs’ practice	8
Patient complaints differ for male and female obstetrician-gynecologists: an exploration of 20 years of complaints data in Alberta, Canada	7
The maturity of lean management in a large academic medical center in Finland: a qualitative study	7
Continuous glucose monitoring in type 2 diabetes: a systematic review of barriers and opportunities for care improvement	7
Association between patient choice of provider and patient-reported experience	7
Barriers, facilitators and implementation strategies to implement ‘patient’s own medication’ and ‘self-administration of medication’ in hospitals	7
Improving patient safety governance and systems through learning from successes and failures: qualitative surveys and interviews with international experts	7
Impact of the physical therapy–managed spinal orthoses program on cost of care in the hospital setting: a retrospective interrupted time-series study	7
Sequential risk and impact analyses in securing chemotherapy circuit through traceability digitalization and RFID technology implementation	7
Reducing the risks of nuclear war: the role of health professionals	6
Portuguese Abstracts for Volume 35, Issue 1, 2023	6
Assessing surgical non-technical skills: a paradigm shift for improved patient care and outcomes	6
Coproduction in the management of individuals with cleft lip and palate in South Africa: the Ekhaya Lethu model	6
Developing quality measures for non-pharmacological prevention and rehabilitation in primary health care for chronic conditions: a consensus study	6
Systematic recording and discussion of intraoperative adverse events using ClassIntra: results of a qualitative context analysis before implementation	6
The effect of applying telehealth education to home care of infants after congenital heart disease surgery	6
How should medical society face patient feedback in online review platforms?	6
Promoting human rights-based deinstitutionalization in Lithuania by applying the World Health Organization’s QualityRights Assessments	6
Using guideline-based clinical decision support in oncological multidisciplinary team meetings: A prospective, multicenter concordance study	6
Barriers and facilitators to disseminating quality improvement and patient safety research: a scoping review	6
Using patient-reported outcome measures and patient-reported experience measures to elevate the quality of healthcare	5
Training the next generation of journal editors: The case for editorial apprenticeship programmes	5
The role of co-production in Learning Health Systems	5
Availability of Six Sigma trials for quality improvement in healthcare: an emerging challenge	5
Challenges around the quality of care provided during the last days of life	5
Resilience and regulation—antithesis or a smart combination for future healthcare service improvement?	5
Hospital accreditation: an umbrella review	5
From innovation to influence: publishing quality improvement projects—key issues to address to enable successful publishing	5
From Readiness to Results: Clinical Audit as a Strategic Tool for Quality Health Care in Nepal	5
Spanish Abstracts for Volume 33, Issue 1, 2021	5
A ‘COVID Compass’ for navigating the pandemic	5
Identification of key factors influencing patient satisfaction for practical prioritization in healthcare settings: a nationwide survey analysis	5

Delayed discharges at a tertiary rehabilitation centre in Saudi Arabia: contributing factors and cost impact	5
Clinical resilience: toward a unified definition	5
Five-year analysis of hospital complaints at a Japanese tertiary teaching hospital	5
Promoting holistic and inclusive care for women: a call for updated health policies	5
Nosocomial COVID: the moral and clinical imperative for worldwide data collection and action	5
Physician Assistant Legalisation and Conflicts in South Korea: Need for an Approach Based on Lessons from Three Countries	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
Point-of-care dashboards promote coproduction of healthcare services for patients with inflammatory bowel disease	5
Safety rounds as a strategy for continuous quality and safety improvement in healthcare processes	5
Interdisciplinary Collaboration: Driving Better Outcomes and Efficiency	5
Use and de-implementation of fecal occult blood tests in the acute care setting: a systematic review and meta-analysis	4
Barriers and breakthroughs: policy reflections on healthcare for persons with disability in the Philippines	4
Reform of mental health systems: what does the future look like and how to get there?	4
Did the introduction of an electronic booking form for elective caesarean section improve compliance with guidelines for gestational age at delivery?	4
Look-alike, sound-alike medication perioperative incidents in a regional Australian hospital: assessment using a novel medication safety culture assessment tool	4
Freezing while preserving achievements: suspending quality indicators in healthcare, Israel’s experience	4
International research priorities for integrated care and cross-boundary working: an electronic Delphi study	4
French Abstracts for Volume 34, Issue 1, 2022	4
Transforming Emergency Care: Lessons from Innovations Beyond Healthcare	4
Spanish Abstracts for Volume 34, Issue 2, 2022	4
Advancing quality management in the medical devices industry: strategies for effective ISO 13485 implementation	4
Quality improvement and workplace wellbeing capacity and capability in Aotearoa New Zealand emergency departments. A nationwide mixed methods survey	4
Accelerating improvement: The Pediatric Acute Care Cardiology Collaborative data timeliness project	4
Factors associated with the utilization of home hospice care at end-of-life in patients with cancer: a nationwide analysis	4
Governance and management in healthcare organizations: their different roles in driving safety and quality	4
Implementing a screening algorithm for early recognition of sepsis in hospitalized children: a quality improvement project	4
Barriers and facilitators to the use of virtual wards: a systematic review of the qualitative evidence	4
How personnel diversity and affective bonds affect performance-based financing: a moderator analysis of a difference-in-difference estimator	4
Effects of gait adaptation training on augmented reality treadmill for patients with stroke in community ambulation	4
Knowledge dissemination: essential work in quality and safety innovation	4
French Abstract for Volume 34, Issue 3, 2022	4
Finding space for kindness: public protection and health professional regulation	4
Reduction in use of MRI and arthroscopy among patients with degenerative knee disease in independent treatment centers versus general hospitals: a time series analysis	4
Potentially avoidable hospitalizations and associated factors among older people in French Guiana using the French National Health Data System	3
Sharps injuries among healthcare workers in Liberia and Ghana: a cross-sectional survey	3
Comparative analysis of routine clinical debriefings and incident reports: insights for patient safety and teamwork enhancement	3
Development and Validation of a Quality Indicator System for Outpatient Service in Shenzhen, China	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
Modelling the effect of COVID-19 mass vaccination on acute hospital admissions	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
Can guidelines rein in oxygen use? A retrospective cross-sectional study using routinely collected data	3
Some important principles for implementing lean management in healthcare organizations	3
Navigating the complex terrain of patient safety: challenges, strategies, and the importance of ongoing evaluation and knowledge sharing	3
Patient safety in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: how can we do better?	3
Impact of a Clinical Encounter Time Protection Program on Pain Management: a Retrospective Difference-in-Difference Study	3
The second victim phenomenon: comprehensive support and systemic change in healthcare	3
The accuracy of the Global Trigger Tool is higher for the identification of adverse events of greater harm: a diagnostic test study	3
Patient experience and nurse staffing level in South Korea	3
Addressing the challenge of reducing low-value care	3
Spanish Abstracts for Volume 33, Issue 2, 2021	3
COVID-19 response: a perspective from Pakistan	3
Effects of an educational intervention for rational cardiac enzyme requisitions in critically ill patients: a pre–post intervention study	3
Quality as strategy, the evolution of co-production in the Region Jönköping health system, Sweden: a descriptive qualitative study	3
New ways of working: health professional development for effective coproduction	3
Measuring quality of care for universal health coverage in the Western Pacific	3
Coproducing value during the COVID-19 pandemic	3
International approaches for implementing accreditation programmes in different healthcare facilities: a comparative case study in Australia, Botswana, Denmark, and Jordan	3
Implementation and outcomes of a statewide TBI screening program for underserved populations	3
A simulation study on the association of HRO communication patterns and surgical team performance	3
Why patient safety is akin to weaving textiles: an International Society for Quality in Health Care perspective on the 7th Global Ministerial Summit on Patient Safety 2025	3
Developing online medical service quality indicators in China from the perspective of online and offline integration: a modified Delphi–analytic hierarchy process study	3
Developing clinical care programs: Experience from a Colombian clinical center	3
Examining the joint effect of clinical quality, meaningful use of HIT and patient–caregiver interaction on mortality rates in US acute care hospitals	2
The utility of website-based quality improvement tools for health professionals: a systematic review	2
In Good Hands: exploring patient safety in the Philippines	2
Enhancing outpatient layouts and services in tertiary hospitals: innovations for elderly-friendly care	2
Toward a greener healthcare: unveiling the carbon costs of dialysis in China and the path to sustainability	2
Measuring shared decision-making in younger and older adults with depression	2
The development of indicators to measure the quality of care in geriatric rehabilitation	2
Adherence to evidence-based guidelines for prevention of urinary retention in hip surgery patients: a multicentre observational study	2
Combining failure modes and effects analysis and cause–effect analysis: a novel method of risk analysis to reduce anaphylaxis due to contrast media	2
Burden of ischemic stroke in mainland China and Taiwan province from 1990 to 2019: with forecast for the next 11 years	2
Case management in emergency care: impact evaluation of the CARED Program	2
Effect of China’s long-term care insurance on health outcomes of older disabled people: role of institutional care	2
Organisational capacity for family engagement during COVID: Ensuring family communication needs are met for better engagement with care	2
Controlling nosocomial transmission of respiratory infections in neurological wards: insights from COVID-19 pandemic data	2
A prospective randomized controlled study of the effect of standardized nursing intervention for cancer pain on the quality of life of patients	2
French Abstracts for Volume 33, Issue 3, 2021	2
Associations of hospital unit occupancy with inpatient falls and fall-risk assessment completion: a retrospective cohort study	2

Clinical indicators to monitor health care in low back pain: a scoping review	2
Words in action: centering the patient voice to achieve an efficient and compassionate healthcare system	2
Safeguarding quality of care in active conflict: priority issues and interventions in Sudan	2
Underreporting of adverse events to health authorities by healthcare professionals: a red flag-raising descriptive study	2
Anti-Indigenous racism in Canadian healthcare: a scoping review of the literature	2
Pilot testing of the International Council of Cardiovascular Prevention and Rehabilitation Registry	2
Interpreting the lived experiences of home caregivers in the families of patients with COVID-19 in Iran: a phenomenological study	2
Portuguese Abstracts for Volume 34, Issue 2, 2022	2
Discharge to post–acute care and other predictors of prolonged length of stay during the initial COVID-19 surge: a single site analysis	2
Incident Reporting Reduction during the Covid-19 Pandemic in a Tertiary Italian Hospital. A Retrospective Analysis	2
Do not blame the organizational culture for poor performance	2
Patient- and family-centred care transition interventions for adults: a systematic review and meta-analysis of RCTs	2
Scaling up quality in an anesthesia practice	2
A quality assurance initiative on improving cefazolin perioperative redose compliance	2
Patient-reported outcome measures in mental health clinical research: a descriptive review in comparison with clinician-rated outcome measures	2
“Controlling Nosocomial Transmission of Respiratory Infections in Neurological Wards: Insights from COVID-19 Pandemic Data—a Critical Appraisal.”	2
Satisfaction with healthcare services in Dubai: findings from the 2023 Household Survey	1
Spanish Abstracts for Volume 32, Issue 7, 2020	1
Creating transformative change in the disabilities field: promoting both bottom-up and top-down inclusion through the UNCRPD and QualityRights Toolkit	1
Integration of persistence in the 5P-medicine approach for age-related chronic diseases	1
Co-worker unprofessional behaviour and patient safety risks: an analysis of co-worker reports across eight Australian hospitals	1
The influence mechanism analysis of family doctor team effectiveness: a mixed-method approach	1
Health system resilience, accreditation, high-quality care, and continuous quality improvement: what is the destination and how do we get there?	1
Embracing multiple aims in healthcare improvement and innovation	1
Crossover of the patient satisfaction surveys, adverse events and patient complaints for continuous improvement in radiotherapy department	1
Implementation remains the biggest challenge to the effective use of PROMs and PREMs, so what can we do about it?	1
Person-centered care (PCC): the people’s perspective	1
What does the future of quality improvement look like?	1
Benefit of linking hospital resource information and patient-level stroke registry data	1
Portuguese Abstracts for Volume 35, Issue 2, 2023	1
Prevalence and determinants of defensive medicine among physicians: a systematic review and meta-analysis	1
Improving results management processes in an acute hospital using a multi-faceted approach	1
Correction to: Is primary care a patient-safe setting? Prevalence, severity, nature, and causes of adverse events: numerous and mostly avoidable	1
Spanish Abstracts for Volume 31, Issue 9, 2019	1
Psychological safety, job satisfaction, and the intention to leave among German early-career physicians	1
Spanish Abstracts for Volume 31, Issue 10, 2019	1
Attitude toward perioperative safety among operation room clinicians at Ethiopian University Hospital	1
The power of the patient’s voice in the modern health care system	1
Nurses’ perception of medication administration errors and factors associated with their reporting in the neonatal intensive care unit	1
Care in the future—reconciling health system and individual resilience	1
Development and validation of a patient satisfaction survey for pharmaceutical service at primary care settings	1
Reducing medication-related harm	1
Diagnostic performance of a newly launched Canadian fast-track ultrasound clinic by rheumatologists for the diagnosis of giant cell arteritis	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
Health conditions that impact fitness-to-practice in physicians: A scoping review	1
Correction to: Effects of early palliative care intervention on medical resource use among end-of-life patients	1
Process reengineering using DMAIC framework for reduction of waiting time in daycare infusion therapy for better patient experience	1
The cost of dispensing errors in Iranian health system: a retrospective evaluation	1
Is primary care a patient-safe setting? Prevalence, severity, nature, and causes of adverse events: numerous and mostly avoidable	1
A qualitative study exploring patient shadowing as a method to improve patient-centred care: 10 principles for a new gold standard	1
Impact of COVID-19 pandemic early response measures on myocardial infarctions and acute cardiac care in Singapore	1
Temporal dynamics of patient complaints in new hospitals: a dynamic time warping and impulse response function analysis of the South Korean healthcare system	1
Risk identification and prediction of complaints and misconduct against health practitioners: a scoping review	1
Factors associated with having home care physicians as an integrated source of medications for chronic conditions among homebound patients	1
Portuguese Abstracts for Volume 34, Issue 4, 2022	1
Control charts in healthcare quality monitoring: a systematic review and bibliometric analysis	1
Reducing last-minute cancellations of elective urological surgery—effectiveness of specialist nurse preoperative assessment	1
The impact of outsourcing bed-based aged care services on quality of care: A multisite observational study	1
The impact of elective surgery postponement during COVID-19 on emergency bellwether procedures in a large tertiary centre in Singapore	1
An invitation for contributions to a themed issue on artificial intelligence and safety and quality in health care	1
The cost of a first and second hospital-wide accreditation in Flanders, Belgium	1
A white paper to guide patient safety strategies at the facility level	1
Improving care safety by characterizing task interruptions during interactions between healthcare professionals: an observational study	1
Monitoring for adverse drug events of high-risk medications with a computerized clinical decision support system: a prospective cohort study	1
PCPI-S SF: development and psychometric assessment of the Person-centred Practice Inventory Staff-Short Form	1
Multisector collaborations at children’s hospitals to address social drivers of health	1
Best practice: quality assessment outcomes of the Practice Enhancement Program among family physicians in Saskatchewan, Canada	1
Applying models of co-production in the context of health and well-being. A narrative review to guide future practice	1
Rebooting effective clinical supervision practices to support healthcare workers through and following the COVID-19 pandemic	1
Improving primary care through multidisciplinary teamwork: possibilities and challenges	1
Factors associated with harm in reported patient safety incidents and characteristics during health screenings in Korea: a secondary data analysis	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
Intravenous iron staining: real-world incidence, preventability, and mitigation tools from a long-term quality improvement project	1
French Abstract for Volume 34, Issue 4, 2022	1
Correction to: Use of wireless geographic locating system to improve medical equipment utilization and medical quality	1
Portuguese Abstracts for Volume 33 Issue 4, 2021	1
Outcomes among patients admitted for non-ST-segment myocardial infarction in the pre-pandemic and pandemic COVID-19 era: Israel Nationwide study	1
The attitudes of hospital directors towards normalising accreditation standards: A qualitative descriptive study for Saudi Arabia	1
A unified approach assessing Hospitals’ Quality and Patient Safety Compliance at organizational and national level using an evidence-based Mapping Tool	1
Prioritizing patient satisfaction: a strategic analysis and its relevance to the philippines	1
Accreditation and clinical outcomes: shorter length of stay after first-time hospital accreditation in the Faroe Islands	1
Portuguese Abstracts, Volume 36, Issue 1, 2024	1
Patient-reported outcomes as hospital performance measures: the challenge of confounding and how to handle it	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
Evaluation of the Association of Length of Stay in Hospital and Outcomes	1
Improving compliance with personal protective equipment among anaesthetists through behaviour-changing interventions during the coronavirus disease 2019(COVID-19) pandemic	1
Effect of integrated medicines management on quality of discharge medication information—a secondary endpoint in a randomized controlled trial	1
Evaluating the implementation and use of patient-reported outcome measures in a mental health hospital in Denmark: a qualitative study	1
Factors that influence the implementation of quality improvement programmes	1
Holding up the crystal ball: using regulatory intelligence insights to support quality in healthcare	1
Public expectations on regulatory requirements for the management of hospital ‘never events’ in Germany	1