International Journal for Quality in Health Care

Article	Citations
Dying in hospital: a retrospective medical record analysis on care in the dying phase in intensive care units and general wards	35
Portuguese Abstracts	31
Cost-related medication nonadherence in adults with hypertension in the USA: implications for healthcare quality	21
Addressing wounded healers’ burnout and moral distress: starts and ends with integrity	21
It’s time to protect nursing students from workplace violence	19
Spanish Abstracts for Volume 34, Issue 3, 2022	19
Developing and validating a Global Trigger Tool for assessing frequency, level of harm, and preventability of adverse drug events in pediatric inpatients units	18
Health system performance assessment: embedding resilience through performance intelligence	16
Indirect effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on healthcare contacts, quality of care, and social disparities across essential healthcare domains	15
Implementation of regional Acute Stroke Care Map increases thrombolysis rates in urban areas of China: an interrupted time series analysis	15
An analysis of complaints about hospital care in the Republic of Ireland	14
Disparities in unmet health service needs among people with disabilities in China	14
Multidisciplinary perspectives on roles of hospital pharmacists in tertiary settings: a qualitative study	14
The future of global graduate training in quality improvement and patient safety	13
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	13
The impact of hospital command centre on patient flow and data quality: findings from the UK National Health Service	13
Adapting lean management to prevent healthcare-associated infections: a low-cost strategy involving Kamishibai cards to sustain bundles’ compliance	12
Spanish Abstracts for Volume 35, Issue 4, 2023	12
Correction to: Pilot testing of the International Council of Cardiovascular Prevention and Rehabilitation Registry	12
Coproducing data-driven organizational safety with patients: development and cognitive testing of a multisetting patient-reported safety concern tool	12
Quality of care for newly diagnosed patients with rheumatoid arthritis in South Korea: a nationwide cohort study	12
Time to review reflective practice?	11
Impact of pay-for-performance program on postoperative infection and revision risk in diabetic patients with hip replacement: a Taiwanese Cohort Study	11
Epidemiology of falls in 25 Australian residential aged care facilities: a retrospective longitudinal cohort study using routinely collected data	10
Practice patterns and survival outcomes for muscle-invasive bladder cancer: real-life experience in a general population setting	10

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	10
Optimizing neurosurgery clinic operations: a comparative study of interventions in Finland’s public healthcare system	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	10
Careggi Re-Engineered Discharge project: standardize discharge and improve care coordination between healthcare professionals	10
Investigating drivers of telecare acceptance to improve healthcare quality for independently living older adults	10
Understanding what it will take to sustain improvement in healthcare	10
Making health and healthcare really matter in less resourced countries	10
Outcomes of completed quality activities in an Australian tertiary hospital, 2015–2019	9
Equity in Universal Health Coverage: Do Individuals with Disabilities Benefit Equally?	9
Effect of automated unit dose dispensing with barcode scanning on medication administration errors: an uncontrolled before-and-after study	9
Optimising Goals of Care research in general medicine: a multifaceted problem	9
Placing patient safety at the heart of value-based healthcare	9
‘Low-value’ clinical care in general practice: a cross-sectional analysis of low-value care in early-career GPs’ practice	8
Barriers, facilitators and implementation strategies to implement ‘patient’s own medication’ and ‘self-administration of medication’ in hospitals	8
Comparing continuity of care before and after disability registration: a retrospective cohort study	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
Association between patient choice of provider and patient-reported experience	8
Impact of the physical therapy–managed spinal orthoses program on cost of care in the hospital setting: a retrospective interrupted time-series study	8
Continuous glucose monitoring in type 2 diabetes: a systematic review of barriers and opportunities for care improvement	8
Cluster randomized controlled trial: A matter of independence	8
The maturity of lean management in a large academic medical center in Finland: a qualitative study	8
Improving patient safety governance and systems through learning from successes and failures: qualitative surveys and interviews with international experts	8
Spanish Abstracts for Volume 33, Issue 3, 2021	8
How should medical society face patient feedback in online review platforms?	7
Coproduction in the management of individuals with cleft lip and palate in South Africa: the Ekhaya Lethu model	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
Reducing the risks of nuclear war: the role of health professionals	7
Developing quality measures for non-pharmacological prevention and rehabilitation in primary health care for chronic conditions: a consensus study	7
Patients experience more support, information and involvement after first-time hospital accreditation: a before and after study in the Faroe Islands	6
Assessing surgical non-technical skills: a paradigm shift for improved patient care and outcomes	6
Using patient-reported outcome measures and patient-reported experience measures to elevate the quality of healthcare	6
Using guideline-based clinical decision support in oncological multidisciplinary team meetings: A prospective, multicenter concordance study	6
Safety rounds as a strategy for continuous quality and safety improvement in healthcare processes	6
Barriers and Facilitators to Disseminating Quality Improvement and Patient Safety Research: A Scoping Review	6
Promoting human rights-based deinstitutionalization in Lithuania by applying the World Health Organization’s QualityRights Assessments	6
Portuguese Abstracts for Volume 35, Issue 1, 2023	6
Systematic recording and discussion of intraoperative adverse events using ClassIntra: results of a qualitative context analysis before implementation	6
From innovation to influence: publishing quality improvement projects—key issues to address to enable successful publishing	5
Training the next generation of journal editors: The case for editorial apprenticeship programmes	5
Nosocomial COVID: the moral and clinical imperative for worldwide data collection and action	5
Interdisciplinary Collaboration: Driving Better Outcomes and Efficiency	5
A ‘COVID Compass’ for navigating the pandemic	5
Availability of Six Sigma trials for quality improvement in healthcare: an emerging challenge	5
Governance and management in healthcare organizations: their different roles in driving safety and quality	5
French Abstracts for Volume 34, Issue 1, 2022	5
Hospital accreditation: an umbrella review	5
Resilience and regulation—antithesis or a smart combination for future healthcare service improvement?	5
Delayed discharges at a tertiary rehabilitation centre in Saudi Arabia: contributing factors and cost impact	5

Five-year analysis of hospital complaints at a Japanese tertiary teaching hospital	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
Identification of key factors influencing patient satisfaction for practical prioritization in healthcare settings: a nationwide survey analysis	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
Transforming Emergency Care: Lessons from Innovations Beyond Healthcare	5
Clinical resilience: toward a unified definition	5
Promoting holistic and inclusive care for women: a call for updated health policies	5
Spanish Abstracts for Volume 33, Issue 1, 2021	5
The role of co-production in Learning Health Systems	5
How safe is prehospital care? A systematic review	5
International research priorities for integrated care and cross-boundary working: an electronic Delphi study	5
Implementing a screening algorithm for early recognition of sepsis in hospitalized children: a quality improvement project	5
Barriers and facilitators to the use of virtual wards: a systematic review of the qualitative evidence	4
Spanish Abstracts for Volume 34, Issue 2, 2022	4
Mapping the quality of basic and comprehensive emergency obstetric care services in Haiti	4
French Abstract for Volume 34, Issue 3, 2022	4
Accelerating improvement: The Pediatric Acute Care Cardiology Collaborative data timeliness project	4
Potentially avoidable hospitalizations and associated factors among older people in French Guiana using the French National Health Data System	4
Look-alike, sound-alike medication perioperative incidents in a regional Australian hospital: assessment using a novel medication safety culture assessment tool	4
Sharps injuries among healthcare workers in Liberia and Ghana: a cross-sectional survey	4
Challenges around the quality of care provided during the last days of life	4
How personnel diversity and affective bonds affect performance-based financing: a moderator analysis of a difference-in-difference estimator	4
Finding space for kindness: public protection and health professional regulation	4
Point-of-care dashboards promote coproduction of healthcare services for patients with inflammatory bowel disease	4
Use and de-implementation of fecal occult blood tests in the acute care setting: a systematic review and meta-analysis	4
The second victim phenomenon: comprehensive support and systemic change in healthcare	4
Navigating the complex terrain of patient safety: challenges, strategies, and the importance of ongoing evaluation and knowledge sharing	4
Quality Improvement and Workplace Wellbeing Capacity and Capability in Aotearoa New Zealand Emergency Departments. A Nationwide Mixed Methods Survey	4
Interruption of initial patient assessment in the emergency department and its effect on patient perception of care quality	4
New ways of working: health professional development for effective coproduction	4
Barriers and breakthroughs: policy reflections on healthcare for persons with disability in the Philippines	4
Effects of gait adaptation training on augmented reality treadmill for patients with stroke in community ambulation	4
Advancing quality management in the medical devices industry: strategies for effective ISO 13485 implementation	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
Coproducing value during the COVID-19 pandemic	4
Quality as strategy, the evolution of co-production in the Region Jönköping health system, Sweden: a descriptive qualitative study	4
Measuring quality of care for universal health coverage in the Western Pacific	4
The double use of PROMs to improve patient–provider communication and to compare providers: a potential conflict?	3
The accuracy of the Global Trigger Tool is higher for the identification of adverse events of greater harm: a diagnostic test study	3
Why patient safety is akin to weaving textiles: An International Society for Quality in Health Care (ISQua) perspective on the 7th Global Ministerial Summit on Patient Safety 2025	3
Development and Validation of a Quality Indicator System for Outpatient Service in Shenzhen, China	3
Effects of an educational intervention for rational cardiac enzyme requisitions in critically ill patients: a pre–post intervention study	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
Examining the joint effect of clinical quality, meaningful use of HIT and patient–caregiver interaction on mortality rates in US acute care hospitals	3
Are clinicians using routinely collected data to drive practice improvement? A cross-sectional survey	3
Spanish Abstracts for Volume 33, Issue 2, 2021	3
Patient safety in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: how can we do better?	3
Comparative analysis of routine clinical debriefings and incident reports: insights for patient safety and teamwork enhancement	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
Modelling the effect of COVID-19 mass vaccination on acute hospital admissions	3
Patient experience and nurse staffing level in South Korea	3
Organizational capacity for patient and family engagement in hospital planning and improvement: interviews with patient/family advisors, managers and clinicians	3
A simulation study on the association of HRO communication patterns and surgical team performance	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
COVID-19 response: a perspective from Pakistan	3
Predicting non-response in patient-reported outcome measures: results from the Swiss quality assurance programme in cardiac inpatient rehabilitation	3
Addressing the challenge of reducing low-value care	3
Effect of China’s long-term care insurance on health outcomes of older disabled people: role of institutional care	3
A unified approach assessing Hospitals’ Quality and Patient Safety Compliance at organizational and national level using an evidence-based Mapping Tool	2
Incident Reporting Reduction during the Covid-19 Pandemic in a Tertiary Italian Hospital. A Retrospective Analysis	2
Associations of hospital unit occupancy with inpatient falls and fall-risk assessment completion: a retrospective cohort study	2
Underreporting of adverse events to health authorities by healthcare professionals: a red flag-raising descriptive study	2
Portuguese Abstracts for Volume 34, Issue 2, 2022	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
The utility of website-based quality improvement tools for health professionals: a systematic review	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
Safeguarding quality of care in active conflict: priority issues and interventions in Sudan	2
Monitoring for adverse drug events of high-risk medications with a computerized clinical decision support system: a prospective cohort study	2
Clinical indicators to monitor health care in low back pain: a scoping review	2
Co-worker unprofessional behaviour and patient safety risks: an analysis of co-worker reports across eight Australian hospitals	2
Case management in emergency care: impact evaluation of the CARED Program	2
Measuring shared decision-making in younger and older adults with depression	2
Patient-reported outcome measures in mental health clinical research: a descriptive review in comparison with clinician-rated outcome measures	2
A quality assurance initiative on improving cefazolin perioperative redose compliance	2

Patient- and family-centred care transition interventions for adults: a systematic review and meta-analysis of RCTs	2
In Good Hands: exploring patient safety in the Philippines	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
Discharge to post–acute care and other predictors of prolonged length of stay during the initial COVID-19 surge: a single site analysis	2
Creating transformative change in the disabilities field: promoting both bottom-up and top-down inclusion through the UNCRPD and QualityRights Toolkit	2
A white paper to guide patient safety strategies at the facility level	2
The development of indicators to measure the quality of care in geriatric rehabilitation	2
Toward a greener healthcare: unveiling the carbon costs of dialysis in China and the path to sustainability	2
A hybrid Shewhart chart for visualizing and learning from epidemic 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
Applying models of co-production in the context of health and well-being. A narrative review to guide future practice	2
Enhancing outpatient layouts and services in tertiary hospitals: innovations for elderly-friendly care	2
French Abstracts for Volume 33, Issue 3, 2021	2
Anti-Indigenous racism in Canadian healthcare: a scoping review of the literature	2
International approaches for implementing accreditation programmes in different healthcare facilities: a comparative case study in Australia, Botswana, Denmark, and Jordan	2
Scaling up quality in an anesthesia practice	2
Burden of ischemic stroke in mainland China and Taiwan province from 1990 to 2019: with forecast for the next 11 years	2
Accreditation and clinical outcomes: shorter length of stay after first-time hospital accreditation in the Faroe Islands	2
The cost of dispensing errors in Iranian health system: a retrospective evaluation	1
Documentation quality of patient-directed discharge and early warning interactions in an adult inpatient service	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
Spanish Abstracts for Volume 32, Issue 7, 2020	1
Correction to: Is primary care a patient-safe setting? Prevalence, severity, nature, and causes of adverse events: numerous and mostly avoidable	1
Correction to: Effects of early palliative care intervention on medical resource use among end-of-life patients	1
Diagnostic performance of a newly launched Canadian fast-track ultrasound clinic by rheumatologists for the diagnosis of giant cell arteritis	1
Portuguese Abstracts for Volume 33 Issue 4, 2021	1
Nurses’ perception of medication administration errors and factors associated with their reporting in the neonatal intensive care unit	1
Outcomes among patients admitted for non-ST-segment myocardial infarction in the pre-pandemic and pandemic COVID-19 era: Israel Nationwide study	1
A novel conceptual approach to lean: value, psychological conditions for engagement with work and perceived organizational support in hospital care	1
Factors associated with having home care physicians as an integrated source of medications for chronic conditions among homebound patients	1
Reducing last-minute cancellations of elective urological surgery—effectiveness of specialist nurse preoperative assessment	1
Person-centered care (PCC): the people’s perspective	1
The impact of outsourcing bed-based aged care services on quality of care: A multisite observational study	1
Risk identification and prediction of complaints and misconduct against health practitioners: a scoping review	1
Crossover of the patient satisfaction surveys, adverse events and patient complaints for continuous improvement in radiotherapy department	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
Spanish Abstracts for Volume 31, Issue 10, 2019	1
Is primary care a patient-safe setting? Prevalence, severity, nature, and causes of adverse events: numerous and mostly avoidable	1
Portuguese Abstracts, Volume 36, Issue 1, 2024	1
The attitudes of hospital directors towards normalising accreditation standards: A qualitative descriptive study for Saudi Arabia	1
Reporting patient experiences within elective perioperative care: a scoping review	1
Correction to: Use of wireless geographic locating system to improve medical equipment utilization and medical quality	1
French abstracts for Volume 35, Issue 2, 2023	1
Improving compliance with personal protective equipment among anaesthetists through behaviour-changing interventions during the coronavirus disease 2019(COVID-19) pandemic	1
Development and validation of a patient satisfaction survey for pharmaceutical service at primary care settings	1
Portuguese Abstracts for Volume 34, Issue 4, 2022	1
Leveraging collaborative learning for improved heart failure care: insights from Argentina	1
Holding up the crystal ball: using regulatory intelligence insights to support quality in healthcare	1
Abdominal surgical trajectories associated with failure to rescue. A nationwide analysis	1
What does the future of quality improvement look like?	1
Improving care safety by characterizing task interruptions during interactions between healthcare professionals: an observational study	1
French Abstract for Volume 34, Issue 4, 2022	1
Control charts in healthcare quality monitoring: a systematic review and bibliometric 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
Implementation remains the biggest challenge to the effective use of PROMs and PREMs, so what can we do about it?	1
The cost of a first and second hospital-wide accreditation in Flanders, Belgium	1
Rebooting effective clinical supervision practices to support healthcare workers through and following the COVID-19 pandemic	1
Portuguese Abstracts for Volume 35, Issue 2, 2023	1
Embracing multiple aims in healthcare improvement and innovation	1
Advancing the accreditation economy: a critical reflection	1
Process reengineering using DMAIC framework for reduction of waiting time in daycare infusion therapy for better patient experience	1
Psychological safety, job satisfaction, and the intention to leave among German early-career physicians	1
Patient-reported outcomes as hospital performance measures: the challenge of confounding and how to handle it	1
Evaluation of the Association of Length of Stay in Hospital and Outcomes	1
Evaluating the implementation and use of patient-reported outcome measures in a mental health hospital in Denmark: a qualitative study	1
French abstracts for Volume 35, Issue 3, 2023	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
Protocols for ischaemic stroke in Flemish hospitals: correlation between availability and content versus adherence	1
Improving results management processes in an acute hospital using a multi-faceted approach	1
Physicians’ perspectives on clinical indicators: systematic review and thematic synthesis	1
Intravenous iron staining: real-world incidence, preventability, and mitigation tools from a long-term quality improvement project	1
Patient-centered care: the North Star to guide us during uncertainty into a better day	1
Factors associated with harm in reported patient safety incidents and characteristics during health screenings in Korea: a secondary data analysis	1
Improving primary care through multidisciplinary teamwork: possibilities and challenges	1
Exploring the relation between clinician ratings and patient-reported experience and outcomes	1
Health system resilience, accreditation, high-quality care, and continuous quality improvement: what is the destination and how do we get there?	1
Best practice: quality assessment outcomes of the Practice Enhancement Program among family physicians in Saskatchewan, Canada	1
A qualitative study exploring patient shadowing as a method to improve patient-centred care: 10 principles for a new gold standard	1
Ensuring medication safety for consumers from ethnic minority backgrounds: The need to address unconscious bias within health systems	1
Impact of COVID-19 pandemic early response measures on myocardial infarctions and acute cardiac care in Singapore	1
Care in the future—reconciling health system and individual resilience	1
Attitude toward perioperative safety among operation room clinicians at Ethiopian University Hospital	1
Multisector collaborations at children’s hospitals to address social drivers of health	1
Defining value in health care: a scoping review of the literature	1
The influence mechanism analysis of family doctor team effectiveness: a mixed-method approach	1
An invitation for contributions to a themed issue on artificial intelligence and safety and quality in health care	1
Integration of persistence in the 5P-medicine approach for age-related chronic diseases	1
The impact of elective surgery postponement during COVID-19 on emergency bellwether procedures in a large tertiary centre in Singapore	1
Spanish Abstracts for Volume 31, Issue 9, 2019	1
Factors that influence the implementation of quality improvement programmes	1
Prevalence and determinants of defensive medicine among physicians: a systematic review and meta-analysis	1
Multiple case study of processes used by hospitals to select performance indicators: do they align with best practices?	1
Benefit of linking hospital resource information and patient-level stroke registry data	1
Effect of integrated medicines management on quality of discharge medication information—a secondary endpoint in a randomized controlled trial	1