OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of International Journal for Quality in Health Care is 3. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

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
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
Spanish Abstracts for Volume 34, Issue 3, 2022	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
Correction to: Barriers and facilitators to health professionals’ engagement in quality improvement initiatives: a mixed-methods systematic review	13
A prospective randomized controlled study of the effect of standardized nursing intervention for cancer pain on the quality of life of patients	13
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
The global, regional, and national burden and quality of care index of kidney cancer; a global burden of disease systematic analysis 1990–2019	12
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
Exploring the impact of employee engagement and patient safety	11
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
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
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
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
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
Integration of persistence in the 5P-medicine approach for age-related chronic diseases	8
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
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
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
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
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
Developing and validating a Global Trigger Tool for assessing frequency, level of harm, and preventability of adverse drug events in pediatric inpatients units	5
Patient-centered care: the North Star to guide us during uncertainty into a better day	4
Environmental sustainability and quality care: Not one without the other	4
Spanish Abstracts for Volume 34, Issue 2, 2022	4
French abstracts for Volume 35, Issue 2, 2023	4
From Compliance to Excellence: How Can ISO 13485 Standards Transform Quality, Safety and Innovation in Medical Devices?	4
Multiple case study of processes used by hospitals to select performance indicators: do they align with best practices?	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
Spanish Abstracts for Volume 31, Issue 7, 2019	4
French abstracts for Volume 35, Issue 3, 2023	4
Portuguese Abstracts for Volume 34, Issue 3, 2022	4
Validity of 16 AHRQ Patient Safety Indicators to identify in-hospital complications: a medical record review across nine Swiss hospitals	4
Medication adherence as mandatory indicator in healthcare safety	4
Correction to: Pilot testing of the International Council of Cardiovascular Prevention and Rehabilitation Registry	4
Reform of mental health systems: what does the future look like and how to get there?	4
Spanish Abstracts for Volume 32, Issue 7, 2020	4
Application of DRGs in hospital medical record management and its impact on service quality	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
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
Incident Reporting Reduction during the Covid-19 Pandemic in a Tertiary Italian Hospital. A Retrospective Analysis	3
Mapping the quality of basic and comprehensive emergency obstetric care services in Haiti	3
Verbal descriptors of the frequency of side effects: implementation of EMA recommendations in patient information leaflets in Poland	3
A qualitative study exploring challenges and solutions to negotiating goals of care at the end of life in hospital settings	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
Leveraging collaborative learning for improved heart failure care: insights from Argentina	3
Public expectations on regulatory requirements for the management of hospital ‘never events’ in Germany	3
Quality improvement collaborative to optimize heart failure care in patients from a network of clinics in Argentina during the COVID-19 pandemic	3
Predictors of job satisfaction and intention to stay in the job among health-care providers in Uganda and Zambia	3
Triage nurse–initiated X-ray radiography in minor trauma	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
A hybrid Shewhart chart for visualizing and learning from epidemic data	3
With much of England’s NHS under severe pressure, should health inequalities be a priority?	3
Epidemiology of falls in 25 Australian residential aged care facilities: a retrospective longitudinal cohort study using routinely collected data	3
Adjuvant zoledronic acid therapy for postmenopausal women with early breast cancer in China: a cost-effectiveness analysis	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