OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of International Journal for Quality in Health Care is 5. 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 2020-05-01 to 2024-05-01.)

Article	Citations
COVID-19 is having a destructive impact on health-care workers’ mental well-being	127
Innovating health care: key characteristics of human-centered design	119
Healthcare cyber-attacks and the COVID-19 pandemic: an urgent threat to global health	75
COVID-19: patient safety and quality improvement skills to deploy during the surge	49
Hospital accreditation impact on healthcare quality dimensions: a systematic review	43
Barriers to evidence-based practice implementation in physiotherapy: a systematic review and meta-analysis	39
Patient and clinician experience with a rapidly implemented large-scale video consultation program during COVID-19	38
The Registry of Senior Australians outcome monitoring system: quality and safety indicators for residential aged care	34
What makes a good quality indicator set? A systematic review of criteria	31
Clinical handover and handoff in healthcare: a systematic review of systematic reviews	31
How is the Theoretical Domains Framework applied in designing interventions to support healthcare practitioner behaviour change? A systematic review	28
Thirty-day readmission rate of COVID-19 patients discharged from a tertiary care university hospital in Turkey: an observational, single-center study	26
Human factors/ergonomics work system analysis of patient work: state of the science and future directions	25
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	25
Quality and safety in the time of Coronavirus: design better, learn faster	24
Human factors and ergonomics systems approach to the COVID-19 healthcare crisis	23
The 40 health systems, COVID-19 (40HS, C-19) study	23
A systematic review of patient-reported outcome measurement (PROM) and provider assessment in mental health: goals, implementation, setting, measurement characteristics and barriers	22
Understanding variation in reported covid-19 deaths with a novel Shewhart chart application	22
Meta-analysis of proton pump inhibitors induced risk of community-acquired pneumonia	21
Measuring patient voice matters: setting the scene for patient-reported indicators	21
Patient satisfaction and patient experience are not interchangeable concepts	20
COVID-19 emergencies around the globe: China’s experience in controlling COVID-19 and lessons learned	20
Crisis standards of care in a pandemic: navigating the ethical, clinical, psychological and policy-making maelstrom	18
Expanding frontiers of risk management: care safety in nursing home during COVID-19 pandemic	17

Are operating room distractions, interruptions and disruptions associated with performance and patient safety? A systematic review and meta-analysis	17
Frontiers in human factors: embedding specialists in multi-disciplinary efforts to improve healthcare	17
Using telemedicine to improve the quality of life of parents of infants with CHD surgery after discharge	16
The unrecognized power of health services accreditation: more than external evaluation	16
COVID-19: leadership on the frontline is what matters when we support healthcare workers	16
Effect of COVID-19 on hospital visits in Ningbo, China: an interrupted time-series analysis	16
Economic analysis of the adoption of capsule endoscopy within the British NHS	15
Masked and distanced: a qualitative study of how personal protective equipment and distancing affect teamwork in emergency care	15
Patient-reported outcome measurements (PROMs) and provider assessment in mental health: a systematic review of the context of implementation	15
The role of co-production in Learning Health Systems	15
Hospital medication errors: a cross-sectional study	14
Patient-reported outcome measurement of symptom distress is feasible in most clinical scenarios in palliative care: an observational study involving routinely collected data	14
Learning from safety incidents in high-reliability organizations: a systematic review of learning tools that could be adapted and used in healthcare	14
Human factors engineering for medical devices: European regulation and current issues	14
COVID-19 pandemic: a time for collaboration and a unified global health front	14
The value of federated learning during and post-COVID-19	14
Predictors of job satisfaction and intention to stay in the job among health-care providers in Uganda and Zambia	14
The effect of electronic audits and feedback in primary care and factors that contribute to their effectiveness: a systematic review	13
Disparities in unmet health service needs among people with disabilities in China	13
Overcoming telemental health disparities during the COVID-19 pandemic	13
Psychometric evaluation of instruments measuring the work environment of healthcare professionals in hospitals: a systematic literature review	13
The COVID-19 pandemic: A call to action for health systems in Latin America to strengthen quality of care	13
Human factors and ergonomics at time of crises: the Italian experience coping with COVID-19	12
Hospital nurses’ intention to report near misses, patient safety culture and professional seniority	12
Evaluating factors associated with the cancellation and delay of elective surgical procedures: a systematic review	12
Patient-reported indicators in mental health care: towards international standards among members of the OECD	12
In-hospital interventions for reducing readmissions to acute care for adults aged 65 and over: An umbrella review	12
Chronic disease and medical spending of Chinese elderly in rural region	12
Predictors of patient-reported quality of care in low- and middle-income countries: a four-country survey of person-centered care	11
Patient satisfaction with outpatient care in China: a comparison of public secondary and tertiary hospitals	11
Conversion of a colorectal cancer guideline into clinical decision trees with assessment of validity	10
Quality as strategy, the evolution of co-production in the Region Jönköping health system, Sweden: a descriptive qualitative study	10
An in situ simulation program: a quantitative and qualitative prospective study identifying latent safety threats and examining participant experiences	10
Development and evaluation of a quality improvement framework for healthcare	10
International survey of COVID-19 management strategies	10
From assurance to coproduction: a century of improving the quality of health-care service	10
COVID-19 in aged care homes: a comparison of effects initial government policies had in the UK (primarily focussing on England) and Australia during the first wave	10
Rebooting effective clinical supervision practices to support healthcare workers through and following the COVID-19 pandemic	10
The care and keeping of clinicians in quality improvement	10
The prevalence and underreporting of needlestick injuries among hospital workers: a cross-sectional study	10
Association of continuity of care with readmission, mortality and suicide after hospital discharge among psychiatric patients	9
From intensive care to step-down units: Managing patients throughput in response to COVID-19	9
How safe is prehospital care? A systematic review	9
Is a hospital quality policy based on a triad of accreditation, public reporting and inspection evidence-based? A narrative review	9
Quality assessment of weekend discharge: a systematic review and meta-analysis	9
Comparing length of hospital stay during COVID-19 pandemic in the USA, Italy and Germany	9
Global and regional burden and quality of care of non-rheumatic valvular heart diseases: a systematic analysis of Global Burden of Disease 1990–2017	9
Effect of automated unit dose dispensing with barcode scanning on medication administration errors: an uncontrolled before-and-after study	9
Impact of an educational intervention on WHO surgical safety checklist and pre-operative antibiotic use at a referral hospital in southwestern Uganda	9
Are clinicians using routinely collected data to drive practice improvement? A cross-sectional survey	8

Development of the perceptions of preventable adverse events assessment tool (PPAEAT): measurement properties and patients’ mental health status	8
Perspectives on implementing a quality improvement collaborative to improve person-centered care for maternal and reproductive health in Kenya	8
Communication in the intensive care unit during COVID-19: early experience with the Nightingale Communication Method	8
Gender in the consolidated criteria for reporting qualitative research (COREQ) checklist	8
Beyond the corrective action hierarchy: A systems approach to organizational change	8
Assessing the value of second opinion pathology review	8
Evaluation of the Association of Length of Stay in Hospital and Outcomes	8
Frontiers in human factors: integrating human factors and ergonomics to improve safety and quality in Latin American healthcare systems	8
Defining value in health care: a scoping review of the literature	8
Measuring the impact of delayed access to elective cholecystectomy through patient’s cost-utility: an observational cohort study	8
Responding to COVID-19: the experience from Italy and recommendations for management and prevention	7
Outcomes of a multicomponent safe surgery intervention in Tanzania’s Lake Zone: a prospective, longitudinal study	7
The validity and reliability of self-reported satisfaction with healthcare as a measure of quality: a systematic literature review	7
Time and predictors of time to treatment for aneurysmal subarachnoid haemorrhage (aSAH): a systematic review	7
Organizational capacity for patient and family engagement in hospital planning and improvement: interviews with patient/family advisors, managers and clinicians	7
A comparative analysis: international variation in PET-CT service provision in oncology—an International Cancer Benchmarking Partnership study	7
Point-of-care dashboards promote coproduction of healthcare services for patients with inflammatory bowel disease	7
A hybrid Shewhart chart for visualizing and learning from epidemic data	7
Measurement and monitoring patient safety in prehospital care: a systematic review	7
Common general surgical never events: analysis of NHS England never event data	7
MRI safety management in patients with cardiac implantable electronic devices: Utilizing failure mode and effects analysis for risk optimization	7
Healthcare inequality in compensation claims concerning acute hospital services: a Danish register-based study	6
Perceived health-care quality in China: a comparison of second- and third-tier hospitals	6
Variation between hospitals and reviewers in detection of adverse events identified through medical record review in Korea	6
Trauma system accreditation and patient outcomes in British Columbia: an interrupted time series analysis	6
Provider–patient communication and hospital ratings: perceived gaps and forward thinking about the effects of COVID-19	6
Protecting health professionals from workplace violence in the context of COVID-19 epidemic	6
Back to the future: five forgotten lessons for the healthcare managers of today	6
A cost-effectiveness analysis of the Chronic Disease Management Program in patients with hypertension in Korea	6
Systemic resilience and COVID-19: lessons from Taiwan	6
Improving knowledge and confidence in foundation doctors during specialty changeover	6
Improving primary care access to respirologists using eConsult	6
Appropriateness of imaging decisions for low back pain presenting to the emergency department: a retrospective chart review study	6
The power of the patient’s voice in the modern health care system	6
Development of a guideline for the treatment of generalized anxiety disorder with the ADAPTE method	6
Psychometric properties of the Bulgarian version of Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture	6
Monitoring of three-phase variations in the mortality of COVID-19 pandemic using control charts: where does Pakistan stand?	6
Coproduction in medical education during the COVID-19 pandemic: critical components of successful curricular reform	6
Cost-effectiveness of public caseload midwifery compared to standard care in an Australian setting: a pragmatic analysis to inform service delivery	6
Oral health promotion apps: an assessment of message and behaviour change potential	6
Reducing postoperative opioid pill prescribing via a quality improvement approach	6
Improving first-pass success rates during emergency intubation at an academic emergency department: a quality improvement initiative	5
Israeli COVID lockdowns mildly reduced overall use of preventive health services, but exacerbated some disparities	5
Incident Reporting Reduction during the Covid-19 Pandemic in a Tertiary Italian Hospital. A Retrospective Analysis	5
Cost impact of introducing a treatment escalation/limitation plan during patients’ last hospital admission before death	5
Factors Associated With Self-Reported Medical Errors Among Healthcare Workers: A Cross-Sectional Study From Oman	5
Interpreting the lived experiences of home caregivers in the families of patients with COVID-19 in Iran: a phenomenological study	5
Dealing with the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on a rapid response team operation in Brazil: Quality in practice	5
Acute appendicitis during the COVID-19 pandemic—changes in incidence and clinical presentation but not in patients’ outcome	5
The intersection of big data and epidemiology for epidemiologic research: The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic	5
Sequential implementation of the EQUIPPED geriatric medication safety program as a learning health system	5
Impact of a prolonged COVID-19 lockdown on patterns of admission, mortality and performance indicators in a cardiovascular intensive care unit	5
Will the COVID-19 pandemic transform infection prevention and control in surgery? Seeking leverage points for organizational learning	5
Malta’s only acute public hospital service during COVID-19: a diary of events from the first wave to transition phase	5
Differences in organization of care are associated with mortality, severe complication and failure to rescue in emergency colon cancer surgery	5
Finding space for kindness: public protection and health professional regulation	5
Effectiveness of health consumer representative involvement in implementation of interventions to change health professional behaviour	5
Identifying psychiatric diagnostic errors with the Safer Dx Instrument	5
Accreditation in 2030	5
Healthcare quality assessments: no guarantees of same outcomes for different socio-economic stroke patients	5
Female cardiologists in Japan	5
The patient died: What about involvement in the investigation process?	5
Second victim support structures in anaesthesia: a cross-sectional survey in Belgian anaesthesiologists	5
Addressing overestimation and insensitivity in the 85% target for average bed occupancy	5
Exploring the impact of employee engagement and patient safety	5
Extended roles in primary care when physiotherapist-initiated referral to X-ray can save time and reduce costs	5
Human factors/ergonomics to support the design and testing of rapidly manufactured ventilators in the UK during the COVID-19 pandemic	5
Uncomfortable yet necessary: The impact of PPE on communication in emergency medicine	5
Using guideline-based clinical decision support in oncological multidisciplinary team meetings: A prospective, multicenter concordance study	5
Effect of barcode technology on medication preparation safety: a quasi-experimental study	5
Designing clinical indicators for common residential aged care conditions and processes of care: the CareTrack Aged development and validation study	5