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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Health system performance assessment: embedding resilience through performance intelligence	34
Dying in hospital: a retrospective medical record analysis on care in the dying phase in intensive care units and general wards	29
Portuguese Abstracts	21
Addressing wounded healers’ burnout and moral distress: starts and ends with integrity	20
Developing and validating a Global Trigger Tool for assessing frequency, level of harm, and preventability of adverse drug events in pediatric inpatients units	19
Cost-related medication nonadherence in adults with hypertension in the USA: implications for healthcare quality	18
Spanish Abstracts for Volume 34, Issue 3, 2022	17
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	15
Indirect effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on healthcare contacts, quality of care, and social disparities across essential healthcare domains	14
Time to review reflective practice?	14
The future of global graduate training in quality improvement and patient safety	13
Epidemiology of falls in 25 Australian residential aged care facilities: a retrospective longitudinal cohort study using routinely collected data	13
Correction to: Pilot testing of the International Council of Cardiovascular Prevention and Rehabilitation Registry	12
Impact of pay-for-performance program on postoperative infection and revision risk in diabetic patients with hip replacement: a Taiwanese Cohort Study	12
Quality of care for newly diagnosed patients with rheumatoid arthritis in South Korea: a nationwide cohort study	12
Coproducing data-driven organizational safety with patients: development and cognitive testing of a multisetting patient-reported safety concern tool	12
Spanish Abstracts for Volume 35, Issue 4, 2023	12
The impact of hospital command centre on patient flow and data quality: findings from the UK National Health Service	12
Adapting lean management to prevent healthcare-associated infections: a low-cost strategy involving Kamishibai cards to sustain bundles’ compliance	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
Careggi Re-Engineered Discharge project: standardize discharge and improve care coordination between healthcare professionals	10
Advancing quality in low human development index scoring countries; the need for standardized and shared quality measurement and reporting	10
Understanding what it will take to sustain improvement in healthcare	10

Making health and healthcare really matter in less resourced countries	10
Multidisciplinary perspectives on roles of hospital pharmacists in tertiary settings: a qualitative study	10
Optimizing neurosurgery clinic operations: a comparative study of interventions in Finland’s public healthcare system	10
Disparities in unmet health service needs among people with disabilities in China	10
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on emergency care of acute myocardial infarction: findings from the Taiwan Clinical Performance Indicator	9
Effect of automated unit dose dispensing with barcode scanning on medication administration errors: an uncontrolled before-and-after study	9
Improving patient safety governance and systems through learning from successes and failures: qualitative surveys and interviews with international experts	9
Outcomes of completed quality activities in an Australian tertiary hospital, 2015–2019	9
Investigating drivers of telecare acceptance to improve healthcare quality for independently living older adults	9
Placing patient safety at the heart of value-based healthcare	9
Practice patterns and survival outcomes for muscle-invasive bladder cancer: real-life experience in a general population setting	9
‘Low-value’ clinical care in general practice: a cross-sectional analysis of low-value care in early-career GPs’ practice	9
Comparing continuity of care before and after disability registration: a retrospective cohort study	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
Coproduction in the management of individuals with cleft lip and palate in South Africa: the Ekhaya Lethu model	8
Spanish Abstracts for Volume 33, Issue 3, 2021	8
Barriers, facilitators and implementation strategies to implement ‘patient’s own medication’ and ‘self-administration of medication’ in hospitals	8
Association between patient choice of provider and patient-reported experience	8
Effect of a waiting room communication strategy on imaging rates and awareness of public health messages for low back pain	8
Cluster randomized controlled trial: A matter of independence	8
Continuous glucose monitoring in type 2 diabetes: a systematic review of barriers and opportunities for care improvement	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
The maturity of lean management in a large academic medical center in Finland: a qualitative study	8
How should medical society face patient feedback in online review platforms?	7
Promoting human rights-based deinstitutionalization in Lithuania by applying the World Health Organization’s QualityRights Assessments	7
Developing quality measures for non-pharmacological prevention and rehabilitation in primary health care for chronic conditions: a consensus study	7
Systematic recording and discussion of intraoperative adverse events using ClassIntra: results of a qualitative context analysis before implementation	7
Reducing the risks of nuclear war: the role of health professionals	7
The effect of applying telehealth education to home care of infants after congenital heart disease surgery	7
Using patient-reported outcome measures and patient-reported experience measures to elevate the quality of healthcare	6
Safety rounds as a strategy for continuous quality and safety improvement in healthcare processes	6
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
Hospital accreditation: an umbrella review	6
Using guideline-based clinical decision support in oncological multidisciplinary team meetings: A prospective, multicenter concordance study	6
Portuguese Abstracts for Volume 35, Issue 1, 2023	6
Interdisciplinary Collaboration: Driving Better Outcomes and Efficiency	6
Promoting holistic and inclusive care for women: a call for updated health policies	5
Clinical resilience: toward a unified definition	5
The role of co-production in Learning Health Systems	5
Point-of-care dashboards promote coproduction of healthcare services for patients with inflammatory bowel disease	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
A ‘COVID Compass’ for navigating the pandemic	5
Spanish Abstracts for Volume 33, Issue 1, 2021	5
Nosocomial COVID: the moral and clinical imperative for worldwide data collection and action	5
Gender in the consolidated criteria for reporting qualitative research (COREQ) checklist	5
Delayed discharges at a tertiary rehabilitation centre in Saudi Arabia: contributing factors and cost impact	5
International research priorities for integrated care and cross-boundary working: an electronic Delphi study	5
Identification of key factors influencing patient satisfaction for practical prioritization in healthcare settings: a nationwide survey analysis	5
Resilience and regulation—antithesis or a smart combination for future healthcare service improvement?	5

Five-year analysis of hospital complaints at a Japanese tertiary teaching hospital	5
Training the next generation of journal editors: The case for editorial apprenticeship programmes	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
Implementing a screening algorithm for early recognition of sepsis in hospitalized children: a quality improvement project	5
Navigating the complex terrain of patient safety: challenges, strategies, and the importance of ongoing evaluation and knowledge sharing	4
Measuring quality of care for universal health coverage in the Western Pacific	4
French Abstract for Volume 34, Issue 3, 2022	4
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
Availability of Six Sigma trials for quality improvement in healthcare: an emerging challenge	4
Sharps injuries among healthcare workers in Liberia and Ghana: a cross-sectional survey	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
Mapping the quality of basic and comprehensive emergency obstetric care services in Haiti	4
Advancing quality management in the medical devices industry: strategies for effective ISO 13485 implementation	4
Effects of gait adaptation training on augmented reality treadmill for patients with stroke in community ambulation	4
Transforming Emergency Care: Lessons from Innovations Beyond Healthcare	4
Quality as strategy, the evolution of co-production in the Region Jönköping health system, Sweden: a descriptive qualitative study	4
How personnel diversity and affective bonds affect performance-based financing: a moderator analysis of a difference-in-difference estimator	4
Potentially avoidable hospitalizations and associated factors among older people in French Guiana using the French National Health Data System	4
Barriers and breakthroughs: policy reflections on healthcare for persons with disability in the Philippines	4
Interruption of initial patient assessment in the emergency department and its effect on patient perception of care quality	4
Spanish Abstracts for Volume 34, Issue 2, 2022	4
Use and de-implementation of fecal occult blood tests in the acute care setting: a systematic review and meta-analysis	4
Finding space for kindness: public protection and health professional regulation	4
French Abstracts for Volume 34, Issue 1, 2022	4
New ways of working: health professional development for effective coproduction	4
Comparative analysis of routine clinical debriefings and incident reports: insights for patient safety and teamwork enhancement	4
Accelerating improvement: The Pediatric Acute Care Cardiology Collaborative data timeliness project	4
Developing online medical service quality indicators in China from the perspective of online and offline integration: a modified Delphi–analytic hierarchy process study	3
The accuracy of the Global Trigger Tool is higher for the identification of adverse events of greater harm: a diagnostic test study	3
Organisational capacity for family engagement during COVID: Ensuring family communication needs are met for better engagement with care	3
Anti-Indigenous racism in Canadian healthcare: a scoping review of the literature	3
Effect of China’s long-term care insurance on health outcomes of older disabled people: role of institutional care	3
Patient experience and nurse staffing level in South Korea	3
A simulation study on the association of HRO communication patterns and surgical team performance	3
The second victim phenomenon: comprehensive support and systemic change in healthcare	3
Effects of an educational intervention for rational cardiac enzyme requisitions in critically ill patients: a pre–post intervention study	3
COVID-19 response: a perspective from Pakistan	3
Implementation and outcomes of a statewide TBI screening program for underserved populations	3
Modelling the effect of COVID-19 mass vaccination on acute hospital admissions	3
In Good Hands: exploring patient safety in the Philippines	3
Interpreting the lived experiences of home caregivers in the families of patients with COVID-19 in Iran: a phenomenological study	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
Addressing the challenge of reducing low-value care	3
Coproducing value during the COVID-19 pandemic	3
Some important principles for implementing lean management in healthcare organizations	3
The double use of PROMs to improve patient–provider communication and to compare providers: a potential conflict?	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
International approaches for implementing accreditation programmes in different healthcare facilities: a comparative case study in Australia, Botswana, Denmark, and Jordan	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
Organizational capacity for patient and family engagement in hospital planning and improvement: interviews with patient/family advisors, managers and clinicians	3
Predicting non-response in patient-reported outcome measures: results from the Swiss quality assurance programme in cardiac inpatient rehabilitation	3
Development and Validation of a Quality Indicator System for Outpatient Service in Shenzhen, China	3
Can guidelines rein in oxygen use? A retrospective cross-sectional study using routinely collected data	3
Developing clinical care programs: Experience from a Colombian clinical center	3
Patient safety in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: how can we do better?	3