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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

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
Developing and validating a Global Trigger Tool for assessing frequency, level of harm, and preventability of adverse drug events in pediatric inpatients units	19
Portuguese Abstracts	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
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
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
Correction to: Pilot testing of the International Council of Cardiovascular Prevention and Rehabilitation Registry	12
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
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
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
Advancing quality in low human development index scoring countries; the need for standardized and shared quality measurement and reporting	10
Practice patterns and survival outcomes for muscle-invasive bladder cancer: real-life experience in a general population setting	10
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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