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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

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
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
The future of global graduate training in quality improvement and patient safety	13
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
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
Impact of pay-for-performance program on postoperative infection and revision risk in diabetic patients with hip replacement: a Taiwanese Cohort Study	11
Time to review reflective practice?	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
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
‘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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
New ways of working: health professional development for effective coproduction	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
Barriers and breakthroughs: policy reflections on healthcare for persons with disability in the Philippines	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
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
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