OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Primary Health Care Research and Development 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 2020-05-01 to 2024-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Telemedicine maybe an effective solution for management of chronic disease during the COVID-19 epidemic	23
Integrating primary care and public health to enhance response to a pandemic	21
Innovation in primary health care responses to COVID-19 in Sub-Saharan Africa	15
Revisiting the four core functions (4Cs) of primary care: operational definitions and complexities	15
Advancing multimorbidity management in primary care: a narrative review	14
Perception of adults toward electronic cigarettes: a cross-sectional study from Jordan	14
COVID-19 pandemic and the great impulse to telemedicine: the basis of the WONCA Europe Statement on Telemedicine at the WHO Europe 70th Regional Meeting September 2020	13
COVID-19 disease severity to predict persistent symptoms: a systematic review and meta-analysis	12
The impact of COVID-19 on the care of people living with noncommunicable diseases in low- and middle-income countries: an online survey of physicians and pharmacists in nine countries	12
Parental childhood vaccine hesitancy and predicting uptake of vaccinations: a systematic review	12
Understanding and working with different worldviews to co-design cultural security in clinical mental health settings to engage with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander clients	12
The effects of supported employment interventions in populations of people with conditions other than severe mental health: a systematic review	10
Effects of free maternal policies on quality and cost of care and outcomes: an integrative review	9
The role of community participation in primary health care: practices of South African health committees	9
Iranian primary health care network: challenges and ways forward	8
Integration of health care in the Basque Country during COVID-19: the importance of an integrated care management approach in times of emergency	7
Occupational therapy services in primary care: a scoping review	7
Strengthening health system building blocks: configuring post-COVID-19 scenario in Pakistan	7
Improving the way healthcare professionals deliver different news to families during pregnancy or at birth: a qualitative study	7
Coping with COVID-19 pandemic: reflections of older couples living alone in urban Odisha, India	7
Strengthening the primary health care response to COVID-19: an operational tool for policymakers	7
Healing the Past by Nurturing the Future: Aboriginal parents’ views of what helps support recovery from complex trauma	7
Effective and meaningful participation or limited participation? A study of South African health committee legislation	6
Sources of psychological distress among primary care physicians during the COVID-19 pandemic’s first wave in Spain: a cross-sectional study	6
Achieving the potential of mHealth in medicine requires challenging the ethos of care delivery	6

Task shifting from general practitioners to practice assistants and nurses in primary care: a cross-sectional survey in 34 countries – RETRACTED	6
Aboriginal community-controlled aged care: principles, practices and actions to integrate with primary health care	6
Research progress of health care in Yemeni children during the war: review	6
Chronic Care Model in Italy: a narrative review of the literature	6
The development of aboriginal brain injury coordinator positions: a culturally secure rehabilitation service initiative as part of a clinical trial	6
Amigos de Fibro (Fibro Friends): development of an educational program for the health promotion of fibromyalgia patients	6
Burnout in primary healthcare physicians and nurses in Turkey during COVID-19 pandemic	6
Prevalence of anemia and associated risk factors among pregnant women attending antenatal care in Bangladesh: a cross-sectional study	6
Understanding the impact of COVID-19 pandemic on health-related quality of life amongst Iranian patients with beta thalassemia major: a grounded theory	5
Development of an antimicrobial stewardship implementation model involving collaboration between general practitioners and pharmacists: GPPAS study in Australian primary care	5
Strengthening approaches to respond to the social and emotional well-being needs of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people: the Cultural Pathways Program	5
Task shifting from general practitioners to practice assistants and nurses in primary care: a cross-sectional survey in 34 countries	5
Adherence to guideline recommendations for urinary tract infections in adult women: a cross-sectional study	5
Patient and public involvement in a UK National Institute for Health Research Programme Grant for Applied Research: experiences from the Chronic Headache Education and Self-management Study (CHESS)	5
Knowledge, attitudes, and practices regarding vaccination among community pharmacists	5
Income, workload, and any other factors associated with anticipated retention of rural doctors?	5
Reflections on China’s primary care response to COVID-19: roles, limitations and implications	5
‘I’m a bit of a champion for it actually’: qualitative insights into practitioner-supported self-collection cervical screening among early adopting Victorian practitioners in Australia	5
Analysis of inequality in the distribution of general practitioners in China: evidence from 2012 to 2018	5
Community pharmacist interventions in ear health: a scoping review	5
Self-reported reasons for reducing or stopping antidepressant medications in primary care: thematic analysis of the diamond longitudinal study	4
Different definitions of multimorbidity and their effect on prevalence rates: a retrospective study in German general practices	4
Exploring primary healthcare practitioners’ experiences regarding the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa	4
Awareness and attitudes toward epilepsy among medical students and interns in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia	4
The prevalence of diagnosed specific back pain in primary health care in Region Västra Götaland: a register study of 1.7 million inhabitants	4
Older people living at home: experiences of healthy ageing	4
Does improving indoor air quality lessen symptoms associated with chemical intolerance?	4
The role of Aboriginal leadership in community health programmes	4
Views and experiences of family physicians about Syrian refugee patients in Turkey: a qualitative research	4
Analysis of deprescription strategies of proton pump inhibitors in primary care: a narrative review	4
Organization of primary care	4
Working in hospitals during a pandemic: investigating the resilience among medical staff during COVID-19 outbreak through qualitative and quantitative research	4
Editorial: Challenge and resilience: primary care in a COVID-19 world	4
Community midwives’ and health visitors’ experiences of research recruitment: a qualitative exploration using the Theoretical Domains Framework	4
The implementation of the nationwide out-of-hours phone number 1733 in Belgium: analysis of efficiency and safety	4
A referral aid for smoking cessation interventions in primary care: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial	4
The role of organization of care in GPs’ prevention practice	3
Association between vaccination and preventive routines on COVID-19-related mortality in nursing home facilities: a population-based systematic retrospective chart review	3
Dementia and primary care teams: obstacles to the implementation of Portugal’s Dementia Strategy	3
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on pharmacy personnel in primary care	3
Dementia-related continuing education for rural interprofessional primary health care in Saskatchewan, Canada: perceptions and needs of webinar participants	3
Depressive symptoms among clients attending monk healers and primary care clinics in Thailand: a comparative follow-up study	3
“This is not my decision; I have no alternative”. Perceptions and experiences of marriage age and family planning among Syrian women and men: a primary care study	3
What causes delays in diagnosing blood cancers? A rapid review of the evidence	3
Evaluation of a Japanese brief CBT-I administered by a nurse: a pilot study	3
General practitioners’ knowledge of gout and its management: a case study in Beijing	3
Understanding healthcare providers’ experiences with video recording of patient consultations	3
Building Indigenous health workforce capacity and capability through leadership – the Miwatj health leadership model	3
Measures to prevent nosocomial transmissions of COVID-19 based on interpersonal contact data	3
Depressive symptoms among primary healthcare workers during the novel SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus pandemic in the Muscat governorate	3

Perceived appropriateness of alcohol screening and brief advice programmes in Colombia, Mexico and Peru and barriers to their implementation in primary health care – a cross-sectional survey	3
Health system-related barriers to prenatal care management in low- and middle-income countries: a systematic review of the qualitative literature	3
The health of detainees and the role of primary care: Position paper of the European Forum for Primary Care	3
National electronic primary health care database in monitoring performance of primary care in Kyrgyzstan	3
The population characteristics of the main leukocyte subsets and their association with chronic diseases in a community-dwelling population: a cross-sectional study	3