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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Survey protocol: implementing Workload Indicators of Staffing Need in Iranian primary healthcare services	25
Association between cardiopulmonary function, health-related quality of life and cognitive impairment among the older nursing home residents in Shanghai, China	24
Biographical continuation: recovery of stroke survivors and their family caregivers in Taiwan	19
Pain management in infant immunisation: A cross-sectional survey of UK primary care nurses	17
Health promotion in an Australian Aboriginal community: the Growing Strong Brains^® toolkit	17
Could self-reported physical performance help predict individuals at the highest risk of mortality and hospital admission events in clinical practice? Findings from the Hertfordshire Cohort Study	15
Assessing the job preferences of senior medical students for mandatory service: a discrete choice experiment	14
Training and development experiences of nursing associate trainees based in primary care across England: a qualitative study	13
Building and changing business models: a qualitative study among Dutch physiotherapy primary healthcare organisations	12
Diagnosis of acute cystitis in primary care: symptom-based versus urinalysis-based diagnosis	12
Access to episodic primary care: a cross-sectional comparison of walk-in clinics and urgent primary care centers in British Columbia	11
Awareness and attitudes toward epilepsy among medical students and interns in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia	10
Reforms and innovations in primary health care in different countries: scoping review	10
Early structured communication between general practitioner, sick-listed patient, and employer: Results and lessons learned from a pragmatic trial in the Capacity Note project	10
Developing weight navigation program to support personalized and effective obesity management in primary care settings: protocol for a quality improvement program with an embedded single-arm pilot stu	9
Dementia-related continuing education for rural interprofessional primary health care in Saskatchewan, Canada: perceptions and needs of webinar participants	9
Achieving the potential of mHealth in medicine requires challenging the ethos of care delivery	9
Environmental house calls can reduce symptoms of chemical intolerance: a demonstration of personalized exposure medicine	9
The current state of primary healthcare in Pakistan: a way forward for low-to-middle income countries	9
Early detection efforts for colorectal and prostate cancer from the patient’s perspective over the course of 12 years: results of the KABOT survey study	8
How persons with systemic mastocytosis describe the time between symptom onset and receiving diagnosis	8
The unrevealed links: periodontal health, human milk composition, and infant gut microbiome dynamics	7
Reflections on China’s primary care response to COVID-19: roles, limitations and implications	7
Person-centred integrated primary care for refugees: a mixed-methods, stepped wedge design study to assess the impact	7
Introduction of specialized heart failure nurses in primary care and its impact on readmissions	7

‘Midlife care to migrant women: primary healthcare providers’ beliefs about barriers and facilitators’	7
‘They’re all individuals, none of them are on the same boat’: barriers to weight management in general practice from the rural nurse perspective	7
Research progress of health care in Yemeni children during the war: review	7
The healthcare experiences of rural-living Canadians with and without a primary care provider: a qualitative analysis of open-ended cross-sectional survey responses	7
Advancing multimorbidity management in primary care: a narrative review	6
Diagnostic process of cancer in a health system without gatekeeping: a single centre survey analysis	6
Diagnostic accuracy of the Patient Health Questionnaire 2 (PHQ-2) in Qatar’s primary care settings	6
Working in hospitals during a pandemic: investigating the resilience among medical staff during COVID-19 outbreak through qualitative and quantitative research	6
Are remote health clinics primary health care focused? Validation of the Primary Health Care Engagement (PHCE) Scale for the Australian remote primary health care setting	6
Reduction of anxiety symptoms among women within a collaborative care model and women’s health settings	6
Health professionals’ use of smartphone apps for clients with low back pain: an observational study	6
The incentivized drug information services among community pharmacists: a multi-centre cross-sectional study in Indonesia	6
Chronic pain–mental health comorbidity and excess prevalence of health risk behaviours: a cross-sectional study	6
Speaking the same language – a scoping review to identify the terminology associated with social prescribing	6
Agreement and consistency in the triaging of musculoskeletal primary care referrals by vetting clinicians using a knowledge-based triage tool	6
Scoping review of outpatient health services utilization among women	5
Perceptions of primary care services among Afro-Peruvians in Lima, Peru	5
Committed leadership: a prerequisite for successful implementation of recovery during the workday	5
Evaluating physical activities in clinical diabetes: lifestyle scores hypothesis	5
Pilot test of Consensus Reporting Items for Studies in Primary care (CRISP)	5
Novel educational strategies to improve the telemedicine clinical skills of medical students	5
Evaluation of the introduction of a single-lead ECG device and digital cardiologist consultation platform among general practitioners in the Netherlands	5
What factors empower general practitioners for early cancer diagnosis? A 20-country European Delphi Study	5
General practitioner and nurse experiences of type 2 diabetes management and prescribing in primary care: a qualitative review following the introduction of funded SGLT2i/GLP1RA medications in Aotearo	5
Development of a tool to support general practitioners to help adolescents with knee pain: an analysis using the Theoretical Domains Framework	5
Providers’ experience on essential health services in primary healthcare units of Ethiopia during COVID-19: a qualitative study on impact and response	5
Electronic referral system policy analysis: a qualitative study in the context of Iran	5
A scoping review exploring reablement models of training and client assessment for older people in primary health care	4
Social prescription for the elderly: a community-based scoping review	4
Engaging community pharmacists in tuberculosis-directly observed treatment: a mixed-methods study	4
Task-shifting and the recruitment and retention of eye care workers in under-served areas: a qualitative study of optometrists’ motivation in Ghana and Scotland	4
Perspectives towards cultural competence and receptivity to cultural competence training: a qualitative study on healthcare professionals	4
Healthy and unhealthy eating after a behaviour change intervention in primary care	4
A qualitative examination of the implementation of a perinatal collaborative care program	4
Peer-led digital health lifestyle intervention for a low-income community at risk for cardiovascular diseases (MYCardio-PEER): a quasi-experimental study protocol	4
National electronic primary health care database in monitoring performance of primary care in Kyrgyzstan	4
Turnover intentions among rural-oriented medical students in Western China: a constructivist grounded theory study	4
Measures to prevent nosocomial transmissions of COVID-19 based on interpersonal contact data	4
Primary care practice-based interventions and their effect on participation in population-based cancer screening programs: a systematic narrative review	4
Social determinants of health and family planning: impact of food and financial insecurity on contraceptive use and pregnancy intention	4
The impact of COVID-19 on referrals among general practitioners and specialists in Shanghai, China	4
The health of detainees and the role of primary care: Position paper of the European Forum for Primary Care	4
Cultural competence training of dieticians: development and preliminary evaluation	3
TOPSE for babies in Norwegian: examining the reliability of a tool to measure parenting self-efficacy	3
Developing Iranian sub-national Primary Health Care Measurement Framework: a study protocol	3
Young women’s perceptions of cervical screening in the UK: a qualitative study	3
Primary health care workers perspective towards cancer in Fiji: a qualitative study	3
Self-perceived nutrition competence of primary care physicians in Singapore: a cross-sectional study	3
A multifaceted provider-centred intervention versus usual care to improve the recognition and diagnosis of depression in primary health care: a hybrid study	3
Understanding factors affecting implementation success and sustainability of a comprehensive prevention program for cardiovascular disease in primary health care: a qualitative process evaluation stud	3

Feasibility of a home-designed respiratory rehabilitation program for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease	3
Strategies for improving access to primary care services for homeless immigrants in England: a Delphi study	3
Food hygiene practice and associated factors among food handlers working in food establishments in sub-Saharan Africa: a systematic review and meta-analysis	3
The roles and challenges of the primary health care systems in epidemic management: a scoping review	3
Stakeholders’ perspectives on facilitative supervision implementation in north-western Ghana: an exploration of adherence and quality of primary healthcare	3
Primary care and COVID-19	3
Do family physicians perceive electronic cigarette use as a harm reduction strategy for smokers? A survey from Istanbul	3
Does improving indoor air quality lessen symptoms associated with chemical intolerance?	3
Exploring health worker absenteeism at public healthcare facilities in Chhattisgarh, India	3
Long-term catheter management in the community: a population-based analysis of user characteristics, service utilisation and costs in England	3
A CBT-based training module for UK health visitors who support parents with excessively crying babies: development and initial evaluation	3
Parental childhood vaccine hesitancy and predicting uptake of vaccinations: a systematic review	3
Take home messages from the implementation of the primary health care measurement and improvement (PHCMI) initiative in the WHO Eastern Mediterranean Region (EMR)	3
Postpartum family planning attitudes among Turkish women: development of a reliable and valid scale	3
A qualitative exploration of Gestalt therapy and systemic pedagogy paediatric primary healthcare consultations in Agramunt (Spain)	3
A model proposal for qualitative data analysis, interpretation, and reporting: contextuality, reflectivity, and narrativity	3
Utilizing primary care to engage underserved patients in a psychological intervention for chronic pain	3