OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of BMC Health Services Research is 48. 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
Impact of early death recording on international comparison of acute myocardial infarction mortality – administrative hospital data study using the example of Germany and the United States	311
Determinants of respectful maternity care among women who gave childbirth in Southern Ethiopia	267
Registered nurse case managers’ work experiences with a person-centered collaborative healthcare model: an interview study	251
Evaluation of pharmacist’s practices regarding the antimicrobials dispensing: a simulated patient study	227
Burden of invasive pneumococcal disease, non-invasive all-cause pneumonia, and acute otitis media in hospitalized US children: a retrospective multi-center study from 2015 to 2020	172
The impact of direct health facility financing on MNCH service provision: results from a comparative, before-after study in Pwani Region, Tanzania	160
A scoping review on implementation processes and outcomes of models of care for low back pain in primary healthcare	151
The impact of COVID-19 on hepatitis B and C virus prevention, diagnosis, and treatment in Bangladesh compared with Japan and the global perspective	132
Completeness of medication information in admission notes from emergency departments	128
Measuring provider well-being: initial validation of a brief engagement survey	110
Investigating the quality of hemovigilance process using the first two steps of Six Sigma model: a cross-sectional study	108
“After viral load testing, I get my results so I get to know which path my life is taking me”: qualitative insights on routine centralized and point-of-care viral load testing in western Kenya from th	106
Sociodemographic and work-related factors associated with psychological resilience in South African healthcare workers: a cross-sectional study	100
Quality of life among health care workers with and without prior COVID-19 infection in Bangladesh	98
Health expenditure trajectory and gastric cancer incidence in the National Health Insurance Senior Cohort: a nested case-control study	84
Exploring the use of body worn cameras in acute mental health wards: a mixed-method evaluation of a pilot intervention	81
“Syndemic moral distress”: sexual health provider practices in the context of co-occurring, socially produced sexual and mental health epidemics	79
Application of the LDA model to identify topics in telemedicine conversations on the X social network	76
How are fast tracks organized in adult and pediatric emergency departments in Switzerland? A cross-sectional survey	71
Self-referral to inpatient treatment program in a community mental health Centre in Central Norway: investigating the implementation, professionals’ experiences and costs	67
Health care providers’ perceptions of using misoprostol in the treatment of incomplete abortion in Malawi	65
Validity and reliability of the Chinese version of the partners at care transitions measure	64
Improving Clerkship to Enhance Patients’ Quality of care (ICEPACQ): a baseline study	63
Considerations, barriers and enablers of deprescribing among healthcare professionals in Ogun State, Southwest, Nigeria: a cross-sectional survey	62
Prediction of COVID-19 patients’ participation in financing informal care using machine learning methods: willingness to pay and willingness to accept approaches	61

Trends in heart failure costs for commercially insured patients in the United States (2006–2021)	60
Behavioral sciences applied to acute care teams: a research agenda for the years ahead by a European research network	60
Correction to: Health facility preparedness of maternal and neonatal health services: a survey in Jumla, Nepal	58
Correction: Differences in medical costs among urban lung cancer patients with different health insurance schemes: a retrospective study	58
Correction: Do health professionals’ attitudes towards alcohol use matter for alcohol prevention efforts? Results from the WIRUS-OHS study	57
Correction: The complexity of leadership in coproduction practices: a guiding framework based on a systematic literature review	57
Exploring cross-boundary collaboration for youth mental health in Sweden – a qualitative study using the integrative framework for collaborative governance	56
Correction: Organizational resilience in healthcare: a review and descriptive narrative synthesis of approaches to resilience measurement and assessment in empirical studies	56
Correction to: Managing pneumonia through facility-based integrated management of childhood management (IMCI) services: an analysis of the service availability and readiness among public health facili	56
"We need time, a great know-how and security for patients to always be there in time”: a qualitative study on factors distinguishing General from Specialized Palliative Home Care	55
Health professionals’ preferences with the use of pegfilgrastim on-body injector at oncology centers in 8 cities in Colombia	55
Variations in out-of-pocket spending and factors influencing catastrophic health expenditure of households with patients suffering from chronic conditions in four districts in Sri Lanka	54
Digital health readiness – insights from healthcare leaders in operational management: a cross-sectional survey	53
Service availability and readiness of tuberculosis units’ clinics to manage diabetes mellitus in Lubumbashi, Democratic Republic of the Congo	53
How do staff work in NHS hospital operations management meetings to support resilience in everyday service delivery? A qualitative study	53
Assessing employee silence about patient safety and its association with environmental factors among nurses in Ardabil: a cross-sectional study	52
Patients' attitudes towards switching to national volume-based procurement (NVBP) Drugs—a qualitative investigation in Wuhan, China	52
Women living in the region under an emergency command post are experiencing delays in reaching health facilities: a multi-center cross-sectional study	51
Collaborative approaches to health education: perspectives of parents and teachers on self-care and managing common health issues in UK primary schools	51
Enhancing the value of the oncology thoracic surgery care pathway: a TDABC and ABC analysis	50
Harmonizing patient-centric requirements for secure digital health services in heterogeneous settings	50
Patterns of presentation of adults with hearing impairment in a peri-urban community in South Africa: a qualitative study	49
Pragmatic applications of implementation science frameworks to regulatory science: an assessment of FDA Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategies (REMS) (2014–2018)	48
Disparities in modern health service utilization across socio-demographic and economic inequalities among households in Gida Ayana district, Oromia Regional state, Ethiopia: a community-based cross-se	48
Well-being approaches targeted to improve child and youth health post-COVID-19 pandemic: a scoping review	48