OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of BMC Health Services Research is 40. 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
Persistent symptoms after Covid-19: qualitative study of 114 “long Covid” patients and draft quality principles for services	399
Experiences of frontline healthcare workers and their views about support during COVID-19 and previous pandemics: a systematic review and qualitative meta-synthesis	210
Meta-ethnography in healthcare research: a guide to using a meta-ethnographic approach for literature synthesis	107
Impact of COVID-19 on health services utilization in Province-2 of Nepal: a qualitative study among community members and stakeholders	88
Towards digital health equity - a qualitative study of the challenges experienced by vulnerable groups in using digital health services in the COVID-19 era	88
Informal caregivers during the COVID-19 pandemic perceive additional burden: findings from an ad-hoc survey in Germany	86
Development of a theory-informed questionnaire to assess the acceptability of healthcare interventions	86
Quality assessment with diverse studies (QuADS): an appraisal tool for methodological and reporting quality in systematic reviews of mixed- or multi-method studies	84
Attitude towards COVID 19 vaccines and vaccine hesitancy in urban and rural communities in Tamil Nadu, India – a community based survey	84
Cost‐effectiveness of intensive care for hospitalized COVID-19 patients: experience from South Africa	82
Evidence that collaborative action between local health departments and nonprofit hospitals helps foster healthy behaviors in communities: a multilevel study	80
Impacts of English language proficiency on healthcare access, use, and outcomes among immigrants: a qualitative study	70
Challenges to implementing artificial intelligence in healthcare: a qualitative interview study with healthcare leaders in Sweden	70
Workplace factors associated with mental health of healthcare workers during the COVID-19 pandemic: an international cross-sectional study	69
Factors that influence family and parental preferences and decision making for unscheduled paediatric healthcare – systematic review	62
Indirect health effects of the COVID-19 pandemic in Kenya: a mixed methods assessment	61
Effect of health insurance program for the poor on out-of-pocket inpatient care cost in India: evidence from a nationally representative cross-sectional survey	61
Patient experiences with technology enabled care across healthcare settings- a systematic review	60
The economic burden of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19): evidence from Iran	60
Learning health systems using data to drive healthcare improvement and impact: a systematic review	59
Burnout and well-being of healthcare workers in the post-pandemic period of COVID-19: a perspective from the job demands-resources model	59
Comparing Charlson and Elixhauser comorbidity indices with different weightings to predict in-hospital mortality: an analysis of national inpatient data	58
Co-production in health policy and management: a comprehensive bibliometric review	58
The barriers and facilitators influencing the sustainability of hospital-based interventions: a systematic review	58
The use of co-production, co-design and co-creation to mobilise knowledge in the management of health conditions: a systematic review	55

Frontline physician burnout during the COVID-19 pandemic: national survey findings	54
Defining and assessing context in healthcare implementation studies: a systematic review	54
The impact of hospital accreditation on the quality of healthcare: a systematic literature review	54
Impact of satisfaction with physician–patient communication on self-care and adherence in patients with hypertension: cross-sectional study	53
Process mapping in healthcare: a systematic review	53
A systematic scoping review of change management practices used for telemedicine service implementations	53
Patient feedback to improve quality of patient-centred care in public hospitals: a systematic review of the evidence	47
Drug repurposing: a systematic review on root causes, barriers and facilitators	45
What contributes to inappropriate antibiotic dispensing among qualified and unqualified healthcare providers in Bangladesh? A qualitative study	43
Costs and healthcare utilisation of patients with heart failure in Spain	43
Using routine health information data for research in low- and middle-income countries: a systematic review	43
Going virtual: youth attitudes toward and experiences of virtual mental health and substance use services during the COVID-19 pandemic	42
Implementation support practitioners – a proposal for consolidating a diverse evidence base	41
The current landscape of pre-exposure prophylaxis service delivery models for HIV prevention: a scoping review	41
Concerns, quality of life, access to care and productivity of the general population during the first 8 weeks of the coronavirus lockdown in Belgium and the Netherlands	40
Association of professional identity, job satisfaction and burnout with turnover intention among general practitioners in China: evidence from a national survey	40
What are the needs of people with dementia in acute hospital settings, and what interventions are made to meet these needs? A systematic integrative review of the literature	40
Public-private partnerships in primary health care: a scoping review	40