OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of BMC Health Services Research is 47. 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
Comparison of the market share of public and private hospitals under different Medical Alliances: an interrupted time-series analysis in rural China	298
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	237
Determinants of respectful maternity care among women who gave childbirth in Southern Ethiopia	226
Registered nurse case managers’ work experiences with a person-centered collaborative healthcare model: an interview study	189
Evaluation of pharmacist’s practices regarding the antimicrobials dispensing: a simulated patient study	159
A comparative analysis of non-invasive prenatal testing in Ontario and Quebec: the role of governing style in health technology innovation & adoption	152
Exploring what works well and less well in a community-based drop-in hub providing health and wellbeing services for people experiencing homelessness: a participatory action evaluation of service coor	143
The impact of direct health facility financing on MNCH service provision: results from a comparative, before-after study in Pwani Region, Tanzania	121
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	121
A scoping review on implementation processes and outcomes of models of care for low back pain in primary healthcare	115
Values of welfare technologies: a qualitative study of how employees in Swedish care for older adults understand and justify the use of new technology	105
The impact of COVID-19 on hepatitis B and C virus prevention, diagnosis, and treatment in Bangladesh compared with Japan and the global perspective	101
Implementation of advance care planning in the routine care for acutely admitted patients in geriatric units: protocol for a cluster randomized controlled trial	95
Completeness of medication information in admission notes from emergency departments	92
Acceptability and feasibility of HIV recent infection surveillance by healthcare workers using a rapid test for recent infection at HIV testing sites — Malawi, 2019	86
Does power distance in healthcare teams linked to patient satisfaction? A multilevel study of interprofessional care teams in a referral hospital in Indonesia	78
Measuring provider well-being: initial validation of a brief engagement survey	75
Investigating the quality of hemovigilance process using the first two steps of Six Sigma model: a cross-sectional study	74
“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	73
Sociodemographic and work-related factors associated with psychological resilience in South African healthcare workers: a cross-sectional study	69
Quality of life among health care workers with and without prior COVID-19 infection in Bangladesh	68
Health expenditure trajectory and gastric cancer incidence in the National Health Insurance Senior Cohort: a nested case-control study	66
Exploring the use of body worn cameras in acute mental health wards: a mixed-method evaluation of a pilot intervention	62
“Syndemic moral distress”: sexual health provider practices in the context of co-occurring, socially produced sexual and mental health epidemics	58
Application of the LDA model to identify topics in telemedicine conversations on the X social network	58

How are fast tracks organized in adult and pediatric emergency departments in Switzerland? A cross-sectional survey	57
Measuring case severity: a novel tool for benchmarking and clinical documentation improvement	54
Self-referral to inpatient treatment program in a community mental health Centre in Central Norway: investigating the implementation, professionals’ experiences and costs	54
On prioritising global health’s triple crisis of sepsis, COVID-19 and antimicrobial resistance: a mixed-methods study from Malawi	54
Health care providers’ perceptions of using misoprostol in the treatment of incomplete abortion in Malawi	54
Improving Clerkship to Enhance Patients’ Quality of care (ICEPACQ): a baseline study	53
Validity and reliability of the Chinese version of the partners at care transitions measure	53
Considerations, barriers and enablers of deprescribing among healthcare professionals in Ogun State, Southwest, Nigeria: a cross-sectional survey	53
Cost-effectiveness analysis of rituximab versus natalizumab in patients with relapsing remitting multiple sclerosis	53
Prediction of COVID-19 patients’ participation in financing informal care using machine learning methods: willingness to pay and willingness to accept approaches	52
Structural validation of two person-centred practice inventories PCPI-S and PCPI-C - French version	52
Trends in heart failure costs for commercially insured patients in the United States (2006–2021)	52
Behavioral sciences applied to acute care teams: a research agenda for the years ahead by a European research network	51
Correction: Differences in medical costs among urban lung cancer patients with different health insurance schemes: a retrospective study	51
Correction to: Health facility preparedness of maternal and neonatal health services: a survey in Jumla, Nepal	51
Correction: The complexity of leadership in coproduction practices: a guiding framework based on a systematic literature review	50
Correction: Do health professionals’ attitudes towards alcohol use matter for alcohol prevention efforts? Results from the WIRUS-OHS study	50
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	49
Correction: Organizational resilience in healthcare: a review and descriptive narrative synthesis of approaches to resilience measurement and assessment in empirical studies	49
Exploring cross-boundary collaboration for youth mental health in Sweden – a qualitative study using the integrative framework for collaborative governance	49
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	47
"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	47
Health professionals’ preferences with the use of pegfilgrastim on-body injector at oncology centers in 8 cities in Colombia	47
How do staff work in NHS hospital operations management meetings to support resilience in everyday service delivery? A qualitative study	47