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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Health care providers’ perceptions of using misoprostol in the treatment of incomplete abortion in Malawi	315
Self-referral to inpatient treatment program in a community mental health Centre in Central Norway: investigating the implementation, professionals’ experiences and costs	296
Trends in heart failure costs for commercially insured patients in the United States (2006–2021)	259
Improving Clerkship to Enhance Patients’ Quality of care (ICEPACQ): a baseline study	209
Validity and reliability of the Chinese version of the partners at care transitions measure	202
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	190
The impact of direct health facility financing on MNCH service provision: results from a comparative, before-after study in Pwani Region, Tanzania	162
A scoping review on implementation processes and outcomes of models of care for low back pain in primary healthcare	160
The impact of COVID-19 on hepatitis B and C virus prevention, diagnosis, and treatment in Bangladesh compared with Japan and the global perspective	146
Measuring provider well-being: initial validation of a brief engagement survey	112
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	95
Registered nurse case managers’ work experiences with a person-centered collaborative healthcare model: an interview study	93
Investigating the quality of hemovigilance process using the first two steps of Six Sigma model: a cross-sectional study	86
Health expenditure trajectory and gastric cancer incidence in the National Health Insurance Senior Cohort: a nested case-control study	80
Exploring the use of body worn cameras in acute mental health wards: a mixed-method evaluation of a pilot intervention	78
“Syndemic moral distress”: sexual health provider practices in the context of co-occurring, socially produced sexual and mental health epidemics	77
Completeness of medication information in admission notes from emergency departments	77
How are fast tracks organized in adult and pediatric emergency departments in Switzerland? A cross-sectional survey	76
The role of a community conversation intervention in reducing stigma related to lower limb lymphoedema in Northern Ethiopia	73
Drivers of primary care appointment volumes before and after the COVID-19 pandemic: a longitudinal study	72
Client satisfaction and contributing factors towards sexual and reproductive health services delivery system among youth at Family Guidance Association of north Ethiopia (FGAE) clinics, 2023: mixed me	71
The impact of clinical pharmacist-physician communication on reducing drug-related problems: a mixed study design in a tertiary teaching Hospital in Xinjiang, China	68
Activities used by evidence networks to promote evidence-informed decision-making in the health sector– a rapid evidence review	65
Implementing community-based health program in conflict settings: documenting experiences from the Central African Republic and South Sudan	65
Correction: Organizational resilience in healthcare: a review and descriptive narrative synthesis of approaches to resilience measurement and assessment in empirical studies	65

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	64
Correction: Differences in medical costs among urban lung cancer patients with different health insurance schemes: a retrospective study	63
Enhancing the value of the oncology thoracic surgery care pathway: a TDABC and ABC analysis	61
Correction: The complexity of leadership in coproduction practices: a guiding framework based on a systematic literature review	61
Correction: Do health professionals’ attitudes towards alcohol use matter for alcohol prevention efforts? Results from the WIRUS-OHS study	61
Collaborative approaches to health education: perspectives of parents and teachers on self-care and managing common health issues in UK primary schools	59
Women living in the region under an emergency command post are experiencing delays in reaching health facilities: a multi-center cross-sectional study	59
Patterns of presentation of adults with hearing impairment in a peri-urban community in South Africa: a qualitative study	58
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	57
Service availability and readiness of tuberculosis units’ clinics to manage diabetes mellitus in Lubumbashi, Democratic Republic of the Congo	56
Health professionals’ preferences with the use of pegfilgrastim on-body injector at oncology centers in 8 cities in Colombia	56
Patients' attitudes towards switching to national volume-based procurement (NVBP) Drugs—a qualitative investigation in Wuhan, China	55
Access to health services during the Colombian armed conflict: a challenge for the population with disabilities in the department of Meta	55
Harmonizing patient-centric requirements for secure digital health services in heterogeneous settings	54
Healthcare resource utilization and direct costs of transfusion-dependent thalassemia patients in Dubai, United Arab Emirates: a retrospective cost-of-illness study	54
Personalized care for complex lives: initial outcomes of a behaviorally-informed complex care intervention	53
Pathways to social integration among homeless-experienced adults with serious mental illness: a qualitative perspective	51
Prediction of COVID-19 patients’ participation in financing informal care using machine learning methods: willingness to pay and willingness to accept approaches	51
Associations between patient safety culture and workplace safety culture in hospital settings	51
Integrating diabetes, hypertension and HIV care in sub-Saharan Africa: a Delphi consensus study on international best practice	51
Non-governmental organizations’ perceptions of challenges and opportunities for participating in the provision of government-purchased community-based psychiatric rehabilitation services in Shanghai,	50
Development and validation of a patient experience assessment questionnaire for evaluating hospital care in Iran	50
Mapping the road to elimination: a 5-year evaluation of implementation strategies associated with hepatitis C treatment in the veterans health administration	48
Causes and consequences of quack medicine in health care: a scoping review of global experience	48
How do staff work in NHS hospital operations management meetings to support resilience in everyday service delivery? A qualitative study	48
Impact of community-based health insurance on health services utilisation among vulnerable households in Amhara region, Ethiopia	48