OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Annals of Family Medicine is 2. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Obstacles and Opportunities on the Path to Improving Health Professions Education and Practice: Lessons From HRSA’s Academic Units for Primary Care Training and Enhancement	313
How High-Performing Practices Improved Diabetes Care Quality?	94
Patient experiences navigating US healthcare with long-COVID – Part 3 of 3	69
Family Medicine in Times of War	52
Interventions Between Providers and Patients with Limited English Proficiency to Improve Health-Related Outcomes	49
Lessons, Message, and Recommendations from Latina Survivor of Cervical Cancer for Healthcare Teams and Providers	42
Practice organization characteristics are more impactful than intentions in practice scope of early-career family physicians	39
Changes in Family Physicians Over Time in Alberta, Canada: A 16-Year Population-Based Cohort Study	38
PurpLE Clinic: A Primary Care Pilot for Survivors of Sexual Violence, Abuse, and Exploitation	38
Vision, Voice, Leadership in Times of Change: A Mission-Driven Response Framework	37
Patient Communication Preferences for Prostate Cancer Screening Discussions: A Scoping Review	36
Furthering Vision, Voice, and Leadership in Academic Family Medicine Through the Leads and BRC Fellowships	30
Joint Display of Integrated Data Collection for Mixed Methods Research: An Illustration From a Pediatric Oncology Quality Improvement Study	30
Effective Facilitator Strategies for Supporting Primary Care Practice Change: A Mixed Methods Study	29
Diagnostic Accuracy of the Telephone Interview for Cognitive Status for the Detection of Dementia in Primary Care	29
Chest Pain in Primary Care: A Systematic Review of Risk Stratification Tools to Rule Out Acute Coronary Syndrome	29
Deep End Kawasaki/Yokohama: A New Challenge for GPs in Deprived Areas in Japan	28
Tribute to Annals of Family Medicine Associate Editor John Frey	26
Growing Evidence Supports an Implementation Shift Toward Vaginal Sampling forChlamydia trachomatis, Neisseria gonorrhoeae, andTrichomonas vaginalisScreening	25
New AAFP President Calls on Family Physicians to be “Servant Leaders”	24
Intimacy, Vulnerability, and the Imperfect Art of Patient-Centered Self-Disclosure	23
Family Medicine Resident Scholarly Activity Infrastructure, Output, and Dissemination: A CERA Survey	23
Exploring the Telehealth Experiences of Service Users with Mental-Physical Multimorbidity during the COVID-19 pandemic	22
Soaring to New Heights: Strengthening Outcomes and Assessment in Residency	22
Not Like They Used To: The Decline of Procedural Competency in Medical Training	22

Advancing Primary Care through a Model Unit for Innovative Practice Enhancement	21
Validation of the “Proactive” self-assessment tool for older people to identify their own risk of functional decline	21
Evaluation of the Super Supporter Virtual Visit Technology Navigator Program for Rural Patient Populations	20
Hidden Hunger: The Surprising Prevalence of Vitamin B6 Deficiency in Obese Patients	20
Adverse Outcomes Associated With Inhaled Corticosteroid Use in Individuals With Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease	20
Increasing Capacity for Treatment of Opioid Use Disorder in Rural Primary Care Practices	19
Home Health Focus: A New Publicly Available Dataset to Study Community-Dwelling Populations Receiving Home Health Services	19
Exploring Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Primary Care	18
Strategies Associated With Reducing Benzodiazepine Prescribing to Older Adults: A Mixed Methods Study	18
Family Physicians Stopping Practice During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Ontario, Canada	18
Rural Patient Experiences of Accessing Care for Chronic Conditions: A Systematic Review and Thematic Synthesis of Qualitative Studies	18
2024 AFMRD Salary Survey Results and Trends	18
Prescribing Cascades Among Older Community-Dwelling Adults: Application of Prescription Sequence Symmetry Analysis to a National Database in Ireland	18
Do sociodemographic, health behaviors, and clinical factors predict levels of hs-CRP stratified by race and ethnicity?	17
FROM AAFP: NEW AAFP PRESIDENT URGES FAMILY PHYSICIANS TO FIGHT BACK AGAINST MISINFORMATION	17
Characteristics of Patients with Chronic Conditions Affecting Communication with Family Physicians: A Systematic Review	16
Insights from an Operational Survey within the NNE CO-OP PCBRN	16
Embedding Student Volunteer Affordable Care Act Navigators in a Primary Care Clinic	16
The Good, the Bad and the Necessity of Locum Tenens	16
Discordance Between Clinician and Patient EHR Experiences	15
Highlights of the Innovation Showcase	15
Where Did the Patients Go? Understanding Patient Non-Enrollment in the HOMER Trial on Buprenorphine Treatment for Opioid Use	15
The Effect of a Shared Decision-Making Process on Acceptance of Colorectal Cancer Screening	15
Why Warfarin Should Be Managed in Primary Care	15
Tobacco Cessation Champions: Recognizing Physicians Who Ask, Advise, and Refer	15
Health TAPESTRY Ontario: A Multi-Site Randomized Controlled Trial Testing Implementation and Reproducibility	14
AFMRD: Sustaining the Academic Workforce: Recruitment and Retention in Family Medicine Residencies	14
Uplifting Primary Care Through the Electronic Health Record	14
A Comprehensive Approach to the Opioid Crisis in Caldwell County, North Carolina	13
FROM AAFP: AAFP ADVANCES ON LONG-TERM CLINICAL RECOMMENDATION PROJECT	13
COPD Population in US Primary Care: Data From the Optimum Patient Care DARTNet Research Database and the Advancing the Patient Experience in COPD Registry	13
Differences in primary care utilization by primary care availability in the first year of Virginia Medicaid Expansion	13
Baseline Characteristics of PATHWEIGH: A Stepped-Wedge Cluster Randomized Study for Weight Management in Primary Care	13
Dashboard of Advancement and Success for Health Services Research (DASH) 2.0	13
Failure of the Problem-Oriented Medical Paradigm and a Person-Centered Alternative	13
Profiling patterns of patient experiences of access to care and continuity at team-based primary healthcare clinics	12
Optimization of Electronic Health Record Usability	12
Self-Rooming Patients in Health System?	12
Family Physician Motivation and Well-Being in the Digital Era	12
Intellectual Disability (ID) and Chronic Conditions Burden among Adults : Insights from Harmonized Electronic Health Records	12
Continuity of Care as a Quality Metric	12
Translating the Medicare Annual Wellness Visit into Messages and Materials to Improve Preventive Care In Older Adults.	12
Film Representation and Stigma of Individuals with Intellectual Disabilities	11
Improving Early Detection of Cognitive Impairment in Older Adults in Primary Care Clinics: Recommendations From an Interdisciplinary Geriatrics Summit	11
Integrating Behavioral Health and Primary Care: Turning a Duet Into a Trio	11
Advancing Antiracism in Family Medicine	11
FROM NAPCRG: PRIMARY CARE RESEARCH THROUGH THE LENS OF NAPCRG’S TRAINEE COMMITTEE: A YEAR OF REFLECTION IN A PANDEMIC AND A CALL TO ACTION	11
Determining the Association Between Continuity of Primary Care and Acute Care Use in Chronic Kidney Disease: A Retrospective Cohort Study	11
Heplisav-B vs Standard Hepatitis B Vaccine Booster for Health Care Workers	11
Clinic Factors Associated With Mailed Fecal Immunochemical Test (FIT) Completion: The Difference-Making Role of Support Staff	11

Racial and Disaggregated Ethnic Disparities of Blood Pressure Control in Community Health Centers	10
Adapting Primary Care Workflows to Promote Advance Care Planning	10
Implementing quality improvement into practice: Exploring the work to develop and implement a QI project in primary care	10
Commentary on the CRISP Statement	10
The Disproportionate Impact of Primary Care Disruption and Telehealth Utilization During COVID-19	9
Polypharmacy and frequently used medications before death in Qc: any differences between persons with and without dementia?	9
Modelling of intersectoral resources for people living with obesity: pilot study of an environmental analysis	9
Guidance and Resources for Family Medicine Scholarship	9
Thank You and Welcome	9
Practice Characteristics and COVID-19: Important but not Sufficient to Explain Primary Care Successes and Failures	9
CERA: Advancing Family Medicine Education Research	9
The Top 5 Minor Ailments and Pharmacist Management in Ontario: Attachment and Primary Care	9
Do Food Packaging Health Claims Correlate with Healthiness Or Mislead our Patients?	9
Effectiveness of Collaborative, Trauma-Informed Care on Depression Outcomes in Primary Care: A Cluster Randomized Control Trial in Chile	8
Cross-Sectional Study of Cesarean Delivery and Safety Culture by Family Medicine Presence	8
Impact of Home Blood Pressure Data Visualization on Hypertension Medical Decision Making in Primary Care	8
Adapting an In-Clinic Resource Navigator Program to a Virtual Referral Model	8
Digital Innovation to Grow Quality Care Through an Interprofessional Care Team (DIG IT) Among Underserved Patients With Hypertension	8
STFM Launches Professionalism in Family Medicine Education Initiative	8
To Ground Research in the Lived Experience of Patients and Caregivers, Give Us a Voice!	8
Lessons From a Grandfather’s Care: A Journey Into Geriatric Medicine	8
ExPAND Mifepristone: Medical Management of Miscarriage and Abortion in FQHCs	7
A Follow-Up to “The Family Tree Spreads its Limbs: National Academy of Medicine Family Physician New Members 2021”	7
Primary Care Patients With Opioid Use Disorder Symptoms: Initiation and Engagement in Treatment With Medicine	7
The Geographic Distribution of Family Physicians Providing Maternity Care and Opportunities for Expanding Access to Care in Rural Areas	7
A Call to Leadership	7
Arts and Poetry in the Clinic: A Novel Approach to Enhancing Patient Care and Job Satisfaction	7
Diabetes Management: A Case Study to Drive National Policy Change in Primary Care Settings	7
A Multidisciplinary Precision Medicine Service in Primary Care	7
Intervention Stage Completion and Behavioral Health Outcomes: An Integrated Behavioral Health and Primary Care Randomized Pragmatic Trial	6
Cardiovascular risk management of patients with depression in Dutch general practices	6
Integrating Servant Leadership into the Fabric of NAPCRG	6
Fostering Progressive Scholarship: Transforming Family Medicine Through Collaborative Learning Networks	6
Trend in areas of practice of family physicians by career stage in Ontario, Canada from 2018 to 2022	6
Beyond Training: How Context Matters for Early Detection of Alzheimer’s Disease in Primary Care	6
Reconnecting to “Vision, Voice, Leadership”: ADFM’s New Strategic Plan	6
The Seven Words That Changed My Perspective on Patient Care	6
The 2023 Terror Attack on Southern Israel: Well-Being and Burnout Among Health Care Personnel Treating Traumatized Evacuees	6
Sickle Cell Crises: A Deep Dive into Patterns of Readmissions at an Academic Medical Center	6
Correction	6
Developing an AI Tool to Derive Social Determinants of Health for Primary Care Patients: Qualitative Findings From a Codesign Workshop	6
Building the capacity of interprofessional providers to work in primary care teams: Insights from six professions	5
Collecting data on key social determinants of health in primary care: a multi-site implementation evaluation	5
Use of the Electronic Health Record During Clinical Encounters: An Experience Survey	5
The Impact of Primary Care Clinic and Family Physician Continuity on Patient Health Outcomes: A Retrospective Analysis From Alberta, Canada	5
Core Outcomes of Residency Training 2022 (Provisional)	5
Long COVID Shared Medical Appointments: Lifestyle and Mind-Body Medicine With Peer Support	5
AHRQ’s National Center for Excellence in Primary Care Research (NCEPCR): A New Home for Primary Care Research	5
Forging a Social Movement to Dismantle Entrenched Power and Liberate Primary Care as a Common Good	5
Rapid and Collaborative Population Health Assessment for People Experiencing Homelessness in Toronto: The CARE Program	5
Challenges in Receiving Care for Long COVID: A Qualitative Interview Study Among Primary Care Patients About Expectations and Experiences	5
How Can You Mend a Broken Heart?	5
Utility of comics to support member-checking in realist evaluation	5
Predicting Missed Appointments in Primary Care: A Personalized Machine Learning Approach	5
Mission Impossible? Managing the American Academy of Pediatrics’ Obesity Guideline	5
Burnout and Commitment to Primary Care: Lessons From the Early Impacts of COVID-19 on the Workplace Stress of Primary Care Practice Teams	5
Advance Notification for Conscientious Refusal in Rural Health Care	5
Qualitative Investigation of Medication for Alcohol Use Disorder	5
General Practitioners’ Trust in Their Patients: A Qualitative Study	5
Adherence Labeling: Understanding the Origins, Limitations, and Ethical Challenges of “Diagnosing” Nonadherence	5
Primary Care Physicians’ Responses to Treatment Burden in People With Type 2 Diabetes: A Qualitative Video Analysis in China	5
Impact of State Abortion Policies on Family Medicine Practice and Training AfterDobbs v Jackson Women’s Health Organization	5
COVID-19 and Gender Differences in Family Medicine Scholarship	5
Primary Care Research Is Hard to Do During COVID-19: Challenges and Solutions	4
Rural Hospital Futures in Colorado - Rapid Review and Environmental Scan for Policy Opportunities	4
On Abortion and Autonomy: A Letter to My Unborn Daughter	4
Drug Toxicity and My Dad’s Ethnicity	4
Declining Participation in Primary Care Quality Improvement Research: A Qualitative Study	4
Breaking Barriers: Perspectives on Clinical Trial Participation Among Older Hispanic/Latino Adults of Mexican Origin	4
Corrections	4
Neighborhood Poverty and Access to Total Knee Arthroplasty in Maryland	4
Characteristics of Family Physicians Practicing Collaboratively With Behavioral Health Professionals	4
Functions of Interdisciplinary Primary Care Teams That Support Pregnant People With Substance Use Disorders	4
Research Proves Useful in Primary Care!	4
Students, Residents Build Connections at National Conference	4
The Challenges of External Letters for Promotion: Academic Family Medicine’s Attempts to Address the Issue	4
Connecting Families to Benefit Programs Through a Standardized Nutrition Screener	4
Addressing COVID-19 Immunization Disparities Through Targeted Primary Care Outreach	4
Usual Source of Care Among Adults Aged 18-64 Years Post-ACA, 2010-2017	4
STFM: Professionalism in Family Medicine Summit: Summary and Next Steps	4

STFM Announces A New Family Medicine Pocus Educator’s Certificate Program	3
Implementing Whole Person Primary Care	3
Teamwork Among Primary Care Staff to Achieve Regular Follow-Up of Chronic Patients	3
shared decision-making with users with complex care needs: a scoping review	3
Resident Leadership Roles and Selection	3
Addressing Medication Safety in Patients with Multiple Chronic Conditions during Transitions of Care: A Caregiver Perspective	3
Family-Based Interventions to Promote Weight Management in Adults: Results From a Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial in India	3
Important Outcomes for Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus: The Patient’s Perspective	3
STFM’s Behavioral Science/Family Systems Educator Fellowship and the Emerging Leaders Fellowship	3
FROM NAPCRG: NAPCRG 50^TH ANNIVERSARY – A YEAR-LONG CELEBRATION	3
Celebrating Family Medicine at the National Academy of Medicine	3
Randomized Trial Testing MyPlate.gov vs Calorie Counting	3
From Floor to “Soar” – Aiming for Evidence-Based Residency Innovation	3
Feasibility and Acceptability of Implementing a Digital Cognitive Assessment for Alzheimer Disease and Related Dementias in Primary Care	3
Risks and Needs: Lessons Learned from Assessing Patients’ Willingness to Receive Help for Social Risks in Primary Care	3
When the Death of a Colleague Meets Academic Publishing: A Call for Compassion	3
Supporting the Primary Care Research Infrastructure Through Advocacy: A Reflection from the NAPCRG Research Advocacy Committee	3
Artificial Intelligence in Graduate Medical Education	3
Leveraging Free-Form Comments to Assess and Improve Patient Satisfaction	3
Celebrating the Election of Dr Gerardo Moreno to the National Academy of Medicine	3
Key Strategies to Foster Effective Champions for Continuous Quality Improvement in Primary Healthcare Clinics	3
Nurse Navigator for Lung Cancer Screening	3
Recruiting Indigenous Patients Into Clinical Trials: A Circle of Trust	3
Primary Care Research: Looking Back and Moving Forward With Reflections on NAPCRG’s First 50 Years	3
Developing actionable strategies to implement evidence-based breast cancer follow-up in primary care using codesign	3
The General Public Vastly Overestimates Primary Care Spending in the United States	3
A Multisite CFIR Study of Readiness to Implement Collaboration Oriented Approach to Controlling High Blood Pressure (COACH)	3
FROM AFMRD: WHO TO GO TO FOR WHAT: THE ABFM OR THE ACGME	3
Optimizing Medical Legal Partnerships for sustainable public funding through the tele-legal model	3
How Patient-Centered Medical Homes Can Bring Meaning to Health Care: A Call for Person-Centered Care	3
Streamlining the Use of Mifepristone for Early Pregnancy Loss Across a Large Health Care System Sets the Stage for Rapid Expansion of Medication Abortion Access in a Post-Roe Environment	3
What Humans Need	2
Scenario-Based Discussion: Using Adult Learning Theory to Improve Discussion on Lifestyle Medicine for Healthy Adults	2
Clinician perception of the relationship between mental health, health-related social needs, and diabetes outcomes	2
Association between substance use and acute rhinosinusitis in a multisite trial pilot study	2
I Could Do Much Better but the System Doesn’t Allow Me	2
Correction	2
My Role in Health Care’s Existential Crisis	2
Clinically Important Benefits and Harms of Monoclonal Antibodies Targeting Amyloid for the Treatment of Alzheimer Disease: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis	2
From Medicalization to Empowerment: New Horizons in Transgender Care	2
Association of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Childhood Growth Amongst Children under 6 years old	2
Physicians’ Choice of Board Certification Activity Is Unaffected by Baseline Quality of Care: The TRADEMaRQ Study	2
Considerations Before Selecting a Stepped-Wedge Cluster Randomized Trial Design for a Practice Improvement Study	2
Barriers to Guideline-Based Use of Proton Pump Inhibitors to Prevent Upper Gastrointestinal Bleeding	2
High Users of Primary Care Secure Messaging in the Veterans Health Administration	2
STFM Launches a 2025-2029 Strategic Plan	2
Communication Gaps Persist Between Primary Care and Specialist Physicians	2
Breaking ICD Codes: Identifying Ambiguous Respiratory Infection Codes via Regional Diagnosis Heterogeneity	2
The Day After: Primary Care in a Post-Election Landscape	2
My Graveyard	2
The role of primary care teams in identifying modifiable risk factors for food insecurity in rural dwelling older adults	2
Multisector Health Equity Coordination in a Midwestern Primary Care Practice, 2022-2023	2
Risk of Acute Rhinosinusitis Progression Based on Duration of Symptoms, Method of Care, and Setting of Care	2
Concerns Regarding Gynecological Aspects of Brazilian Girls and Women With Down Syndrome: A Cross-Sectional Study of Caregivers’ Opinions	2
Primary care workforce planning within integrated care models: Application of a workforce planning toolkit	2
The Provincial Spread and Scale of the Ontario eConsult Service: Evaluation of the First 2 Years	2
HPV Vaccine Secondary Acceptance: Turning No into a Yes!	2
Communication and Birth Experiences Among Black Birthing People Who Experienced Preterm Birth	2
An Innovative Strategy for Collecting Family Health History: An Effectiveness-Implementation Trial in Primary Care Clinics	2
Reimbursement for HPV Vaccine Cost in the Private Sector: A Comparison Across Specialties	2
AAFP Pilot Program Shows Value of Lifestyle Medicine	2
PBRNs: Past, Present, and Future: A NAPCRG Report on the Practice-Based Research Network Conference.	2
Revitalizing Primary Care, Part 1: Root Causes of Primary Care’s Problems	2
A Mixed Methods Evaluation of a Quality Improvement Model to Optimize Perinatal and Primary Care in the Community Health Setting	2
Evaluation of a Program Designed to Support Implementation of Prescribing Medication for Treatment of Opioid Use Disorder in Primary Care Practices	2
Transforming Medical Education to Provide Gender-Affirming Care for Transgender and Gender-Diverse Patients: A Policy Brief	2
Building a collaborative translational research platform: barriers and enablers from basic research to primary health care	2
The Face of God Revealed	2
Intersections Between Gender, Race/Ethnicity and Marital Status Associations with Depression Symptoms	2
The Family Tree Spreads its Limbs: National Academy of Medicine Family Physician New Members 2021	2
The Wall of Evidence for Continuity of Care: How Many More Bricks Do We Need?	2
Telemedicine Abortion in Primary Care: An Exploration of Patient Experiences	2
Winning the Peace: Measuring Faculty Time to Support Residency Redesign	2
Randomized Comparative Effectiveness Trial of 2 Federally Recommended Strategies to Reduce Excess Body Fat in Overweight, Low-Income Patients: MyPlate.gov vs Calorie Counting	2
Drowning in Paperwork: The Burden of Administrative Responsibilities in Primary Care	2
Action Collaborative on Traumatic Brain Injury Care: Adapted Clinical Practice Guideline	2
Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on Assessing Tobacco Status in Community Health Centers	2
STFM Announces New Point of Care Ultrasound Task Force and Initiative on POCUS Family Medicine Education	2