OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of BMJ Quality & Safety is 25. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Deconstructing improvements and hospital variation in COVID-19 mortality rates during the early pandemic wave: the effects of wave evolution and advances in testing, treatment, and hospital care quali	100
Understanding patient safety during earthquakes: a phenomenological study of disaster response	74
Investigators are human too: outcome bias and perceptions of individual culpability in patient safety incident investigations	66
Peripherally inserted central catheters: spreading the MAGIC beyond Michigan	65
Hip fracture in the COVID-19 era: what can we say about care and patient outcomes?	56
How safe is the diagnostic process in healthcare?	49
Interruptive alerts: only one part of the solution for clinical decision support	43
Mental health services: quality, safety and suicide	38
Embracing carers: when will adult hospitals fully adopt the same practices as children’s hospitals?	37
Can virtual reality simulations improve macrocognition?	37
CheckPOINT: a simple tool to measure Surgical Safety Checklist implementation fidelity	36
Evaluation of hospital-onset bacteraemia and fungaemia in the USA as a potential healthcare quality measure: a cross-sectional study	35
Examining telehealth through the Institute of Medicine quality domains: unanswered questions and research agenda	32
Reducing the value/burden ratio: a key to high performance in value-based care	31
Is hospital-onset bacteraemia and fungaemia an actionable quality measure?	31
Decoding behaviour change techniques in opioid deprescribing strategies following major surgery: a systematic review of interventions to reduce postoperative opioid use	31
The good, the bad and the ugly: What do we really do when we identify the best and the worst organisations?	30
Incidence, origins and avoidable harm of missed opportunities in diagnosis: longitudinal patient record review in 21 English general practices	30
Quality and Safety in the Literature: January 2022	29
Large language models in healthcare information research: making progress in an emerging field	28
Development and validation of a new ICD-10-based screening colonoscopy overuse measure in a large integrated healthcare system: a retrospective observational study	28
It’s time for the field of geriatrics to invest in implementation science	27
Reconfiguring emergency and acute services: time to pause and reflect	27
Is targeting healthcare’s carbon footprint really the best we can do to help address the climate crisis?	26
Overdiagnosis of urinary tract infection linked to overdiagnosis of pneumonia: a multihospital cohort study	25