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Most cited papers in Healthcare Policy and Management

What are the most cited papers in Healthcare Policy and Management?

The most cited paper in Healthcare Policy and Management is "Crossing the Quality Chasm: A New Health System for the 21st Century" (Alastair Baker, 2001), with 10,751 citations. Next come "To Err is Human: Building a Safer Health System" (10,236) and "Revisiting the Behavioral Model and Access to Medical Care: Does it Matter?" (9,924).

Showing 50 of 99 papers. Every paper with more than 1,221 citations is listed.

Most cited papers, sortable by citations and release date
#Paper
1 Crossing the Quality Chasm: A New Health System for the 21st Century Alastair Baker · BMJ 17 Nov 2001 10,751
2 To Err is Human: Building a Safer Health System William R. Hendee · Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology 2001 10,236
3 Revisiting the Behavioral Model and Access to Medical Care: Does it Matter? Ronald Andersen · Journal of Health and Social Behavior Mar 1995 9,924
4 The Health Belief Model: A Decade Later Nancy K. Janz, Marshall H. Becker · Health Education Quarterly Open access Mar 1984 8,531
5 The injury severity score: a method for describing patients with multiple injuries and evaluating emergency care. Susan P. Baker, Brian O’Neill, William F. Haddon et al. · PubMed Mar 1974 8,021
6 The quality of care. How can it be assessed? Avedis Donabedian · JAMA 23 Sep 1988 5,964
7 Contribution of Primary Care to Health Systems and Health Barbara H. Starfield, Leiyu Shi, James A. Macinko · Milbank Quarterly Open access Sep 2005 5,626
8 The Triple Aim: Care, Health, And Cost Donald M. Berwick, Thomas W. Nolan, John Whittington · Health Affairs May 2008 5,202
9 The MOS 36-ltem Short-Form Health Survey (SF-36): III. Tests of Data Quality, Scaling Assumptions, and Reliability Across Diverse Patient Groups Colleen A. McHorney, John E. Ware, Jing Lu et al. · Medical Care 1994 4,483
10 Comparison of Sociodemographic and Health-Related Characteristics of UK Biobank Participants With Those of the General Population Anna Fry, Thomas J. Littlejohns, Cathie L. M. Sudlow et al. · American Journal of Epidemiology Open access 13 Jun 2017 4,397
11 From Triple to Quadruple Aim: Care of the Patient Requires Care of the Provider Thomas Bodenheimer, Christine A. Sinsky · The Annals of Family Medicine Open access Nov 2014 3,594
12 The Concept of Access Roy Penchansky, James W. Thomas · Medical Care Feb 1981 3,485
13 Segmented regression analysis of interrupted time series studies in medication use research Anita Katharina Wagner, Stephen B. Soumerai, Fucheng Zhang et al. · Journal of Clinical Pharmacy and Therapeutics Aug 2002 3,344
14 Too far to walk: Maternal mortality in context Sereen Thaddeus, Deborah Maine · Social Science & Medicine Apr 1994 3,259
15 Reducing Bias in Observational Studies Using Subclassification on the Propensity Score Paul R. Rosenbaum, Donald B. Rubin · Journal of the American Statistical Association Open access Sep 1984 3,244
16 How much should we trust staggered difference-in-differences estimates? Andrew Charles Baker, David F. Larcker, Charles C. Y. Wang · Journal of Financial Economics Open access 22 Feb 2022 3,215
17 Annual Medical Spending Attributable To Obesity: Payer-And Service-Specific Estimates Eric Andrew Finkelstein, Justin G. Trogdon, Joel W. Cohen et al. · Health Affairs 2009 2,976
18 Estimating Causal Effects from Large Data Sets Using Propensity Scores Donald B. Rubin · Annals of Internal Medicine 15 Oct 1997 2,923
19 The Power of Suggestion: Inertia in 401(k) Participation and Savings Behavior Brigitte C. Madrian, Dennis F. Shea · The Quarterly Journal of Economics Nov 2001 2,830
20 Estimation of Average Treatment Effects Based on Propensity Scores Sascha O. Becker, Andrea Ichino · The Stata Journal Promoting communications on statistics and Stata Open access Dec 2002 2,804
21 Overview of the SF-36 Health Survey and the International Quality of Life Assessment (IQOLA) Project John E. Ware, Barbara Gandek · Journal of Clinical Epidemiology Nov 1998 2,659
22 Patient Safety and Quality: An Evidence‐Based Handbook for Nurses Ann Barton · AORN Journal Oct 2009 2,544
23 Continuity of care: a multidisciplinary review Jeannie L Haggerty, Robert J Reid, George K Freeman et al. · BMJ Open access 20 Nov 2003 2,431
24 Efficient Estimation of Average Treatment Effects Using the Estimated Propensity Score Keisuke Hirano, Guido W. Imbens, Geert Ridder · Econometrica Jul 2003 2,423
25 Causal Effects in Nonexperimental Studies: Reevaluating the Evaluation of Training Programs Rajeev Dehejia, Sadek Wahba · Journal of the American Statistical Association Dec 1999 2,409
26 The Concepts and Principles of Equity and Health Margaret M. Whitehead · International Journal of Health Services Jul 1992 2,307
27 Updating Cost-Effectiveness — The Curious Resilience of the $50,000-per-QALY Threshold Peter J. Neumann, Joshua T. Cohen, Milton C. Weinstein · New England Journal of Medicine 27 Aug 2014 2,286
28 Nurse-Staffing Levels and the Quality of Care in Hospitals Jack Needleman, Peter I. Buerhaus, Soeren Mattke et al. · New England Journal of Medicine Open access 30 May 2002 2,261
29 The Effectiveness of Right Heart Catheterization in the Initial Care of Critically III Patients Alfred F. Connors · JAMA 18 Sep 1996 2,236
30 National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey: 1994 emergency department summary. Stussman Bj · PubMed 17 May 1996 2,231
31 Measurement of health state utilities for economic appraisal George W. Torrance · Journal of Health Economics Mar 1986 2,226
32 Good practice in the conduct and reporting of survey research Kristen D. Kelley · International Journal for Quality in Health Care May 2003 2,212
33 Foundations of Cost-Effectiveness Analysis for Health and Medical Practices Milton C. Weinstein, William B. Stason · New England Journal of Medicine 31 Mar 1977 2,149
34 Smearing Estimate: A Nonparametric Retransformation Method Naihua Duan · Journal of the American Statistical Association Sep 1983 2,124
35 Medicine. Do defaults save lives? Eric J. Johnson, Daniel G. Goldstein · PubMed 21 Nov 2003 2,046
36 Traveling Towards Disease: Transportation Barriers to Health Care Access Samina T. Syed, Ben S. Gerber, Lisa Kay Sharp · Journal of Community Health Open access 30 Mar 2013 2,024
37 Patient reported outcome measures could help transform healthcare Nick A. Black · BMJ 28 Jan 2013 2,016
38 The number needed to treat: a clinically useful measure of treatment effect Richard J. Cook, David L Sackett · BMJ Open access 18 Feb 1995 1,902
39 Small Area Variations in Health Care Delivery John E. Wennberg, Alan M. Gittelsohn · Science 14 Dec 1973 1,902
40 Constructing Experimental Designs for Discrete-Choice Experiments: Report of the ISPOR Conjoint Analysis Experimental Design Good Research Practices Task Force F. Reed Johnson, Emily Lancsar, Deborah Anne Marshall et al. · Value in Health Open access 2013 1,854
41 Guidelines for authors and peer reviewers of economic submissions to the BMJ Michael Drummond, Tom Jefferson · BMJ Open access 3 Aug 1996 1,839
42 The Value of a Statistical Life: A Critical Review of Market Estimates Throughout the World W. Kip Viscusi, Joseph E. Aldy · Journal of Risk and Uncertainty Aug 2003 1,828
43 Generic and Disease-Specific Measures in Assessing Health Status and Quality of Life Donald L. Patrick, Richard A. Deyo · Medical Care Mar 1989 1,820
44 Pediatric complex chronic conditions classification system version 2: updated for ICD-10 and complex medical technology dependence and transplantation Chris Feudtner, James Aaron Feinstein, Wenjun Zhong et al. · BMC Pediatrics Open access 7 Aug 2014 1,784
45 Consolidated Health Economic Evaluation Reporting Standards (CHEERS) statement Don Husereau, Michael Drummond, Stavros Petrou et al. · BMJ Open access 25 Mar 2013 1,772
46 Two-stage residual inclusion estimation: Addressing endogeneity in health econometric modeling Joseph V. Terza, Anirban Basu, Paul J. Rathouz · Journal of Health Economics Open access 6 Dec 2007 1,747
47 Patient satisfaction: A review of issues and concepts John Sitzia, Neil Wood · Social Science & Medicine Dec 1997 1,694
48 The Oregon Health Insurance Experiment: Evidence from the First Year* Amy N. Finkelstein, Sarah L. Taubman, Bill J. Wright et al. · The Quarterly Journal of Economics Open access 5 May 2012 1,679
49 Health Care Spending in the United States and Other High-Income Countries Irene Papanicolas, Liana Woskie, Ashish K. Jha · JAMA Open access 13 Mar 2018 1,650
50 Nurses’ Reports On Hospital Care In Five Countries Linda H. Aiken, Sean Patrick Clarke, Douglas M. Sloane et al. · Health Affairs May 2001 1,635

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