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Healthcare Quality and Management

Healthcare Quality and Management is a research topic within Health Information Management. Science Explorer counts 17k research works in it since 1950. 17.7% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the impact of healthcare accreditation on quality improvement, clinical governance, hospital performance, patient satisfaction, and organizational change. It explores topics such as quality management systems, public health policy, and healthcare regulation in the context of accreditation. The papers analyze the challenges, benefits, and effectiveness of accreditation programs in healthcare organizations.

  • Healthcare Accreditation
  • Quality Improvement
  • Clinical Governance
  • Hospital Performance
  • Patient Satisfaction
  • Health Service Evaluation
  • Organizational Change
  • Quality Management Systems
  • Public Health Policy
  • Healthcare Regulation
Research works
17k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
3k
per year above
Top-10% rate
17.7%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2013–17 → 2018–22
-19%
the tick is no change

This ranks research output and citation impact. It says nothing about the quality of diagnosis, treatment or care.

Which countries lead Healthcare Quality and Management research?

By volume, the United States and the United Kingdom publish the most (332 and 219 works in 2022–2025).

By volume, 2022–2025

  1. 1 United States 332 works
  2. 2 United Kingdom 219 works
  3. 3 Indonesia 89 works
  4. 4 Australia 85 works
  5. 5 Iran 71 works
  6. 6 India 70 works
  7. 7 Canada 68 works
  8. 8 Italy 50 works
  9. 9 Saudi Arabia 49 works
  10. 10 Türkiye 37 works

How concentrated that is

The same countries as shares of everything the list above accounts for. A node where two countries do two thirds of the work and one spread evenly across twelve read alike as a ranking and not at all alike here.

United States: 31.0%United Kingdom: 20.4%Indonesia: 8.3%Australia: 7.9%6 others listed: 32.2%31%largest
United States332 · 31.0%United Kingdom219 · 20.4%Indonesia89 · 8.3%Australia85 · 7.9%6 others listed345 · 32.2%

Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.

Which institutions lead Healthcare Quality and Management research?

By volume in 2022–2025, University of Toronto publishes the most Healthcare Quality and Management research, followed by Tehran University of Medical Sciences and Iran University of Medical Sciences.

By volume, 2022–2025

  1. 1 University of TorontoCanada 8 works
  2. 2 Tehran University of Medical SciencesIran 7 works
  3. 3 Iran University of Medical SciencesIran 7 works
  4. 4 BMJ Group (United Kingdom)?? 7 works
  5. 5 Ministry of HealthSaudi Arabia 6 works
  6. 6 University of BirminghamUnited Kingdom 6 works
  7. 7 University of IndonesiaIndonesia 6 works
  8. 8 University of KwaZulu-NatalSouth Africa 5 works
  9. 9 University of North Carolina at Chapel HillUnited States 5 works
  10. 10 Muhammadiyah University of YogyakartaIndonesia 5 works

Where is Healthcare Quality and Management research done?

The largest centres of Healthcare Quality and Management research in 2022–2025 are London (United Kingdom), Tehran (Iran), Riyadh (Saudi Arabia) and Melbourne (Australia). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Riyadh and London.

Largest cities, 2022–2025

  1. 1 London United Kingdom 61 works
  2. 2 Tehran Iran 29 works
  3. 3 Riyadh Saudi Arabia 25 works
  4. 4 Melbourne Australia 21 works
  5. 5 Toronto Canada 17 works
  6. 6 New York United States 16 works
  7. 7 Jakarta Indonesia 15 works
  8. 8 Sydney Australia 15 works
  9. 9 Washington D.C. United States 14 works
  10. 10 Boston United States 13 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. RiyadhSA · 25.1 works5.8×
  2. LondonGB · 61.4 works4.1×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Healthcare Quality and Management than the world average.

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Is Healthcare Quality and Management research growing?

Output in 2018–2022 was 19% lower than in 2013–2017, peaking in 2013. The fastest-growing topics are Healthcare Quality and Management.

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Which topics inside it are moving

Growth and decline on one axis around a shared zero. Two lists side by side hide the thing that matters: whether the growth dwarfs the decline, or the other way round.