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Quality Management in Health Care
H-index 6

Quality Management in Health Care

1063-8628

Published by: Wolters Kluwer Health

https://journals.lww.com/qmhcjournal/pages/default.aspx

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Social Sciences and Humanities 1103 10 12 4

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 39
Documents by Best Scientists*: 41
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 1
SCIMAGO H-index: 39
SCIMAGO SJR: 0.333
Impact Factor: 1.2

Overview

Top Research Topics at Quality management in health care?

The primary areas of discussion in the journal are Health care, Quality management, Nursing, MEDLINE and Quality (business). The journal addresses concerns in Health care which are intertwined with other disciplines, such as Patient satisfaction, Knowledge management, Public relations, Family medicine and Medical education. Total quality management, Patient safety, Medical emergency, Process (engineering) and Process management are some topics wherein Quality management research discussed in it have an impact.

Quality management in health care features research on Quality (business) in an attempt to reinforce studies in the field of Operations management.

  • Health care (38.02%)
  • Quality management (26.36%)
  • Nursing (19.92%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • A Framework for Collaborative Improvement: Lessons from the Institute for Healthcare Improvement's Breakthrough Series (355 citations)
  • The current state of Lean implementation in health care: literature review. (254 citations)
  • An introduction to critical paths. (219 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at Quality management in health care:

The main points discussed in the journal papers deal with Health care, Quality management, Nursing, MEDLINE and Quality (business). The most cited articles address concerns in Health care which are intertwined with other disciplines, such as Data collection, Knowledge management, Family medicine and Six Sigma, Process (engineering). The journal papers explore issues in MEDLINE which can be linked to other research areas like Patient satisfaction and Test (assessment).

What topics the last edition of the journal is best known for?

  • Law
  • Health care
  • Internal medicine

The previous edition focused in particular on these issues:

The scientific interests tackled in Quality management in health care are MEDLINE, Health care, Quality management, Medical emergency and Quality (business). Topics in MEDLINE were tackled in line with various other fields like Patient satisfaction, Emergency department, Patient safety, Family medicine and Patient experience. Some problems in Health care that were presented in Quality management in health care overlapped with concepts under Multidisciplinary approach, Lean manufacturing, Confidence interval, Environmental economics and Process (engineering).

The Quality management works featured in Quality management in health care incorporate elements from Value (mathematics), Logistic regression, Design strategy and Medical education. Medical emergency research featured in the journal incorporates concerns from various other topics such as Surgical procedures, Ophthalmic surgery, Patient care and 2019-20 coronavirus outbreak. Quality (business) research presented in the journal encompasses a variety of subjects, including Developed country, Intensive care and Incentive, Incentive program.

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

  • Healthcare Failure Mode and Effect Analysis (HFMEA) as an Effective Mechanism in Preventing Infection Caused by Accompanying Caregivers During COVID-19-Experience of a City Medical Center in Taiwan. (3 citations)
  • Improving Care for Critical Care Patients by Strategic Alignment of Quality Goals With a Physician Financial Incentive Model. (2 citations)
  • Organizational Health Literacy: Opportunities for Patient-Centered Care in the Wake of COVID-19. (2 citations)

Papers citation over time

A key indicator for each journal is its effectiveness in reaching other researchers with the papers published at that venue.

The chart below presents the interquartile range (first quartile 25%, median 50% and third quartile 75%) of the number of citations of articles over time.

The top authors publishing in Quality management in health care (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Jean Gayton Carroll (24 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Duncan Neuhauser (20 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Farrokh Alemi (20 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Paul B. Batalden (16 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Eugene C. Nelson (14 papers) absent at the last edition.

The overall trend for top authors publishing in this journal is outlined below. The chart shows the number of publications at each edition of the journal for top authors.

Only papers with recognized affiliations are considered

The top affiliations publishing in Quality management in health care (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Case Western Reserve University (33 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Johns Hopkins University (24 papers) published 3 papers at the last edition, 2 less than at the previous edition,
  • George Mason University (18 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Mayo Clinic (18 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition,
  • University of Michigan (17 papers) absent at the last edition.

The overall trend for top affiliations publishing in this journal is outlined below. The chart shows the number of publications at each edition of the journal for top affiliations.

Publication chance based on affiliation

The publication chance index shows the ratio of articles published by the best research institutions in the journal edition to all articles published within that journal. The best research institutions were selected based on the largest number of articles published during all editions of the journal.

The chart below presents the percentage ratio of articles from top institutions (based on their ranking of total papers).Top affiliations were grouped by their rank into the following tiers: top 1-10, top 11-20, top 21-50, and top 51+. Only articles with a recognized affiliation are considered.

During the most recent 2021 edition, 1.79% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 12.73% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 12.73% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 16.36% of all publications and 58.18% were from other institutions.

Returning Authors Index

A very common phenomenon observed among researchers publishing scientific articles is the intentional selection of journals they have already attended in the past. In particular, it is worth analyzing the case when the authors participate in the same journal from year to year.

The Returning Authors Index presented below illustrates the ratio of authors who participated in both a given as well as the previous edition of the journal in relation to all participants in a given year.

Returning Institution Index

The graph below shows the Returning Institution Index, illustrating the ratio of institutions that participated in both a given and the previous edition of the conference in relation to all affiliations present in a given year.

The experience to innovation index

Our experience to innovation index was created to show a cross-section of the experience level of authors publishing in a journal. The index includes the authors publishing at the last edition of a journal, grouped by total number of publications throughout their academic career (P) and the total number of citations of these publications ever received (C).

The group intervals were selected empirically to best show the diversity of the authors' experiences, their labels were selected as a convenience, not as judgment. The authors were divided into the following groups:

  • Novice - P < 5 or C < 25 (the number of publications less than 5 or the number of citations less than 25),
  • Competent - P < 10 or C < 100 (the number of publications less than 10 or the number of citations less than 100),
  • Experienced - P < 25 or C < 625 (the number of publications less than 25 or the number of citations less than 625),
  • Master - P < 50 or C < 2500 (the number of publications less than 50 or the number of citations less than 2500),
  • Star - P ≥ 50 and C ≥ 2500 (both the number of publications greater than 50 and the number of citations greater than 2500).

The chart below illustrates experience levels of first authors in cases of publications with multiple authors.

Top Publications

  • Organizational Health Literacy: Opportunities for Patient-Centered Care in the Wake of COVID-19.

    Tetine Sentell;Anne Foss-Durant;Uday Patil;Deborah Taira

    (2021)
    24 Citations
  • Lean Management and Breakthrough Performance Improvement in Health Care.

    Christie Ahn;Thomas G. Rundall;Stephen M. Shortell;Janet C. Blodgett

    (2021)
    13 Citations
  • Quality Improvement Education: Redesigning Intermountain Healthcare's Advanced Training Program for a Value-Based Learning Health Care System

    (2021)
    7 Citations
  • Examining the Relationship Between the Lean Management System and Quality Improvement Care Management Processes.

    Aaron A. Tierney;Stephen M. Shortell;Thomas G. Rundall;Janet C. Blodgett

    (2021)
    5 Citations
  • A Stepped-Wedge Cluster-Randomized Controlled Trial of Multi-interventional Approach for Fall Prevention

    (2023)
    3 Citations
  • Expert-Identified Practices for Achieving Measurable Performance Improvements With Lean Implementation

    (2022)
    2 Citations
  • Evaluating a Redesigned Advanced Training Program

    (2021)
    1 Citations
  • RE-AIM Evaluation Plan for Washington State Innovation Models Project.

    David Grembowski;Douglas A Conrad;Diana Naranjo;Suzanne Wood

    (2020)
    1 Citations
  • Factors Associated With Children Diagnosed With Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder and 30-Day Follow-up Care With Practitioners Among Medicaid Recipients in Georgia

    (2021)
    1 Citations
  • Associations Between Lean IT Management and Financial Performance in US Hospitals.

    (2023)
    1 Citations

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