| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Qualitative Data Analysis for Health Services Research: Developing Taxonomy, Themes, and Theory | Health Services Research | 2007 | 2,425 |
| 2 | Achieving Integration in Mixed Methods Designs—Principles and Practices | Health Services Research | 2013 | 2,133 |
| 3 | Development of the Patient Activation Measure (PAM): Conceptualizing and Measuring Activation in Patients and Consumers | Health Services Research | 2004 | 1,885 |
| 4 | Development and Testing of a Short Form of the Patient Activation Measure | Health Services Research | 2005 | 1,405 |
| 5 | Enhancing the quality and credibility of qualitative analysis | Health Services Research | 1999 | 1,390 |
| 6 | A framework for the study of access to medical care | Health Services Research | 1974 | 1,314 |
| 7 | Do Professional Interpreters Improve Clinical Care for Patients with Limited English Proficiency? A Systematic Review of the Literature | Health Services Research | 2007 | 1,043 |
| 8 | Error Reduction and Performance Improvement in the Emergency Department through Formal Teamwork Training: Evaluation Results of the MedTeams Project | Health Services Research | 2002 | 873 |
| 9 | Measuring Diagnoses: ICD Code Accuracy | Health Services Research | 2005 | 849 |
| 10 | The Behavioral Model for Vulnerable Populations: application to medical care use and outcomes for homeless people | Health Services Research | 2000 | 745 |
| 11 | Do Increases in Patient Activation Result in Improved Self-Management Behaviors? | Health Services Research | 2007 | 727 |
| 12 | The Contribution of Primary Care Systems to Health Outcomes within Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) Countries, 1970-1998 | Health Services Research | 2003 | 725 |
| 13 | Assessing Validity of ICD‐9‐CM and ICD‐10 Administrative Data in Recording Clinical Conditions in a Unique Dually Coded Database | Health Services Research | 2008 | 707 |
| 14 | Teamwork as an Essential Component of High-Reliability Organizations | Health Services Research | 2006 | 626 |
| 15 | Methods for Constructing and Assessing Propensity Scores | Health Services Research | 2014 | 619 |
| 16 | Interaction Terms in Nonlinear Models | Health Services Research | 2012 | 543 |
| 17 | Predicting Mortality and Healthcare Utilization with a Single Question | Health Services Research | 2005 | 534 |
| 18 | Reported response rates to mailed physician questionnaires | Health Services Research | 2001 | 472 |
| 19 | The Quantitative Measurement of Organizational Culture in Health Care: A Review of the Available Instruments | Health Services Research | 2003 | 450 |
| 20 | A utility maximization model for evaluation of health care programs | Health Services Research | 1972 | 442 |
| 21 | The Effects of Geography and Spatial Behavior on Health Care Utilization among the Residents of a Rural Region | Health Services Research | 2005 | 432 |
| 22 | Generalizing Observational Study Results: Applying Propensity Score Methods to Complex Surveys | Health Services Research | 2014 | 430 |
| 23 | Health status: types of validity and the index of well-being | Health Services Research | 1976 | 427 |
| 24 | Defining Interdisciplinary Research: Conclusions from a Critical Review of the Literature | Health Services Research | 2007 | 413 |
| 25 | Relationship of Safety Climate and Safety Performance in Hospitals | Health Services Research | 2009 | 408 |
| 26 | The prevalence and correlates of untreated serious mental illness | Health Services Research | 2001 | 399 |
| 27 | Qualitative methods: what are they and why use them? | Health Services Research | 1999 | 388 |
| 28 | Income inequality and health: pathways and mechanisms | Health Services Research | 1999 | 384 |
| 29 | Mistrust of Health Care Organizations Is Associated with Underutilization of Health Services | Health Services Research | 2009 | 382 |
| 30 | Understanding how discrimination can affect health | Health Services Research | 2019 | 380 |
| 31 | Posthospital Care Transitions: Patterns, Complications, and Risk Identification | Health Services Research | 2004 | 369 |
| 32 | Adapting the SERVQUAL scale to hospital services: an empirical investigation | Health Services Research | 1992 | 368 |
| 33 | The 2030 Problem: Caring for Aging Baby Boomers | Health Services Research | 2002 | 364 |
| 34 | The volume-outcome relationship: practice-makes-perfect or selective-referral patterns? | Health Services Research | 1987 | 363 |
| 35 | Trust in the Medical Profession: Conceptual and Measurement Issues | Health Services Research | 2002 | 362 |
| 36 | Long‐Term Trends in Medicare Payments in the Last Year of Life | Health Services Research | 2010 | 362 |
| 37 | Assessing the impact of continuous quality improvement/total quality management: concept versus implementation | Health Services Research | 1995 | 359 |
| 38 | Creating High Reliability in Health Care Organizations | Health Services Research | 2006 | 353 |
| 39 | Time Allocation in Primary Care Office Visits | Health Services Research | 2007 | 350 |
| 40 | Response Rates and Response Bias for 50 Surveys of Pediatricians | Health Services Research | 2005 | 348 |
| 41 | Adjusting Health Expenditures for Inflation: A Review of Measures for Health Services Research in the United States | Health Services Research | 2018 | 330 |
| 42 | Measures of Social Deprivation That Predict Health Care Access and Need within a Rational Area of Primary Care Service Delivery | Health Services Research | 2013 | 326 |
| 43 | Ambulatory care groups: a categorization of diagnoses for research and management | Health Services Research | 1991 | 325 |
| 44 | Understanding the context of healthcare utilization: assessing environmental and provider-related variables in the behavioral model of utilization | Health Services Research | 1998 | 318 |
| 45 | Assessment of Chronic Illness Care (ACIC): A Practical Tool to Measure Quality Improvement | Health Services Research | 2002 | 317 |
| 46 | Race/Ethnicity, Language, and Patients' Assessments of Care in Medicaid Managed Care | Health Services Research | 2003 | 305 |
| 47 | Hospital Nurse Practice Environments and Outcomes for Surgical Oncology Patients | Health Services Research | 2008 | 305 |
| 48 | Operational Failures and Interruptions in Hospital Nursing | Health Services Research | 2006 | 302 |
| 49 | The Lifetime Distribution of Health Care Costs | Health Services Research | 2004 | 299 |
| 50 | A Systematic Review of Community‐Based Participatory Research to Enhance Clinical Trials in Racial and Ethnic Minority Groups | Health Services Research | 2012 | 299 |
