| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Diffusion of Innovations in Service Organizations: Systematic Review and Recommendations | Milbank Quarterly | 2004 | 5,181 |
| 2 | Contribution of Primary Care to Health Systems and Health | Milbank Quarterly | 2005 | 3,431 |
| 3 | Evaluating the Quality of Medical Care | Milbank Quarterly | 2005 | 2,811 |
| 4 | Organizing Care for Patients with Chronic Illness | Milbank Quarterly | 1996 | 2,245 |
| 5 | Societal and Individual Determinants of Medical Care Utilization in the United States | Milbank Quarterly | 2005 | 1,266 |
| 6 | The Epidemiologic Transition: A Theory of the Epidemiology of Population Change | Milbank Quarterly | 2005 | 1,174 |
| 7 | Trust in Physicians and Medical Institutions: What Is It, Can It Be Measured, and Does It Matter? | Milbank Quarterly | 2001 | 1,043 |
| 8 | Improving the Quality of Health Care in the United Kingdom and the United States: A Framework for Change | Milbank Quarterly | 2001 | 1,001 |
| 9 | The Mass Production of Redundant, Misleading, and Conflicted Systematic Reviews and Meta‐analyses | Milbank Quarterly | 2016 | 945 |
| 10 | Organizing care for patients with chronic illness | Milbank Quarterly | 1996 | 937 |
| 11 | How Can Research Organizations More Effectively Transfer Research Knowledge to Decision Makers? | Milbank Quarterly | 2003 | 860 |
| 12 | The Relationship between Socioeconomic Status and Health: A Review of the Literature | Milbank Quarterly | 1993 | 773 |
| 13 | Uncovering the Benefits of Participatory Research: Implications of a Realist Review for Health Research and Practice | Milbank Quarterly | 2012 | 756 |
| 14 | Life Course Health Development: An Integrated Framework for Developing Health, Policy, and Research | Milbank Quarterly | 2002 | 726 |
| 15 | Why People Use Health Services | Milbank Quarterly | 2005 | 718 |
| 16 | Is Income Inequality a Determinant of Population Health? Part 1. A Systematic Review | Milbank Quarterly | 2004 | 713 |
| 17 | Knowledge Transfer and Exchange: Review and Synthesis of the Literature | Milbank Quarterly | 2007 | 708 |
| 18 | Partnership Synergy: A Practical Framework for Studying and Strengthening the Collaborative Advantage | Milbank Quarterly | 2001 | 701 |
| 19 | How Good Is the Quality of Health Care in the United States? | Milbank Quarterly | 1998 | 695 |
| 20 | Planning and Studying Improvement in Patient Care: The Use of Theoretical Perspectives | Milbank Quarterly | 2007 | 692 |
| 21 | Age, Socioeconomic Status, and Health | Milbank Quarterly | 1990 | 659 |
| 22 | Achieving Research Impact Through Co‐creation in Community‐Based Health Services: Literature Review and Case Study | Milbank Quarterly | 2016 | 623 |
| 23 | Schools and Obesity Prevention: Creating School Environments and Policies to Promote Healthy Eating and Physical Activity | Milbank Quarterly | 2009 | 588 |
| 24 | Five Laws for Integrating Medical and Social Services: Lessons from the United States and the United Kingdom | Milbank Quarterly | 1999 | 575 |
| 25 | Assessing the Impact of Continuous Quality Improvement on Clinical Practice: What It Will Take to Accelerate Progress | Milbank Quarterly | 1998 | 566 |
| 26 | Physical Activity and Food Environments: Solutions to the Obesity Epidemic | Milbank Quarterly | 2009 | 551 |
| 27 | The Fourth Stage of the Epidemiologic Transition: The Age of Delayed Degenerative Diseases | Milbank Quarterly | 1986 | 545 |
| 28 | The Influence of Context on Quality Improvement Success in Health Care: A Systematic Review of the Literature | Milbank Quarterly | 2010 | 531 |
| 29 | Racial and Spatial Relations as Fundamental Determinants of Health in Detroit | Milbank Quarterly | 2002 | 530 |
| 30 | Explaining Michigan: Developing an Ex Post Theory of a Quality Improvement Program | Milbank Quarterly | 2011 | 507 |
| 31 | The Perils of Ignoring History: Big Tobacco Played Dirty and Millions Died. How Similar Is Big Food? | Milbank Quarterly | 2009 | 481 |
| 32 | High‐Reliability Health Care: Getting There from Here | Milbank Quarterly | 2013 | 472 |
| 33 | Evidence-Based Medicine, Heterogeneity of Treatment Effects, and the Trouble with Averages | Milbank Quarterly | 2004 | 445 |
| 34 | Economic Burden of Occupational Injury and Illness in the United States | Milbank Quarterly | 2011 | 426 |
| 35 | Large‐System Transformation in Health Care: A Realist Review | Milbank Quarterly | 2012 | 420 |
| 36 | Evidence‐based Management: From Theory to Practice in Health Care | Milbank Quarterly | 2001 | 417 |
| 37 | Food Prices and Obesity: Evidence and Policy Implications for Taxes and Subsidies | Milbank Quarterly | 2009 | 404 |
| 38 | Driven to Tiers: Socioeconomic and Racial Disparities in the Quality of Nursing Home Care | Milbank Quarterly | 2004 | 399 |
| 39 | Tensions and Paradoxes in Electronic Patient Record Research: A Systematic Literature Review Using the Meta‐narrative Method | Milbank Quarterly | 2009 | 395 |
| 40 | Primary Health Care in Canada: Systems in Motion | Milbank Quarterly | 2011 | 385 |
| 41 | Health and Illness in a Connected World: How Might Sharing Experiences on the Internet Affect People's Health? | Milbank Quarterly | 2012 | 377 |
| 42 | Changing Medical Organization and the Erosion of Trust | Milbank Quarterly | 1996 | 371 |
| 43 | Teaching Hospitals and Quality of Care: A Review of the Literature | Milbank Quarterly | 2002 | 365 |
| 44 | Comorbidity and Its Impact on Disability | Milbank Quarterly | 1989 | 362 |
| 45 | Does the Chronic Care Model Serve Also as a Template for Improving Prevention? | Milbank Quarterly | 2001 | 361 |
| 46 | The Utility of Social Capital in Research on Health Determinants | Milbank Quarterly | 2001 | 354 |
| 47 | Social Determinants and Their Unequal Distribution: Clarifying Policy Understandings | Milbank Quarterly | 2004 | 351 |
| 48 | Examining the Role of Health Services Research in Public Policymaking | Milbank Quarterly | 2002 | 331 |
| 49 | Is Health Care Ready for Six Sigma Quality? | Milbank Quarterly | 1998 | 317 |
| 50 | Knowledge Exchange Processes in Organizations and Policy Arenas: A Narrative Systematic Review of the Literature | Milbank Quarterly | 2010 | 317 |
