| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
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| 1 | Patient satisfaction as an indicator of quality care | Inquiry (United States) | 1988 | 216 |
| 2 | How Many Hospital Beds? | Inquiry (United States) | 2002 | 158 |
| 3 | The Medical Expenditure Panel Survey: a national health information resource | Inquiry (United States) | 1996 | 128 |
| 4 | Medical Spending Differences in the United States and Canada: The Role of Prices, Procedures, and Administrative Expenses | Inquiry (United States) | 2010 | 120 |
| 5 | Long-Term Care over an Uncertain Future: What Can Current Retirees Expect? | Inquiry (United States) | 2005 | 116 |
| 6 | A Framework for Evaluating Safety-Net and other Community-Level Factors on Access for Low-Income Populations | Inquiry (United States) | 2004 | 109 |
| 7 | Organizational Health Literacy: Review of Theories, Frameworks, Guides, and Implementation Issues | Inquiry (United States) | 2018 | 98 |
| 8 | Does Informal Care from Adult Children Reduce Nursing Home Admissions for the Elderly? | Inquiry (United States) | 2002 | 96 |
| 9 | Hospital Finances and Patient Safety Outcomes | Inquiry (United States) | 2005 | 93 |
| 10 | Health Insurance Coverage for Vulnerable Populations: Contrasting Asian Americans and Latinos in the United States | Inquiry (United States) | 2006 | 90 |
| 11 | Quality Report Cards, Selection of Cardiac Surgeons, and Racial Disparities: A Study of the Publication of the New York State Cardiac Surgery Reports | Inquiry (United States) | 2004 | 88 |
| 12 | Unmet Long-Term Care Needs: An Analysis of Medicare-Medicaid Dual Eligibles | Inquiry (United States) | 2005 | 85 |
| 13 | The Psychological Status and Self-Efficacy of Nurses During COVID-19 Outbreak: A Cross-Sectional Survey | Inquiry (United States) | 2020 | 84 |
| 14 | The Impact of Elder Care on Women's Labor Supply | Inquiry (United States) | 2006 | 82 |
| 15 | Costs of medical injuries in Utah and Colorado | Inquiry (United States) | 1999 | 80 |
| 16 | Costly Hospital Readmissions and Complex Chronic Illness | Inquiry (United States) | 2008 | 78 |
| 17 | Associations Between Waiting Times, Service Times, and Patient Satisfaction in an Endocrinology Outpatient Department: A Time Study and Questionnaire Survey | Inquiry (United States) | 2017 | 76 |
| 18 | Does High Caregiver Stress Predict Nursing Home Entry? | Inquiry (United States) | 2009 | 75 |
| 19 | Implications of the Accuracy of MEPS Prescription Drug Data for Health Services Research | Inquiry (United States) | 2011 | 74 |
| 20 | Hospital Ownership and Financial Performance: What Explains the Different Findings in the Empirical Literature? | Inquiry (United States) | 2007 | 72 |
| 21 | The design of the community tracking study: a longitudinal study of health system change and its effects on people | Inquiry (United States) | 1996 | 72 |
| 22 | Hospital Cost Efficiency and System Membership | Inquiry (United States) | 2003 | 66 |
| 23 | Changes in Medicaid Physician Fees and Patterns of Ambulatory Care | Inquiry (United States) | 2009 | 66 |
| 24 | Use of Resident-Origin Data to Define Nursing Home Market Boundaries | Inquiry (United States) | 2002 | 60 |
| 25 | The Effect of the Massachusetts Reform on Health Care Utilization | Inquiry (United States) | 2012 | 60 |
| 26 | Nurses’ Burnout: The Influence of Leader Empowering Behaviors, Work Conditions, and Demographic Traits | Inquiry (United States) | 2017 | 58 |
| 27 | A theory of the nursing home market | Inquiry (United States) | 1980 | 58 |
| 28 | Guide to Using Masked Design Variables to Estimate Standard Errors in Public Use Files of the National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey and the National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey | Inquiry (United States) | 2003 | 57 |
| 29 | Health Care Expenditure Burden of Cancer Care in the United States | Inquiry (United States) | 2019 | 57 |
| 30 | Medicaid Patients Have Greater Difficulty Scheduling Health Care Appointments Compared With Private Insurance Patients: A Meta-Analysis | Inquiry (United States) | 2019 | 56 |
| 31 | Incentives in Obesity and Health Insurance | Inquiry (United States) | 2009 | 56 |
| 32 | The Effect of Parents' Insurance Coverage on Access to Care for Low-Income Children | Inquiry (United States) | 2003 | 52 |
| 33 | Payment Incentives and Integrated Care Delivery: Levers for Health System Reform and Cost Containment | Inquiry (United States) | 2011 | 52 |
| 34 | Nursing Home Implementation of Health Information Technology: Review of the Literature Finds Inadequate Investment in Preparation, Infrastructure, and Training | Inquiry (United States) | 2018 | 52 |
| 35 | The Impact of SCHIP on Insurance Coverage of Children | Inquiry (United States) | 2005 | 51 |
| 36 | Waiting Time as an Indicator for Health Services Under Strain: A Narrative Review | Inquiry (United States) | 2020 | 50 |
| 37 | Outcome measurement: concepts and questions | Inquiry (United States) | 1988 | 50 |
| 38 | Public health as social justice | Inquiry (United States) | 1976 | 49 |
| 39 | The ratio of costs to charges: how good a basis for estimating costs? | Inquiry (United States) | 1995 | 49 |
| 40 | Effects of Community Factors on Access to Ambulatory Care for Lower-Income Adults in Large Urban Communities | Inquiry (United States) | 2004 | 48 |
| 41 | Malpractice Experience and the Incidence of Cesarean Delivery: A Physician-Level Longitudinal Analysis | Inquiry (United States) | 2004 | 48 |
| 42 | The Effects of Hospital Competition on Inpatient Quality of Care | Inquiry (United States) | 2008 | 48 |
| 43 | Spatial patterns of hospital utilization: the impact of distance and time | Inquiry (United States) | 1984 | 48 |
| 44 | Medicaid Community-Based Programs: A Longitudinal Analysis of State Variation in Expenditures and Utilization | Inquiry (United States) | 2003 | 47 |
| 45 | Quality assessment and assurance: unity of purpose, diversity of means | Inquiry (United States) | 1988 | 47 |
| 46 | Authorship Inflation in Medical Publications | Inquiry (United States) | 2015 | 46 |
| 47 | Racial Disparities in Service Use among Medicaid Beneficiaries after Mandatory Enrollment in Managed Care: A Difference-in-Differences Approach | Inquiry (United States) | 2001 | 45 |
| 48 | Effects of the Affordable Care Act on Health Care Access and Self-Assessed Health After 3 Years | Inquiry (United States) | 2018 | 45 |
| 49 | Estimates of the economic costs of birth defects | Inquiry (United States) | 1994 | 45 |
| 50 | Physician service to the underserved: implications for affirmative action in medical education | Inquiry (United States) | 1996 | 45 |
