# Most-cited Health Professions papers of 2017, with free PDFs

The 25 most-cited Health Professions research papers published in 2017, ranked by citations in OpenAlex, with their original abstracts and free PDFs where available.

1. [Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 328 diseases and injuries for 195 countries, 1990–2016: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2751884637) · 13,249 citations · Free PDF
2. [Decision aids for people facing health treatment or screening decisions](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W1943745580) · 6,539 citations
3. [Acceptability of healthcare interventions: an overview of reviews and development of a theoretical framework](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2582406074) · 3,920 citations · Free PDF
4. [A guide to using the Theoretical Domains Framework of behaviour change to investigate implementation problems](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2674995983) · 3,809 citations · Free PDF
5. [Beyond Adoption: A New Framework for Theorizing and Evaluating Nonadoption, Abandonment, and Challenges to the Scale-Up, Spread, and Sustainability of Health and Care Technologies](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2765304416) · 2,816 citations
6. [Psychometric assessment of three newly developed implementation outcome measures](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2750615195) · 2,786 citations · Free PDF
7. [Global, regional, and national burden of neurological disorders during 1990–2015: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2015](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W3157419554) · 2,281 citations · Free PDF
8. [GRIPP2 reporting checklists: tools to improve reporting of patient and public involvement in research](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W4232698832) · 1,964 citations
9. [GRIPP2 reporting checklists: tools to improve reporting of patient and public involvement in research](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2739751169) · 1,640 citations · Free PDF
10. [Machine Learning and Data Mining Methods in Diabetes Research](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2569214105) · 1,442 citations
11. [Standards for Reporting Implementation Studies (StaRI) Statement](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2592673947) · 1,439 citations
12. [Can machine-learning improve cardiovascular risk prediction using routine clinical data?](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2605253636) · 1,339 citations · Free PDF
13. [Disease Prediction by Machine Learning Over Big Data From Healthcare Communities](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2610135452) · 1,314 citations
14. [Work organization and mental health problems in PhD students](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2595745805) · 1,178 citations
15. [Interprofessional collaboration to improve professional practice and healthcare outcomes](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2712889723) · 1,158 citations
16. [Internet Health Information Seeking and the Patient-Physician Relationship: A Systematic Review](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2576167606) · 1,093 citations
17. [International variations in primary care physician consultation time: a systematic review of 67 countries](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2767996342) · 1,078 citations
18. [Nations within a nation: variations in epidemiological transition across the states of India, 1990–2016 in the Global Burden of Disease Study](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2770287703) · 1,070 citations · Free PDF
19. [A three-talk model for shared decision making: multistage consultation process](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2767867182) · 1,021 citations
20. [Making sense of complexity in context and implementation: the Context and Implementation of Complex Interventions (CICI) framework](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2588392437) · 1,015 citations · Free PDF
21. [Tethered to the EHR: Primary Care Physician Workload Assessment Using EHR Event Log Data and Time-Motion Observations](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2754518417) · 959 citations
22. [How to practice person‐centred care: A conceptual framework](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2770269309) · 945 citations
23. [[Global health 2035: a world converging within a generation].](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2149759828) · 937 citations
24. [Trust in the health care professional and health outcome: A meta-analysis](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2586182593) · 935 citations · Free PDF
25. [Morbidity and mortality in homeless individuals, prisoners, sex workers, and individuals with substance use disorders in high-income countries: a systematic review and meta-analysis](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2767478650) · 903 citations

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