OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of European Journal of Emergency Medicine is 3. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
The new European Training Requirements for emergency medicine: rationale and implementation	93
Association of patient satisfaction with use of text message by an emergency medical communication centre	50
What is the cause of increased mortality in normothermic patients with suspected infection?	29
Echocardiography in cardiac arrest: strengths and limitations	27
Clinician suspicion of unintentional carbon monoxide exposure in emergency department attendees	24
Authors’ response to comment on ‘Acute heart failure in elderly patients admitted to the emergency department with acute dyspnea: a multimarker approach diagnostic study’	22
Tissue hypoperfusion is associated with poor outcome in patients admitted for acute pulmonary embolism	21
Age- and sex-related differences in community-acquired pneumonia at presentation to the emergency department: a retrospective cohort study	20
Association between pre-arrest left ventricular ejection fraction and survival in nontraumatic out-of-hospital cardiac arrest	18
Postresuscitation psychiatric disorders and epilepsy in traumatic and nontraumatic out-of-hospital cardiac arrest survivors: a retrospective real-world study	18
Procedural sedation in the emergency department by Italian emergency physicians: results of the SEED SIMEU registry	17
Comment on: Prehospital interventions and outcomes in traumatic cardiac arrest: a population-based cohort study using Danish helicopter emergency medical services data	17
Automated measurement of overnight stays in the emergency department: reliability of an indicator using electronic health records	16
Response to ‘Classification and treatment of acute heart failure: potential confounding factors’	16
Palliative care training in Spanish Emergency Services: identifying needs and opportunities – a cross-sectional study	16
Evolving pediatric airway management: supraglottic devices as a first-line option?	14
Mild traumatic injuries evaluation using caller smartphone camera by medical dispatchers: a randomized controlled study	14
Pre-hospital emergency medicine in Belgium: an overview of an evolving medical and paramedical organization	13
The association between regional guidelines compliance and mortality in severe trauma patients: an observational, retrospective study	13
Outcome differences between PARAMEDIC2 and the German Resuscitation Registry: a secondary analysis of a randomized controlled trial compared with registry data	12
Response to ‘Effect of adrenaline dose on neurological outcome in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest: still difficult to conclude’	12
Practices of pediatric emergency physicians on the first febrile and afebrile seizures: a research in European Pediatric Emergency Medicine Survey Study	12
Response to “Echocardiography in cardiac arrest: strengths and limitations”	12
Impact of emergency department length of stay on in-hospital mortality: a retrospective cohort study	11
Processing of personal data revealing racial or ethnic origin in the European Union	11

Overcoming terminological inconsistency in the study of emergency department attendees who do not require clinically defined emergency care	11
Impact of junior doctor strikes on patient flow in the emergency department: a cross-sectional analysis	11
Association between antithrombotic medications and intracranial hemorrhage among older patients with mild traumatic brain injury: a multicenter cohort study	10
Early diagnosis and treatment of acute heart failure in prehospital and emergency settings. Part 1 of the International Expert Opinion Series on acute heart failure management	10
Hospital vulnerabilities to a changing climate: climate-adaptive strategies in emergency care	10
Temperature control after successful resuscitation from cardiac arrest in adults: a joint statement from the European Society for Emergency Medicine (EUSEM) and the European Society of Anaesthesiology	10
Impact of the pandemic on emergency medicine and its future	10
Impact of a Rapid Assessment Zone after triage on time-to-physician delay: a before–after study	10
Status of the specialty Emergency Medicine in Europe	10
Barcelona…… ‘I had the perfect dream’*	10
Guideline adhesion in the management of severe acute pulmonary oedema: a French survey involving 1048 cardiologists, emergency physicians, and intensivists	10
Burnout syndrome in emergency medicine: it’s time to take action	9
High-flow nasal cannula oxygen versus noninvasive ventilation for the management of acute cardiogenic pulmonary edema: a randomized controlled pilot study	9
Conflict in the Middle East and political affiliation in the workplace	8
Agreement and validity of electronic triage with nurse triage of paediatric ambulatory attendances to two UK Emergency Departments	8
Breaking the ceiling: considering gender disparity in emergency care	8
Drug users coming to European emergency departments: general basic approach and recommendations for safe discharge	8
Accuracy of Emergency Severity Index in older adults	8
Classification and treatment of acute heart failure: potential confounding factors	8
Systematic vitamin K antagonist reversal with prothrombin complex concentrate in patients with mild traumatic brain injury: randomized controlled trial	7
The effects of ultrasound guidance on first-attempt success for difficult peripheral intravenous catheterization: a systematic review and meta-analysis	7
The syncope core management process in the emergency department: a consensus statement of the EUSEM syncope group	7
Epidemiology of geriatric patients presenting to emergency departments in Europe: EGERS study	7
Effect of diagnosis level of certainty on adherence to antibiotics’ guidelines in ED patients with pneumonia: a post-hoc analysis of an interventional trial	7
A response to: Internal jugular vein measurements: an alternative ultrasonic approach in estimating volume status of emergency department patients	7
The advanced pediatric emergency course: two decades of pioneering pediatric emergency medicine education	7
Lidocaine patch for treatment of acute localized pain in the emergency department: a systematic review and meta-analysis	6
In response to comment on: Prehospital interventions and outcomes in traumatic cardiac arrest: a population-based cohort study using Danish helicopter emergency medical services data	6
Attitudes and knowledge of emergency doctors towards end-of-life care in the emergency department: a national survey	6
Performance of the Fresno-Quebec Rule in identifying patients with concomitant fractures not requiring a radiograph before shoulder dislocation reduction: a multicenter retrospective cohort study	6
Computed tomography brain scan utilization in patients with headache presenting to emergency departments: a multinational study	6
Standard vs. modified vestibular/ocular motor screening for emergency department prediction of symptom persistence 1 week after minor head injury	6
Post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms and its associated factors among emergency department nurses in the Netherlands	6
Association of a telephone triage service for emergency patients with better outcome: a population-based study in Osaka City, Japan	6
Risk factors and effect of dyspnea inappropriate treatment in adults’ emergency department: a retrospective cohort study	6
The Norwegian emergency healthcare system: organization and challenges	6
Comment to ‘Choosing the right score and threshold to identify low-risk patients with an upper gastrointestinal bleeding is critical’	6
Pediatric prehospital intubation: the persistent challenge of first-attempt success	5
External validation and comparison of the Glasgow-Blatchford score, modified Glasgow-Blatchford score, Rockall score and AIMS65 score in patients with upper gastrointestinal bleeding: a cross-sectiona	5
Attitudes and knowledge of emergency doctors towards end-of-life care in the emergency department: a national survey: Erratum	5
Highlights from the abstracts of EUSEM 2024 in Copenhagen	5
Videodistraction to reduce agitation in elderly patients in the emergency department: an open label parallel group randomized controlled trial	5
Effect of patient gender on the decision of ceiling of care: an European study of emergency physicians’ treatment decisions in simulated cases	5
COVID epidemic and witnessed cardiopulmonary resuscitation: 10 years back	5
Leveraging individual development plans to support women physicians navigating academic medicine	5
Comparison of outcomes between successful and failed prehospital advanced airway management by paramedic staff in patients with out-of-hospital cardiac arrest	5
Does machine learning combined with clinical judgment outperform clinical judgment alone in predicting in-hospital mortality in old and young suspected infection emergency department patients?	5
Ambulance response times and 30-day mortality: a Copenhagen (Denmark) registry study	5
Cervical immobilisation in elderly patients with a suspected cervical spine fracture: a retrospective study	5
Factors associated with hospital revisitation within 7 days among patients discharged at triage: a case–control study	4

In memory of Dr Eric Revue	4
Workplace violence among workmates: What we do and the way we are	4
Prospective validation of a transcriptomic severity classifier among patients with suspected acute infection and sepsis in the emergency department	4
Effect of a shoulder reduction bench on sedation rates in the treatment of emergency department patients with anterior shoulder dislocations	4
Older age and risk for delayed abdominal pain care in the emergency department	4
Severity of emergency department presentations due to acute drug toxicity in Europe: a longitudinal analysis over a 6-year period (2014–2019) stratified by sex	4
Door-to-furosemide time and clinical outcomes in acute heart failure	4
Increased mortality in elderly patients who spent the night in the emergency department: lessons from the ‘No Bed Night’ study?	4
Contribution of point-of-care ultrasound in the prehospital management of patients with non-trauma acute dyspnea: a systematic review and meta-analysis	4
EMPOWER: a new academic educational activity by the pediatric branch of the European Society for Emergency Medicine	4
Role of emergency departments in HIV screening in Barcelona (Spain) and impact of a targeted opt-in strategy for HIV testing	4
Association between mortality and phone-line waiting time for non-urgent medical care: a Danish registry-based cohort study	4
In reply, point-of-care ultrasound for chest pain patients	4
A prospective intervention study to identify drug-related emergency department visits comparing a standard care group and a pharmaceutical care group	4
The 5Cs: an assessment of residents’ ability to communicate during virtual consultations	4
Pulmonary embolism: pitfalls, unmet needs, and perspectives in emergency medicine	4
A quick Turkish coffee with EUSEM	4
A decade of European Board Examination in Emergency Medicine: achievements and future perspectives	4
Key factors for sustainable working conditions in emergency departments: an EUSEM-initiated, Europe-wide consensus survey	4
The effect of race on receiving chemical restraints among patients visiting emergency department	3
Association between multiday emergency department boarding and higher in-hospital mortality: evidence from Brazil	3
Positive pressure ventilation during emergency tracheal intubation: insights from the PREOXI and PreVent randomized controlled trials	3
Emergency medicine training in Europe: the Young Emergency Medicine Doctors perspective	3
Effect of the score predicting imminent delivery on the management of unexpected out-of-hospital obstetrical deliveries: a cluster randomized clinical trial	3
The effect of emergency department procedural sedation on cardiac output: post hoc analysis of a prospective study	3
Care of the critically ill begins in the emergency medicine setting	3
Diagnostic performance of procalcitonin for sepsis	3
Authors’ response to correspondence on ‘Internal jugular vein measurements: an alternative ultrasonic approach in estimating volume status of emergency department patients’	3
Association between physician specialty and first-attempt intubation success in the emergency department	3
Out of hospital extracorporeal cardiopulmonary resuscitation: Maybe	3
The decision-making process in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest: from complexity to opportunities	3
How to OPTIMIZE inclusions for emergency department research	3
Performance of Manchester Acute Coronary Syndromes decision rules in acute coronary syndrome: a systematic review and meta-analysis	3
Characteristics and mortality of patients leaving the emergency department without being seen by a physician: a cohort study	3
Quality registries to improve emergency department care: from benchmarking to research and back	3
The evolution of academic publishing: mega journals and artificial intelligence-authored articles	3
Research methods in quality and safety in emergency medicine	3
Redefining the role of emergency medicine in mass gatherings	3
Metabolomics, the future of biomarkers?	3
Testing the validity of three acute care assessment tools for assessing residents’ performance during in situ simulation: the ACAT-SimSit study	3
Emergency medical service utilization and timely treatment among acute ischemic stroke patients in Beijing from 2018 to 2021	3
Reporting race and ethnicity in medical research: you can’t fix what you don’t know	3
Surviving Sepsis Campaign 2021 guideline: fails to appreciate the challenge of evaluating an undifferentiated patient	3
Emergency department visits after chimeric antigen receptor T cell therapy: a retrospective observational study	3
ChatGPT’s performance in the Specialist Health Practitioner exam for Hospital Emergency, responses from GPT-3.5 and GPT-4.0 to 150 multiple-choice questions	3
Response to ‘Prehospital versus emergency department noninvasive ventilation: oxygen, outcomes, and mediator’ by Felhmann et al.	3
Predictive factors for early requirement of respiratory support through phone call to Emergency Medical Call Centre for dyspnoea: a retrospective cohort study	3
Global job satisfaction among emergency medicine professionals: results from the 2025 Emergency Medicine Day Survey	3
Assessment of sleep quality and fatigue management among residents in emergency medicine	3
Factors associated with health-related quality of life in Spanish Emergency Medical Technicians	3
Reclaiming chest pain and restoring clinical reasoning in the age of troponin	3
Young Emergency Medicine Doctors refresher course: a decade of education to harmonize emergency medicine training in Europe	3
Early intravenous decongestion improves outcomes in decompensated heart failure	3
Sex and gender need to be integrated into emergency medicine: recommendations for research and clinical practice	3
Training approaches and devices utilization during endotracheal intubation in French Emergency Departments: a nationwide survey	3
Prehospital extracorporeal cardiopulmonary resuscitation: a retrospective French regional centers experience	3
Prediction of significant coronary artery disease in acute chest pain without infarction in emergency department: MAPAC Cardio-PreTest model: Erratum	3
The association between helicopter emergency medical services and early casualty survival: a nationwide study	3
Identification of causal diseases associated with the occurrence of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest in toilets	3