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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
The new European Training Requirements for emergency medicine: rationale and implementation	80
Association between pre-arrest left ventricular ejection fraction and survival in nontraumatic out-of-hospital cardiac arrest	43
Procedural sedation in the emergency department by Italian emergency physicians: results of the SEED SIMEU registry	25
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
Age- and sex-related differences in community-acquired pneumonia at presentation to the emergency department: a retrospective cohort study	19
Clinical ultrasound not centered on patients has questionable value	18
Association of patient satisfaction with use of text message by an emergency medical communication centre	17
Tissue hypoperfusion is associated with poor outcome in patients admitted for acute pulmonary embolism	16
Awareness, current use and attitudes toward intraosseous access among physicians and nurses in China: a national web-based survey	16
Echocardiography in cardiac arrest: strengths and limitations	15
What is the cause of increased mortality in normothermic patients with suspected infection?	14
Comment on: Prehospital interventions and outcomes in traumatic cardiac arrest: a population-based cohort study using Danish helicopter emergency medical services data	14
Mild traumatic injuries evaluation using caller smartphone camera by medical dispatchers: a randomized controlled study	12
Response to ‘Classification and treatment of acute heart failure: potential confounding factors’	12
Automated measurement of overnight stays in the emergency department: reliability of an indicator using electronic health records	11
Pre-hospital emergency medicine in Belgium: an overview of an evolving medical and paramedical organization	11
Association between antithrombotic medications and intracranial hemorrhage among older patients with mild traumatic brain injury: a multicenter cohort study	11
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	11
Evolving pediatric airway management: supraglottic devices as a first-line option?	11
Response to ‘Effect of adrenaline dose on neurological outcome in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest: still difficult to conclude’	10
The association between regional guidelines compliance and mortality in severe trauma patients: an observational, retrospective study	10
Overcoming terminological inconsistency in the study of emergency department attendees who do not require clinically defined emergency care	10
Processing of personal data revealing racial or ethnic origin in the European Union	10
Response to “Echocardiography in cardiac arrest: strengths and limitations”	10

Outcome differences between PARAMEDIC2 and the German Resuscitation Registry: a secondary analysis of a randomized controlled trial compared with registry data	10
Impact of emergency department length of stay on in-hospital mortality: a retrospective cohort study	10
Status of physician education in emergency medicine in four European countries: no primary specialty yet	10
Practices of pediatric emergency physicians on the first febrile and afebrile seizures: a research in European Pediatric Emergency Medicine Survey Study	10
Impact of junior doctor strikes on patient flow in the emergency department: a cross-sectional analysis	9
High-flow nasal cannula oxygen versus noninvasive ventilation for the management of acute cardiogenic pulmonary edema: a randomized controlled pilot study	8
Drug users coming to European emergency departments: general basic approach and recommendations for safe discharge	8
Impact of the pandemic on emergency medicine and its future	8
Conflict in the Middle East and political affiliation in the workplace	8
Guideline adhesion in the management of severe acute pulmonary oedema: a French survey involving 1048 cardiologists, emergency physicians, and intensivists	8
Barcelona…… ‘I had the perfect dream’*	8
Impact of a Rapid Assessment Zone after triage on time-to-physician delay: a before–after study	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
Hospital vulnerabilities to a changing climate: climate-adaptive strategies in emergency care	8
Accuracy of Emergency Severity Index in older adults	7
The Pediatric Emergency Research Network: a decade old and growing	7
Classification and treatment of acute heart failure: potential confounding factors	7
Burnout syndrome in emergency medicine: it’s time to take action	7
Evaluation of HEAR score to rule-out major adverse cardiac events without troponin test in patients presenting to the emergency department with chest pain	7
Status of the specialty Emergency Medicine in Europe	7
Systematic vitamin K antagonist reversal with prothrombin complex concentrate in patients with mild traumatic brain injury: randomized controlled trial	6
A response to: Internal jugular vein measurements: an alternative ultrasonic approach in estimating volume status of emergency department patients	6
Lidocaine patch for treatment of acute localized pain in the emergency department: a systematic review and meta-analysis	6
The Norwegian emergency healthcare system: organization and challenges	6
Risk factors and effect of dyspnea inappropriate treatment in adults’ emergency department: a retrospective cohort study	6
Epidemiology of geriatric patients presenting to emergency departments in Europe: EGERS study	6
Effect of diagnosis level of certainty on adherence to antibiotics’ guidelines in ED patients with pneumonia: a post-hoc analysis of an interventional trial	6
Computed tomography brain scan utilization in patients with headache presenting to emergency departments: a multinational study	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
The effects of ultrasound guidance on first-attempt success for difficult peripheral intravenous catheterization: a systematic review and meta-analysis	6
The syncope core management process in the emergency department: a consensus statement of the EUSEM syncope group	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
Standard vs. modified vestibular/ocular motor screening for emergency department prediction of symptom persistence 1 week after minor head injury	6
Highlights from the abstracts of EUSEM 2024 in Copenhagen	5
In memory of Dr Eric Revue	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
2021 in review	5
Leveraging individual development plans to support women physicians navigating academic medicine	5
Attitudes and knowledge of emergency doctors towards end-of-life care in the emergency department: a national survey: Erratum	5
Association of a telephone triage service for emergency patients with better outcome: a population-based study in Osaka City, Japan	5
Videodistraction to reduce agitation in elderly patients in the emergency department: an open label parallel group randomized controlled trial	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
Comment to ‘Choosing the right score and threshold to identify low-risk patients with an upper gastrointestinal bleeding is critical’	5
Contribution of point-of-care ultrasound in the prehospital management of patients with non-trauma acute dyspnea: a systematic review and meta-analysis	5
Ambulance response times and 30-day mortality: a Copenhagen (Denmark) registry study	5
Attitudes and knowledge of emergency doctors towards end-of-life care in the emergency department: a national survey	5
Post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms and its associated factors among emergency department nurses in the Netherlands	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	4
Door-to-furosemide time and clinical outcomes in acute heart failure	4
Diagnostic accuracy of lung ultrasonography in childhood pneumonia: a meta-analysis	4
Emergency medicine in Iran: the history and the question of gender equality	4
Fractional excretion of sodium or urea as prognostic indicators for acute kidney injury in the emergency department	4
Increased mortality in elderly patients who spent the night in the emergency department: lessons from the ‘No Bed Night’ study?	4
Cervical immobilisation in elderly patients with a suspected cervical spine fracture: a retrospective study	4
A prospective intervention study to identify drug-related emergency department visits comparing a standard care group and a pharmaceutical care group	4
Prospective validation of a transcriptomic severity classifier among patients with suspected acute infection and sepsis in the emergency department	4
Workplace violence among workmates: What we do and the way we are	4
The effect of race on receiving chemical restraints among patients visiting emergency department	3
Assessment of sleep quality and fatigue management among residents in emergency medicine	3
A quick Turkish coffee with EUSEM	3
Sex and gender need to be integrated into emergency medicine: recommendations for research and clinical practice	3
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	3
Older age and risk for delayed abdominal pain care in the emergency department	3
The association between helicopter emergency medical services and early casualty survival: a nationwide study	3
Key factors for sustainable working conditions in emergency departments: an EUSEM-initiated, Europe-wide consensus survey	3
A decade of European Board Examination in Emergency Medicine: achievements and future perspectives	3
How to OPTIMIZE inclusions for emergency department research	3
Surviving Sepsis Campaign 2021 guideline: fails to appreciate the challenge of evaluating an undifferentiated patient	3
Prediction of significant coronary artery disease in acute chest pain without infarction in emergency department: MAPAC Cardio-PreTest model: Erratum	3
Response to ‘Prehospital versus emergency department noninvasive ventilation: oxygen, outcomes, and mediator’ by Felhmann et al.	3
Performance of Manchester Acute Coronary Syndromes decision rules in acute coronary syndrome: a systematic review and meta-analysis	3
Quality registries to improve emergency department care: from benchmarking to research and back	3
Research methods in quality and safety in emergency medicine	3
Positive pressure ventilation during emergency tracheal intubation: insights from the PREOXI and PreVent randomized controlled trials	3
Prehospital extracorporeal cardiopulmonary resuscitation: a retrospective French regional centers experience	3
Role of emergency departments in HIV screening in Barcelona (Spain) and impact of a targeted opt-in strategy for HIV testing	3
Evaluation of spin in the abstracts of emergency medicine systematic reviews and meta-analyses	3
Association between mortality and phone-line waiting time for non-urgent medical care: a Danish registry-based cohort study	3
The 5Cs: an assessment of residents’ ability to communicate during virtual consultations	3
Emergency department visits after chimeric antigen receptor T cell therapy: a retrospective observational study	3
EMPOWER: a new academic educational activity by the pediatric branch of the European Society for Emergency Medicine	3
Reporting race and ethnicity in medical research: you can’t fix what you don’t know	3
Testing the validity of three acute care assessment tools for assessing residents’ performance during in situ simulation: the ACAT-SimSit study	3
Prevalence of job strain among emergency physicians	3
Training approaches and devices utilization during endotracheal intubation in French Emergency Departments: a nationwide survey	3
Emergency medicine training in Europe: the Young Emergency Medicine Doctors perspective	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
Association of Staphylococcus aureus bacteriuria and prevalence of infective endocarditis in the emergency department	3
Emergency medical service utilization and timely treatment among acute ischemic stroke patients in Beijing from 2018 to 2021	3
Out of hospital extracorporeal cardiopulmonary resuscitation: Maybe	3
Factors associated with health-related quality of life in Spanish Emergency Medical Technicians	3
Factors associated with hospital revisitation within 7 days among patients discharged at triage: a case–control study	3
European guidelines on the management of upper gastrointestinal bleeding: where are emergency physicians?	3
Pulmonary embolism: pitfalls, unmet needs, and perspectives in emergency medicine	3
Identification of causal diseases associated with the occurrence of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest in toilets	3
In reply, point-of-care ultrasound for chest pain patients	3
Authors’ response to correspondence on ‘Internal jugular vein measurements: an alternative ultrasonic approach in estimating volume status of emergency department patients’	3
Basic certification process for point-of care-ultrasound in emergency medicine: an European perspective	3
The performance of COBRA, a decision rule to predict the need for intensive care interventions in intentional drug overdose	3
The evolution of academic publishing: mega journals and artificial intelligence-authored articles	3
ENCOVUR-3 study: Spanish emergency departments’ participation in hospital decision-making committees during the first peak of the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic	3
Predictive factors for early requirement of respiratory support through phone call to Emergency Medical Call Centre for dyspnoea: a retrospective cohort study	3
The decision-making process in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest: from complexity to opportunities	3