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 2020-05-01 to 2024-05-01.)

Article	Citations
European Society For Emergency Medicine position paper on emergency medical systems’ response to COVID-19	79
Burnout in emergency medicine professionals after 2 years of the COVID-19 pandemic: a threat to the healthcare system?	47
Acute hyperkalemia in the emergency department: a summary from a Kidney Disease: Improving Global Outcomes conference	44
The challenge of emergency medicine facing the COVID-19 outbreak	38
Organisation of prehospital care: the French experience	29
How emergency departments prepare for virus disease outbreaks like COVID-19	28
The Danish prehospital system	28
Dispatching citizens as first responders to out-of-hospital cardiac arrests: a systematic review and meta-analysis	26
Impact of the COVID-19 outbreak on emergency medical system missions and emergency department visits in the Venice area	25
COVID-19 epidemic in the Seine-Saint-Denis Department of Greater Paris: one month and three waves for a tsunami	24
Assessing left ventricular systolic function by emergency physician using point of care echocardiography compared to expert: systematic review and meta-analysis	18
Diagnostic performance of prehospital ultrasound diagnosis for traumatic pneumothorax by a UK Helicopter Emergency Medical Service	17
Gender distribution in emergency medicine journals: editorial board memberships in top-ranked academic journals	16
Prospective validation of a transcriptomic severity classifier among patients with suspected acute infection and sepsis in the emergency department	15
A narrative review of frailty assessment in older patients at the emergency department	15
COVID-19: one threat, one world, one response (magical thinking)	14
Thiamine combined with vitamin C in sepsis or septic shock: a systematic review and meta-analysis	14
Factors associated with a high-risk return visit to the emergency department: a case-crossover study	13
COVID-19, a UK perspective	12
The new era of chest pain evaluation in the Netherlands	12
Agreement and validity of electronic patient self-triage (eTriage) with nurse triage in two UK emergency departments: a retrospective study	12
The interobserver agreement of the HEART-score, a multicentre prospective study	11
Standardizing terminology in academic medical journals: understanding sex and gender	11
COVID-19: emergency medicine perspectives from Hong Kong	11
The Swedish Ambulance Services	10

Association between personal protective equipment and SARS-CoV-2 infection risk in emergency department healthcare workers	10
Safety of withholding intubation in gamma-hydroxybutyrate- and gamma-butyrolactone-intoxicated coma patients in the emergency department	10
Incidence, risk factors, clinical characteristics and outcomes of deep venous thrombosis in patients with COVID-19 attending the Emergency Department: results of the UMC-19-S8	10
Effect of gender on out-of-hospital cardiac arrest survival: a registry-based study	9
Rebuild resilience in emergency physicians to prevent burnout during COVID-19 pandemic	9
Is procalcitonin a reliable marker of bacterial community-acquired pneumonia in adults admitted to the emergency department during SARS-CoV-2 pandemic?	9
Organization of prehospital care in the Netherlands: a perspective article	9
The association between presenting complaints and clinical outcomes in emergency department patients of different age categories	9
Assessment of the mass casualty triage during the November 2015 Paris area terrorist attacks: towards a simple triage rule	8
Status of physician education in emergency medicine in four European countries: no primary specialty yet	8
The association of body temperature with antibiotic therapy and mortality in patients attending the emergency department with suspected infection	8
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	8
Burnout syndrome in emergency medicine: it’s time to take action	8
Policy statement on minimal standards for safe working conditions in Emergency Medicine	7
Mid and long-term effects of a SBIRT program for at-risk drinkers attending to an emergency department. Follow-up results from a randomized controlled trial.	7
Age is just a number: how should we triage old patients in the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic?	7
Emergency medicine: we can be heroes, just for a few days	7
Patient safety in emergency departments: a problem for health care systems? An international survey	7
The association between temperature, heart rate, and respiratory rate in children aged under 16 years attending urgent and emergency care settings	7
Comparison of the safety and efficacy of YEARS, PEGeD, 4PEPS or the sole item “PE is the most likely diagnosis” strategies for the diagnosis of pulmonary embolism in the emergency department: post-hoc	7
Quality of dispatcher-assisted vs. automated external defibrillator-guided cardiopulmonary resuscitation: a randomised simulation trial	7
Epidemiology of geriatric patients presenting to emergency departments in Europe: EGERS study	7
Need for recovery and physician well-being in emergency departments: national survey findings	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
Effect of early hyperoxemia on mortality in mechanically ventilated septic shock patients according to Sepsis-3 criteria: analysis of the MIMIC-III database	7
Prognostic value of serial score measurements of the national early warning score, the quick sequential organ failure assessment and the systemic inflammatory response syndrome to predict clinical out	7
Emergency Medical Services response levels and subsequent emergency contacts among patients with a history of mental illness in Denmark: a nationwide study	6
Feminization of Emergency Medicine in Europe in the 21st century	6
Acute vertigo in the emergency department: use of bedside oculomotor examination	6
Goal-directed ultrasound protocol in patients with nontraumatic undifferentiated shock in the emergency department: prospective dual centre study	6
Effect of chest ultrasound on diagnostic workup in elderly patients with acute respiratory failure in the emergency department: a prospective study	6
Outcomes of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest in patients with SARS-CoV-2 infection: a systematic review and meta-analysis	6
Clinical translation of diagnostic studies: pitfalls of the usual reported characteristics	6
Agreement of emergency physician-performed ultrasound versus RADiology-performed UltraSound for cholelithiasis or cholecystitis: a systematic review	6
Effect of sodium bicarbonate on functional outcome in patients with out-of-hospital cardiac arrest: a post-hoc analysis of a French and North-American dataset	6
Guidelines for the management of status epilepticus	6
BRASH syndrome – fact or fiction? A first analysis of the prevalence and relevance of a newly described syndrome	6
The performance of HEAR score for identification of low-risk chest pain: a systematic review and meta-analysis	6
Emergency medicine in Switzerland: a laboratory for professional experimentation	6
Accuracy of Emergency Severity Index in older adults	6
Prevalence of job strain among emergency physicians	5
A system based approach on burnout prevention of healthcare professionals	5
The day after…	5
Winter is coming, and this one will be hot	5
Guidelines for the acute care of severe limb trauma patients	5
Early chest CT-scan in emergency patients affected by community-acquired pneumonia is associated with improved diagnosis consistency	5
Effect of adrenaline dose on neurological outcome in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest: a nationwide propensity score analysis	5
Outcome differences between PARAMEDIC2 and the German Resuscitation Registry: a secondary analysis of a randomized controlled trial compared with registry data	5
Out-of-hospital cardiac arrest: prehospital physician’s role during CPR should be clarified	5
Door-to-furosemide time and clinical outcomes in acute heart failure	5

Effect of written and video discharge instructions on parental recall of information about analgesics in children: a pre/post-implementation study	5
Utility of magnesium sulfate in the treatment of rapid atrial fibrillation in the emergency department: a systematic review and meta-analysis	5
Present and future of pre-hospital emergency medical system	5
Can artificial intelligence and machine learning help reduce the harms of emergency department crowding?	5
Diagnostic accuracy of lung ultrasonography in childhood pneumonia: a meta-analysis	5
Management of major bleeding for anticoagulated patients in the Emergency Department: an European experts consensus statement	4
Emergency medicine specialization: the French and Belgian perspective	4
The rise and rise of the impact factor	4
Towards a more uniform approach to prehospital care in the USA	4
Gender disparity in emergency medicine authorship	4
The effects of ultrasound guidance on first-attempt success for difficult peripheral intravenous catheterization: a systematic review and meta-analysis	4
A European Emergency Medicine Research Network: a necessity achieved	4
Clinical effect of ethanol co-use in patients with acute drug toxicity involving the use of central nervous system depressant recreational drugs	4
Emergency medical care overload during heatwaves: a neglected topic	4
The association between cardiac risk factors and the probability of acute myocardial infarction in the emergency department: analysis from a multicentre prospective observational study in the high sen	4
Keep or release: experience on management of COVID-19 during maximum emergency in Bergamo and impact on patient outcomes	4
The feasibility and acceptability of frailty screening tools in the Emergency Department and the additional value of clinical judgment for frailty detection	4
Can a reverse triage clinical decision support tool create sufficient surge capacity and reduce emergency department crowding?	4
Evaluation of the effect of intravenous nitroglycerine on short-term survival of patients with acute heart failure according to congestion and perfusion status at emergency department arrival	4
Comparing thoracoabdominal injuries of manual versus load-distributing band cardiopulmonary resuscitation	4
Feasibility of a selective targeted strategy of HIV testing in emergency departments: a before-after study	4
Diagnosis of acute coronary syndrome in the emergency room: the dictatorship of high-sensitivity cardiac troponin and major adverse cardiac events	4
Use of backboards in cardiopulmonary resuscitation: a systematic review and meta-analysis	4
Sensitivity of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus type 2 rapid antigen point-of-care tests in vaccinated patients	4
Association between alcohol intoxication and mortality in severe traumatic brain injury in the emergency department: a retrospective cohort	4
The efficiency of continuous positive airway pressure therapy in carbon monoxide poisoining in the emergency department	3
The Pediatric Emergency Research Network: a decade old and growing	3
Contributions of the Spanish Investigators in the Emergency Situations TeAm network to COVID-19 knowledge: an example of how emergency physicians can lead first-class research	3
Transparency in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest resuscitation: decision-making when patients are in the grey area between treatment and futility	3
Randomized controlled trials to evaluate extracorporeal cardiopulmonary resuscitation in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest: the expected failure	3
Reliability of the HEART-score in the prehospital setting using point-of-care troponin	3
The new 2021 Surviving Sepsis Guidelines: an emergency department perspective may be more effective	3
The association of biological sex and long-term outcomes in patients with acute dyspnea at the emergency department	3
The usefulness of a short stay geriatric unit post emergency department for the facilitation of in-hospital care of elderly subjects	3
Daily pool testing of nasopharyngeal self-obtained swaps of healthcare professionals with definite COVID-19 exposition	3
Effect of replacing ambulance physicians with paramedics on outcome of resuscitation for prehospital cardiac arrest	3
The performance of COBRA, a decision rule to predict the need for intensive care interventions in intentional drug overdose	3
To intubate or not intubate, that is still the question!	3
Using emergency department triage for machine learning-based admission and mortality prediction	3
European Journal of Emergency Medicine position on reporting sex and gender	3
Predictive factors for secondary intensive care unit admission within 48 hours after hospitalization in a medical ward from the emergency room	3
Crowding, perceived crowding and workload in Dutch emergency departments: should we continue on the same road?	3
European guidelines on the management of upper gastrointestinal bleeding: where are emergency physicians?	3
Adding barriers to barriers during the COVID-19 pandemic: a call for interdisciplinary research on communication with migrant patients in the emergency department	3
The Royal College of Emergency Medicine’s curriculum in the UK	3
Adherence to guideline recommendations in the management of pediatric cardiac arrest: a multicentre observational simulation-based study	3
Public interest in cardiac arrest and cardiopulmonary resuscitation: a Google Trends analysis of the global online search traffic	3
Procalcitonin is a biomarker for disease severity rather than bacterial co-infection in COVID-19	3
Impact of pregabalin co-use in patients presenting with acute heroin toxicity to the European Drug Emergencies Network Plus project	3
Effect of propofol-based procedural sedation on risk of adverse events in a French emergency department: a retrospective analysis	3
Association of a telephone triage service for emergency patients with better outcome: a population-based study in Osaka City, Japan	3
Evaluation of spin in the abstracts of emergency medicine systematic reviews and meta-analyses	3
Agreement between emergency physicians and radiologists for the diagnosis of deep venous thrombosis with compression ultrasound: a prospective study	3
Association between collapse and serum creatinine and electrolyte concentrations in marathon runners: a 9-year retrospective study	3
Effect of the implementation of a new guideline for minor head injury on computed tomography-ratio and hospitalizations in the Netherlands	3
Evidence-based guidelines for thromboprophylaxis in patients with lower limb trauma requiring immobilization: an urgent, unmet need	3
Variability in the management and imaging use in paediatric minor head trauma in European emergency departments. A Research in European Pediatric Emergency Medicine study	3
Assessment of patient mobility improves the risk stratification of triage with the Emergency Severity Index: a prospective cohort study	3
Relation between chest compression rate and depth: the ENFONCE Study	3
Eighteen months later…	3
Effect of a multidisciplinary program to improve organ donation in the emergency department	3
Inflammation and corticosteroids in acute heart failure	3
Basic certification process for point-of care-ultrasound in emergency medicine: an European perspective	3
Incentivising the rapid diagnosis of acute coronary syndromes in England and Wales	3
92. Acute Vertigo in the Emergency Department - a retrospective study	3
How do European countries meet the standards of the European training requirements in emergency medicine: a sample view from young emergency medicine doctors	3
Association of frailty on treatment outcomes among patients with suspected infection treated at emergency departments	3