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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Clinician suspicion of unintentional carbon monoxide exposure in emergency department attendees	76
Authors’ response to comment on ‘Acute heart failure in elderly patients admitted to the emergency department with acute dyspnea: a multimarker approach diagnostic study’	41
What is health design and why should it be central to your clinical practice in 2021	25
Health design solutions to improve the care of sickle cell patients with vaso-occlusive crisis in the emergency department	23
Association of patient satisfaction with use of text message by an emergency medical communication centre	20
Tissue hypoperfusion is associated with poor outcome in patients admitted for acute pulmonary embolism	20
Awareness, current use and attitudes toward intraosseous access among physicians and nurses in China: a national web-based survey	18
Clinical ultrasound not centered on patients has questionable value	18
What is the cause of increased mortality in normothermic patients with suspected infection?	18
Association between pre-arrest left ventricular ejection fraction and survival in nontraumatic out-of-hospital cardiac arrest	16
The new European Training Requirements for emergency medicine: rationale and implementation	16
Echocardiography in cardiac arrest: strengths and limitations	14
Age- and sex-related differences in community-acquired pneumonia at presentation to the emergency department: a retrospective cohort study	13
Evolving pediatric airway management: supraglottic devices as a first-line option?	13
Procedural sedation in the emergency department by Italian emergency physicians: results of the SEED SIMEU registry	13
Response to ‘Classification and treatment of acute heart failure: potential confounding factors’	12
Comment on: Prehospital interventions and outcomes in traumatic cardiac arrest: a population-based cohort study using Danish helicopter emergency medical services data	12
Outcome differences between PARAMEDIC2 and the German Resuscitation Registry: a secondary analysis of a randomized controlled trial compared with registry data	12
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
Overcoming terminological inconsistency in the study of emergency department attendees who do not require clinically defined emergency care	10
The association between regional guidelines compliance and mortality in severe trauma patients: an observational, retrospective study	10
Response to ‘Effect of adrenaline dose on neurological outcome in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest: still difficult to conclude’	10
Mild traumatic injuries evaluation using caller smartphone camera by medical dispatchers: a randomized controlled study	10
Pre-hospital emergency medicine in Belgium: an overview of an evolving medical and paramedical organization	9
Status of physician education in emergency medicine in four European countries: no primary specialty yet	9

Practices of pediatric emergency physicians on the first febrile and afebrile seizures: a research in European Pediatric Emergency Medicine Survey Study	9
Processing of personal data revealing racial or ethnic origin in the European Union	9
Impact of junior doctor strikes on patient flow in the emergency department: a cross-sectional analysis	8
Breaking the ceiling: considering gender disparity in emergency care	8
Impact of the pandemic on emergency medicine and its future	8
Hospital vulnerabilities to a changing climate: climate-adaptive strategies in emergency care	8
Impact of a Rapid Assessment Zone after triage on time-to-physician delay: a before–after study	8
Impact of emergency department length of stay on in-hospital mortality: a retrospective cohort study	8
Conflict in the Middle East and political affiliation in the workplace	8
Burnout syndrome in emergency medicine: it’s time to take action	8
Status of the specialty Emergency Medicine in Europe	8
Response to “Echocardiography in cardiac arrest: strengths and limitations”	8
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
The Pediatric Emergency Research Network: a decade old and growing	8
Barcelona…… ‘I had the perfect dream’*	8
The syncope core management process in the emergency department: a consensus statement of the EUSEM syncope group	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
Epidemiology of geriatric patients presenting to emergency departments in Europe: EGERS study	7
Agreement and validity of electronic triage with nurse triage of paediatric ambulatory attendances to two UK Emergency Departments	7
A response to: Internal jugular vein measurements: an alternative ultrasonic approach in estimating volume status of emergency department patients	7
Accuracy of Emergency Severity Index in older adults	7
Association of a telephone triage service for emergency patients with better outcome: a population-based study in Osaka City, Japan	6
Classification and treatment of acute heart failure: potential confounding factors	6
Lidocaine patch for treatment of acute localized pain in the emergency department: a systematic review and meta-analysis	6
Systematic vitamin K antagonist reversal with prothrombin complex concentrate in patients with mild traumatic brain injury: randomized controlled trial	6
The effects of ultrasound guidance on first-attempt success for difficult peripheral intravenous catheterization: a systematic review and meta-analysis	6
Risk factors and effect of dyspnea inappropriate treatment in adults’ emergency department: a retrospective cohort 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
Standard vs. modified vestibular/ocular motor screening for emergency department prediction of symptom persistence 1 week after minor head injury	5
Factors associated with a high-risk return visit to the emergency department: a case-crossover study	5
2021 in review	5
Humbled: life in the emergency department under the shadow of a pandemic	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
Workplace violence among workmates: What we do and the way we are	5
Ambulance response times and 30-day mortality: a Copenhagen (Denmark) registry study	5
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	5
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	5
Post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms and its associated factors among emergency department nurses in the Netherlands	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
Videodistraction to reduce agitation in elderly patients in the emergency department: an open label parallel group randomized controlled trial	5
Emergency medicine in Iran: the history and the question of gender equality	5
Fractional excretion of sodium or urea as prognostic indicators for acute kidney injury in the emergency department	5
The Norwegian emergency healthcare system: organization and challenges	5
Attitudes and knowledge of emergency doctors towards end-of-life care in the emergency department: a national survey	5
Comment to ‘Choosing the right score and threshold to identify low-risk patients with an upper gastrointestinal bleeding is critical’	5
Effect of patient gender on the decision of ceiling of care: an European study of emergency physicians’ treatment decisions in simulated cases	5
Comparison of outcomes between successful and failed prehospital advanced airway management by paramedic staff in patients with out-of-hospital cardiac arrest	5
Cervical immobilisation in elderly patients with a suspected cervical spine fracture: a retrospective study	5

COVID epidemic and witnessed cardiopulmonary resuscitation: 10 years back	4
Factors associated with hospital revisitation within 7 days among patients discharged at triage: a case–control study	4
Attitudes and knowledge of emergency doctors towards end-of-life care in the emergency department: a national survey: Erratum	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
A prospective intervention study to identify drug-related emergency department visits comparing a standard care group and a pharmaceutical care group	4
Association between mortality and phone-line waiting time for non-urgent medical care: a Danish registry-based cohort study	4
Highlights from the abstracts of EUSEM 2024 in Copenhagen	4
Diagnostic accuracy of lung ultrasonography in childhood pneumonia: a meta-analysis	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
Prospective validation of a transcriptomic severity classifier among patients with suspected acute infection and sepsis in the emergency department	4
Leveraging individual development plans to support women physicians navigating academic medicine	4
The effect of race on receiving chemical restraints among patients visiting emergency department	3
Association of Staphylococcus aureus bacteriuria and prevalence of infective endocarditis in the emergency department	3
In reply, point-of-care ultrasound for chest pain patients	3
Pulmonary embolism: pitfalls, unmet needs, and perspectives in emergency medicine	3
Positive pressure ventilation during emergency tracheal intubation: insights from the PREOXI and PreVent randomized controlled trials	3
ENCOVUR-3 study: Spanish emergency departments’ participation in hospital decision-making committees during the first peak of the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic	3
Research methods in quality and safety in emergency medicine	3
Reporting race and ethnicity in medical research: you can’t fix what you don’t know	3
The association between helicopter emergency medical services and early casualty survival: a nationwide study	3
Evaluation of spin in the abstracts of emergency medicine systematic reviews and meta-analyses	3
Out of hospital extracorporeal cardiopulmonary resuscitation: Maybe	3
A quick Turkish coffee with EUSEM	3
The evolution of academic publishing: mega journals and artificial intelligence-authored articles	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
The 5Cs: an assessment of residents’ ability to communicate during virtual consultations	3
Prehospital extracorporeal cardiopulmonary resuscitation: a retrospective French regional centers experience	3
The decision-making process in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest: from complexity to opportunities	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
Emergency medicine training in Europe: the Young Emergency Medicine Doctors perspective	3
How to OPTIMIZE inclusions for emergency department research	3
Authors’ response to correspondence on ‘Internal jugular vein measurements: an alternative ultrasonic approach in estimating volume status of emergency department patients’	3
European guidelines on the management of upper gastrointestinal bleeding: where are emergency physicians?	3
Quality registries to improve emergency department care: from benchmarking to research and back	3
Key factors for sustainable working conditions in emergency departments: an EUSEM-initiated, Europe-wide consensus survey	3
Older age and risk for delayed abdominal pain care in the emergency department	3
Predictive factors for early requirement of respiratory support through phone call to Emergency Medical Call Centre for dyspnoea: a retrospective cohort study	3
A decade of European Board Examination in Emergency Medicine: achievements and future perspectives	3
The performance of COBRA, a decision rule to predict the need for intensive care interventions in intentional drug overdose	3
Sex and gender need to be integrated into emergency medicine: recommendations for research and clinical practice	3
Factors associated with health-related quality of life in Spanish Emergency Medical Technicians	3
Emergency department visits after chimeric antigen receptor T cell therapy: a retrospective observational study	3