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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Infodemic and the spread of fake news in the COVID-19-era	177
European Society For Emergency Medicine position paper on emergency medical systems’ response to COVID-19	79
The emergency department in the COVID-19 era. Who are we missing?	66
Collateral damage of the COVID-19 outbreak: expression of concern	65
Acute hyperkalemia in the emergency department: a summary from a Kidney Disease: Improving Global Outcomes conference	43
Burnout in emergency medicine professionals after 2 years of the COVID-19 pandemic: a threat to the healthcare system?	42
The challenge of emergency medicine facing the COVID-19 outbreak	38
How emergency departments prepare for virus disease outbreaks like COVID-19	28
The Danish prehospital system	27
Organisation of prehospital care: the French experience	27
Impact of the COVID-19 outbreak on emergency medical system missions and emergency department visits in the Venice area	25
Dispatching citizens as first responders to out-of-hospital cardiac arrests: a systematic review and meta-analysis	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
Persistently elevated early warning scores and lactate identifies patients at high risk of mortality in suspected sepsis	17
Gender distribution in emergency medicine journals: editorial board memberships in top-ranked academic journals	16
Inhaled methoxyflurane for the management of trauma related pain in patients admitted to hospital emergency departments: a randomised, double-blind placebo-controlled trial (PenASAP study)	16
A narrative review of frailty assessment in older patients at the emergency department	15
Prospective validation of a transcriptomic severity classifier among patients with suspected acute infection and sepsis in the emergency department	15
Thiamine combined with vitamin C in sepsis or septic shock: a systematic review and meta-analysis	14
COVID-19: one threat, one world, one response (magical thinking)	14
What happens in the shock room stays in the shock room? A time-based audio/video audit framework for trauma team performance analysis	14
Biomechanics of two-thumb versus two-finger chest compression for cardiopulmonary resuscitation in an infant manikin model	14
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
Factors associated with a high-risk return visit to the emergency department: a case-crossover study	11
COVID-19: emergency medicine perspectives from Hong Kong	11
The interobserver agreement of the HEART-score, a multicentre prospective study	11
The Swedish Ambulance Services	10
Association between personal protective equipment and SARS-CoV-2 infection risk in emergency department healthcare workers	10
Emergency department revisits: a nation-wide database analysis on the same and different hospital revisits	10
Standardizing terminology in academic medical journals: understanding sex and gender	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
Safety of withholding intubation in gamma-hydroxybutyrate- and gamma-butyrolactone-intoxicated coma patients in the emergency department	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
The association of body temperature with antibiotic therapy and mortality in patients attending the emergency department with suspected infection	8
Application of decision rules on diagnosis and prognosis of renal colic: a systematic review and meta-analysis	8
Status of physician education in emergency medicine in four European countries: no primary specialty yet	8
Rebuild resilience in emergency physicians to prevent burnout during COVID-19 pandemic	8
Effect of gender on out-of-hospital cardiac arrest survival: a registry-based study	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	7
Burnout syndrome in emergency medicine: it’s time to take action	7
Emergency medicine: we can be heroes, just for a few days	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
How comorbidities impact Early Warning Score as a predictor of 7-day mortality	7
Epidemiology of geriatric patients presenting to emergency departments in Europe: EGERS study	7
Clinical impression for identification of vulnerable older patients in the emergency department	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
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
Clinical translation of diagnostic studies: pitfalls of the usual reported characteristics	6
Equity: European Journal of Emergency Medicine reflects forward	6
The association between temperature, heart rate, and respiratory rate in children aged under 16 years attending urgent and emergency care settings	6
Accuracy of Emergency Severity Index in older adults	6
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	6
Outcomes of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest in patients with SARS-CoV-2 infection: a systematic review and meta-analysis	6
BRASH syndrome – fact or fiction? A first analysis of the prevalence and relevance of a newly described syndrome	6
Acute vertigo in the emergency department: use of bedside oculomotor examination	6
Policy statement on minimal standards for safe working conditions in Emergency Medicine	6
Goal-directed ultrasound protocol in patients with nontraumatic undifferentiated shock in the emergency department: prospective dual centre study	6
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.	6
Age is just a number: how should we triage old patients in the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic?	6
Quality of dispatcher-assisted vs. automated external defibrillator-guided cardiopulmonary resuscitation: a randomised simulation trial	6
Need for recovery and physician well-being in emergency departments: national survey findings	6
Agreement of emergency physician-performed ultrasound versus RADiology-performed UltraSound for cholelithiasis or cholecystitis: a systematic review	6
Emergency medicine in Switzerland: a laboratory for professional experimentation	6
Effect of chest ultrasound on diagnostic workup in elderly patients with acute respiratory failure in the emergency department: a prospective study	6
Guidelines for the management of status epilepticus	6
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
Early chest CT-scan in emergency patients affected by community-acquired pneumonia is associated with improved diagnosis consistency	5

Utility of magnesium sulfate in the treatment of rapid atrial fibrillation in the emergency department: a systematic review and meta-analysis	5
Diagnostic accuracy of lung ultrasonography in childhood pneumonia: a meta-analysis	5
Guidelines for the acute care of severe limb trauma patients	5
Prevalence of job strain among emergency physicians	5
The day after…	5
Can artificial intelligence and machine learning help reduce the harms of emergency department crowding?	5
Door-to-furosemide time and clinical outcomes in acute heart failure	5
Effect of adrenaline dose on neurological outcome in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest: a nationwide propensity score analysis	5
Out-of-hospital cardiac arrest: prehospital physician’s role during CPR should be clarified	5
Winter is coming, and this one will be hot	5
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
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	4
Can a reverse triage clinical decision support tool create sufficient surge capacity and reduce emergency department crowding?	4
Tranexamic acid for acute traumatic hemorrhage in emergency medicine: why not, but…	4
Outcome differences between PARAMEDIC2 and the German Resuscitation Registry: a secondary analysis of a randomized controlled trial compared with registry data	4
The performance of HEAR score for identification of low-risk chest pain: a systematic review and meta-analysis	4
Use of backboards in cardiopulmonary resuscitation: a systematic review and meta-analysis	4
Emergency medical care overload during heatwaves: a neglected topic	4
Gender disparity in emergency medicine authorship	4
Sensitivity of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus type 2 rapid antigen point-of-care tests in vaccinated patients	4
A European Emergency Medicine Research Network: a necessity achieved	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
Emergency medicine specialization: the French and Belgian perspective	4
Patient safety in emergency departments: a problem for health care systems? An international survey	4
Diagnosis of acute coronary syndrome in the emergency room: the dictatorship of high-sensitivity cardiac troponin and major adverse cardiac events	4
The rise and rise of the impact factor	4
Effect of written and video discharge instructions on parental recall of information about analgesics in children: a pre/post-implementation study	4
The effects of ultrasound guidance on first-attempt success for difficult peripheral intravenous catheterization: a systematic review and meta-analysis	4
A system based approach on burnout prevention of healthcare professionals	4
Management of major bleeding for anticoagulated patients in the Emergency Department: an European experts consensus statement	4
Present and future of pre-hospital emergency medical system	4
Towards a more uniform approach to prehospital care in the USA	4
Feasibility of a selective targeted strategy of HIV testing in emergency departments: a before-after study	4
92. Acute Vertigo in the Emergency Department - a retrospective study	3
Tranexamic acid in traumatic intracranial bleeding: recognizing the limit of results (of the CRASH-3 trial)	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
European Journal of Emergency Medicine position on reporting sex and gender	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
Evidence-based guidelines for thromboprophylaxis in patients with lower limb trauma requiring immobilization: an urgent, unmet need	3
Adherence to guideline recommendations in the management of pediatric cardiac arrest: a multicentre observational simulation-based study	3
The Royal College of Emergency Medicine’s curriculum in the UK	3
Public interest in cardiac arrest and cardiopulmonary resuscitation: a Google Trends analysis of the global online search traffic	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
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
The feasibility and acceptability of frailty screening tools in the Emergency Department and the additional value of clinical judgment for frailty detection	3
Evaluation of spin in the abstracts of emergency medicine systematic reviews and meta-analyses	3
To intubate or not intubate, that is still the question!	3
Association between alcohol intoxication and mortality in severe traumatic brain injury in the emergency department: a retrospective cohort	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
Adding barriers to barriers during the COVID-19 pandemic: a call for interdisciplinary research on communication with migrant patients in the emergency department	3
European guidelines on the management of upper gastrointestinal bleeding: where are emergency physicians?	3
Transparency in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest resuscitation: decision-making when patients are in the grey area between treatment and futility	3
Eighteen months later…	3
The usefulness of a short stay geriatric unit post emergency department for the facilitation of in-hospital care of elderly subjects	3
Sex- and age-related patterns in the use of analgesics in older patients in the emergency department	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
Sepsis prevalence among patients with suspected infection in emergency department: a multicenter prospective cohort 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
The efficiency of continuous positive airway pressure therapy in carbon monoxide poisoining in the emergency department	3
Predictive factors for secondary intensive care unit admission within 48 hours after hospitalization in a medical ward from the emergency room	3
Reliability of the HEART-score in the prehospital setting using point-of-care troponin	3
Clinical effect of ethanol co-use in patients with acute drug toxicity involving the use of central nervous system depressant recreational drugs	3
Effect of a multidisciplinary program to improve organ donation in the emergency department	3
Randomized controlled trials to evaluate extracorporeal cardiopulmonary resuscitation in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest: the expected failure	3
The association of biological sex and long-term outcomes in patients with acute dyspnea at the emergency department	3
The new 2021 Surviving Sepsis Guidelines: an emergency department perspective may be more effective	3
Impact of pregabalin co-use in patients presenting with acute heroin toxicity to the European Drug Emergencies Network Plus project	3
Association of a telephone triage service for emergency patients with better outcome: a population-based study in Osaka City, Japan	3
Effect of propofol-based procedural sedation on risk of adverse events in a French emergency department: a retrospective analysis	3