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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Burnout in emergency medicine professionals after 2 years of the COVID-19 pandemic: a threat to the healthcare system?	61
The Danish prehospital system	32
Organisation of prehospital care: the French experience	31
Dispatching citizens as first responders to out-of-hospital cardiac arrests: a systematic review and meta-analysis	29
Assessing left ventricular systolic function by emergency physician using point of care echocardiography compared to expert: systematic review and meta-analysis	20
Prospective validation of a transcriptomic severity classifier among patients with suspected acute infection and sepsis in the emergency department	18
A narrative review of frailty assessment in older patients at the emergency department	16
Agreement and validity of electronic patient self-triage (eTriage) with nurse triage in two UK emergency departments: a retrospective study	16
Gender distribution in emergency medicine journals: editorial board memberships in top-ranked academic journals	16
Thiamine combined with vitamin C in sepsis or septic shock: a systematic review and meta-analysis	15
Factors associated with a high-risk return visit to the emergency department: a case-crossover study	13
The association between presenting complaints and clinical outcomes in emergency department patients of different age categories	13
Epidemiology of geriatric patients presenting to emergency departments in Europe: EGERS study	13
Standardizing terminology in academic medical journals: understanding sex and gender	12
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	11
Association between personal protective equipment and SARS-CoV-2 infection risk in emergency department healthcare workers	10
Management of major bleeding for anticoagulated patients in the Emergency Department: an European experts consensus statement	10
The Swedish Ambulance Services	10
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	10
Rebuild resilience in emergency physicians to prevent burnout during COVID-19 pandemic	9
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.	9
Is procalcitonin a reliable marker of bacterial community-acquired pneumonia in adults admitted to the emergency department during SARS-CoV-2 pandemic?	9
Need for recovery and physician well-being in emergency departments: national survey findings	9
The association of body temperature with antibiotic therapy and mortality in patients attending the emergency department with suspected infection	9
BRASH syndrome – fact or fiction? A first analysis of the prevalence and relevance of a newly described syndrome	9

Organization of prehospital care in the Netherlands: a perspective article	9
Burnout syndrome in emergency medicine: it’s time to take action	9
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
Assessment of the mass casualty triage during the November 2015 Paris area terrorist attacks: towards a simple triage rule	8
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	8
Outcome differences between PARAMEDIC2 and the German Resuscitation Registry: a secondary analysis of a randomized controlled trial compared with registry data	8
Policy statement on minimal standards for safe working conditions in Emergency Medicine	8
Evaluation of HEAR score to rule-out major adverse cardiac events without troponin test in patients presenting to the emergency department with chest pain	8
Outcomes of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest in patients with SARS-CoV-2 infection: a systematic review and meta-analysis	8
Clinical effect of ethanol co-use in patients with acute drug toxicity involving the use of central nervous system depressant recreational drugs	8
The association between temperature, heart rate, and respiratory rate in children aged under 16 years attending urgent and emergency care settings	8
Accuracy of Emergency Severity Index in older adults	8
Status of physician education in emergency medicine in four European countries: no primary specialty yet	8
Diagnostic accuracy of lung ultrasonography in childhood pneumonia: a meta-analysis	8
Effect of early hyperoxemia on mortality in mechanically ventilated septic shock patients according to Sepsis-3 criteria: analysis of the MIMIC-III database	7
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	7
Agreement of emergency physician-performed ultrasound versus RADiology-performed UltraSound for cholelithiasis or cholecystitis: a systematic review	7
Guidelines for the management of status epilepticus	7
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	7
Early chest CT-scan in emergency patients affected by community-acquired pneumonia is associated with improved diagnosis consistency	7
The effects of ultrasound guidance on first-attempt success for difficult peripheral intravenous catheterization: a systematic review and meta-analysis	7
Age is just a number: how should we triage old patients in the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic?	7
Can artificial intelligence and machine learning help reduce the harms of emergency department crowding?	7
The performance of HEAR score for identification of low-risk chest pain: a systematic review and meta-analysis	7
Emergency medicine in Switzerland: a laboratory for professional experimentation	6
Utility of magnesium sulfate in the treatment of rapid atrial fibrillation in the emergency department: a systematic review and meta-analysis	6
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	6
Patient safety in emergency departments: a problem for health care systems? An international survey	6
Sensitivity of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus type 2 rapid antigen point-of-care tests in vaccinated patients	6
Out-of-hospital cardiac arrest: prehospital physician’s role during CPR should be clarified	6
Clinical translation of diagnostic studies: pitfalls of the usual reported characteristics	6
Goal-directed ultrasound protocol in patients with nontraumatic undifferentiated shock in the emergency department: prospective dual centre study	6
Emergency Medical Services response levels and subsequent emergency contacts among patients with a history of mental illness in Denmark: a nationwide study	6
Prevalence of job strain among emergency physicians	5
A European Emergency Medicine Research Network: a necessity achieved	5
Using emergency department triage for machine learning-based admission and mortality prediction	5
Acute heart failure in emergency departments: what is new in 2023?	5
Public interest in cardiac arrest and cardiopulmonary resuscitation: a Google Trends analysis of the global online search traffic	5
Winter is coming, and this one will be hot	5
The association of biological sex and long-term outcomes in patients with acute dyspnea at the emergency department	5
Effect of adrenaline dose on neurological outcome in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest: a nationwide propensity score analysis	5
A system based approach on burnout prevention of healthcare professionals	5
Present and future of pre-hospital emergency medical system	5
Guidelines for the acute care of severe limb trauma patients	5
The rise and rise of the impact factor	5
Transparency in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest resuscitation: decision-making when patients are in the grey area between treatment and futility	5
High-flow nasal cannula oxygen versus noninvasive ventilation for the management of acute cardiogenic pulmonary edema: a randomized controlled pilot study	5
Can a reverse triage clinical decision support tool create sufficient surge capacity and reduce emergency department crowding?	5
The day after…	5
Emergency medical care overload during heatwaves: a neglected topic	5

Door-to-furosemide time and clinical outcomes in acute heart failure	5
Feasibility of a selective targeted strategy of HIV testing in emergency departments: a before-after study	4
Adding barriers to barriers during the COVID-19 pandemic: a call for interdisciplinary research on communication with migrant patients in the emergency department	4
The prediction of 24-h mortality by the respiratory rate and oxygenation index compared with National Early Warning Score in emergency department patients: an observational study	4
Use of backboards in cardiopulmonary resuscitation: a systematic review and meta-analysis	4
Evaluation of spin in the abstracts of emergency medicine systematic reviews and meta-analyses	4
Sex- and age-related patterns in the use of analgesics in older patients in the emergency department	4
The feasibility and acceptability of frailty screening tools in the Emergency Department and the additional value of clinical judgment for frailty detection	4
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	4
Acute heart failure in elderly patients admitted to the emergency department with acute dyspnea: a multimarker approach diagnostic study	4
Procalcitonin is a biomarker for disease severity rather than bacterial co-infection in COVID-19	4
Towards a more uniform approach to prehospital care in the USA	4
Association of frailty on treatment outcomes among patients with suspected infection treated at emergency departments	4
The Pediatric Emergency Research Network: a decade old and growing	4
Inflammation and corticosteroids in acute heart failure	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
Attitudes and knowledge of emergency doctors towards end-of-life care in the emergency department: a national survey	4
Gender disparity in emergency medicine authorship	4
Accuracy of pulse CO-oximetry to evaluate blood carboxyhemoglobin level: a systematic review and meta-analysis of diagnostic test accuracy studies	4
Emergency medicine specialization: the French and Belgian perspective	4
Identifying needs of older patients at the emergency department	3
Effect of replacing ambulance physicians with paramedics on outcome of resuscitation for prehospital cardiac arrest	3
Comparison of seven prehospital early warning scores to predict long-term mortality: a prospective, multicenter, ambulance-based study	3
The Royal College of Emergency Medicine’s curriculum in the UK	3
Randomized controlled trials to evaluate extracorporeal cardiopulmonary resuscitation in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest: the expected failure	3
Exposure to organophosphorus compounds: best practice in managing timely, effective emergency responses	3
Myocardial dysfunction after cardiac arrest: tips and pitfalls	3
Reliability of the HEART-score in the prehospital setting using point-of-care troponin	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
Diagnosis and practical management of digoxin toxicity: a narrative review and consensus	3
European Journal of Emergency Medicine position on reporting sex and gender	3
European guidelines on the management of upper gastrointestinal bleeding: where are emergency physicians?	3
Assessment of patient mobility improves the risk stratification of triage with the Emergency Severity Index: a prospective cohort study	3
Impact of pregabalin co-use in patients presenting with acute heroin toxicity to the European Drug Emergencies Network Plus project	3
Adherence to guideline recommendations in the management of pediatric cardiac arrest: a multicentre observational simulation-based study	3
Crowding, perceived crowding and workload in Dutch emergency departments: should we continue on the same road?	3
Association of dispatcher-assisted cardiopulmonary resuscitation with initial shockable rhythm and survival after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest	3
Association of a telephone triage service for emergency patients with better outcome: a population-based study in Osaka City, Japan	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
The new 2021 Surviving Sepsis Guidelines: an emergency department perspective may be more effective	3
Eighteen months later…	3
Impact of worsening renal function detected at emergency department arrival on acute heart failure short-term outcomes	3
Midazolam versus morphine in acute cardiogenic pulmonary edema patients with and without atrial fibrillation: findings from the MIMO trial	3
Relation between chest compression rate and depth: the ENFONCE Study	3
Do emergency medicine health care workers rate triage level of chest pain differently based upon appearance in simulated patients?	3