OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Academic Emergency Medicine is 30. 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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
Early Self‐Proning in Awake, Non‐intubated Patients in the Emergency Department: A Single ED’s Experience During the COVID‐19 Pandemic	266
Hospital Emergency Management Plan During the COVID‐19 Epidemic	151
Information and Disinformation: Social Media in the COVID‐19 Crisis	121
Comparing Rapid Scoring Systems in Mortality Prediction of Critically Ill Patients With Novel Coronavirus Disease	119
Novel Use of Home Pulse Oximetry Monitoring in COVID‐19 Patients Discharged From the Emergency Department Identifies Need for Hospitalization	118
Academic Emergency Medicine Physicians' Anxiety Levels, Stressors, and Potential Stress Mitigation Measures During the Acceleration Phase of the COVID‐19 Pandemic	107
Effect of the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID‐19) Pandemic on the U.S. Emergency Medical Services System: A Preliminary Report	101
Containing COVID‐19 in the Emergency Department: The Role of Improved Case Detection and Segregation of Suspect Cases	90
A Rapid Systematic Review of Clinical Trials Utilizing Chloroquine and Hydroxychloroquine as a Treatment for COVID‐19	88
Clinical Course and Factors Associated With Hospitalization and Critical Illness Among COVID‐19 Patients in Chicago, Illinois	71
Disparities in Care: The Role of Race on the Utilization of Physical Restraints in the Emergency Setting	62
Diagnosing COVID‐19 in the Emergency Department: A Scoping Review of Clinical Examinations, Laboratory Tests, Imaging Accuracy, and Biases	62
Can Emergency Physicians Accurately Rule Out a Central Cause of Vertigo Using the HINTS Examination? A Systematic Review and Meta‐analysis	60
Symptom Criteria for COVID‐19 Testing of Heath Care Workers	58
Senior Medical Students in the COVID‐19 Response: An Opportunity to Be Proactive	54
Myopericarditis in a previously healthy adolescent male following COVID‐19 vaccination: A case report	53
Awake Prone Positioning in COVID‐19 Hypoxemic Respiratory Failure: Exploratory Findings in a Single‐center Retrospective Cohort Study	52
Delirium Prevention, Detection, and Treatment in Emergency Medicine Settings: A Geriatric Emergency Care Applied Research (GEAR) Network Scoping Review and Consensus Statement	50
Vaccination rates and acceptance of SARS‐CoV‐2 vaccination among U.S. emergency department health care personnel	49
Emergency Potassium Normalization Treatment Including Sodium Zirconium Cyclosilicate: A Phase II, Randomized, Double‐blind, Placebo‐controlled Study (ENERGIZE)	48
Association Between Pulmonary Embolism and COVID‐19 in Emergency Department Patients Undergoing Computed Tomography Pulmonary Angiogram: The PEPCOV International Retrospective Study	47
Ketamine Versus Etomidate and Peri‐intubation Hypotension: A National Emergency Airway Registry Study	45
Racial and ethnic disparities in the delayed diagnosis of appendicitis among children	39
Machine Learning Versus Usual Care for Diagnostic and Prognostic Prediction in the Emergency Department: A Systematic Review	34
Systematic Review of Aortic Dissection Detection Risk Score Plus D‐dimer for Diagnostic Rule‐out Of Suspected Acute Aortic Syndromes	34

SARS‐CoV‐2 viral load in nasopharyngeal swabs in the emergency department does not predict COVID‐19 severity and mortality	33
Diagnostic Accuracy of the HINTS Exam in an Emergency Department: A Retrospective Chart Review	33
Differentiating central from peripheral causes of acute vertigo in an emergency setting with the HINTS, STANDING, and ABCD2 tests: A diagnostic cohort study	32
Emergency Department Visits for Serious Diagnoses During the COVID‐19 Pandemic	30
Etomidate Use Is Associated With Less Hypotension Than Ketamine for Emergency Department Sepsis Intubations: A NEAR Cohort Study	30
Effect of prehospital workflow optimization on treatment delays and clinical outcomes in acute ischemic stroke: A systematic review and meta‐analysis	30