Canadian Journal of Emergency Medicine

Papers
(The TQCC of Canadian Journal of Emergency Medicine is 2. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Just the facts: invasive Group A Streptococcal disease in the emergency department39
Global research highlights19
Early diagnosis of nonconvulsive status epilepticus due to lithium intoxication using 6-channel electroencephalography19
ATV associated injuries: any changes after 20 years?19
Provision of immobilization or ice by paramedics in Southwestern Ontario17
A new approach to follow-up of survivors of sexual assault in the emergency department?17
Emergency department ophthalmoscopy: physician confidence and clinical practices15
CJEM debate series: #StillTheOne—while more challenging than ever, emergency medicine is still the best career path available for medical students14
The relationship between prolonged emergency department (ED) wait times and short-term all-cause mortality: an analysis of multi-institutional administrative data in Alberta14
Competency based medical education (CBME) in CCFP(EM) programs13
People living with dementia deserve the best care possible in the emergency department13
Global Research Highlights13
“Eliminating the waiting game”: patient interview perspectives of a proposed online emergency department queuing tool to reduce in-hospital wait times13
The Goldilocks approach to trauma team activation: getting it ‘Just Right’12
Correction: Recommendations for patient-centered emergency care11
Implementing virtual urgent care services in emergency departments: a multi-site focus group study of adaptation and sustainability11
Management of a positive blood culture in the pediatric emergency department: a multicenter case-based survey11
Nudging for practice change: a comparison of medications for alcohol use disorder prescribing in the emergency department before and after implementation of a standardized order set for patients with 11
Continuous naloxone infusion for the treatment of guanfacine toxicity in a 2-year-old male10
Effectiveness of caregiver educational materials for paediatric community-acquired pneumonia in the emergency department: a qualitative study10
Medico-legal issues related to emergency physicians’ documentation in Canadian emergency departments9
ChatGPT-guided translation of pediatric emergency department discharge instructions9
Ready for practice? National recommendations for emergency medicine transition to practice curriculum9
Prevalence of pain-related presentations in Canadian pediatric emergency departments9
Twenty-six years of machine learning for ECG: and we are not there yet9
Just the facts: point-of-care ultrasound in cardiac arrest9
Global research highlights9
A system in crisis: exploring how recent emergency department closures influence potential access to emergency care in Ontario9
Patient opinion and acceptance of emergency department buprenorphine/naloxone to-go home initiation packs9
Randomized trial comparing low- vs high-dose IV dexamethasone for patients with moderate to severe migraine9
Just the facts: bronchiolitis in the pediatric population9
Caring for the invisible and forgotten: a qualitative document analysis and experience-based co-design project to improve the care of families experiencing out-of-hospital cardiac arrest9
Cost-utility analysis of routine oral anticoagulation for low-risk patients undergoing cardioversion for atrial fibrillation and flutter8
Leadership for change: working toward equity, diversity, and inclusion8
Just the facts: spontaneous coronary artery dissection8
Global Research Highlights8
DPIs cannot replace pMDIs in the management of obstructive airways disease8
Emergency department opioid discharge instructions: a multidisciplinary national Delphi study8
Emergency department resuscitative endovascular balloon occlusion of the aorta in trauma patients with exsanguinating hemorrhage: the UK-REBOA randomized clinical trial8
Correction: Development and evaluation of a clinical simulation-based educational innovation on sexual orientation and gender identity in emergency medicine8
Predicting the critical administration threshold in bleeding trauma patients8
Missing the needle in the haystack: diagnostic errors in neurological emergencies within Canadian emergency departments8
The third intensive care bundle with blood pressure reduction in acute cerebral haemorrhage trial (INTERACT3): an interactional, stepped wedge, cluster randomized controlled trial8
Tech the pressure off: streamlining ED discharges with digital solutions8
Reduction of urea test ordering in the emergency department: multicomponent intervention including education, electronic ordering, and data feedback8
Unpacking the connection between hospital operations and emergency department crowding and access block7
Topical non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug use for pediatric acute musculoskeletal pain: a scoping review7
Global Research Highlights7
Cardiac arrest caused by ruptured nonaneurysmal infectious aortitis7
Early Pregnancy Assessment centers for care of pregnant patients: a before and after review on emergency department utilization7
Addressing microaggressions with simulation: a novel educational intervention7
From “Airway scares me” to “I would say I’m pretty comfortable”: quality improvement for reducing time to obtain equipment for adult advanced airway management in a rural emergency department7
Describing a novel, national, vertical mentorship program for women in emergency medicine across Canada7
We are all connected: reimagining care for people experiencing houselessness7
How to assess and manage ulcerative colitis exacerbations in the emergency department7
Just the Facts: Diagnosis and management of pertussis in the emergency department7
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Giving feedback that sticks and receiving it with purpose: an approach to feedback conversations in the emergency department7
When prescriptions aren’t enough: a medical student’s call for compassionate leadership in social prescribing7
Socioeconomic and rural–urban inequalities in emergency department utilization during the perinatal period7
Prehospital tranexamic acid: more than just a PATCH for trauma systems?7
Software as medicine: the mobile health revolution7
Interprofessional clinical event debriefing-does it make a difference? Attitudes of emergency department care providers to INFO clinical event debriefings6
Women at the top: a qualitative study of women in leadership positions in emergency medicine in Canada6
Using cognitive load theory to develop an emergency airway management curriculum: the Queen’s University Mastery Airway Course (QUMAC)6
Just the facts: seizure prophylaxis post-traumatic brain injury (TBI)6
Repeatability, reproducibility, and diagnostic accuracy of a commercial large language model (ChatGPT) to perform emergency department triage using the Canadian triage and acuity scale6
Measuring and improving atrial fibrillation and flutter care in Canadian emergency departments6
Does targeting a higher versus lower MAP improve survival following out-of-hospital cardiac arrest?6
Do patient outcomes differ when the trauma team leader is a surgeon or non-surgeon? A multicentre cohort study6
Just the facts: sodium–glucose cotransporter-2 inhibitor-associated diabetic ketoacidosis6
How well does GPT-4 perform on an emergency medicine board exam? A comparative assessment6
Just the facts: recognizing and managing delirium in older adults in the ED6
An inventory of emergency department information systems (EDIS) in Canada: Benchmarking system functionality and technology readiness6
CJEM Debate Series: #TriageAgain—are current triage methods dangerous?… if we cannot actually treat those triaged as urgent within a safe time frame?6
CJEM debate series: Gestalt in emergency medicine: Judgment we should teach, or bias we should constrain?6
Air embolism case report6
Letter to the editor: improving accessibility and disability inclusion in career transitions6
Identifying barriers and facilitators to use of the Canadian emergency department best practices checklist for skin and soft tissue infections6
Are we talking about practice? A randomized study comparing simulation-based deliberate practice and mastery learning to self-guided practice6
Human vs. artificial intelligence in medical charting: a comparative study in the simulated emergency medicine context6
Global Research Highlights6
Social determinants of health in the emergency department: knowledge, practices, and barriers5
Out-of-office, into manuscripts: how writing retreats fuel emergency medicine scholarship5
When the patient wishes to leave5
The ultrasound competency assessment tool for evaluation of early pregnancy with POCUS5
The hospital care and outcomes of long-term care patients treated by paramedics during an emergency call: exploring the potential impact of ‘treat-and-refer’ pathways and community paramedicine5
Safely reducing abdominal/pelvic computed tomography imaging in pediatric trauma: a quality improvement initiative5
Just the facts: penicillin allergy in the emergency department5
Our duty to learners in the emergency department5
The impact of alternate level of care on access block and operational strategies to reduce emergency wait times: a multi-center simulation study5
Efficacy of hand-held metal detectors in the detection and localization of ingested metallic foreign bodies in children5
Development and implementation of the Compassionate 1 Curriculum: an educational initiative to improve the delivery of care to patients receiving involuntary orders for mental health emergencies5
Just the Facts: cannabinoid hyperemesis syndrome5
The value of MRI in transient ischemic attack/minor stroke following a negative CT for predicting subsequent stroke5
Canadian Emergency Department Best Practices Checklist for Skin and Soft Tissue Infections Part 1: Cellulitis5
Feasibility of patient-controlled analgesia (PCA) for rural and remote transfers5
Utilization of cardiac point-of-care ultrasound for atrial fibrillation management by Canadian emergency physicians: a cross-sectional survey5
Impact of a high sensitivity troponin accelerated diagnostic protocol on the safety and emergency department length of stay of chest pain in an academic tertiary hospital: a quality improvement study5
HEART + score: integrating carotid ultrasound to chest pain assessment in the emergency department5
Canadian Association of Emergency Physicians position statement on care of older people in Canadian Emergency Departments: executive summary5
Trauma-induced coagulopathy, could cryoprecipitates improve outcomes?4
Overuse of pharmacological treatments for patients with benign paroxysmal positional vertigo in the emergency department4
Caution Is Indicated When Using Fentanyl or Midazolam for Procedural Sedation in the Emergency Department4
Is the MEOWing of emergency department postpartum patients of diagnostic safety value?4
Just the Facts: role of corticosteroids for patients with septic shock, community-acquired pneumonia, and acute respiratory distress syndrome4
Keeping healthcare running: fighting the forces that drag it down4
Just the facts: calcium administration in trauma patients receiving massive blood transfusions4
Idiopathic fascicular ventricular tachycardia in children: a challenging arrythmia worth recognizing4
Successes and failures of ED trauma intubations4
“I am the doctor”: gender-based bias within the clinical practice of emergency medicine in Canada—a thematic analysis of physician and trainee interview data4
Maintaining screen awareness: the identification of fat embolism with point-of-care ultrasound while performing a nerve block4
Just the facts: How to diagnose and manage acute preschool asthma in the ED4
From theory to practice: sepsis guidelines to better outcomes4
Establishing a virtual pediatric emergency department follow-up program: a novel strategy for improving access to care4
Current use of simulation for EPA assessment in emergency medicine4
Anti-inflammatories as adjunct treatment for cellulitis: a systematic review and meta-analysis4
Health system utilization following medical advice from Alberta’s Virtual MD: a descriptive analysis4
CONSORT 2025: raising the bar for transparency in randomized trials4
Iliofemoral deep vein thrombosis presenting as left lower quadrant pain: a case report4
Suction-Assisted Airway Catheter Insertion for airway management in severe epistaxis: a case report4
Global research highlights4
Are patients seen by a supervised learner more likely to return to the Emergency Department? A regional multi-centre cohort study of electronic health records4
What is the risk of returning to the emergency department within 30 days for patients diagnosed with substance-induced psychosis?4
Using off-duty emergency physicians for paramedic consultation: a step forward with even greater potential4
Global research highlights4
Just the facts: whole bowel irrigation4
Injuries associated with e-scooter use in the City of Calgary: Canada joins an international conversation4
Vigilance and validity: the necessity of assessment system surveillance to ensure equity in emergency medicine4
Defining emergency physicians’ consultative roles in emergency care: a scoping review3
Emergency department leadership considerations for the next phase of the COVID-19 pandemic3
CAEP Position Statement Executive Summary3
SHoC-IVC: Does assessment of the inferior vena cava by point-of-care ultrasound independently predict fluid status in spontaneously breathing patients with undifferentiated hypotension?3
Just the facts on healthier shift scheduling: “We’re tired of being tired”3
Just the facts: transient global amnesia—clues and controversies in the emergency department3
Global research highlights3
Evaluation of physicians’ current practices and awareness regarding the treatment of acute uncomplicated diverticulitis: results of a provincial survey3
Should we apply the pressure in preoxygenation?3
Andexanet for factor Xa inhibitor-associated acute intracerebral hemorrhage3
Ketamine vs etomidate for rapid sequence intubation in critically ill adults3
Marine envenomation by a Pacific red octopus in Vancouver, British Columbia3
The nutcracker’s fracture: a rare avulsion injury from repetitive pistachio shelling3
Parents’ perspective on pediatric emergency department visits for low-acuity conditions before and during the COVID-19 pandemic: a cross-sectional bicentric study3
Tirofiban for stroke without large- or medium-sized vessel occlusion3
Disparities in emergency department boarding: contrasting mental health and non-mental health patients3
Healthcare workers’ perspectives on a prescription phone program to meet the health equity needs of patients in the emergency department: a qualitative study3
Crowned dens syndrome: a rare differential diagnosis of meningitis3
Global Research Highlights3
Does an intraosseous access-first strategy improve 30-day survival in out-of-hospital cardiac arrests?3
Global Research Highlights3
Global research highlights3
This is a call to action for all leaders in Emergency Medicine: men and women3
Alcohol and drug impairment in off-road vehicle crashes3
Just the facts: contrast allergy in the emergency department3
Cognitive load theory in action: e-learning modules improve performance in simulation-based education. A pilot study3
Antibiotic prescribing and outcomes for patients with uncomplicated purulent skin and soft tissue infections in the emergency department3
Need to Know: CJEM Journal Club—Does IV tenecteplase treatment before endovascular thrombectomy lead to improved functional outcomes than endovascular thrombectomy alone in patients with acute ischemi3
Case report: unmasked Brugada pattern in a post-arrest patient after ketamine induction for intubation in the emergency department3
Saving emergency medicine, part three: compassion3
Just the facts: Evaluation and management of spontaneous bacterial peritonitis3
Flow, icebergs and lifeboats…and the importance of system wide curricular change3
Family acceptance of community-based alternatives to emergency visits: an opportunity to support the medical home model of primary care3
Community healthcare appointments as an alternative to emergency department assessment: an exploration of family acceptability and preferences3
Global research highlights3
We can do better for children in distress3
One giant leap for cephalexin dosing, one small step for antimicrobial stewardship3
Just The Facts: Management of Febrile Infants 60 Days Old and Younger3
Just the facts: work-related musculoskeletal injuries in the emergency department3
Evaluation of probability-adjusted D-dimer algorithms among patients imaged for pulmonary embolism in three Canadian emergency departments2
Impact of virtual care on planned rechecks in a pediatric emergency department: a quality improvement project2
Correction: Barriers and facilitators to the implementation of rapid HIV testing in Canadian Emergency Departments: a mixed methods study2
Diagnosis of a rare pediatric case of small-bowel obstruction secondary to a phytobezoar in a Meckel’s diverticulum aided by point-of-care ultrasound2
Correction: Saving emergency medicine part two: better together2
Author reply to: Pre-induction vasopressor use to reduce post-intubation hypotension2
Co-designing a web-based education platform for patients with early pregnancy loss2
Left without being seen: from familiar problem to escalating crisis2
A multicenter prospective cohort study evaluating 30-day outcomes after an emergency department visit for hyperglycemia in Canadian adults with type 1 or 2 diabetes2
Building health literacy to help direct pediatric care choices effectively2
Global research highlights2
POCUS literature primer: key papers on aorta and deep vein thrombosis POCUS2
Letter to the Editor: The current state of emergency medicine is a long-term threat to EM residency training2
Building a better mousetrap2
Paramedic use of ketamine for severe agitation and violence2
Acute coronary syndrome triggered by anaphylaxis: a rare case of Kounis syndrome with recurrent stent thrombosis2
A reality check for emergency department crowding interventions2
The use of vasopressors to reduce post-intubation hypotension in critically ill adult patients undergoing emergent endotracheal intubation: a scoping review2
A POCUS-first pathway to streamline care for children with suspected ileocolic intussusception2
Noncompaction cardiomyopathy with Associated Pulmonary Embolism, Dextrocardia, and Poland Syndrome: A Rare Case Report2
Improving quality and safety in emergency department cardiac ultrasound: an urgent need for change2
Bridging the emergency department care gap for Indigenous women2
Global research highlights2
Risk factors for acute appendicitis among adult patients with indeterminate ultrasound2
Early prediction of ventricular fibrillation using electrocardiographic characteristics in prehospital suspected ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction: a case–control study2
Just the Facts:Sphenopalatine ganglion block for acute migraine management in ED2
Just the facts: ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome – a primer for emergency physicians2
CJEM introduces Brief Quality Reports2
Responding to the war in Ukraine2
Off-road vehicle crashes: dangers of alcohol and drug impairment2
A step-by-step approach to patients leaving against medical advice (AMA) in the emergency department2
Pre-induction vasopressor use to reduce post-intubation hypotension2
An overview of vasopressors for post‐intubation hypotension in critically ill adult patients: the lay of the land2
Medico-legal risk and use of medical directives in the emergency department2
Vitamin C deficiency in a 12-year-old male presenting with knee pain: a case report2
Just the facts: POCUS assessment for deep venous thrombosis2
Just the facts: emergency department approach to vaso-occlusive episodes in sickle cell disease2
Global emergency medicine: four part series2
Effectiveness of intravenous prostaglandin to reduce digital amputations from frostbite: an observational study2
Sex differences in the one-year outcomes of emergency department patients with alcohol withdrawal2
Risk factors associated with 1-week revisit among emergency department patients with alcohol withdrawal2
Adding YEARS to optimize emergency department pulmonary embolism diagnostic workup2
Global Research Highlights2
Providing palliative care at home aligns with the professional identity of paramedics: a qualitative study of paramedics and palliative health care providers2
Benzodiazepines, hypnotics, and the road ahead2
In this issue: An example of the value of theory informed qualitative analysis to emergency medicine2
Letter to the CJEM Editor: response to Dr. Kaplan2
#AIAuthorship. The CJEM debate: is there a place for generative AI in data analysis and writing within scholarly manuscript preparation?2
Exploring gender influences in the quality of workplace-based assessments2
Video versus direct laryngoscopy for tracheal intubation of critically ill adults2
The U-POCUS protocol: urinalysis and point-of-care ultrasound to exclude symptomatic ureterolithiasis in emergency department patients2
Who cares about the money: do health economic evaluation studies published in emergency medicine journals cut the mustard?2
The trolley problem in the ED2
Evaluation of a prehospital endovascular therapy stroke bypass program2
Enigmatic Medicine: a proposed rebranding of emergency medicine2
Emergency care clinical networks2
Clinical adaptations for advanced career emergency physicians: an approach to support practice transition2
Examining the geriatric-friendliness of emergency departments in the Canadian province with the oldest population2
The ten commandments of point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS)2
The role of partial resuscitative endovascular balloon occlusion of the aorta in pre-hospital trauma2
Tubes, lines, and videotape: a new era for quality and safety in trauma resuscitation2
Busier emergency departments: same triage systems—can AI solve the “next-to-be-seen” problem?2
Hospital triage tools used during disaster events in Canada over the last four decades: a scoping review2
Just the Facts: Management of return of spontaneous circulation after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest2
Alternatives to the transfer of long-term care patients to emergency departments: a new kind of house call?2
Violence against healthcare and public safety professionals: is bill C-321 a solution?2
Using quality improvement approaches to increase emergency department provider engagement in research participant enrollment during COVID-19 and opioid overdose public health emergencies2
Reducing emergency department return visits for ultrasound imaging: a quality improvement initiative2
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