Albert W. Wu

47.3k total citations · 9 hit papers
434 papers, 32.4k citations indexed

About

Albert W. Wu is a scholar working on General Health Professions, Emergency Medical Services and Infectious Diseases. According to data from OpenAlex, Albert W. Wu has authored 434 papers receiving a total of 32.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 109 papers in General Health Professions, 109 papers in Emergency Medical Services and 92 papers in Infectious Diseases. Recurrent topics in Albert W. Wu's work include Patient Safety and Medication Errors (88 papers), HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions (83 papers) and Medical Malpractice and Liability Issues (77 papers). Albert W. Wu is often cited by papers focused on Patient Safety and Medication Errors (88 papers), HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions (83 papers) and Medical Malpractice and Liability Issues (77 papers). Albert W. Wu collaborates with scholars based in United States, Italy and Canada. Albert W. Wu's co-authors include Haya R. Rubin, Neil R. Powe, Cynthia S. Rand, Modena Wilson, Michael D. Cabana, Peter J. Pronovost, Claire Snyder, Margaret A. Chesney, Dennis A. Revicki and David Osoba and has published in prestigious journals such as The Lancet, JAMA and Nature Medicine.

In The Last Decade

Albert W. Wu

418 papers receiving 31.0k citations

Hit Papers

Why Don't Physicians Follow Clinical Practice Guidelines? 1995 2026 2005 2015 1999 1995 2000 2002 2003 1000 2.0k 3.0k 4.0k 5.0k
What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. Why Don't Physicians Follow Clinical Practice Guidelines?
    1999 5.1k citations Albert W. Wu, Haya R. Rubin et al. profile →
  2. A controlled trial to improve care for seriously ill hospitalized patients. The study to understand prognoses and preferences for outcomes and risks of treatments (SUPPORT). The SUPPORT Principal Investigators
    1995 2.2k citations Albert W. Wu et al. profile →
  3. Self-reported adherence to antiretroviral medications among participants in HIV clinical trials: The AACTG Adherence Instruments
    2000 1.3k citations Albert W. Wu et al. AIDS Care profile →
  4. Methods to Explain the Clinical Significance of Health Status Measures
    2002 1.2k citations Albert W. Wu et al. profile →
  5. Noncardiac comorbidity increases preventable hospitalizations and mortality among medicare beneficiaries with chronic heart failure
    2003 603 citations Albert W. Wu et al. profile →
  6. Health Care Professionals as Second Victims after Adverse Events
    2012 343 citations Deborah Seys, Albert W. Wu et al. profile →
  7. Implementing the RISE second victim support programme at the Johns Hopkins Hospital: a case study
    2016 260 citations Lori Paine, Albert W. Wu et al. profile →
  8. Patient safety incident reporting: a qualitative study of thoughts and perceptions of experts 15 years after ‘To Err is Human’
    2015 227 citations Peter J. Pronovost, Albert W. Wu et al. BMJ Quality & Safety profile →
  9. Prospective, multi-site study of patient outcomes after implementation of the TREWS machine learning-based early warning system for sepsis
    2022 156 citations Albert W. Wu et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Albert W. Wu United States 87 8.5k 7.3k 6.1k 4.6k 4.4k 434 32.4k
Carlos A. Camargo United States 118 4.7k 0.5× 8.2k 1.1× 2.5k 0.4× 10.3k 2.3× 6.9k 1.6× 1.4k 58.3k
Steven M. Asch United States 73 8.1k 0.9× 5.1k 0.7× 2.0k 0.3× 6.3k 1.4× 2.3k 0.5× 575 24.7k
José G. Conde Puerto Rico 10 5.5k 0.6× 6.7k 0.9× 2.3k 0.4× 5.3k 1.2× 2.4k 0.5× 25 34.5k
Gunn Elisabeth Vist Norway 46 6.4k 0.8× 8.6k 1.2× 2.2k 0.4× 6.6k 1.5× 2.1k 0.5× 104 52.2k
Paul D. Cleary United States 85 13.8k 1.6× 5.1k 0.7× 2.1k 0.3× 3.0k 0.7× 1.9k 0.4× 348 29.2k
Elie A. Akl Canada 86 5.4k 0.6× 7.7k 1.1× 1.8k 0.3× 5.7k 1.3× 1.7k 0.4× 439 51.3k
Peter J. Pronovost United States 110 9.1k 1.1× 6.9k 0.9× 1.3k 0.2× 6.2k 1.4× 7.6k 1.7× 697 44.3k
Yngve Falck–Ytter United States 57 4.4k 0.5× 7.5k 1.0× 3.9k 0.7× 10.9k 2.4× 2.2k 0.5× 168 55.2k
Lehana Thabane Canada 84 6.4k 0.7× 5.4k 0.7× 2.8k 0.5× 5.2k 1.1× 1.8k 0.4× 1.1k 37.0k
Mary E. Charlson United States 47 6.0k 0.7× 4.8k 0.7× 2.6k 0.4× 10.0k 2.2× 4.2k 1.0× 133 52.8k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Vincent, Charles, Tommaso Bellandi, Helen Higham, et al.. (2025). Systems analysis of clinical incidents: development of a new edition of the London Protocol. BMJ Quality & Safety. 34(6). 413–420. 6 indexed citations
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Wu, Albert W., et al.. (2025). Challenges and solutions for rural domestic sewage treatment at the grassroots level in developing countries. Process Safety and Environmental Protection. 201. 107480–107480. 1 indexed citations
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Wu, Albert W., Allen Zhang, G. Caleb Alexander, et al.. (2025). Interventions to improve patient safety during the COVID-19 pandemic: a systematic review. BMJ Open Quality. 14(2). e003076–e003076.
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Boyer, Laurent, Albert W. Wu, Bach Xuan Tran, et al.. (2024). Exploring the fear of clinical errors: associations with socio-demographic, professional, burnout, and mental health factors in healthcare workers – A nationwide cross-sectional study. Frontiers in Public Health. 12. 1423905–1423905. 1 indexed citations
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Mira, José Joaquín, Susanna Tella, Kris Vanhaecht, et al.. (2024). The European Researchers’ Network Working on Second Victim (ERNST) Policy Statement on the Second Victim Phenomenon for Increasing Patient Safety. Public health reviews. 45. 1607175–1607175. 9 indexed citations
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Fong, Zhi Ven, Jonathan A. Teinor, Lilly Engineer, et al.. (2023). Caregiver‐reported quality of communication in pancreatic and periampullary cancer. Cancer. 130(11). 2051–2059. 5 indexed citations
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Härkänen, Marja, Adriana López‐Pineda, Susanna Tella, et al.. (2023). The impact of emotional support on healthcare workers and students coping with COVID-19, and other SARS-CoV pandemics – a mixed-methods systematic review. BMC Health Services Research. 23(1). 751–751. 11 indexed citations
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Fong, Zhi Ven, Jonathan A. Teinor, Theresa P. Yeo, et al.. (2023). Profile of the Postoperative Care Provided for Patients With Pancreatic and Periampullary Cancers by Family and Unpaid Caregivers. JCO Oncology Practice. 19(8). 551–559. 5 indexed citations
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Beres, Laura K., et al.. (2023). Patient interpretations vary for questions in the Patient-Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System Upper Extremity. Journal of Hand Surgery (European Volume). 48(7). 654–660. 2 indexed citations
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Fong, Zhi Ven, Jonathan A. Teinor, Theresa P. Yeo, et al.. (2022). Assessment of Caregivers’ Burden When Caring for Patients With Pancreatic and Periampullary Cancer. JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute. 114(11). 1468–1475. 16 indexed citations
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Long, Chao, Laura K. Beres, Albert W. Wu, & Aviram M. Giladi. (2021). Patient-level barriers and facilitators to completion of patient-reported outcomes measures. Quality of Life Research. 31(6). 1711–1718. 39 indexed citations
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Kroon, Eugène, Carlo Sacdalan, Phillip Chan, et al.. (2021). Persons living with HIV treated in acute HIV infection report good health-related quality of life in Thailand. AIDS Care. 34(8). 949–956. 1 indexed citations
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Long, Chao, Laura K. Beres, Albert W. Wu, & Aviram M. Giladi. (2021). Developing a protocol for adapting multimedia patient-reported outcomes measures for low literacy patients. PLoS ONE. 16(6). e0252684–e0252684. 11 indexed citations
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Tran, Quincy, Jamil D. Bayram, Romsai T. Boonyasai, et al.. (2016). Pediatric Emergency Department Return. Pediatric Emergency Care. 32(8). 570–577. 17 indexed citations
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Arbaje, Alicia I., Nicole E. Werner, Albert W. Wu, et al.. (2016). Learning From Lawsuits: Using Malpractice Claims Data to Develop Care Transitions Planning Tools. Journal of Patient Safety. 16(1). 52–57. 4 indexed citations
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McCay, Layla & Albert W. Wu. (2012). Medical error: the second victim. British Journal of Hospital Medicine. 73(Sup10). C146–C148. 16 indexed citations
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Kennedy, Mary‐Claire, Eduardo Salas, Albert W. Wu, et al.. (2009). Beyond “see one, do one, teach one”: toward a different training paradigm. Postgraduate Medical Journal. 85(1003). 244–249. 200 indexed citations
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Dy, Sydney M., Pushkal Garg, Dorothy Nyberg, et al.. (2003). . Medical Care. 41(5). 637–648. 4 indexed citations
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Dy, Sydney M., Pushkal Garg, Dorothy Nyberg, et al.. (2003). Are Critical Pathways Effective for Reducing Postoperative Length of Stay?. Medical Care. 41(5). 637–648. 41 indexed citations

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