David Pilcher

20.8k total citations · 6 hit papers
364 papers, 12.5k citations indexed

About

David Pilcher is a scholar working on Epidemiology, Emergency Medicine and Surgery. According to data from OpenAlex, David Pilcher has authored 364 papers receiving a total of 12.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 141 papers in Epidemiology, 123 papers in Emergency Medicine and 93 papers in Surgery. Recurrent topics in David Pilcher's work include Sepsis Diagnosis and Treatment (113 papers), Cardiac Arrest and Resuscitation (69 papers) and Emergency and Acute Care Studies (62 papers). David Pilcher is often cited by papers focused on Sepsis Diagnosis and Treatment (113 papers), Cardiac Arrest and Resuscitation (69 papers) and Emergency and Acute Care Studies (62 papers). David Pilcher collaborates with scholars based in Australia, New Zealand and United States. David Pilcher's co-authors include Michael Bailey, Rinaldo Bellomo, D. James Cooper, Kirsi‐Maija Kaukonen, Satoshi Suzuki, Carlos Scheinkestel, Vincent Pellegrino, Carol Hodgson, Matthieu Schmidt and Andrew Udy and has published in prestigious journals such as New England Journal of Medicine, JAMA and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

David Pilcher

336 papers receiving 12.2k citations

Hit Papers

Mortality Related to Severe Sepsis and Septic Shock Among... 2014 2026 2018 2022 2014 2017 2015 2015 2014 400 800 1.2k
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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. Mortality Related to Severe Sepsis and Septic Shock Among Critically Ill Patients in Australia and New Zealand, 2000-2012
    2014 1.2k citations Michael Bailey, David Pilcher et al. profile →
  2. Prognostic Accuracy of the SOFA Score, SIRS Criteria, and qSOFA Score for In-Hospital Mortality Among Adults With Suspected Infection Admitted to the Intensive Care Unit
    2017 786 citations Andrew Udy, Michael Bailey et al. profile →
  3. Systemic Inflammatory Response Syndrome Criteria in Defining Severe Sepsis
    2015 769 citations Michael Bailey, David Pilcher et al. profile →
  4. Predicting survival after ECMO for refractory cardiogenic shock: the survival after veno-arterial-ECMO (SAVE)-score
    2015 550 citations Matthieu Schmidt, Aidan Burrell et al. profile →
  5. Predicting Survival after Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation for Severe Acute Respiratory Failure. The Respiratory Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation Survival Prediction (RESP) Score
    2014 500 citations Matthieu Schmidt, Michael Bailey et al. American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine profile →
  6. Gastrointestinal Carriage Is a Major Reservoir of Klebsiella pneumoniae Infection in Intensive Care Patients
    2017 364 citations David Pilcher 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
David Pilcher Australia 50 4.6k 3.9k 3.2k 2.7k 2.7k 364 12.5k
Kathy Rowan United Kingdom 64 5.2k 1.1× 4.2k 1.1× 4.0k 1.3× 3.4k 1.2× 901 0.3× 281 16.2k
Janice L. Zimmerman United States 29 4.4k 1.0× 4.0k 1.0× 1.9k 0.6× 2.4k 0.9× 953 0.4× 71 10.8k
Daniel Talmor United States 59 3.7k 0.8× 4.1k 1.1× 2.4k 0.8× 4.1k 1.5× 1.5k 0.6× 233 13.9k
Lena M. Napolitano United States 60 4.3k 0.9× 3.6k 0.9× 5.9k 1.8× 4.3k 1.6× 792 0.3× 277 17.2k
Laurent Papazian France 66 4.3k 0.9× 3.1k 0.8× 1.9k 0.6× 5.5k 2.0× 1.6k 0.6× 289 15.9k
David A Harrison United Kingdom 62 6.1k 1.3× 3.3k 0.9× 4.6k 1.5× 2.7k 1.0× 717 0.3× 281 14.9k
Ognjen Gajic United States 61 3.8k 0.8× 2.8k 0.7× 2.1k 0.7× 3.4k 1.3× 697 0.3× 358 11.5k
Simon Finfer Australia 52 5.4k 1.2× 2.4k 0.6× 2.7k 0.8× 4.2k 1.5× 802 0.3× 210 13.1k
Joseph A. Carcillo United States 63 9.5k 2.1× 2.9k 0.7× 3.0k 0.9× 3.7k 1.3× 1.2k 0.4× 291 20.8k
Emanuel P. Rivers United States 40 7.8k 1.7× 3.1k 0.8× 4.5k 1.4× 3.1k 1.2× 932 0.3× 127 12.4k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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All Works

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Dendle, Claire, Monica A. Slavin, Robert Weinkove, et al.. (2024). Neutropenic Sepsis in the Intensive Care Unit: Differences in Clinical Profile and Outcomes According to the Cause of Neutropenia. Open Forum Infectious Diseases. 11(6). ofae289–ofae289. 1 indexed citations
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Ziegler, Jennifer, David Pilcher, Rinaldo Bellomo, et al.. (2024). Epidemiology of Renal Replacement Therapy for Critically Ill Patients across Seven Health Jurisdictions. American Journal of Nephrology. 55(5). 539–550. 2 indexed citations
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Bloom, Jason, E. Paratz, L. Dawson, et al.. (2024). Healthcare and economic cost burden of emergency medical services treated non-traumatic shock using a population-based cohort in Victoria, Australia. BMJ Open. 14(4). e078435–e078435. 2 indexed citations
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Stephens, Andrew F., David Pilcher, Ryan P. Barbaro, et al.. (2023). ECMO PAL: using deep neural networks for survival prediction in venoarterial extracorporeal membrane oxygenation. Intensive Care Medicine. 49(9). 1090–1099. 20 indexed citations
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Tiruvoipati, Ravindranath, Ary Serpa Neto, John Wilson, et al.. (2021). An Exploratory Analysis of the Association between Hypercapnia and Hospital Mortality in Critically Ill Patients with Sepsis. Annals of the American Thoracic Society. 19(2). 245–254. 11 indexed citations
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Pilcher, David, et al.. (2021). Does equipoise exist amongst experts regarding the role of hyperbaric oxygen treatment for necrotising soft tissue infection?. ANZ Journal of Surgery. 91(4). 485–487. 1 indexed citations
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Wilson, Anthony, et al.. (2021). Comparison of Intensive Care and Trauma-specific Scoring Systems in Critically Ill Patients. Injury. 52(9). 2543–2550. 8 indexed citations
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Snell, Gregory I., Mark McDonald, Rohit D’Costa, et al.. (2021). Improving the predictability of time to death in controlled donation after circulatory death lung donors. Transplant International. 34(5). 906–915. 5 indexed citations
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Pilcher, David, Edward Litton, Johnny Millar, et al.. (2018). In-hospital cardiac arrests: events worth monitoring?. Critical Care and Resuscitation. 20(4). 321–321. 1 indexed citations
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Bailey, Michael, Rinaldo Bellomo, Peter Stow, et al.. (2016). Insurance status and mortality in critically ill patients. Critical Care and Resuscitation. 18(1). 43–e11. 9 indexed citations
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Santamaria, John, Graeme Duke, David Pilcher, et al.. (2015). The Timing of Discharge from the Intensive Care Unit and Subsequent Mortality. A Prospective, Multicenter Study. American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine. 191(9). 1033–1039. 36 indexed citations
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Schmidt, Matthieu, Michael Bailey, Jayne Sheldrake, et al.. (2014). Predicting Survival after Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation for Severe Acute Respiratory Failure. The Respiratory Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation Survival Prediction (RESP) Score. American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine. 189(11). 1374–1382. 500 indexed citations breakdown →
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Schneider, Antoine, Miklós Lipcsey, Michael Bailey, David Pilcher, & Rinaldo Bellomo. (2012). Relationship between illness severity scores in acute kidney injury. Critical Care and Resuscitation. 14(1). 53–55. 6 indexed citations
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Miles, Lachlan F., Michael Bailey, Paul J. Young, & David Pilcher. (2012). Differences in mortality based on worsening ratio of partial pressure of oxygen to fraction of inspired oxygen corrected for immune system status and respiratory support. Critical Care and Resuscitation. 14(1). 25–32. 4 indexed citations
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McNamee, James J., David Pilcher, Michael Bailey, Edwina C. Moore, & Heather Cleland. (2010). Mortality prediction and outcomes among burns patients from Australian and New Zealand intensive care units. Critical Care and Resuscitation. 12(3). 196–201. 11 indexed citations

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