David W. Bates

97.1k total citations · 34 hit papers
930 papers, 67.6k citations indexed

About

David W. Bates is a scholar working on Health Information Management, Emergency Medical Services and General Health Professions. According to data from OpenAlex, David W. Bates has authored 930 papers receiving a total of 67.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 381 papers in Health Information Management, 272 papers in Emergency Medical Services and 212 papers in General Health Professions. Recurrent topics in David W. Bates's work include Electronic Health Records Systems (360 papers), Patient Safety and Medication Errors (262 papers) and Pharmaceutical Practices and Patient Outcomes (199 papers). David W. Bates is often cited by papers focused on Electronic Health Records Systems (360 papers), Patient Safety and Medication Errors (262 papers) and Pharmaceutical Practices and Patient Outcomes (199 papers). David W. Bates collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Switzerland. David W. Bates's co-authors include Rainu Kaushal, Tejal K. Gandhi, Gilad J. Kuperman, Lucian L. Leape, Jeffrey M. Rothschild, Elisabeth Burdick, Atul A. Gawande, Diane L. Seger, Blackford Middleton and Harvey J. Murff and has published in prestigious journals such as New England Journal of Medicine, The Lancet and JAMA.

In The Last Decade

David W. Bates

904 papers receiving 63.9k citations

Hit Papers

Incidence of Adverse Drug Events and Potential Adverse Dr... 1995 2026 2005 2015 1995 1998 2003 2013 2003 500 1000 1.5k
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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. Incidence of Adverse Drug Events and Potential Adverse Drug Events
    1995 1.7k citations David W. Bates profile →
  2. Effect of Computerized Physician Order Entry and a Team Intervention on Prevention of Serious Medication Errors
    1998 1.6k citations David W. Bates profile →
  3. The Incidence and Severity of Adverse Events Affecting Patients after Discharge from the Hospital
    2003 1.5k citations David W. Bates et al. profile →
  4. Health Care–Associated Infections
    2013 1.3k citations David W. Bates et al. JAMA Internal Medicine profile →
  5. Incidence and Preventability of Adverse Drug Events Among Older Persons in the Ambulatory Setting
    2003 1.3k citations Jeffrey M. Rothschild, David W. Bates et al. profile →
  6. Effect of Reducing Interns' Work Hours on Serious Medical Errors in Intensive Care Units
    2004 1.3k citations Jeffrey M. Rothschild, Rainu Kaushal et al. profile →
  7. The costs of adverse drug events in hospitalized patients. Adverse Drug Events Prevention Study Group
    1997 1.2k citations David W. Bates profile →
  8. Adverse Drug Events in Ambulatory Care
    2003 1.0k citations David W. Bates et al. profile →
  9. Effects of computerized physician order entry and clinical decision support systems on medication safety: a systematic review.
    2003 1.0k citations Rainu Kaushal, David W. Bates et al. PubMed profile →
  10. Improving Safety with Information Technology
    2003 1.0k citations David W. Bates et al. profile →
  11. Personal Health Records: Definitions, Benefits, and Strategies for Overcoming Barriers to Adoption
    2005 993 citations Joan S. Ash, David W. Bates et al. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association profile →
  12. Ten Commandments for Effective Clinical Decision Support: Making the Practice of Evidence-based Medicine a Reality
    2003 970 citations David W. Bates, Lynn A. Volk et al. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association profile →
  13. The Costs of Adverse Drug Events in Hospitalized Patients
    1997 907 citations David W. Bates profile →
  14. Relationship between medication errors and adverse drug events
    1995 757 citations David W. Bates et al. profile →
  15. Big Data In Health Care: Using Analytics To Identify And Manage High-Risk And High-Cost Patients
    2014 734 citations David W. Bates et al. profile →
  16. Reducing the Frequency of Errors in Medicine Using Information Technology
    2001 693 citations David W. Bates et al. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association profile →
  17. The Critical Care Safety Study: The incidence and nature of adverse events and serious medical errors in intensive care*
    2005 667 citations Jeffrey M. Rothschild, Rainu Kaushal et al. profile →
  18. Somatization Increases Medical Utilization and Costs Independent of Psychiatric and Medical Comorbidity
    2005 649 citations E. John Orav, David W. Bates et al. profile →
  19. Role of Pharmacist Counseling in Preventing Adverse Drug Events After Hospitalization
    2006 626 citations David W. Bates et al. profile →
  20. Clinical Use of Bone Densitometry
    2002 608 citations David W. Bates et al. profile →
  21. Medication Errors Observed in 36 Health Care Facilities
    2002 602 citations David W. Bates et al. profile →
  22. Medication-related Clinical Decision Support in Computerized Provider Order Entry Systems: A Review
    2006 568 citations David W. Bates et al. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association profile →
  23. The Value Of Health Care Information Exchange And Interoperability
    2005 564 citations David W. Bates et al. profile →
  24. The costs of adverse drug events in hospitalized patients. Adverse Drug Events Prevention Study Group.
    1997 535 citations David W. Bates et al. PubMed profile →
  25. A cost-benefit analysis of electronic medical records in primary care
    2003 521 citations David W. Bates et al. profile →
  26. Systems analysis of adverse drug events. ADE Prevention Study Group.
    1995 495 citations David W. Bates et al. PubMed profile →
  27. Effect of Bar-Code Technology on the Safety of Medication Administration
    2010 380 citations Eric G. Poon, Jeffrey M. Rothschild et al. profile →
  28. The global burden of unsafe medical care: analytic modelling of observational studies
    2013 356 citations David W. Bates et al. profile →
  29. Physician Burnout in the Electronic Health Record Era: Are We Ignoring the Real Cause?
    2018 281 citations David W. Bates et al. profile →
  30. Assessing the potential of GPT-4 to perpetuate racial and gender biases in health care: a model evaluation study
    2023 222 citations Jorge A. Rodriguez, David W. Bates et al. profile →
  31. Two Decades Since To Err Is Human : An Assessment Of Progress And Emerging Priorities In Patient Safety
    2018 207 citations David W. Bates et al. profile →
  32. Disparities In Telehealth Use Among California Patients With Limited English Proficiency
    2021 175 citations Jorge A. Rodriguez, David W. Bates et al. profile →
  33. The Expanding Digital Divide: Digital Health Access Inequities during the COVID-19 Pandemic in New York City
    2021 144 citations Chukwuma N. Eruchalu, Margaret S. Pichardo et al. Journal of Urban Health profile →
  34. Examination of Stigmatizing Language in the Electronic Health Record
    2022 99 citations David W. Bates, Li Zhou et al. JAMA Network Open 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 W. Bates United States 122 21.9k 19.0k 17.1k 13.9k 7.8k 930 67.6k
Peter J. Pronovost United States 110 3.5k 0.2× 13.0k 0.7× 2.7k 0.2× 9.1k 0.7× 6.9k 0.9× 697 44.3k
Jeremy Grimshaw Canada 112 3.3k 0.2× 2.2k 0.1× 2.7k 0.2× 32.0k 2.3× 21.1k 2.7× 681 72.2k
R. Brian Haynes Canada 86 4.2k 0.2× 1.1k 0.1× 3.8k 0.2× 15.4k 1.1× 9.0k 1.2× 381 48.4k
Aziz Sheikh United Kingdom 106 3.6k 0.2× 2.4k 0.1× 1.9k 0.1× 9.7k 0.7× 7.9k 1.0× 1.0k 46.9k
Harlan M. Krumholz United States 160 2.1k 0.1× 1.9k 0.1× 3.8k 0.2× 14.0k 1.0× 9.6k 1.2× 1.3k 96.5k
Troyen A. Brennan United States 72 2.5k 0.1× 5.6k 0.3× 1.8k 0.1× 6.8k 0.5× 3.7k 0.5× 314 22.6k
Ashish K. Jha United States 78 5.3k 0.2× 2.2k 0.1× 1.2k 0.1× 9.8k 0.7× 3.1k 0.4× 287 24.4k
Rainu Kaushal United States 53 5.1k 0.2× 4.2k 0.2× 2.8k 0.2× 3.1k 0.2× 1.5k 0.2× 218 13.3k
Johanna Westbrook Australia 57 4.2k 0.2× 3.0k 0.2× 2.0k 0.1× 5.3k 0.4× 2.4k 0.3× 541 14.5k
Charles Vincent United Kingdom 86 3.0k 0.1× 9.3k 0.5× 1.2k 0.1× 4.7k 0.3× 3.2k 0.4× 449 23.4k

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All Works

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Kang, Min‐Jeoung, Richard Schreiber, Frank Chang, et al.. (2025). Delayed Venous Thromboembolism Diagnosis and Mortality Risk. JAMA Network Open. 8(9). e2533928–e2533928.
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Shiang, Tina, Richard W. Hanson, Ronilda Lacson, et al.. (2025). Inpatient Imaging Utilization and Radiology Workload: Trends of the Past Decade and Through the COVID-19 Pandemic. Journal of the American College of Radiology. 22(9). 979–989. 1 indexed citations
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Berlin, Nicholas L., Zoey Chopra, Caroline P. Thirukumaran, et al.. (2025). Low participation in voluntary period for patient-reported outcome performance measures for hip and knee replacement. Health Affairs Scholar. 3(6). qxaf111–qxaf111.
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Lyng, Hilda Bø, Eline Ree, Ingunn Aase, et al.. (2024). Barriers and enablers for externally and internally driven implementation processes in healthcare: a qualitative cross-case study. BMC Health Services Research. 24(1). 528–528.
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Rocha, Hermano Alexandre Lima, Vasco Furtado, David W. Bates, et al.. (2024). COVID-19 outbreaks surveillance through text mining applied to electronic health records. BMC Infectious Diseases. 24(1). 2 indexed citations
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Libon, David J., Rodney Swenson, Sean Tobyne, et al.. (2024). A Brief Digital Neuropsychological Protocol: III ‐ Using Artificial Intelligence to Measure Semantic Memory with the ‘Animal’ Fluency Test. Alzheimer s & Dementia. 20(S2). 1 indexed citations
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Haas, Brian W., Ali Jannati, John Showalter, et al.. (2024). DCTclock metrics differentiate between amnestic and vascular mild cognitive impairment. Alzheimer s & Dementia. 20(S3). e089745–e089745. 1 indexed citations
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Sarkar, Urmimala & David W. Bates. (2024). Proactively Designing Generative Artificial Intelligence for Primary Care—Reply. JAMA Internal Medicine. 184(8). 992–992.
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Sladek, Michael R., et al.. (2022). “So, like, it’s all a mix of one”: Intersecting contexts of adolescents’ ethnic-racial socialization. Child Development. 93(5). 1284–1303. 25 indexed citations
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Eruchalu, Chukwuma N., Margaret S. Pichardo, Maheetha Bharadwaj, et al.. (2021). The Expanding Digital Divide: Digital Health Access Inequities during the COVID-19 Pandemic in New York City. Journal of Urban Health. 98(2). 183–186. 144 indexed citations breakdown →
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Witt, Emily E., Chukwuma N. Eruchalu, Tanujit Dey, et al.. (2021). Non-English Primary Language Is Associated with Short-Term Outcomes After Supratentorial Tumor Resection. World Neurosurgery. 155. e484–e502. 10 indexed citations
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Syrowatka, Ania, Alexandra Businger, Stuart R. Lipsitz, et al.. (2020). Development and Alpha Testing of Specifications for a Prolonged Opioid Prescribing Electronic Clinical Quality Measure (eCQM).. PubMed. 2020. 1022–1030. 2 indexed citations
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Bates, David W. & P. G. Migliore. (2018). Innovate or stagnate: Digitalisation in investment management. 10(4). 296–296. 1 indexed citations
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Wright, Adam, Angela Ai, Joan S. Ash, et al.. (2017). Clinical decision support alert malfunctions: analysis and empirically derived taxonomy. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association. 25(5). 496–506. 56 indexed citations
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Koizumi, Akira, Yoshinori Ohta, Mio Sakuma, et al.. (2017). Differences in Adverse Drug Events Among Pediatric Patients With and Without Cancer: Sub-Analysis of a Retrospective Cohort Study. Drugs - Real World Outcomes. 4(3). 167–173. 2 indexed citations
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Bitton, Asaf, et al.. (2016). Enhanced primary care and impact on quality of care in Massachusetts.. PubMed. 22(5). e169–74. 6 indexed citations
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Bates, David W., et al.. (2012). Notes on Contributors. Milbank Quarterly. 90(3). 619–629. 1 indexed citations
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Rothschild, Jeffrey M., Siobhan McGurk, Melissa Honour, et al.. (2006). Assessment of education and computerized decision support interventions for improving transfusion practice. Transfusion. 47(2). 228–239. 98 indexed citations
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Simon, Steven R., Rainu Kaushal, Paul D. Cleary, et al.. (2006). Correlates of electronic health record adoption in office practices: a statewide survey.. PubMed. 1098–1098. 22 indexed citations

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