Friedhelm Sandbrink

2.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
47 papers, 1.7k citations indexed

About

Friedhelm Sandbrink is a scholar working on Pharmacology, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine. According to data from OpenAlex, Friedhelm Sandbrink has authored 47 papers receiving a total of 1.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 23 papers in Pharmacology, 22 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and 12 papers in Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine. Recurrent topics in Friedhelm Sandbrink's work include Musculoskeletal pain and rehabilitation (21 papers), Opioid Use Disorder Treatment (18 papers) and Pain Management and Opioid Use (9 papers). Friedhelm Sandbrink is often cited by papers focused on Musculoskeletal pain and rehabilitation (21 papers), Opioid Use Disorder Treatment (18 papers) and Pain Management and Opioid Use (9 papers). Friedhelm Sandbrink collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and Australia. Friedhelm Sandbrink's co-authors include Joseph Claßen, Alexander Wolters, E. Kunesch, Katja Stefan, Reiner Benecke, Leonardo G. Cohen, A. Schlottmann, Nadir Ali Syed, Mary Kay Floeter and Adam J. Gordon and has published in prestigious journals such as Annals of Internal Medicine, Brain and Neurology.

In The Last Decade

Friedhelm Sandbrink

45 papers receiving 1.7k citations

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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.

Associations between stopping prescriptions for opioids, length of opioid treatment, and overdose or suicide deaths in US veterans: observational evaluation

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Friedhelm Sandbrink United States	17	514	437	403	376	283	47	1.7k
Kevin Pacheco‐Barrios Peru	22	467 0.9×	75 0.2×	269 0.7×	223 0.6×	156 0.6×	128	1.4k
Amanda McIntyre Canada	28	221 0.4×	206 0.5×	232 0.6×	185 0.5×	520 1.8×	103	2.2k
Angela Mailis Canada	32	137 0.3×	739 1.7×	1.2k 3.0×	362 1.0×	300 1.1×	92	3.0k
Johanne Higgins Canada	21	179 0.3×	107 0.2×	363 0.9×	181 0.5×	264 0.9×	69	2.0k
Anne Elisabeth Ljunggren Norway	24	122 0.2×	259 0.6×	1.3k 3.1×	257 0.7×	58 0.2×	42	2.9k
Anuj Bhatia Canada	29	46 0.1×	247 0.6×	849 2.1×	211 0.6×	255 0.9×	104	2.9k
Martin Grabois United States	16	43 0.1×	198 0.5×	510 1.3×	162 0.4×	123 0.4×	42	1.3k
Ruth Zaslansky Germany	22	52 0.1×	116 0.3×	355 0.9×	248 0.7×	139 0.5×	48	1.9k
Richard L. Barbano United States	21	132 0.3×	90 0.2×	158 0.4×	254 0.7×	1.3k 4.5×	56	2.4k
Ethan Taub Switzerland	22	152 0.3×	139 0.3×	38 0.1×	198 0.5×	949 3.4×	62	1.7k

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Sandbrink, Friedhelm & Nathaniel M. Schuster. (2024). Opioids and Cannabinoids in Neurology Practice. CONTINUUM Lifelong Learning in Neurology. 30(5). 1447–1474. 2 indexed citations

Workman, T. Elizabeth, Joel Kupersmith, Phillip Ma, et al.. (2024). A Comparison of Veterans with Problematic Opioid Use Identified through Natural Language Processing of Clinical Notes versus Using Diagnostic Codes. Healthcare. 12(7). 799–799. 4 indexed citations

Sandbrink, Friedhelm, Jennifer L. Murphy, Ellen L. Edens, et al.. (2023). The Use of Opioids in the Management of Chronic Pain: Synopsis of the 2022 Updated U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs and U.S. Department of Defense Clinical Practice Guideline. Annals of Internal Medicine. 176(3). 388–397. 42 indexed citations

Missair, Andres, et al.. (2023). National review of acute pain service utilization, models of care, and clinical practices within the Veterans Health Administration. Regional Anesthesia & Pain Medicine. 49(2). 117–121.

Wang, Kaicheng, Brenda T. Fenton, Melissa Skanderson, et al.. (2023). Changes in opioid prescribing in veterans with headache during the COVID‐19 pandemic: A regression discontinuity in time analysis. Headache The Journal of Head and Face Pain. 63(9). 1295–1303. 1 indexed citations

Clark, Kelly James, Anna Legreid Dopp, Elizabeth Bentley, et al.. (2023). Integrating Telehealth and Traditional Care in Chronic Pain Management and Substance Use Disorder Treatment: An Action Agenda for Building the Future State of Hybrid Care. NAM Perspectives. 10(26). 2 indexed citations

Zaman, Tauheed, Dawn M. Bravata, Amy L. Byers, et al.. (2023). A national population-based study of cannabis use and correlates among U.S. veterans prescribed opioids in primary care. BMC Psychiatry. 23(1). 177–177. 3 indexed citations

Annaswamy, Thiru M., et al.. (2023). Diagnosis and Treatment of Low Back Pain. American Journal of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation. 103(4). 350–355. 6 indexed citations

Goulet, Joseph L., Yan Cheng, William C. Becker, et al.. (2023). Opioid use and opioid use disorder in mono and dual-system users of veteran affairs medical centers. Frontiers in Public Health. 11. 1148189–1148189. 1 indexed citations

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Sandbrink, Friedhelm, Aram S. Mardian, Elizabeth M. Oliva, et al.. (2022). Medication Use Evaluation of High-Dose Long-Term Opioid De-prescribing in Multiple Veterans Affairs Medical Centers. Journal of General Internal Medicine. 37(16). 4037–4046. 2 indexed citations

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Timko, Christine, Kurt Kroenke, Andrea Nevedal, et al.. (2021). Development and field testing of primary care screening tools for harms of long-term opioid therapy continuation and tapering to discontinuation: a study protocol. BMJ Open. 11(10). e053524–e053524. 2 indexed citations

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Wandner, Laura D., Brenda T. Fenton, Joseph L. Goulet, et al.. (2020). <p>Treatment of a Large Cohort of Veterans Experiencing Musculoskeletal Disorders with Spinal Cord Stimulation in the Veterans Health Administration: Veteran Characteristics and Outcomes</p>. Journal of Pain Research. Volume 13. 1687–1697. 2 indexed citations

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Wandner, Laura D., Brenda T. Fenton, Joseph L. Goulet, et al.. (2020). Treatment of a Large Cohort of Veterans Experiencing Musculoskeletal Disorders with Spinal Cord Stimulation in the Veterans Health Administration: Veteran Characteristics and Outcomes. Dove Medical Press (Taylor and Francis Group). 1 indexed citations

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Nassif, Thomas H., et al.. (2015). Concurrent Validity of the Defense and Veterans Pain Rating Scale in VA Outpatients. Pain Medicine. 16(11). 2152–2161. 49 indexed citations

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Li, Mian, Changqing Xu, Clare M. Mahan, et al.. (2014). Self-reported post-exertional fatigue in Gulf War veterans: roles of autonomic testing. Frontiers in Neuroscience. 7. 269–269. 12 indexed citations

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Wolters, Alexander, Friedhelm Sandbrink, A. Schlottmann, et al.. (2003). A Temporally Asymmetric Hebbian Rule Governing Plasticity in the Human Motor Cortex. Journal of Neurophysiology. 89(5). 2339–2345. 466 indexed citations

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Walter, Uwe, et al.. (2003). Anticoagulation in stroke. 11(6). 468–472. 2 indexed citations

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Molloy, Fiona, Mary Kay Floeter, Nadir Ali Syed, et al.. (2001). Thalidomide neuropathy in patients treated for metastatic prostate cancer. Muscle & Nerve. 24(8). 1050–1057. 56 indexed citations

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Syed, Nadir Ali, Friedhelm Sandbrink, Carlos A. Luciano, et al.. (2000). Cutaneous silent periods in patients with Fabry disease. Muscle & Nerve. 23(8). 1179–1186. 43 indexed citations

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Sandbrink, Friedhelm, et al.. (2000). Motor cortex excitability in stiff-person syndrome. Brain. 123(11). 2231–2239. 56 indexed citations

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