Jennifer Meddings

3.9k total citations · 2 hit papers
86 papers, 2.6k citations indexed

About

Jennifer Meddings is a scholar working on Epidemiology, General Health Professions and Rheumatology. According to data from OpenAlex, Jennifer Meddings has authored 86 papers receiving a total of 2.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 48 papers in Epidemiology, 38 papers in General Health Professions and 23 papers in Rheumatology. Recurrent topics in Jennifer Meddings's work include Urinary Tract Infections Management (43 papers), Patient Satisfaction in Healthcare (25 papers) and Pelvic floor disorders treatments (22 papers). Jennifer Meddings is often cited by papers focused on Urinary Tract Infections Management (43 papers), Patient Satisfaction in Healthcare (25 papers) and Pelvic floor disorders treatments (22 papers). Jennifer Meddings collaborates with scholars based in United States, Vietnam and Canada. Jennifer Meddings's co-authors include Sanjay Saint, Sarah L. Krein, Mary A.M. Rogers, Russell N. Olmsted, Laurence F. McMahon, Mohamad G. Fakih, Heidi Reichert, Timothy P. Hofer, Deborah S. Yokoe and Karen E. Fowler and has published in prestigious journals such as New England Journal of Medicine, Annals of Internal Medicine and PEDIATRICS.

In The Last Decade

Jennifer Meddings

83 papers receiving 2.5k citations

Hit Papers

2 papers align trajectories

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.

Strategies to Prevent Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infections in Acute Care Hospitals: 2014 Update

2014 344 citations Evelyn Lo, Lindsay E. Nicolle et al. Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology profile →
Reducing unnecessary urinary catheter use and other strategies to prevent catheter-associated urinary tract infection: an integrative review

2013 293 citations Jennifer Meddings, Mary A.M. Rogers et al. BMJ Quality & Safety profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Jennifer Meddings United States	27	1.4k	766	595	505	429	86	2.6k
Rajender Agarwal United States	23	1.2k 0.8×	721 0.9×	384 0.6×	346 0.7×	313 0.7×	32	3.3k
Samuel R. Kaufman United States	25	600 0.4×	442 0.6×	322 0.5×	443 0.9×	164 0.4×	103	2.2k
Christine P. Kowalski United States	22	658 0.5×	794 1.0×	257 0.4×	166 0.3×	320 0.7×	34	2.0k
David Ratz United States	23	863 0.6×	337 0.4×	203 0.3×	169 0.3×	590 1.4×	98	2.0k
Heidi L. Wald United States	26	759 0.5×	765 1.0×	245 0.4×	146 0.3×	212 0.5×	67	2.6k
M. Todd Greene United States	22	689 0.5×	367 0.5×	220 0.4×	173 0.3×	349 0.8×	76	1.6k
Sigvard Mölstad Sweden	36	2.0k 1.4×	805 1.1×	172 0.3×	160 0.3×	138 0.3×	117	4.3k
A. Marshall McBean United States	30	1.2k 0.9×	567 0.7×	197 0.3×	248 0.5×	87 0.2×	70	4.3k
Manisha Juthani‐Mehta United States	23	1.9k 1.3×	400 0.5×	722 1.2×	520 1.0×	39 0.1×	58	2.6k
Anne Gardner Australia	27	560 0.4×	1.1k 1.5×	121 0.2×	87 0.2×	302 0.7×	143	2.7k

Countries citing papers authored by Jennifer Meddings

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Fields of papers citing papers by Jennifer Meddings

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Jennifer Meddings

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Jennifer Meddings. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Jennifer Meddings based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Jennifer Meddings. Jennifer Meddings is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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20 of 20 papers shown

Ameling, Jessica, et al.. (2025). Taming the In-Basket—How Two Simple Tools Reduced Portal Message Volume in an Academic Internal Medicine Clinic. Journal of General Internal Medicine. 40(16). 4022–4029.

DesRoches, Catherine M., et al.. (2025). Identifying, Engaging, and Supporting Care Partners in Clinical Settings: Protocol for a Patient Portal–Based Intervention. JMIR Research Protocols. 14. e66708–e66708. 3 indexed citations

Meddings, Jennifer, et al.. (2024). Urinary Catheter-Associated Infections. Infectious Disease Clinics of North America. 38(4). 713–729. 2 indexed citations

Advani, Sonali D., Kelly Cawcutt, Michael Klompas, et al.. (2024). The next frontier of healthcare-associated infection (HAI) surveillance metrics: Beyond device-associated infections. Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology. 45(6). 693–697. 4 indexed citations

Patel, Payal, Sonali D. Advani, Aaron Kofman, et al.. (2023). Strategies to prevent catheter-associated urinary tract infections in acute-care hospitals: 2022 Update. Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology. 44(8). 1209–1231. 37 indexed citations

Saint, Sanjay, M. Todd Greene, Sarah L. Krein, et al.. (2023). What US hospitals are doing to prevent common device-associated infections during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic: Results from a national survey in the United States. Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology. 44(12). 1913–1919. 7 indexed citations

Jones, Karen, Julia Mantey, Laraine Washer, et al.. (2021). When planning meets reality: COVID-19 interpandemic survey of Michigan Nursing Homes. American Journal of Infection Control. 49(11). 1343–1349. 13 indexed citations

Gupta, Ashwin, Jennifer Meddings, & Nathan Houchens. (2020). Quality & safety in the literature: May 2020. BMJ Quality & Safety. 29(5). 436–440. 1 indexed citations

Manojlovich, Milisa, et al.. (2019). Contextual Barriers to Communication Between Physicians and Nurses About Appropriate Catheter Use. American Journal of Critical Care. 28(4). 290–298. 14 indexed citations

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Kuriyama, Akira, Karen E. Fowler, Jennifer Meddings, et al.. (2019). Reducing unnecessary urethral catheter use in Japanese intensive care units: A multicenter interventional study. Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology. 40(11). 1272–1274. 4 indexed citations

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Gregory, Lynn, et al.. (2019). Understanding nurses’ workflow: Batching care and potential opportunities for transmission of infectious organisms, a pilot study. American Journal of Infection Control. 47(10). 1213–1218. 6 indexed citations

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Meddings, Jennifer, Shawna N. Smith, Timothy P. Hofer, et al.. (2018). Mixed messages to consumers from Medicare: Hospital Compare grades versus value-based payment penalty.. PubMed. 24(12). e399–e403. 2 indexed citations

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Patel, Payal, Ashwin Gupta, Valerie M. Vaughn, et al.. (2017). Review of Strategies to Reduce Central Line‐Associated Bloodstream Infection (CLABSI) and Catheter‐Associated Urinary Tract Infection (CAUTI) in Adult ICUs. Journal of Hospital Medicine. 13(2). 105–116. 46 indexed citations

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Smith, Shawna N., M. Todd Greene, Lona Mody, et al.. (2017). Evaluation of the association between Nursing Home Survey on Patient Safety culture (NHSOPS) measures and catheter-associated urinary tract infections: results of a national collaborative. BMJ Quality & Safety. 27(6). 464–473. 22 indexed citations

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Metersky, Mark L., Noel Eldridge, Yun Wang, Eric M. Mortensen, & Jennifer Meddings. (2017). National trends in the frequency of bladder catheterization and physician-diagnosed catheter-associated urinary tract infections: Results from the Medicare Patient Safety Monitoring System. American Journal of Infection Control. 45(8). 901–904. 14 indexed citations

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Meddings, Jennifer, Heidi Reichert, M. Todd Greene, et al.. (2016). Evaluation of the association between Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture (HSOPS) measures and catheter-associated infections: results of two national collaboratives. BMJ Quality & Safety. 26(3). 226–235. 36 indexed citations

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Morgan, Daniel J., Barbara I. Braun, Aaron M. Milstone, et al.. (2015). Lessons Learned From Hospital Ebola Preparation. Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology. 36(6). 627–631. 21 indexed citations

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Lo, Evelyn, Lindsay E. Nicolle, Susan Coffin, et al.. (2014). Strategies to Prevent Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infections in Acute Care Hospitals: 2014 Update. Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology. 35(S2). S32–S47. 64 indexed citations

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Greene, M. Todd, Mohamad G. Fakih, Karen E. Fowler, et al.. (2014). Regional Variation in Urinary Catheter Use and Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infection: Results from a National Collaborative. Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology. 35(S3). S99–S106. 40 indexed citations

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Hartley, Sarah, Latoya Kuhn, Laraine Washer, et al.. (2013). Inappropriate Testing for Urinary Tract Infection in Hospitalized Patients: An Opportunity for Improvement. Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology. 34(11). 1204–1207. 44 indexed citations

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