Michael Klompas

36.5k total citations · 10 hit papers
307 papers, 15.3k citations indexed

About

Michael Klompas is a scholar working on Epidemiology, Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine and Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine. According to data from OpenAlex, Michael Klompas has authored 307 papers receiving a total of 15.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 164 papers in Epidemiology, 121 papers in Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine and 79 papers in Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine. Recurrent topics in Michael Klompas's work include Nosocomial Infections in ICU (107 papers), Sepsis Diagnosis and Treatment (82 papers) and Respiratory Support and Mechanisms (45 papers). Michael Klompas is often cited by papers focused on Nosocomial Infections in ICU (107 papers), Sepsis Diagnosis and Treatment (82 papers) and Respiratory Support and Mechanisms (45 papers). Michael Klompas collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and Switzerland. Michael Klompas's co-authors include Chanu Rhee, Sameer S. Kadri, Meghan A. Baker, Richard Platt, André C. Kalil, John Muscedere, Charles‐Édouard Luyt, Robert L. Danner, Laurent Papazian and Mark L. Metersky and has published in prestigious journals such as New England Journal of Medicine, JAMA and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Michael Klompas

295 papers receiving 15.0k citations

Hit Papers

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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. Management of Adults With Hospital-acquired and Ventilator-associated Pneumonia: 2016 Clinical Practice Guidelines by the Infectious Diseases Society of America and the American Thoracic Society
    2016 2.3k citations André C. Kalil, Mark L. Metersky et al. Clinical Infectious Diseases profile →
  2. Incidence and Trends of Sepsis in US Hospitals Using Clinical vs Claims Data, 2009-2014
    2017 1.2k citations Chanu Rhee, Raymund Dantes et al. profile →
  3. Ventilator-associated pneumonia in adults: a narrative review
    2020 470 citations Michael Klompas et al. Intensive Care Medicine profile →
  4. Difficult-to-Treat Resistance in Gram-negative Bacteremia at 173 US Hospitals: Retrospective Cohort Analysis of Prevalence, Predictors, and Outcome of Resistance to All First-line Agents
    2018 377 citations Sameer S. Kadri, Chanu Rhee et al. Clinical Infectious Diseases profile →
  5. Prevalence, Underlying Causes, and Preventability of Sepsis-Associated Mortality in US Acute Care Hospitals
    2019 363 citations Chanu Rhee, Raymund Dantes et al. JAMA Network Open profile →
  6. Executive Summary: Management of Adults With Hospital-acquired and Ventilator-associated Pneumonia: 2016 Clinical Practice Guidelines by the Infectious Diseases Society of America and the American Thoracic Society
    2016 289 citations André C. Kalil, Mark L. Metersky et al. Clinical Infectious Diseases profile →
  7. Airborne Transmission of SARS-CoV-2
    2020 289 citations Michael Klompas, Meghan A. Baker et al. profile →
  8. Prevalence of Antibiotic-Resistant Pathogens in Culture-Proven Sepsis and Outcomes Associated With Inadequate and Broad-Spectrum Empiric Antibiotic Use
    2020 232 citations Chanu Rhee, Sameer S. Kadri et al. JAMA Network Open profile →
  9. Healthcare-associated infections in adult intensive care unit patients: Changes in epidemiology, diagnosis, prevention and contributions of new technologies
    2022 156 citations Stijn Blot, Michael Klompas et al. Intensive and Critical Care Nursing profile →
  10. Strategies to prevent ventilator-associated pneumonia, ventilator-associated events, and nonventilator hospital-acquired pneumonia in acute-care hospitals: 2022 Update
    2022 124 citations Michael Klompas, Kelly Cawcutt et al. Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology profile →

Author Peers

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Author Last Decade Papers Cites
Michael Klompas 7.6k 6.3k 3.5k 2.0k 1.7k 307 15.3k
Ignacio Martín‐Loeches 7.0k 0.9× 4.1k 0.7× 2.4k 0.7× 2.3k 1.1× 1.4k 0.8× 369 12.9k
Marcos I. Restrepo 6.8k 0.9× 3.9k 0.6× 3.3k 0.9× 1.8k 0.9× 1.2k 0.7× 225 12.2k
Jean‐François Timsit 5.6k 0.7× 3.9k 0.6× 2.8k 0.8× 2.7k 1.3× 1.9k 1.1× 345 14.3k
Stijn Blot 5.8k 0.8× 3.5k 0.6× 2.4k 0.7× 3.5k 1.7× 1.6k 0.9× 266 12.4k
Santiago Ewig 10.6k 1.4× 6.0k 1.0× 4.4k 1.3× 1.6k 0.8× 1.3k 0.8× 263 15.9k
Christian Brun‐Buisson 7.3k 1.0× 6.7k 1.1× 6.4k 1.8× 2.0k 1.0× 1.3k 0.8× 281 18.9k
Andrew F. Shorr 6.3k 0.8× 4.0k 0.6× 4.2k 1.2× 3.9k 1.9× 2.0k 1.1× 345 15.9k
Naomi P. O’Grady 5.0k 0.6× 3.8k 0.6× 2.9k 0.8× 2.9k 1.4× 1.4k 0.8× 57 15.5k
Grant Waterer 6.5k 0.9× 3.1k 0.5× 2.3k 0.7× 1.7k 0.8× 1.1k 0.6× 194 10.7k
Jordi Carratalà 8.6k 1.1× 2.9k 0.5× 1.7k 0.5× 2.8k 1.4× 1.2k 0.7× 332 14.2k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Pak, Theodore R., et al.. (2025). Syndromic Analysis of Sepsis Cohorts Using Large Language Models. JAMA Network Open. 8(10). e2539267–e2539267.
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Blot, Stijn, et al.. (2025). Should we still use chlorhexidine oral care? No!. Intensive and Critical Care Nursing. 87. 103954–103954. 1 indexed citations
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Klompas, Michael, Majdi N. Al‐Hasan, Mayar Al Mohajer, et al.. (2025). Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) Position Statement: Why IDSA Did Not Endorse the Community-Acquired Pneumonia Guidelines 2025 Update. Clinical Infectious Diseases.
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Póvoa, Pedro, Luís Coelho, Jordi Carratalà, et al.. (2025). How to approach a patient hospitalized for pneumonia who is not responding to treatment?. Intensive Care Medicine. 51(5). 893–903. 4 indexed citations
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Shappell, Claire, Michael Klompas, Christina K. Chan, Tom Chen, & Chanu Rhee. (2024). Trends in antibiotic utilization for patients hospitalized with COVID-19 with and without signs of sepsis. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 4(1). e143–e143. 1 indexed citations
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Kondo, Yutaka, Michael Klompas, Theodore R. Pak, et al.. (2024). Association Between the Sequence of β-Lactam and Vancomycin Administration and Mortality in Patients With Suspected Sepsis. Clinical Infectious Diseases. 80(4). 761–769. 1 indexed citations
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Nagavedu, Kshema, Sarah J. Willis, Susan Soliva, et al.. (2024). Electronic Health Record Data for Lyme Disease Surveillance, Massachusetts, USA, 2017–2018. Emerging infectious diseases. 30(7). 1374–1379. 3 indexed citations
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Klompas, Michael, et al.. (2024). Electronic Health Records Versus Survey Small Area Estimates for Public Health Surveillance. American Journal of Preventive Medicine. 67(1). 155–164. 1 indexed citations
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Worley, Jay, Jessica W. Crothers, William J. Wolfgang, et al.. (2023). Prospective Genomic Surveillance Reveals Cryptic MRSA Outbreaks with Local to International Origins among NICU Patients. Journal of Clinical Microbiology. 61(5). e0001423–e0001423. 3 indexed citations
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Rhee, Chanu, Jeffrey R. Strich, Kathleen Chiotos, et al.. (2023). Improving Sepsis Outcomes in the Era of Pay-for-Performance and Electronic Quality Measures: A Joint IDSA/ACEP/PIDS/SHEA/SHM/SIDP Position Paper. Clinical Infectious Diseases. 78(3). 505–513. 20 indexed citations
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Hatfield, Kelly M, James Baggs, Sarah Warner, et al.. (2023). Assessment of Hospital-Onset SARS-CoV-2 Infection Rates and Testing Practices in the US, 2020-2022. JAMA Network Open. 6(8). e2329441–e2329441. 10 indexed citations
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Klompas, Michael, Emily M. Kraus, Wenjun Li, et al.. (2023). Leveraging Electronic Health Record Data for Timely Chronic Disease Surveillance: The Multi-State EHR-Based Network for Disease Surveillance. Journal of Public Health Management and Practice. 29(2). 162–173. 23 indexed citations
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Klein, Brennan, M. Hu, Moritz U. G. Kraemer, et al.. (2023). Forecasting hospital-level COVID-19 admissions using real-time mobility data. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 3(1). 25–25. 14 indexed citations
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Klompas, Michael, Jon Boyer, Ann E. Woolley, et al.. (2023). Mycobacterium abscessus Cluster in Cardiac Surgery Patients Potentially Attributable to a Commercial Water Purification System. Annals of Internal Medicine. 176(3). 333–339. 7 indexed citations
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Mehrotra, Preeti, Lou Ann Bruno‐Murtha, Robert C. Colgrove, et al.. (2023). Use of expert consensus to develop a shared list of procedures with potential for aerosol generation during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 3(1). e44–e44. 1 indexed citations
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Metersky, Mark L., et al.. (2022). Temporal trends in postoperative and ventilator-associated pneumonia in the United States. Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology. 44(8). 1247–1254. 2 indexed citations
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Worley, Jay, et al.. (2020). Genomic Determination of Relative Risks for Clostridioides difficile Infection From Asymptomatic Carriage in Intensive Care Unit Patients. Clinical Infectious Diseases. 73(7). e1727–e1736. 19 indexed citations
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Klompas, Michael. (2017). Oropharyngeal Decontamination with Antiseptics to Prevent Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia: Rethinking the Benefits of Chlorhexidine. Seminars in Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine. 38(3). 381–390. 35 indexed citations
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Kalil, André C., Mark L. Metersky, Michael Klompas, et al.. (2016). Management of Adults With Hospital-acquired and Ventilator-associated Pneumonia: 2016 Clinical Practice Guidelines by the Infectious Diseases Society of America and the American Thoracic Society. Clinical Infectious Diseases. 63(5). e61–e111. 2347 indexed citations breakdown →

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