Richard N. Shiffman

10.2k total citations · 3 hit papers
83 papers, 7.0k citations indexed

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Richard N. Shiffman is a scholar working on Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Health Information Management and General Health Professions. According to data from OpenAlex, Richard N. Shiffman has authored 83 papers receiving a total of 7.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 41 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, 32 papers in Health Information Management and 22 papers in General Health Professions. Recurrent topics in Richard N. Shiffman's work include Clinical practice guidelines implementation (39 papers), Electronic Health Records Systems (32 papers) and Biomedical Text Mining and Ontologies (17 papers). Richard N. Shiffman is often cited by papers focused on Clinical practice guidelines implementation (39 papers), Electronic Health Records Systems (32 papers) and Biomedical Text Mining and Ontologies (17 papers). Richard N. Shiffman collaborates with scholars based in United States, Sweden and Finland. Richard N. Shiffman's co-authors include Stephen H. Sheldon, Ann C. Halbower, Sally Davidson Ward, Michael S. Schechter, David Gozal, Karen Spruyt, Lee J. Brooks, Richard M. Rosenfeld, George Michel and J. K. N. Jones and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Annals of Internal Medicine and PEDIATRICS.

In The Last Decade

Richard N. Shiffman

82 papers receiving 6.7k 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.

Diagnosis and Management of Childhood Obstructive Sleep Apnea Syndrome

2012 1.7k citations Richard N. Shiffman et al. PEDIATRICS profile →
Diagnosis and Management of Childhood Obstructive Sleep Apnea Syndrome

2012 1.1k citations Richard N. Shiffman et al. PEDIATRICS profile →
Clinical practice guideline: Adult sinusitis

2007 719 citations Richard M. Rosenfeld, Théodore G. Ganiats et al. Otolaryngology profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Richard N. Shiffman United States	28	2.7k	2.0k	1.7k	1.6k	900	83	7.0k
Andrea S. Gershon Canada	44	3.6k 1.3×	731 0.4×	4.4k 2.5×	765 0.5×	542 0.6×	222	8.2k
Michael J. Zinner United States	59	1.1k 0.4×	326 0.2×	2.1k 1.2×	1.0k 0.6×	6.1k 6.8×	258	13.0k
Wei Shen United States	41	4.1k 1.5×	200 0.1×	374 0.2×	1.2k 0.7×	1.2k 1.3×	115	8.0k
Robert Wolff United Kingdom	27	419 0.2×	103 0.1×	876 0.5×	471 0.3×	1.0k 1.1×	96	6.6k
Jørgen Hilden Denmark	36	401 0.1×	152 0.1×	394 0.2×	429 0.3×	1.0k 1.1×	148	5.6k
Carolyn K. Wells United States	30	979 0.4×	56 0.0×	3.2k 1.9×	534 0.3×	897 1.0×	60	6.3k
Romina Brignardello‐Petersen Canada	37	726 0.3×	96 0.0×	793 0.5×	1.2k 0.7×	1.5k 1.6×	164	7.9k
David M. Rind United States	25	612 0.2×	49 0.0×	722 0.4×	1.3k 0.8×	1.4k 1.5×	92	7.5k
Wenyaw Chan United States	48	697 0.3×	100 0.1×	839 0.5×	1.0k 0.6×	512 0.6×	249	7.6k
Andrew Clegg United Kingdom	42	913 0.3×	68 0.0×	569 0.3×	654 0.4×	1.9k 2.1×	135	5.5k

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Tieder, Joel S., Joshua L. Bonkowsky, Ruth A. Etzel, et al.. (2016). Brief Resolved Unexplained Events (Formerly Apparent Life-Threatening Events) and Evaluation of Lower-Risk Infants. PEDIATRICS. 137(5). 105 indexed citations

Shiffman, Richard N., et al.. (2013). Findings from a Five-Year Clinical Decision Support Demonstration Project and the Road Ahead.. AMIA. 1 indexed citations

Middleton, Blackford, et al.. (2012). From Guidelines to Clinical Decision Support: a Unified Approach to Translating and Implementing Knowledge.. AMIA. 1 indexed citations

Lomotan, Edwin A., George Michel, Zhenqiu Lin, & Richard N. Shiffman. (2010). How "should" we write guideline recommendations? Interpretation of deontic terminology in clinical practice guidelines: survey of the health services community. BMJ Quality & Safety. 19(6). 509–513. 32 indexed citations

Michel, George, et al.. (2009). The Yale Guideline Recommendation Corpus: A representative sample of the knowledge content of guidelines. International Journal of Medical Informatics. 78(5). 354–363. 35 indexed citations

Rosenfeld, Richard M. & Richard N. Shiffman. (2006). Clinical Practice Guidelines: A Manual for Developing Evidence‐Based Guidelines to Facilitate Performance Measurement and Quality Improvement. Otolaryngology. 135(S4). S1–28. 42 indexed citations

Rosenfeld, Richard M., Lance Brown, C. Ron Cannon, et al.. (2006). Clinical practice guideline: Acute otitis externa. Otolaryngology. 134(S4). S1–S24. 168 indexed citations

Michel, George, Theodore W. Marcy, & Richard N. Shiffman. (2005). A wireless, handheld decision support system to promote smoking cessation in primary care.. PubMed. 530–4. 3 indexed citations

Shiffman, Richard N., et al.. (2003). Markup Once, Reuse Often: Reusing Knowledge about Appropriate Practice with GEM-encoded Clinical Guidelines. 556. 2 indexed citations

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Shiffman, Richard N., Akshat Agrawal, Aniruddha M. Deshpande, & Peter Gershkovich. (2001). An approach to guideline implementation with GEM.. PubMed. 84(Pt 1). 271–5. 13 indexed citations

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Agrawal, Akshat & Richard N. Shiffman. (2001). Evaluation of guideline quality using GEM-Q.. PubMed. 84(Pt 2). 1097–101. 9 indexed citations

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Gershkovich, Peter & Richard N. Shiffman. (2001). An implementation framework for GEM encoded guidelines.. PubMed. 204–8. 10 indexed citations

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Shiffman, Richard N., et al.. (2000). A Guideline Implementation System Using Handheld Computers for Office Management of Asthma: Effects on Adherence and Patient Outcomes. PEDIATRICS. 105(4). 767–773. 76 indexed citations

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Shiffman, Richard N., et al.. (2000). GEM: A Proposal for a More Comprehensive Guideline Document Model Using XML. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association. 7(5). 488–498. 189 indexed citations

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Karras, Bryant T., et al.. (1999). Palm Asthma: Design of a System for the Implementation of Asthma Guidelines on Handheld Computers. PubMed Central. 1095–1095. 1 indexed citations

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Shiffman, Richard N., et al.. (1999). A Design Model for Computer-based Guideline Implementation Based on Information Management Services. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association. 6(2). 99–103. 55 indexed citations

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Shiffman, Richard N.. (1997). Transition to a Computer-Based Record Using Scannable, Structured Encounter Forms. Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine. 151(12). 1247–1247. 27 indexed citations

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Brandt, Cynthia, et al.. (1996). Visualizing Immunization Logic in a Rule-Based Expert System. Europe PMC (PubMed Central). 835–835. 2 indexed citations

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Shiffman, Richard N. & Robert A. Greenes. (1991). Use of augmented decision tables to convert probabilistic data into clinical algorithms for the diagnosis of appendicitis.. PubMed Central. 686–90. 11 indexed citations

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Shiffman, Richard N.. (1990). Design and Implementation of a System for Computer-Assisted Telephone Triage in Pediatrics. PubMed Central. 826–830. 1 indexed citations

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