Robert D. Truog

18.0k total citations · 3 hit papers
240 papers, 9.9k citations indexed

About

Robert D. Truog is a scholar working on Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health and General Health Professions. According to data from OpenAlex, Robert D. Truog has authored 240 papers receiving a total of 9.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 147 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, 84 papers in Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health and 69 papers in General Health Professions. Recurrent topics in Robert D. Truog's work include Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues (100 papers), Ethics and Legal Issues in Pediatric Healthcare (62 papers) and Ethics in medical practice (54 papers). Robert D. Truog is often cited by papers focused on Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues (100 papers), Ethics and Legal Issues in Pediatric Healthcare (62 papers) and Ethics in medical practice (54 papers). Robert D. Truog collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Tunisia. Robert D. Truog's co-authors include Jeffrey P. Burns, Elaine C. Meyer, Franklin G. Miller, Christine Mitchell, J. Randall Curtis, George Q. Daley, Cynda Hylton Rushton, John M. Luce, Gordon D. Rubenfeld and Walter M. Robinson and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, New England Journal of Medicine and The Lancet.

In The Last Decade

Robert D. Truog

230 papers receiving 9.2k 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.

Recommendations for end-of-life care in the intensive care unit: A consensus statement by the American College of Critical Care Medicine

2008 707 citations Robert D. Truog, Margaret Campbell et al. Critical Care Medicine profile →
The Toughest Triage — Allocating Ventilators in a Pandemic

2020 438 citations Robert D. Truog et al. profile →
An Official ATS/AACN/ACCP/ESICM/SCCM Policy Statement: Responding to Requests for Potentially Inappropriate Treatments in Intensive Care Units

2015 321 citations Gabriel T. Bosslet, Thaddeus Mason Pope et al. American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Robert D. Truog United States	55	6.1k	3.1k	2.5k	2.2k	2.0k	240	9.9k
Douglas B. White United States	57	6.0k 1.0×	1.8k 0.6×	2.8k 1.1×	3.5k 1.6×	2.0k 1.0×	207	9.5k
Gerrit van der Wal Netherlands	58	5.8k 0.9×	2.0k 0.7×	3.4k 1.4×	718 0.3×	2.4k 1.2×	233	10.7k
Neal V. Dawson United States	38	3.2k 0.5×	1.1k 0.4×	1.7k 0.7×	893 0.4×	902 0.5×	116	6.8k
Timothy E. Quill United States	49	6.6k 1.1×	1.9k 0.6×	3.7k 1.5×	1.2k 0.5×	2.1k 1.1×	159	8.9k
Fliss EM Murtagh United Kingdom	48	5.3k 0.9×	1.7k 0.6×	2.5k 1.0×	691 0.3×	1.3k 0.6×	253	8.7k
Agnes van der Heide Netherlands	50	9.1k 1.5×	2.6k 0.8×	3.9k 1.6×	1.7k 0.8×	3.5k 1.8×	364	11.7k
Jean S. Kutner United States	46	4.4k 0.7×	1.5k 0.5×	2.4k 1.0×	878 0.4×	1.3k 0.7×	202	7.8k
John D. Lantos United States	44	2.8k 0.5×	3.2k 1.0×	1.8k 0.7×	537 0.2×	933 0.5×	379	7.4k
Julia Addington‐Hall United Kingdom	61	7.2k 1.2×	2.1k 0.7×	3.6k 1.4×	938 0.4×	3.1k 1.6×	192	11.3k
Karl Lorenz United States	47	4.6k 0.7×	1.6k 0.5×	2.1k 0.8×	831 0.4×	1.1k 0.6×	254	6.8k

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Truog, Robert D. & Samuel N. Doernberg. (2024). In Defense of Normothermic Regional Perfusion. The Hastings Center Report. 54(4). 24–31. 1 indexed citations

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Dahlberg, Suzanne E., et al.. (2021). Attitudes towards involving children in decision‐making surrounding lung transplantation. Pediatric Pulmonology. 56(6). 1534–1542. 2 indexed citations

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Miller, Franklin G., Michael Nair‐Collins, & Robert D. Truog. (2021). It Is Time to Abandon the Dogma That Brain Death Is Biological Death. The Hastings Center Report. 51(4). 18–21. 4 indexed citations

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Lewis‐Newby, Mithya, Deborah E. Sellers, Elaine C. Meyer, et al.. (2020). Location of Clinician-Family Communication at the End of Life in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit and Clinician Perception of Communication Quality. Journal of Palliative Medicine. 23(8). 1052–1059. 10 indexed citations

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Truog, Robert D., et al.. (2018). Brain Death at Fifty: Exploring Consensus, Controversy, and Contexts. SSRN Electronic Journal. 5 indexed citations

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Pope, Thaddeus Mason, Robert D. Truog, & David S. Jones. (2018). The 50-Year Legacy of the Harvard Report on Brain Death. SSRN Electronic Journal. 12 indexed citations

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Lewis‐Newby, Mithya, Mark R. Wicclair, Thaddeus Mason Pope, et al.. (2015). An Official American Thoracic Society Policy Statement: Managing Conscientious Objections in Intensive Care Medicine. SSRN Electronic Journal. 5 indexed citations

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Truog, Robert D.. (2015). Defining Death: Getting It Wrong for All the Right Reasons. Texas law review. 93(7). 1885. 4 indexed citations

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Bosslet, Gabriel T., Thaddeus Mason Pope, Gordon D. Rubenfeld, et al.. (2015). An Official ATS/AACN/ACCP/ESICM/SCCM Policy Statement: Responding to Requests for Potentially Inappropriate Treatments in Intensive Care Units. American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine. 191(11). 1318–1330. 321 indexed citations breakdown →

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Lewis‐Newby, Mithya, Mark R. Wicclair, Thaddeus Mason Pope, et al.. (2015). An Official American Thoracic Society Policy Statement: Managing Conscientious Objections in Intensive Care Medicine. American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine. 191(2). 219–227. 33 indexed citations

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McGraw, Sarah, et al.. (2012). “I was able to still be her mom”—parenting at end of life in the pediatric intensive care unit. Pediatric Critical Care Medicine. 13(6). e350–e356. 53 indexed citations

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Waisel, David B., et al.. (2009). Anesthesiology Trainees Face Ethical, Practical, and Relational Challenges in Obtaining Informed Consent. Anesthesiology. 110(3). 480–486. 28 indexed citations

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Calhoun, Aaron W., Elizabeth A. Rider, Elaine C. Meyer, Giulia Lamiani, & Robert D. Truog. (2009). Assessment of Communication Skills and Self-Appraisal in the Simulated Environment: Feasibility of Multirater Feedback with Gap Analysis. Simulation in Healthcare The Journal of the Society for Simulation in Healthcare. 4(1). 22–29. 65 indexed citations

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Truog, Robert D., Margaret Campbell, J. Randall Curtis, et al.. (2008). Recommendations for end-of-life care in the intensive care unit: A consensus statement by the American College of Critical Care Medicine. Critical Care Medicine. 36(3). 953–963. 707 indexed citations breakdown →

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Mularski, Richard A., J. Randall Curtis, J. Andrew Billings, et al.. (2006). Proposed quality measures for palliative care in the critically ill: A consensus from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Critical Care Workgroup. Critical Care Medicine. 34(Suppl). S404–S411. 132 indexed citations

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Luce, John M., Richard J. Cook, Thomas R. Martin, et al.. (2004). The Ethical Conduct of Clinical Research Involving Critically Ill Patients in the United States and Canada. American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine. 170(12). 1375–1384. 64 indexed citations

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Truog, Robert D. & Walter M. Robinson. (2003). Role of brain death and the dead-donor rule in the ethics of organ transplantation. Critical Care Medicine. 31(9). 2391–2396. 136 indexed citations

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Coyle, Nessa & Robert D. Truog. (1994). Healthcare Ethics Forum ’94: Pain Management and Sedation in the Terminally Ill. AACN Advanced Critical Care. 5(3). 360–365. 2 indexed citations

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Truog, Robert D. & Mark A. Rockoff. (1991). Ethical issues in pediatric anesthesia.. PubMed. 10(3). 187–94. 1 indexed citations

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Arnold, Jayanth R., Robert D. Truog, J. M. Scavone, & T. Fenton. (1991). Changes in the pharmacodynamic response to fentanyl in neonates during continuous infusion. The Journal of Pediatrics. 119(4). 639–643. 98 indexed citations

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