Robert L. Wears

14.1k total citations · 2 hit papers
214 papers, 8.3k citations indexed

About

Robert L. Wears is a scholar working on Emergency Medicine, Emergency Medical Services and Surgery. According to data from OpenAlex, Robert L. Wears has authored 214 papers receiving a total of 8.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 55 papers in Emergency Medicine, 55 papers in Emergency Medical Services and 36 papers in Surgery. Recurrent topics in Robert L. Wears's work include Patient Safety and Medication Errors (42 papers), Emergency and Acute Care Studies (38 papers) and Electronic Health Records Systems (30 papers). Robert L. Wears is often cited by papers focused on Patient Safety and Medication Errors (42 papers), Emergency and Acute Care Studies (38 papers) and Electronic Health Records Systems (30 papers). Robert L. Wears collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Canada. Robert L. Wears's co-authors include Erik Hollnagel, Jeffrey Braithwaite, Shawna J. Perry, Emily S. Patterson, Gregory D. Jay, Rollin J. Fairbanks, Scott D. Berns, John C. Morey, Mary Salisbury and Kimberly Dukes and has published in prestigious journals such as JAMA, Gut and Critical Care Medicine.

In The Last Decade

Robert L. Wears

206 papers receiving 7.9k 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.

Error Reduction and Performance Improvement in the Emergency Department through Formal Teamwork Training: Evaluation Results of the MedTeams Project

2002 743 citations John C. Morey, Robert Simon et al. Health Services Research profile →
Resilient health care: turning patient safety on its head

2015 343 citations Jeffrey Braithwaite, Robert L. Wears et al. International Journal for Quality in Health Care profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Robert L. Wears United States	46	2.4k	2.2k	1.5k	1.2k	1.1k	214	8.3k
Henry T. Stelfox Canada	56	2.9k 1.2×	1.2k 0.5×	2.4k 1.6×	1.9k 1.6×	2.2k 1.9×	396	13.2k
Vineet M. Arora United States	56	2.9k 1.2×	1.6k 0.7×	3.2k 2.1×	2.8k 2.4×	670 0.6×	366	11.7k
Theodore Speroff United States	49	1.0k 0.4×	605 0.3×	1.4k 1.0×	1.1k 0.9×	1.6k 1.4×	143	13.6k
W. B. Runciman Australia	52	1.1k 0.5×	4.3k 1.9×	1.3k 0.9×	839 0.7×	2.4k 2.1×	236	10.4k
Alan Merry New Zealand	42	909 0.4×	3.7k 1.7×	936 0.6×	1.6k 1.4×	2.8k 2.4×	232	9.5k
Paul Barach United States	39	920 0.4×	2.0k 0.9×	1.5k 1.0×	1.1k 0.9×	666 0.6×	226	6.3k
David M. Studdert United States	51	1.5k 0.6×	4.2k 1.9×	4.4k 2.9×	2.1k 1.8×	1.7k 1.5×	256	14.0k
William R. Berry United States	36	1.2k 0.5×	4.1k 1.8×	1.0k 0.7×	2.1k 1.8×	3.1k 2.7×	83	10.7k
James M. Naessens United States	54	1.1k 0.5×	635 0.3×	1.3k 0.9×	805 0.7×	2.7k 2.4×	243	8.7k
Theo van Achterberg Netherlands	50	741 0.3×	782 0.3×	3.5k 2.4×	1.5k 1.3×	1.0k 0.9×	258	10.6k

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Welch, Carly, et al.. (2019). Geriatric medicine and old age psychiatry joint training pre-feasibility pilot study: an innovative approach to collaborative postgraduate training. BMC Medical Education. 19(1). 283–283. 2 indexed citations

Benda, Natalie C., A. Zachary Hettinger, Ann M. Bisantz, et al.. (2017). Communication in the Electronic Age: an Analysis of Face-to-Face Physician-Nurse Communication in the Emergency Department. PubMed. 1(2). 218–230. 6 indexed citations

Wears, Robert L.. (2016). Rasmussen number greater than one. Applied Ergonomics. 59(Pt B). 592–597. 4 indexed citations

Wears, Robert L., Erik Hollnagel, & Jeffrey Braithwaite. (2015). The resilience of everyday clinical work. Ashgate eBooks. 39 indexed citations

Braithwaite, Jeffrey, Robert L. Wears, & Erik Hollnagel. (2015). Resilient health care: turning patient safety on its head. International Journal for Quality in Health Care. 27(5). 418–420. 343 indexed citations breakdown →

Guirgis, Faheem W., Deborah Williams, Matthew Hale, et al.. (2014). The relationship of intravenous fluid chloride content to kidney function in patients with severe sepsis or septic shock. The American Journal of Emergency Medicine. 33(3). 439–443. 7 indexed citations

Wears, Robert L.. (2014). Standardisation and its discontents. Cognition Technology & Work. 17(1). 89–94. 62 indexed citations

Beach, Christopher, Dickson Cheung, Julie Apker, et al.. (2012). Improving Interunit Transitions of Care Between Emergency Physicians and Hospital Medicine Physicians: A Conceptual Approach. Academic Emergency Medicine. 19(10). 1188–1195. 40 indexed citations

Pennathur, Priyadarshini R., Li Lin, Ann M. Bisantz, et al.. (2010). Development of a Simulation Environment to Study Emergency Department Information Technology. Simulation in Healthcare The Journal of the Society for Simulation in Healthcare. 5(2). 103–111. 16 indexed citations

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Wears, Robert L., et al.. (2010). Reflective analysis of safety research in the hospital accident & emergency departments. Applied Ergonomics. 41(5). 695–700. 37 indexed citations

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Patterson, Emily S. & Robert L. Wears. (2010). Patient Handoffs: Standardized and Reliable Measurement Tools Remain Elusive. The Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety. 36(2). 52–61. 201 indexed citations

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Patterson, Emily S., Michelle Rogers, Anne Tomolo, Robert L. Wears, & Joel Tsevat. (2010). Comparison of extent of use, information accuracy, and functions for manual and electronic patient status boards. International Journal of Medical Informatics. 79(12). 817–823. 22 indexed citations

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Hackos, JoAnn, et al.. (2005). Secular Trends in Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors According to Body Mass Index in US Adults—Correction. JAMA. 294(2). 182–182. 1 indexed citations

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Frush, Karen S., et al.. (2003). Effect of an Intervention Standardization System on Pediatric Dosing and Equipment Size Determination. Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine. 157(3). 229–229. 81 indexed citations

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Wears, Robert L.. (2002). Advanced Statistics:Statistical Methods for Analyzing Cluster and Cluster-randomized Data. Academic Emergency Medicine. 9(4). 330–341. 104 indexed citations

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Morey, John C., Robert Simon, Gregory D. Jay, et al.. (2002). Error Reduction and Performance Improvement in the Emergency Department through Formal Teamwork Training: Evaluation Results of the MedTeams Project. Health Services Research. 37(6). 1553–1581. 743 indexed citations breakdown →

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Wears, Robert L., et al.. (2000). Comments on 'Clinical decision making: An emergency medicine perspective' [1] (multiple letters). Academic Emergency Medicine. 7(4). 411–414. 3 indexed citations

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Vincent, Charles, Robert Šimon, Kathleen M. Sutcliffe, et al.. (2000). Errors Conference Executive Summary. Academic Emergency Medicine. 7(11). 1180–1182. 17 indexed citations

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Panos, Marios Z., et al.. (1994). Percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy in a general hospital: prospective evaluation of indications, outcome, and randomised comparison of two tube designs.. Gut. 35(11). 1551–1556. 53 indexed citations

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Wears, Robert L., et al.. (1989). How many myocardial infarctions should we rule out?. Annals of Emergency Medicine. 18(9). 953–963. 24 indexed citations

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