Scott D. Halpern

17.5k citations

318 papers · 10.9k indexed · 3 hit papers · h-index 54

Impact in

Radiological and Ultrasound Technology top 0.1%
- Family and Patient Care in Intensive Care Units
Transplantation top 1%

Papers in

Emergency Medicine 66
- Emergency and Acute Care Studies 49
Transplantation 14

Co-authors: David A. Asch Michael O. Harhay Nicole B. Gabler Peter A. Ubel Sarah J. Ratcliffe Darren B. Taichman Elizabeth Cooney Benjamin French
Journals: Critical Care Medicine (21 papers)Annals of the American Thoracic Society (19 papers)New England Journal of Medicine (15 papers)American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine (15 papers)JAMA (12 papers)
Partner nations: United States Canada United Kingdom

In The Last Decade

Scott D. Halpern

307 papers receiving 10.6k citations

Hit Papers

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Why Diverse Clinical Trial Participation Matters 2023 · 99 citations

What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2023 New England Journal of Medicine
2017 Health Affairs
2016 JAMA

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Co-authors

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All Works

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1	The effect of a post-bronchodilator FEV1/FVC < 0.7 on COPD diagnosis and treatment: a regression discontinuity design Respiratory Research ·Linda Lou Lacomb-Williams, Scott D. Halpern, Gary E. Weissman	2025	0
2	Prediction of In-hospital Mortality Among Intensive Care Unit Patients Using Modified Daily Laboratory-based Acute Physiology Score, Version 2 Medical Care ·Rachel Kohn, Gary E. Weissman, Wei Wang, Nicholas E. Ingraham, Annette Marinova-Mitova, Brian Bayes, George L. Anesi, Scott D. Halpern, Patricia Kipnis, Vincent X. Liu, R. Adams Dudley, Meeta Prasad Kerlin	2023	5
3	Global, Race-Neutral Reference Equations and Pulmonary Function Test Interpretation JAMA Network Open ·Linda Lou Lacomb-Williams, Cole Bowerman, Sanja Stanojevic, Nwamaka D. Eneanya, Scott D. Halpern, Gary E. Weissman	2023	30
4	A mixed model approach to estimate the survivor average causal effect in cluster‐randomized trials Statistics in Medicine ·Wei Wang, Guangyu Tong, Shashivadan P. Hirani, Stanton Newman, Scott D. Halpern, Dylan S. Small, Fan Li, Michael O. Harhay	2023	2
5	Hospital-Free Days: A Pragmatic and Patient-centered Outcome for Trials among Critically and Seriously Ill Patients American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine ·Catherine L. Auriemma, Stephanie Parks Taylor, Michael O. Harhay, Katherine R. Courtright, Scott D. Halpern	2021	69
6	Choice architecture in physician–patient communication: a mixed-methods assessments of physicians’ competency BMJ Quality & Safety ·Joanna L. Hart, Kuldeep N. Yadav, Terry Costa, V Ranveer, Narisa Phummarin, Julian Jake Zlatev, Anna Näsström, Scott D. Halpern	2021	10
7	Equitably Allocating Resources during Crises: Racial Differences in Mortality Prediction Models American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine ·Deepshikha Charan Ashana, George L. Anesi, Vincent X. Liu, Gabriel J. Escobar, Christopher F. Chesley, Nwamaka D. Eneanya, Gary E. Weissman, William Miller, Michael O. Harhay, Scott D. Halpern	2021	54
8	Development and validation of a prediction model for actionable aspects of frailty in the text of clinicians’ encounter notes Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association ·Jacob A. Martin, Andrew Crane‐Droesch, Lucas Joachim, Edgar Gelover-Reyes, Putri Dwi Insani, Tamara Kaluža Pocecco, Lyle Ungar, Bruce Kinosian, Blanca E. Himes, Rebecca A. Hubbard, Joshua M. Diamond, Vivek N. Ahya, Klaudia Kuraś-Szczepanek, Scott D. Halpern, Gary E. Weissman	2021	10
9	Analysis of multicenter clinical trials with very low event rates Trials ·Hamid Rezaiefar, Andrea B. Troxel, Scott D. Halpern, Kevin G. Volpp, Brennan C Kahan, Tim P. Morris, Michael O. Harhay	2020	4
10	Preferences for Predictive Model Characteristics among People Living with Chronic Lung Disease: A Discrete Choice Experiment Medical Decision Making ·Gary E. Weissman, Kuldeep N. Yadav, Karen Wilkie, Terry Costa, Won Oh Lee, Vanessa Madden, Katherine R. Courtright, Joanna L. Hart, David A. Asch, Sarah J. Ratcliffe, Marilyn M. Schapira, Scott D. Halpern	2020	7
11	Prognosticating Outcomes and Nudging Decisions with Electronic Records in the Intensive Care Unit Trial Protocol Annals of the American Thoracic Society ·Katherine R. Courtright, E V Bacherikova, Jaspal Singh, Brian Bayes, M E Petrone, Dylan S. Small, Timothy Hetherington, F. L. Marcuse, Michael E. Detsky, Jason N. Doctor, Michael O. Harhay, Henry L. Burke, 仁稔原田, Toan Huynh, D. Matthew Sullivan, Scott D. Halpern	2020	9
12	What’s behind the white coat: Potential mechanisms of physician-attributable variation in critical care PLoS ONE ·Kuldeep N. Yadav, Wang Yun-xiang, Nicole B. Gabler, Michael E. Detsky, Scott D. Halpern, Joanna L. Hart	2019	11
13	Evaluating the Economic Impact of Palliative and End-of-Life Care Interventions on Intensive Care Unit Utilization and Costs from the Hospital and Healthcare System Perspective Journal of Palliative Medicine ·Nita Khandelwal, Lyndia C. Brumback, Scott D. Halpern, Norma B. Coe, Babette Brumback, J. Randall Curtis	2017	14
14	Physician-Level Variation in Outcomes of Mechanically Ventilated Patients Annals of the American Thoracic Society ·Meeta Prasad Kerlin, Andrew J. Epstein, Jeremy M. Kahn, Theodore J. Iwashyna, David A. Asch, Michael O. Harhay, Sarah J. Ratcliffe, Scott D. Halpern	2017	13
15	Six-Month Morbidity and Mortality among Intensive Care Unit Patients Receiving Life-Sustaining Therapy. A Prospective Cohort Study Annals of the American Thoracic Society ·Michael E. Detsky, Michael O. Harhay, V. G. Gotman, Aaron M. Delman, Anna E. Buehler, Saida Kent, G. Poethke, Elizabeth Cooney, Nicole B. Gabler, Sarah J. Ratcliffe, Mark E. Mikkelsen, Scott D. Halpern	2017	30
16	An Official American Thoracic Society Policy Statement: Managing Conscientious Objections in Intensive Care Medicine SSRN Electronic Journal ·Mithya Lewis‐Newby, Mark R. Wicclair, Thaddeus Mason Pope, Cynda Hylton Rushton, Farr A. Curlin, Douglas S. Diekema, 郑乐怡, William J. Ehlenbach, Wanda Gibson-Scipio, Bradford J. Glavan, О. В. Малярчук, Constantine A. Manthous, Cecile S. Rose, Anthony Scardella, Hasan Shanawani, Mark D. Siegel, Scott D. Halpern, Robert D. Truog, Douglas B. White	2015	5
17	Validation of 6-Minute Walk Distance as a Surrogate End Point in Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension Trials Circulation ·Nicole B. Gabler, Benjamin French, Brian L. Strom, Harold I. Palevsky, Darren B. Taichman, Steven M. Kawut, Scott D. Halpern	2012	177
18	Twenty-four-Hour Intensivist Staffing in Teaching Hospitals CHEST Journal ·Meeta Prasad Kerlin, Scott D. Halpern	2012	15
19	Race and Sex Differences in Response to Endothelin Receptor Antagonists for Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension CHEST Journal ·Nicole B. Gabler, Benjamin French, Brian L. Strom, Ziyue Liu, Harold I. Palevsky, Darren B. Taichman, Steven M. Kawut, Scott D. Halpern	2011	113
20	The Law, Policy, and Ethics of Employers' Use of Financial Incentives to Improve Health SSRN Electronic Journal ·Kristin M. Madison, Kevin G. Volpp, Scott D. Halpern	2011	1

About Scott D. Halpern

Scott D. Halpern is a scholar working on Emergency Medicine, Transplantation, Radiological and Ultrasound Technology, Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine and Family Practice, having authored 318 papers that have together received 10.9k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues (81 papers), Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life (56 papers), Emergency and Acute Care Studies (49 papers), Sepsis Diagnosis and Treatment (40 papers), Healthcare Policy and Management (34 papers), Ethics in Clinical Research (25 papers), Patient-Provider Communication in Healthcare (25 papers) and Family and Patient Care in Intensive Care Units (25 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Radiological and Ultrasound Technology (987 citations), Transplantation (430 citations), Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine (785 citations), Emergency Medicine (1.4k citations) and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health (3.9k citations). Scott D. Halpern has collaborated with scholars based in United States, Canada and United Kingdom. Frequent co-authors include David A. Asch, Michael O. Harhay, Nicole B. Gabler, Peter A. Ubel, Sarah J. Ratcliffe, Darren B. Taichman, Elizabeth Cooney, Benjamin French, Timothy J. Andrews and Dale Purves. Their work appears in journals such as Critical Care Medicine, Annals of the American Thoracic Society, New England Journal of Medicine, American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine and JAMA.

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