Sean R. Townsend

42.3k total citations · 6 hit papers
24 papers, 3.9k citations indexed

About

Sean R. Townsend is a scholar working on Epidemiology, Emergency Medicine and Family Practice. According to data from OpenAlex, Sean R. Townsend has authored 24 papers receiving a total of 3.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 18 papers in Epidemiology, 9 papers in Emergency Medicine and 6 papers in Family Practice. Recurrent topics in Sean R. Townsend's work include Sepsis Diagnosis and Treatment (18 papers), Emergency and Acute Care Studies (6 papers) and Clinical Reasoning and Diagnostic Skills (6 papers). Sean R. Townsend is often cited by papers focused on Sepsis Diagnosis and Treatment (18 papers), Emergency and Acute Care Studies (6 papers) and Clinical Reasoning and Diagnostic Skills (6 papers). Sean R. Townsend collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Brazil. Sean R. Townsend's co-authors include Mitchell M. Levy, Christa Schorr, R. Phillip Dellinger, Antonio Artigas, Gary Phillips, Tiffany M. Osborn, Richard Beale, Ricard Ferrer, Ignacio Martín‐Loeches and Stanley Lemeshow and has published in prestigious journals such as CHEST Journal, Critical Care Medicine and The Lancet Infectious Diseases.

In The Last Decade

Sean R. Townsend

23 papers receiving 3.8k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

What are hit papers?

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.

Empiric Antibiotic Treatment Reduces Mortality in Severe Sepsis and Septic Shock From the First Hour

2014 969 citations Ricard Ferrer, Ignacio Martín‐Loeches et al. Critical Care Medicine profile →
The Surviving Sepsis Campaign: Results of an international guideline-based performance improvement program targeting severe sepsis*

2010 679 citations Mitchell M. Levy, R. Phillip Dellinger et al. Critical Care Medicine profile →
The Surviving Sepsis Campaign: results of an international guideline-based performance improvement program targeting severe sepsis

2010 583 citations Mitchell M. Levy, R. Phillip Dellinger et al. Intensive Care Medicine profile →
Outcomes of the Surviving Sepsis Campaign in intensive care units in the USA and Europe: a prospective cohort study

2012 398 citations Mitchell M. Levy, Antonio Artigas et al. The Lancet Infectious Diseases profile →
Surviving Sepsis Campaign

2014 388 citations Mitchell M. Levy, Andrew Rhodes et al. Critical Care Medicine profile →
Lactate Measurements in Sepsis-Induced Tissue Hypoperfusion

2014 322 citations Brian Casserly, Gary Phillips et al. Critical Care Medicine profile →

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Citations

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Sean R. Townsend

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Sean R. Townsend. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Sean R. Townsend based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Sean R. Townsend. Sean R. Townsend is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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20 of 20 papers shown

#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Formative Evaluation to Inform Implementation of Sepsis Bundles in Emergency Departments 2025 ·Annals of Emergency Medicine ·Hannah E. Frank, (unknown), Jacqueline F. Hayes, Ruben G. Martinez, (unknown), Laura Evans, Gary Phillips, R. Phillip Dellinger, (unknown), Christa Schorr, Kathleen M. Terry, Lori Harmon, Sean R. Townsend, Mitchell M. Levy	0
2	Assessment of implementation methods in sepsis: study protocol for a cluster-randomized hybrid type 2 trial 2023 ·Trials ·Hannah E. Frank, Laura Evans, Gary Phillips, R. Phillip Dellinger, (unknown), Lori Harmon, (unknown), (unknown), Christa Schorr, Kathleen M. Terry, Sean R. Townsend, Mitchell M. Levy	5
3	Effects of Compliance With the Early Management Bundle (SEP-1) on Mortality Changes Among Medicare Beneficiaries With Sepsis 2021 ·CHEST Journal ·Sean R. Townsend, Gary Phillips, Reena Duseja, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), H. Bryant Nguyen, Christa Schorr, Mitchell M. Levy, R. Phillip Dellinger, William A. Conway, Warren S. Browner, Emanuel P. Rivers	39
4	Implementation of a multicenter performance improvement program for early detection and treatment of severe sepsis in general medical–surgical wards 2016 ·Journal of Hospital Medicine ·Christa Schorr, Andrew Odden, Laura Evans, Gabriel J. Escobar, (unknown), Sean R. Townsend, Mitchell M. Levy	27
5	Empiric Antibiotic Treatment Reduces Mortality in Severe Sepsis and Septic Shock From the First Hour breakdown → 2014 ·Critical Care Medicine ·Ricard Ferrer, Ignacio Martín‐Loeches, Gary Phillips, Tiffany M. Osborn, Sean R. Townsend, R. Phillip Dellinger, Antonio Artigas, Christa Schorr, Mitchell M. Levy	969
6	Surviving Sepsis Campaign breakdown → 2014 ·Critical Care Medicine ·Mitchell M. Levy, Andrew Rhodes, Gary Phillips, Sean R. Townsend, Christa Schorr, Richard Beale, Tiffany M. Osborn, Stanley Lemeshow, Jean‐Daniel Chiche, Antonio Artigas, R. Phillip Dellinger	388
7	Surviving Sepsis Campaign: association between performance metrics and outcomes in a 7.5-year study 2014 ·Intensive Care Medicine ·Mitchell M. Levy, Andrew Rhodes, Gary Phillips, Sean R. Townsend, Christa Schorr, Richard Beale, Tiffany M. Osborn, Stanley Lemeshow, Jean‐Daniel Chiche, Antonio Artigas, R. Phillip Dellinger	173
8	Lactate Measurements in Sepsis-Induced Tissue Hypoperfusion breakdown → 2014 ·Critical Care Medicine ·Brian Casserly, Gary Phillips, Christa Schorr, R. Phillip Dellinger, Sean R. Townsend, Tiffany M. Osborn, Konrad Reinhart, (unknown), Mitchell M. Levy	322
9	Sepsis Severity Score 2014 ·Critical Care Medicine ·Tiffany M. Osborn, Gary Phillips, Stanley Lemeshow, Sean R. Townsend, Christa Schorr, Mitchell M. Levy, R. Phillip Dellinger	49
10	Outcomes of the Surviving Sepsis Campaign in intensive care units in the USA and Europe: a prospective cohort study breakdown → 2012 ·The Lancet Infectious Diseases ·Mitchell M. Levy, Antonio Artigas, Gary Phillips, Andrew Rhodes, Richard Beale, Tiffany M. Osborn, Jean‐Louis Vincent, Sean R. Townsend, Stanley Lemeshow, R. Phillip Dellinger	398
11	The Surviving Sepsis Campaign: Results of an international guideline-based performance improvement program targeting severe sepsis* breakdown → 2010 ·Critical Care Medicine ·Mitchell M. Levy, R. Phillip Dellinger, Sean R. Townsend, Walter T. Linde‐Zwirble, John C. Marshall, Julian Bion, Christa Schorr, Antonio Artigas, Graham Ramsay, Richard Beale, Margaret M. Parker, Herwig Gerlach, Konrad Reinhart, Eliézer Silva, Maurene A. Harvey, Susan Regan, Derek C. Angus	679
12	The Surviving Sepsis Campaign: results of an international guideline-based performance improvement program targeting severe sepsis breakdown → 2010 ·Intensive Care Medicine ·Mitchell M. Levy, R. Phillip Dellinger, Sean R. Townsend, Walter T. Linde‐Zwirble, John C. Marshall, Julian Bion, Christa Schorr, Antonio Artigas, Graham Ramsay, Richard Beale, Margaret M. Parker, Herwig Gerlach, Konrad Reinhart, Eliézer Silva, Maurene A. Harvey, Susan Regan, Derek C. Angus	583
13	Surviving sepsis in developing countries 2008 ·Critical Care Medicine ·R.P. Dellinger, Jean‐Louis Vincent, Eliezer Silva, Sean R. Townsend, Julian Bion, Mitchell M. Levy	3
14	Reducing Mortality in Severe Sepsis: The Surviving Sepsis Campaign 2008 ·Clinics in Chest Medicine ·Sean R. Townsend, Christa Schorr, Mitchell M. Levy, R. Phillip Dellinger	52
15	Expiratory Abdominal Rounding in Acute Dyspnea Suggests Congestive Heart Failure 2006 ·Lung ·Stephen H. Loring, Sean R. Townsend, Diana Gallagher, (unknown), (unknown), David Feller‐Kopman, Richard M. Schwartzstein	6
16	Surviving Sepsis Campaign: A Project to Change Sepsis Trajectory 2006 ·Endocrine Metabolic & Immune Disorders - Drug Targets ·Eliezer Silva, Nelson Akamine, Reinaldo Salomão, Sean R. Townsend, R. Phillip Dellinger, Mitchell Levy	4
17	A STATEWIDE IMPLEMENTATION OF SURVIVING SEPSIS CAMPAIGN BUNDLES BY THE COLORADO CRITICAL CARE COLLABORATIVE. 2006 ·Critical Care Medicine ·Ivor S. Douglas, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Susan Regan, Sean R. Townsend, (unknown), (unknown), Mitchell M. Levy	5
18	Sepsis change bundles: Converting guidelines into meaningful change in behavior and clinical outcome 2004 ·Critical Care Medicine ·Mitchell M. Levy, Peter J. Pronovost, R. Phillip Dellinger, Sean R. Townsend, Roger K. Resar, Terry P. Clemmer, Graham Ramsay	162
19	An enquiry into the use of numeric data in learning & teaching 2001 ·ERA ·(unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Sean R. Townsend	2
20	Reduction of the wave drag of a blunt body by means of a standoff spike 2000 ·38th Aerospace Sciences Meeting and Exhibit ·Eugene Jones, Sean R. Townsend, (unknown), Thomas McLaughlin	3

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