Sharon K. Inouye

68.3k total citations · 26 hit papers
381 papers, 45.3k citations indexed

About

Sharon K. Inouye is a scholar working on Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine, Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine and Developmental Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Sharon K. Inouye has authored 381 papers receiving a total of 45.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 281 papers in Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine, 137 papers in Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine and 107 papers in Developmental Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Sharon K. Inouye's work include Intensive Care Unit Cognitive Disorders (281 papers), Anesthesia and Sedative Agents (137 papers) and Anesthesia and Neurotoxicity Research (107 papers). Sharon K. Inouye is often cited by papers focused on Intensive Care Unit Cognitive Disorders (281 papers), Anesthesia and Sedative Agents (137 papers) and Anesthesia and Neurotoxicity Research (107 papers). Sharon K. Inouye collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Canada. Sharon K. Inouye's co-authors include Tamara G. Fong, Jane S. Saczynski, Edward R. Marcantonio, Richard N. Jones, Rudi GJ Westendorp, Sidney T. Bogardus, Linda Leo‐Summers, E. Wesley Ely, Tammy T. Hshieh and Leo M. Cooney and has published in prestigious journals such as New England Journal of Medicine, The Lancet and JAMA.

In The Last Decade

Sharon K. Inouye

360 papers receiving 43.6k citations

Hit Papers

Clarifying Confusion: The Confusion Assessment Method 1990 2026 2002 2014 1990 2013 2001 1999 2001 1000 2.0k 3.0k
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.

  1. Clarifying Confusion: The Confusion Assessment Method
    1990 3.8k citations Sharon K. Inouye et al. Annals of Internal Medicine profile →
  2. Delirium in elderly people
    2013 2.4k citations Sharon K. Inouye, Jane S. Saczynski et al. profile →
  3. Delirium in Mechanically Ventilated Patients
    2001 2.2k citations E. Wesley Ely, Sharon K. Inouye et al. JAMA profile →
  4. A Multicomponent Intervention to Prevent Delirium in Hospitalized Older Patients
    1999 2.0k citations Sharon K. Inouye et al. profile →
  5. Evaluation of delirium in critically ill patients: Validation of the Confusion Assessment Method for the Intensive Care Unit (CAM-ICU)
    2001 1.6k citations E. Wesley Ely, Sharon K. Inouye et al. Critical Care Medicine profile →
  6. Delirium in Older Persons
    2006 1.4k citations Sharon K. Inouye profile →
  7. Geriatric Syndromes: Clinical, Research, and Policy Implications of a Core Geriatric Concept
    2007 1.2k citations Sharon K. Inouye et al. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society profile →
  8. Precipitating Factors for Delirium in Hospitalized Elderly Persons
    1996 1.0k citations Sharon K. Inouye JAMA profile →
  9. Cognitive Trajectories after Postoperative Delirium
    2012 772 citations Jane S. Saczynski, Edward R. Marcantonio et al. profile →
  10. The impact of delirium in the intensive care unit on hospital length of stay
    2001 735 citations E. Wesley Ely, Sharon K. Inouye et al. profile →
  11. A Predictive Model for Delirium in Hospitalized Elderly Medical Patients Based on Admission Characteristics
    1993 678 citations Sharon K. Inouye et al. Annals of Internal Medicine profile →
  12. Delirium in elderly adults: diagnosis, prevention and treatment
    2009 643 citations Tamara G. Fong, Sharon K. Inouye et al. profile →
  13. Importance of Functional Measures in Predicting Mortality Among Older Hospitalized Patients
    1998 618 citations Sharon K. Inouye JAMA profile →
  14. Nurses' Recognition of Delirium and Its Symptoms
    2001 594 citations Sharon K. Inouye profile →
  15. MODELS OF GERIATRICS PRACTICE; The Hospital Elder Life Program: A Model of Care to Prevent Cognitive and Functional Decline in Older Hospitalized Patients
    2000 583 citations Sharon K. Inouye et al. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society profile →
  16. The Confusion Assessment Method: A Systematic Review of Current Usage
    2008 567 citations Sharon K. Inouye et al. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society profile →
  17. Does delirium contribute to poor hospital outcomes?
    1998 557 citations Sharon K. Inouye et al. profile →
  18. Delirium in Older Persons
    2017 537 citations Tamara G. Fong, Tammy T. Hshieh et al. JAMA profile →
  19. Effectiveness of Multicomponent Nonpharmacological Delirium Interventions
    2015 496 citations Tammy T. Hshieh, Thomas G. Travison et al. profile →
  20. The interface between delirium and dementia in elderly adults
    2015 389 citations Tamara G. Fong, Asha Albuquerque et al. profile →
  21. Effect of Delirium and Other Major Complications on Outcomes After Elective Surgery in Older Adults
    2015 349 citations Eva M. Schmitt, Cyrus M. Kosar et al. profile →
  22. 3D-CAM: Derivation and Validation of a 3-Minute Diagnostic Interview for CAM-Defined Delirium
    2014 313 citations Edward R. Marcantonio, Long Ngo et al. Annals of Internal Medicine profile →
  23. The short‐term and long‐term relationship between delirium and cognitive trajectory in older surgical patients
    2016 291 citations Sharon K. Inouye, Edward R. Marcantonio et al. Alzheimer s & Dementia profile →
  24. Antipsychotic Medication for Prevention and Treatment of Delirium in Hospitalized Adults: A Systematic Review and Meta‐Analysis
    2016 274 citations Sharon K. Inouye et al. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society profile →
  25. Hospital Elder Life Program: Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of Effectiveness
    2018 256 citations Tammy T. Hshieh, Sharon K. Inouye et al. profile →
  26. The inter-relationship between delirium and dementia: the importance of delirium prevention
    2022 172 citations Tamara G. Fong, Sharon K. Inouye profile →

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Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Sharon K. Inouye United States 97 33.8k 19.1k 14.7k 7.1k 6.9k 381 45.3k
E. Wesley Ely United States 94 26.6k 0.8× 14.8k 0.8× 9.8k 0.7× 1.4k 0.2× 3.1k 0.4× 413 37.0k
Edward R. Marcantonio United States 82 14.6k 0.4× 8.6k 0.4× 8.1k 0.6× 2.4k 0.3× 7.4k 1.1× 329 25.2k
Robert S. Dittus United States 75 16.8k 0.5× 10.1k 0.5× 6.6k 0.5× 1.4k 0.2× 2.4k 0.4× 253 28.5k
Ayumi Shintani United States 75 14.5k 0.4× 8.5k 0.4× 5.8k 0.4× 985 0.1× 2.6k 0.4× 363 26.3k
Dale M. Needham United States 89 16.4k 0.5× 2.2k 0.1× 1.5k 0.1× 2.6k 0.4× 2.2k 0.3× 368 27.8k
James C. Jackson United States 54 11.2k 0.3× 5.2k 0.3× 3.9k 0.3× 961 0.1× 940 0.1× 174 14.1k
Éduardo Bruera United States 109 3.6k 0.1× 11.1k 0.6× 605 0.0× 2.6k 0.4× 992 0.1× 1.3k 52.3k
Claudia Spies Germany 70 7.0k 0.2× 3.8k 0.2× 2.7k 0.2× 467 0.1× 5.3k 0.8× 816 21.4k
Theodore Speroff United States 49 6.6k 0.2× 4.3k 0.2× 2.8k 0.2× 483 0.1× 1.7k 0.3× 143 13.6k
Jane S. Saczynski United States 47 4.4k 0.1× 2.4k 0.1× 2.2k 0.1× 751 0.1× 3.3k 0.5× 151 9.9k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Ozdemir, Recep A., Jessica M. Ross, Debby Klooster, et al.. (2025). Preoperative parietal TMS-EEG hyperexcitability in patients with subsequent postoperative delirium. Brain stimulation. 18(1). 609–610.
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Mintz, G, Edward R. Marcantonio, Jeremy Walston, et al.. (2024). Inflammatory Indices and Their Associations With Postoperative Delirium. The Journals of Gerontology Series A. 80(1).
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Cenzer, Irena, et al.. (2024). Trajectories of Postoperative Depressive Symptoms in Older Patients Undergoing Major Surgery. JAMA Network Open. 7(1). e2354154–e2354154. 2 indexed citations
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Vasunilashorn, Sarinnapha M., Nadia Lunardi, John C. Newman, et al.. (2023). Preclinical and translational models for delirium: Recommendations for future research from the NIDUS delirium network. Alzheimer s & Dementia. 19(5). 2150–2174. 14 indexed citations
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Dillon, Simon T., Sarinnapha M. Vasunilashorn, Hasan H. Otu, et al.. (2023). Aptamer-Based Proteomics Measuring Preoperative Cerebrospinal Fluid Protein Alterations Associated with Postoperative Delirium. Biomolecules. 13(9). 1395–1395. 6 indexed citations
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Galbraith, Alison, Annette Flanagin, Aaron E. Carroll, et al.. (2023). JAMA Network Call for Papers on Health and the 2024 US Election. JAMA. 330(10). 923–923. 3 indexed citations
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Kim, Dae Hyun, Su Been Lee, Chan Mi Park, et al.. (2023). Comparative Safety Analysis of Oral Antipsychotics for In-Hospital Adverse Clinical Events in Older Adults After Major Surgery. Annals of Internal Medicine. 176(9). 1153–1162. 2 indexed citations
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Helfand, Benjamin, Douglas Tommet, Elke Detroyer, et al.. (2022). Delirium Item Bank: Utilization to Evaluate and Create Delirium Instruments. Dementia and Geriatric Cognitive Disorders. 51(2). 110–119.
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Arias, Franchesca, Alyssa B. Dufour, Deborah Carr, et al.. (2022). Paternal Occupation and Delirium Risk in Older Adults: A Potential Marker of Early-Life Exposures. Innovation in Aging. 6(5). igac050–igac050. 5 indexed citations
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Jones, Richard N., Douglas Tommet, Jon A. Steingrimsson, et al.. (2021). Development and internal validation of a predictive model of cognitive decline 36 months following elective surgery. Alzheimer s & Dementia Diagnosis Assessment & Disease Monitoring. 13(1). e12201–e12201. 3 indexed citations
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Godfrey, Mary, John Green, Jane Smith, et al.. (2019). Process of implementing and delivering the Prevention of Delirium system of care: a mixed method preliminary study. BMC Geriatrics. 20(1). 1–1. 53 indexed citations
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Hshieh, Tammy T., Tamara G. Fong, Eva M. Schmitt, et al.. (2018). The Better Assessment of Illness Study for Delirium Severity: Study Design, Procedures, and Cohort Description. Gerontology. 65(1). 20–29. 10 indexed citations
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Vasunilashorn, Sarinnapha M., Simon T. Dillon, Sharon K. Inouye, et al.. (2017). High C‐Reactive Protein Predicts Delirium Incidence, Duration, and Feature Severity After Major Noncardiac Surgery. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. 65(8). e109–e116. 96 indexed citations
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Vasunilashorn, Sarinnapha M., Jamey Guess, Long Ngo, et al.. (2016). Derivation and Validation of a Severity Scoring Method for the 3‐Minute Diagnostic Interview for Confusion Assessment Method‐‐Defined Delirium. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. 64(8). 1684–1689. 23 indexed citations
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Karuturi, Meghan, Melisa L. Wong, Tina Hsu, et al.. (2016). Understanding cognition in older patients with cancer. Journal of Geriatric Oncology. 7(4). 258–269. 38 indexed citations
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Pisani, Margaret A., Asha Albuquerque, Edward R. Marcantonio, et al.. (2016). Association Between Hospital Readmission and Acute and Sustained Delays in Functional Recovery During 18 Months After Elective Surgery: The Successful Aging after Elective Surgery Study. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. 65(1). 51–58. 14 indexed citations
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Cavallari, Michele, Tammy T. Hshieh, Charles R.G. Guttmann, et al.. (2015). Brain atrophy and white-matter hyperintensities are not significantly associated with incidence and severity of postoperative delirium in older persons without dementia. Neurobiology of Aging. 36(6). 2122–2129. 46 indexed citations
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Rudolph, James L., Richard N. Jones, Sue E. Levkoff, et al.. (2008). Derivation and Validation of a Preoperative Prediction Rule for Delirium After Cardiac Surgery. Circulation. 119(2). 229–236. 361 indexed citations
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Buss, Mary K., Lauren C. Vanderwerker, Sharon K. Inouye, et al.. (2007). Associations between Caregiver-Perceived Delirium in Patients with Cancer and Generalized Anxiety in their Caregivers. Journal of Palliative Medicine. 10(5). 1083–1092. 71 indexed citations
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Pisani, Margaret A., et al.. (2005). Short-term outcomes in older intensive care unit patients with dementia*. Critical Care Medicine. 33(6). 1371–1376. 37 indexed citations

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