Stephen D. Persell

7.4k total citations · 3 hit papers
133 papers, 4.5k citations indexed

About

Stephen D. Persell is a scholar working on General Health Professions, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine. According to data from OpenAlex, Stephen D. Persell has authored 133 papers receiving a total of 4.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 53 papers in General Health Professions, 33 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and 27 papers in Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine. Recurrent topics in Stephen D. Persell's work include Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life (22 papers), Blood Pressure and Hypertension Studies (17 papers) and Pharmaceutical Practices and Patient Outcomes (17 papers). Stephen D. Persell is often cited by papers focused on Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life (22 papers), Blood Pressure and Hypertension Studies (17 papers) and Pharmaceutical Practices and Patient Outcomes (17 papers). Stephen D. Persell collaborates with scholars based in United States, Vietnam and Japan. Stephen D. Persell's co-authors include David W. Baker, Jeffrey A. Linder, Jason N. Doctor, Daniella Meeker, Noah J. Goldstein, Craig R. Fox, Mark W. Friedberg, Michael S. Wolf, Donald M. Lloyd‐Jones and Tara K. Knight and has published in prestigious journals such as JAMA, Circulation and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Stephen D. Persell

125 papers receiving 4.3k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Effect of Behavioral Interventions on Inappropriate Antibiotic Prescribing Among Primary Care Practices

2016 577 citations Daniella Meeker, Jeffrey A. Linder et al. profile →
Prevalence of Resistant Hypertension in the United States, 2003–2008

2011 566 citations Stephen D. Persell Hypertension profile →
Awareness, Attitudes, and Actions Related to COVID-19 Among Adults With Chronic Conditions at the Onset of the U.S. Outbreak

2020 398 citations Michael S. Wolf, Rachel O’Conor et al. Annals of Internal Medicine profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Stephen D. Persell United States	34	1.4k	1.1k	634	627	615	133	4.5k
Michael A. Steinman United States	48	1.6k 1.1×	1.1k 1.0×	897 1.4×	2.0k 3.1×	1.2k 1.9×	214	8.3k
Daniel C. Malone United States	42	886 0.6×	1.0k 0.9×	826 1.3×	1.2k 1.9×	929 1.5×	298	8.0k
Ines Krass Australia	40	1.6k 1.2×	880 0.8×	550 0.9×	717 1.1×	465 0.8×	234	5.8k
Peter J. Kaboli United States	39	1.8k 1.2×	1.0k 0.9×	786 1.2×	1.2k 2.0×	757 1.2×	169	6.2k
Björn Wettermark Sweden	41	637 0.4×	1.6k 1.4×	733 1.2×	1.8k 2.8×	770 1.3×	214	7.1k
Jeffrey L. Schnipper United States	49	3.1k 2.2×	2.0k 1.8×	1.1k 1.7×	1.3k 2.0×	1.2k 2.0×	229	10.1k
Richard Sloane United States	47	1.4k 1.0×	778 0.7×	1.0k 1.6×	856 1.4×	791 1.3×	204	7.8k
Susan E. Bronskill Canada	44	2.5k 1.7×	509 0.5×	839 1.3×	1.3k 2.1×	1.4k 2.2×	214	6.6k
Michael A. Fischer United States	48	872 0.6×	1.1k 1.0×	1.2k 1.9×	2.0k 3.1×	687 1.1×	181	8.1k
Lisa Dolovich Canada	43	2.6k 1.8×	885 0.8×	1.3k 2.0×	974 1.6×	660 1.1×	258	6.6k

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Petito, Lucia C., Tiffany L. Brown, Jason N. Doctor, et al.. (2025). Persistence of Effects of Behavioral Interventions on Reducing Overuse of Care in Older Patients After Discontinuation. Annals of Internal Medicine. 178(3). 450–453. 1 indexed citations

O’Conor, Rachel, Andrea M. Russell, Emily Rogalskı, et al.. (2025). Triadic Primary Care Encounters Managing Medications among Individuals with Mild Cognitive Impairment and Dementia: Patient, Caregiver and Clinician Perspectives. The Gerontologist. 65(7). 1 indexed citations

Persell, Stephen D., Lucia C. Petito, Anjan Tibrewala, et al.. (2025). Barriers and Facilitators to Heart Failure Guideline-Directed Medical Therapy in an Integrated Health System and Federally Qualified Health Centers: A Thematic Qualitative Analysis. Journal of General Internal Medicine. 41(2). 480–488.

Petito, Lucia C., et al.. (2025). Hypertension Medication Changes in Patients Prescribed Remote Monitoring. American Journal of Hypertension. 39(4). 563–569.

Casey, Donald E., et al.. (2024). What Constitutes Adequate Control of High Blood Pressure? Current Considerations. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 8(4). 384–395.

Persell, Stephen D., Lucia C. Petito, Ji Young Lee, et al.. (2024). Reducing Care Overuse in Older Patients Using Professional Norms and Accountability. Annals of Internal Medicine. 177(3). 324–334. 5 indexed citations

Linder, Jeffrey A., Stephen D. Persell, Mark W. Friedberg, et al.. (2024). Antibiotic prescribing for acute respiratory infections during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic: Patterns in a nationwide telehealth service provider. Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology. 45(6). 777–780. 3 indexed citations

Wagner, Zachary, Louis T. Mariano, Jason N. Doctor, et al.. (2024). Peer Comparison or Guideline-Based Feedback and Postsurgery Opioid Prescriptions. JAMA Health Forum. 5(3). e240077–e240077. 5 indexed citations

Persell, Stephen D., et al.. (2023). A Curated Curriculum Collection to Support Social Determinants of Health Education for the Health Professions. The Annals of Family Medicine. 21(Suppl 2). S84–S85. 1 indexed citations

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Persell, Stephen D., et al.. (2022). The first step is recognizing there is a problem: a methodology for adjusting for variability in disease severity when estimating clinician performance. BMC Medical Research Methodology. 22(1). 69–69. 1 indexed citations

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Ng, Teresa I., et al.. (2022). Antibiotic stewardship to reduce inappropriate antibiotic prescribing in integrated academic health-system urgent care clinics. Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology. 44(5). 736–745. 13 indexed citations

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Krings, James G., Joe K. Gerald, Kathryn Blake, et al.. (2022). A Call for the United States to Accelerate the Implementation of Reliever Combination Inhaled Corticosteroid–Formoterol Inhalers in Asthma. American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine. 207(4). 390–405. 14 indexed citations

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Leo, Michael C., et al.. (2021). Disparities in Elevated Body Mass Index in Youth Receiving Care at Community Health Centers. Family & Community Health. 44(4). 238–244. 1 indexed citations

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Rowe, Theresa A., Ji Young Lee, Lucia C. Petito, et al.. (2021). Design of Behavioral Economic Applications to Geriatrics Leveraging Electronic Health Records (BEAGLE): A pragmatic cluster randomized controlled trial. Contemporary Clinical Trials. 112. 106649–106649. 10 indexed citations

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Curtis, Laura M., Stephen D. Persell, James W. Griffith, et al.. (2020). Cognitive impairment no dementia and associations with health literacy, self-management skills, and functional health status. Patient Education and Counseling. 103(9). 1805–1811. 24 indexed citations

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Persell, Stephen D.. (2011). Prevalence of Resistant Hypertension in the United States, 2003–2008. Hypertension. 57(6). 1076–1080. 566 indexed citations breakdown →

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Weiss, Curtis H., Farzad Moazed, Colleen McEvoy, et al.. (2011). Prompting Physicians to Address a Daily Checklist and Process of Care and Clinical Outcomes: A Single-Site Study. American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine. 184(6). 680–686. 131 indexed citations

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Weiner, Saul J., Alan Schwartz, Frances M. Weaver, et al.. (2010). Contextual Errors and Failures in Individualizing Patient Care. Annals of Internal Medicine. 11 indexed citations

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Persell, Stephen D., Nancy C. Dolan, Janardan D. Khandekar, et al.. (2010). Changes in Performance After Implementation of a Multifaceted Electronic-Health-Record-Based Quality Improvement System. Medical Care. 49(2). 117–125. 66 indexed citations

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Persell, Stephen D., Nancy C. Dolan, & David W. Baker. (2008). Medical exceptions to decision support: a tool to identify provider misconceptions and direct academic detailing.. PubMed. 1090–1090. 2 indexed citations

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