Susan Coffin

15.8k citations

227 papers · 8.8k indexed · 3 hit papers · h-index 43

Impact in

Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology top 0.2%
- Antibiotic Use and Resistance
Infectious Diseases top 0.1%
- Clostridium difficile and Clostridium perfringens research
- Viral gastroenteritis research and epidemiology

Papers in

Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology 16
Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine 26
- Nosocomial Infections in ICU 24

Co-authors: Theoklis E. Zaoutis Julia Shaklee Sammons Thomas J. Sandora Kevin W. Garey Karen C. Carroll Carolyn V. Gould Erik R. Dubberke Johan Bakken
Journals: Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology (34 papers)The Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal (25 papers)Journal of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society (18 papers)PEDIATRICS (14 papers)Open Forum Infectious Diseases (13 papers)
Partner nations: United States Canada Greece

In The Last Decade

Susan Coffin

217 papers receiving 8.5k citations

Hit Papers

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Clinical Practice Guidelines for Clostridium difficile Infection in Adults and Children: 2017 Update by the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) and Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA) 2018 · 787 citations

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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.

2018 Clinical Infectious Diseases
2017 Clinical Infectious Diseases
2014 Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

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Co-authors

The 25 scholars most cited alongside Susan Coffin, linked wherever they have co-authored with each other. Click a name or a connecting line to browse the papers they share.

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All Works

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1	Prevention and Treatment of Neonatal Infections in Facility and Community Settings of Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Descriptive Review Neonatology ·Rachel Lee Him, Sarah Rehman, Davneet Sihota, Rahima Yasin, Maha Azhar, Taleaa Masroor, Hamna Amir Naseem, Laiba Masood, Sawera Hanif, Leila Harrison, Tyler Vaivada, M. Jeeva Sankar, Angela Dramowski, Susan Coffin, Davidson H. Hamer, Zulfiqar A Bhutta	2024	2
2	Maternal and neonatal IgG against Klebsiella pneumoniae are associated with lower risk of neonatal sepsis: A case-control study of hospitalized neonates in Botswana SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología ·Siqi Linsey Zhang, Carolyn McGann, Tereza Duranova, Jonathan Strysko, Andrew P. Steenhoff, Alemayehu Mekonnen Gezmu, Britt Nakstad, Tonya Arscott‐Mills, One Bayani, Banno Moorad, Nametso Tlhako, Melissa Richard‐Greenblatt, Weiming Hu, Paul J. Planet, Susan Coffin, Michael A. Silverman	2024	3
3	Infection rates during eras of intrathecal antibiotic use followed by antibiotic-impregnated catheter use in prevention of cerebrospinal fluid shunt infection Journal of Neurosurgery Pediatrics ·Tamara D. Simon, Panteha Hayati Rezvan, Susan Coffin, Matt Hall, Jason S. Hauptman, Matthew P. Kronman, Francesco T. Mangano, Stacey Podkovik, Ian F. Pollack, Joshua K. Schaffzin, Emily Thorell, Benjamin C. Warf, Chuan Zhou, Kathryn B. Whitlock	2024	0
4	SafeHANDS: A Multimodal Hand Hygiene Intervention in a Resource-Limited Neonatal Unit Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease ·Angela Dramowski, Louisa M. Erasmus, Marina Aucamp, Aaqilah Fataar, Mark F. Cotton, Susan Coffin, Adrie Bekker, Andrew Whitelaw	2022	1
5	A national study of antibiotic use in Greek pediatric hematology oncology and bone marrow transplant units SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología ·Elpis Mantadakis, Ioannis Kopsidas, Susan Coffin, Gabriel Dimitriou, Despοina Gkentzi, Emmanuel Hatzipantelis, Aikaterini Kaisari, Antonis Kattamis, Εleni Kourkouni, Smaragda Papachristidou, Εvgenia Papakonstantinou, Sophia Polychronopoulou, Emmanuel Roilides, Νikos Spyridis, Sotirios Tsiodras, Μαρία Τσολιά, Grammatiki-Christina Tsopela, Theoklis E. Zaoutis, Athanasios Tragiannidis	2022	2
6	Comparative Analysis of Emerging B.1.1.7+E484K SARS-CoV-2 Isolates Open Forum Infectious Diseases ·Ahmed M. Moustafa, Colleen Bianco, Lidiya Denu, Azad Ahmed, Susan Coffin, Brandy Neide, J.K. Everett, Shantan Reddy, Emilie Rabut, Jasmine Deseignora, Michael D. Feldman, Kyle G. Rodino, Frederic D. Bushman, Rebecca M. Harris, Josh Chang Mell, Paul J. Planet	2021	11
7	The COVID trap: pediatric diagnostic errors in a pandemic world Diagnosis ·Yasaman Fatemi, Susan Coffin	2021	2
8	SARS-CoV-2 Infection in Public School District Employees Following a District-Wide Vaccination Program — Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, March 21–April 23, 2021 MMWR Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report ·David A. Rubin, Maggie Eisen, Sophia Collins, Jeffrey W. Pennington, Xi Wang, Susan Coffin	2021	3
9	Assessment of the impact of inpatient infectious events in pediatric patients with newly diagnosed acute leukemia at Dr. Robert Reid Cabral Children’s Hospital, Dominican Republic PLoS ONE ·Julianne E. Burns, Dominga Reyes Pérez, Yimei Li, Wendy Gómez García, F. Jay Garcia, Johanna Penélope Gil Jiménez, Jacqueline Sánchez, María Castillo Bueno, Stephen P. Hunger, Lisa Reaves, Johanny Contreras González, Susan Coffin, Adriana Deverlis, Andrew P. Steenhoff, Brian T. Fisher	2020	1
10	Outbreak of Adenovirus in a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit Ophthalmology ·Julia Shaklee Sammons, Erin H. Graf, Sara Townsend, Cindy Hoegg, Sarah Smathers, Susan Coffin, Katie Williams, Stephanie L. Mitchell, Ursula Nawab, David Munson, Graham E. Quinn, Gil Binenbaum	2018	42
11	How Do You Measure Up: Quality Measurement for Improving Patient Care and Establishing the Value of Infectious Diseases Specialists Clinical Infectious Diseases ·Joshua C. Eby, Michael Lane, Michael A. Horberg, Clare N Gentry, Susan Coffin, Amy J. Ray, Kathleen R Sheridan, Dale W. Bratzler, David A. Wheeler, Molade Sarumi, Tamar F. Barlam, Thomas J Kim, Andrés Rodriguez, Ronald Nahass	2018	5
12	Clinical Practice Guidelines for Clostridium difficile Infection in Adults and Children: 2017 Update by the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) and Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA) Clinical Infectious Diseases ·L. Clifford McDonald, Dale N. Gerding, Stuart Johnson, Johan Bakken, Karen C. Carroll, Susan Coffin, Erik R. Dubberke, Kevin W. Garey, Carolyn V. Gould, Ciarán P. Kelly, Vivian G. Loo, Julia Shaklee Sammons, Thomas J. Sandora, Mark H. Wilcox Hit paper breakdown →	2017	1891
13	Combined biomarkers discriminate a low likelihood of bacterial infection among surgical intensive care unit patients with suspected sepsis Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease ·Brendan J. Kelly, Ebbing Lautenbach, Irving Nachamkin, Susan Coffin, Jeffrey S. Gerber, Barry D. Fuchs, Charles Garrigan, Xiaoyan Han, Warren B. Bilker, Jacqueleen Wise, Pam Tolomeo, Jennifer Han	2016	22
14	Patient-generated Digital Images after Pediatric Ambulatory Surgery Applied Clinical Informatics ·Rachael K. Ross, Christina Voight, Heather Brouwer, Dean Karavite, Jeffrey S. Gerber, Robert W. Grundmeier, Susan Coffin, Matthew W. Miller	2016	8
15	Central line associated bloodstream infections in hospitalized children in Greece before and after implementation of a prevention bundle International journal of infection control ·Katerina Mougkou, Despοina Gkentzi, Georgia Kourlaba, Sofia Kouni, Ioannis Kopsidas, Charalampia Nteli, Theoklis E. Zaoutis, Susan Coffin	2015	5
16	Central Line–Associated Bloodstream Infections in Neonates with Gastrointestinal Conditions: Developing a Candidate Definition for Mucosal Barrier Injury Bloodstream Infections Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology ·Susan Coffin, Sarah B. Klieger, Christopher Duggan, W. Charles Huskins, Aaron M. Milstone, Gail Potter-Bynoe, Bram P. Raphael, Thomas J. Sandora, Xiaoyan Song, Danielle M. Zerr	2014	7
17	Risk Factors and Outcomes Associated With Severe Clostridium difficile Infection in Children The Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal ·Jason Kim, Julia Shaklee, Sarah Smathers, Priya A. Prasad, Lindsey Asti, Joan Zoltanski, Michael Dul, Michelle M. Nerandzic, Susan Coffin, Philip Toltzis, Theoklis E. Zaoutis	2011	101
18	Clusters of Acute Respiratory Illness Associated With Human Enterovirus 68-Asia, Europe, and United States, 2008-2010 (Reprinted from MMWR, vol 60, pg 1301-1304, 2011) JAMA ·Tadatsugu Imamura, Akira Suzuki, Adam Meijer, Hubert G.M. Niesters, Janette Rahamat–Langendoen, José Lojo, Richard L. Hodinka, Susan Coffin, Stephen M. Ostroff, Colleen S. Kraft, Georgia. John T. Redd, Dean D. Erdman, Xiaoyan Lu, Mark S. Oberste, Lauren J. Stockman, Gregory L. Armstrong, Lara M. Jacobson, Catherine Yen	2011	14
19	Identification and Eradication of Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Colonization in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit: Results of a National Survey Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology ·Aaron M. Milstone, Xiaoyan Song, Susan Coffin, Alexis Elward, (unknown)	2010	29
20	Future vaccines Primary Care Clinics in Office Practice ·Susan Coffin	2001	2

About Susan Coffin

Susan Coffin is a scholar working on Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology, Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine, Infectious Diseases, Emergency Medical Services and Epidemiology, having authored 227 papers that have together received 8.8k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Respiratory viral infections research (35 papers), Influenza Virus Research Studies (24 papers), Nosocomial Infections in ICU (24 papers), Viral gastroenteritis research and epidemiology (24 papers), Sepsis Diagnosis and Treatment (22 papers), Neonatal and Maternal Infections (20 papers), Streptococcal Infections and Treatments (20 papers) and Central Venous Catheters and Hemodialysis (19 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology (669 citations), Infectious Diseases (4.7k citations), Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine (1.1k citations), Epidemiology (4.6k citations) and Gastroenterology (532 citations). Susan Coffin has collaborated with scholars based in United States, Canada and Greece. Frequent co-authors include Theoklis E. Zaoutis, Julia Shaklee Sammons, Thomas J. Sandora, Kevin W. Garey, Karen C. Carroll, Carolyn V. Gould, Erik R. Dubberke, Johan Bakken, L. Clifford McDonald and Mark H. Wilcox. Their work appears in journals such as Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology, The Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal, Journal of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society, PEDIATRICS and Open Forum Infectious Diseases.

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