Thomas Rotter

3.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
60 papers, 2.5k citations indexed

About

Thomas Rotter is a scholar working on Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, General Health Professions and Economics and Econometrics. According to data from OpenAlex, Thomas Rotter has authored 60 papers receiving a total of 2.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 30 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, 24 papers in General Health Professions and 22 papers in Economics and Econometrics. Recurrent topics in Thomas Rotter's work include Clinical practice guidelines implementation (23 papers), Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life (20 papers) and Healthcare Quality and Management (19 papers). Thomas Rotter is often cited by papers focused on Clinical practice guidelines implementation (23 papers), Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life (20 papers) and Healthcare Quality and Management (19 papers). Thomas Rotter collaborates with scholars based in Canada, Australia and Netherlands. Thomas Rotter's co-authors include Leigh Kinsman, Erica L. James, Pamela Snow, Jon Willis, Andreas Machotta, Joachim Kügler, Holger Gothe, Donna Goodridge, Elizabeth Harrison and Shannon D. Scott and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews and International Journal of Molecular Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Thomas Rotter

56 papers receiving 2.4k citations

Hit Papers

Clinical pathways: effects on professional practice, pati... 2010 2026 2015 2020 2010 100 200 300 400 500
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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. Clinical pathways: effects on professional practice, patient outcomes, length of stay and hospital costs
    2010 565 citations Thomas Rotter, Leigh Kinsman et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Thomas Rotter Canada 23 941 813 506 311 247 60 2.5k
James R. Langabeer United States 23 562 0.6× 379 0.5× 244 0.5× 214 0.7× 111 0.4× 105 1.8k
Melinda Beeuwkes Buntin United States 24 826 0.9× 1.7k 2.1× 1.2k 2.4× 790 2.5× 271 1.1× 102 3.7k
Leigh Kinsman Australia 31 1.1k 1.2× 1.3k 1.6× 799 1.6× 333 1.1× 298 1.2× 107 4.4k
Johannes Stoelwinder Australia 29 866 0.9× 1.2k 1.5× 547 1.1× 168 0.5× 473 1.9× 89 4.0k
Heather C. Kaplan United States 17 346 0.4× 907 1.1× 294 0.6× 276 0.9× 186 0.8× 56 2.0k
Lucy A. Savitz United States 25 380 0.4× 970 1.2× 448 0.9× 185 0.6× 183 0.7× 85 2.3k
Jon Willis Australia 14 575 0.6× 390 0.5× 285 0.6× 146 0.5× 199 0.8× 29 1.4k
Lisa M. Kern United States 31 415 0.4× 1.2k 1.4× 543 1.1× 764 2.5× 147 0.6× 115 2.8k
Mohammed A. Mohammed United Kingdom 24 293 0.3× 708 0.9× 968 1.9× 227 0.7× 377 1.5× 94 3.2k
Roland Grad Canada 34 742 0.8× 1.3k 1.6× 255 0.5× 306 1.0× 133 0.5× 204 3.5k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Thomas Rotter

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All Works

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Tranmer, Joan, Thomas Rotter, Denis E. O’Donnell, et al.. (2022). Determining the influence of the primary and specialist network of care on patient and system outcomes among patients with a new diagnosis of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). BMC Health Services Research. 22(1). 1210–1210. 4 indexed citations
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Campbell, Craig, et al.. (2021). German translation and pre-testing of Consolidated Framework for Implementation Research (CFIR) and Expert Recommendations for Implementing Change (ERIC). SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 2(1). 120–120. 12 indexed citations
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Kinsman, Leigh, Simon Cooper, R.H. Champion, et al.. (2021). The impact of web-based and face-to-face simulation education programs on nurses' response to patient deterioration: A multi-site interrupted time series study. Nurse Education Today. 102. 104939–104939. 12 indexed citations
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Anderson, Tara, Mansfield Mela, Thomas Rotter, & Nancy Poole. (2020). A Qualitative Investigation into Barriers and Enablers for the Development of a Clinical Pathway for Individuals Living with FASD and Mental Disorder/Addictions. Canadian Journal of Community Mental Health. 2 indexed citations
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Rotter, Thomas, et al.. (2020). Barriers to and facilitators of the implementation of multi-disciplinary care pathways in primary care: a systematic review. BMC Family Practice. 21(1). 113–113. 39 indexed citations
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Goodridge, Donna, et al.. (2019). Building patient capacity to participate in care during hospitalisation: a scoping review. BMJ Open. 9(7). e026551–e026551. 20 indexed citations
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Flynn, Rachel, Thomas Rotter, Dawn Hartfield, Amanda S. Newton, & Shannon D. Scott. (2019). A realist evaluation to identify contexts and mechanisms that enabled and hindered implementation and had an effect on sustainability of a lean intervention in pediatric healthcare. BMC Health Services Research. 19(1). 912–912. 35 indexed citations
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Scott, Shannon D., Thomas Rotter, Rachel Flynn, et al.. (2019). Systematic review of the use of process evaluations in knowledge translation research. Systematic Reviews. 8(1). 266–266. 44 indexed citations
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Cooper, Simon, Robyn Cant, Clifford J. Connell, et al.. (2018). The educational impact of web-based and face-to-face patient deterioration simulation programs: An interventional trial. Nurse Education Today. 64. 93–98. 23 indexed citations
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Sari, Nazmi, Thomas Rotter, Donna Goodridge, Elizabeth Harrison, & Leigh Kinsman. (2017). An economic analysis of a system wide Lean approach: cost estimations for the implementation of Lean in the Saskatchewan healthcare system for 2012–2014. BMC Health Services Research. 17(1). 523–523. 14 indexed citations
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Rotter, Thomas, Christopher Plishka, Donna Goodridge, et al.. (2017). The development, implementation and evaluation of clinical pathways for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) in Saskatchewan: protocol for an interrupted times series evaluation. BMC Health Services Research. 17(1). 782–782. 44 indexed citations
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Synnot, Anneliese, Melissa J. Chee, Mark Fitzgerald, et al.. (2017). Prehospital notification for major trauma patients requiring emergency hospital transport: A systematic review. Journal of Evidence-Based Medicine. 10(3). 212–221. 17 indexed citations
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Goodridge, Donna, Gill Westhorp, Thomas Rotter, R. Dobson, & Brenna Bath. (2015). Lean and leadership practices: development of an initial realist program theory. BMC Health Services Research. 15(1). 362–362. 86 indexed citations
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Kinsman, Leigh, Thomas Rotter, Katherine Stevenson, et al.. (2014). "The Largest Lean Transformation in the World": The Implementation and Evaluation of Lean in Saskatchewan Healthcare. Healthcare Quarterly. 17(2). 29–32. 22 indexed citations
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Lawal, Adegboyega, Thomas Rotter, Leigh Kinsman, et al.. (2014). Lean management in health care: definition, concepts, methodology and effects reported (systematic review protocol). Systematic Reviews. 3(1). 103–103. 100 indexed citations
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Kinsman, Leigh, Thomas Rotter, Jon Willis, et al.. (2012). Do clinical pathways enhance access to evidence‐based acute myocardial infarction treatment in rural emergency departments?. Australian Journal of Rural Health. 20(2). 59–66. 24 indexed citations
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Rotter, Thomas, et al.. (2012). Methods for the evaluation of hospital cooperation activities (Systematic review protocol). Systematic Reviews. 1(1). 11–11. 5 indexed citations
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Rotter, Thomas, Leigh Kinsman, Erica L. James, Andreas Machotta, & Ewout W. Steyerberg. (2012). The quality of the evidence base for clinical pathway effectiveness: Room for improvement in the design of evaluation trials. BMC Medical Research Methodology. 12(1). 80–80. 27 indexed citations
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Rotter, Thomas, Joachim Kügler, Rainer Koch, et al.. (2008). A systematic review and meta-analysis of the effects of clinical pathways on length of stay, hospital costs and patient outcomes. BMC Health Services Research. 8(1). 265–265. 114 indexed citations

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