Paul E. Schmidt

4.8k citations

49 papers · 3.6k · 3 hit papers · h-index 26

Impact in

Emergency Medicine top 0.2%
- Cardiac Arrest and Resuscitation
- Emergency and Acute Care Studies
- Hospital Admissions and Outcomes
Research and Theory top 0.5%
- Nursing education and management

Papers in

Emergency Medicine 18
- Cardiac Arrest and Resuscitation 15
Surgery 27
- Healthcare Technology and Patient Monitoring 26

Co-authors: Gary B. Smith (40 shared papers)David R. Prytherch (38 shared papers)Peter I. Featherstone (22 shared papers)Paul Meredith (24 shared papers)Oliver Redfern (6 shared papers)Jim Briggs (10 shared papers)Bernie Higgins (4 shared papers)Alejandra Recio‐Saucedo (6 shared papers)
Journals: Resuscitation (20 papers)BMJ Quality & Safety (4 papers)Critical Care Medicine (3 papers)British journal of surgery (2 papers)Clinical Medicine (2 papers)
Partner nations: United Kingdom Italy Sweden

In The Last Decade

Paul E. Schmidt

49 papers receiving 3.5k citations

Paul E. Schmidt's Hit Papers

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Nurse staffing, nursing assistants and hospital mortality: retrospective longitudinal cohort study 2018 · 260 citations

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Paper score: A paper's citations measured against the top-1% bar of its own field and year: the square root of citations ÷ bar, so 1 means right at the bar and 2 means four times its citations. The bar blends the citation counts that enter the top 1% of the paper's subfields in its year (weighted 89.5%), of those subfields over all years (0.5%) and of its year across all fields (10%); a subfield and year with fewer than 400 papers takes its year's bar. Papers from 2026 are not scored yet: in an unfinished year, when a paper appeared matters more than how it is cited.

Hit paper: A paper cited at least 1.5× the top-1% bar of its field and year: a paper score of at least √1.5.

2018 BMJ Quality & Safety
2013 Resuscitation
2010 Resuscitation

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1	The ability of the National Early Warning Score (NEWS) to discriminate patients at risk of early cardiac arrest, unanticipated intensive care unit admission, and death Resuscitation ·Gary B. Smith, David R. Prytherch, Paul Meredith, Paul E. Schmidt, Peter I. Featherstone Hit paper breakdown →	2013	778
2	ViEWS—Towards a national early warning score for detecting adult inpatient deterioration Resuscitation ·David R. Prytherch, Gary B. Smith, Paul E. Schmidt, Peter I. Featherstone Hit paper breakdown →	2010	424
3	Review and performance evaluation of aggregate weighted ‘track and trigger’ systems Resuscitation ·Gary B. Smith, David R. Prytherch, Paul E. Schmidt, Peter I. Featherstone	2008	274
4	Nurse staffing, nursing assistants and hospital mortality: retrospective longitudinal cohort study BMJ Quality & Safety ·Peter Griffiths, Antonello Maruotti, Alejandra Recio‐Saucedo, Oliver Redfern, Jane Ball, Jim Briggs, Chiara Dall’Ora, Paul E. Schmidt Hit paper breakdown →	2018	260
5	Hospital-wide physiological surveillance–A new approach to the early identification and management of the sick patient Resuscitation ·Gary B. Smith, David R. Prytherch, Paul E. Schmidt, Peter I. Featherstone, Debbie Knight, Gill Clements, Mohammed A. Mohammed	2006	158
6	A review, and performance evaluation, of single-parameter “track and trigger” systems Resuscitation ·Gary B. Smith, David R. Prytherch, Paul E. Schmidt, Peter I. Featherstone, Bernie Higgins	2008	150
7	Patterns in the recording of vital signs and early warning scores: compliance with a clinical escalation protocol BMJ Quality & Safety ·Christopher Hands, Paul Meredith, Gary B. Smith, David R. Prytherch, Paul E. Schmidt, Peter I. Featherstone +1 other	2013	123
8	A comparison of the ability of the National Early Warning Score and the National Early Warning Score 2 to identify patients at risk of in-hospital mortality: A multi-centre database study Resuscitation ·Marco A. F. Pimentel, Oliver Redfern, Stephen Gerry, Professor Gary S. Collins, James Malycha, David R. Prytherch, Paul E. Schmidt, Gary B. Smith	2018	123
9	Nurse staffing levels, missed vital signs and mortality in hospitals: retrospective longitudinal observational study Health Services and Delivery Research ·Peter Griffiths, Jane Ball, Karen E. Bloor, Dankmar Böhning, Jim Briggs, Chiara Dall’Ora, Anya de Iongh, Jeremy Jones	2018	118
10	Calculating early warning scores—A classroom comparison of pen and paper and hand-held computer methods Resuscitation ·David R. Prytherch, Gary B. Smith, Paul E. Schmidt, Peter I. Featherstone, Kate Stewart, Debbie Knight, Bernie Higgins	2006	113
11	The National Early Warning Score 2 (NEWS2) Clinical Medicine ·Gary B. Smith, Oliver Redfern, Marco A. F. Pimentel, Stephen Gerry, Professor Gary S. Collins, James Malycha, David R. Prytherch, Paul E. Schmidt	2019	109
12	Impact of introducing an electronic physiological surveillance system on hospital mortality BMJ Quality & Safety ·Paul E. Schmidt, Paul Meredith, David R. Prytherch, Duncan Watson, V. Watson, Roger M Killen, Peter Greengross, Mohammed A Mohammed	2014	94
13	The use of routine laboratory data to predict in-hospital death in medical admissions Resuscitation ·David R. Prytherch, J.S. Sirl, Paul E. Schmidt, Peter I. Featherstone, P C Weaver, Gary B. Smith	2005	88
14	Combining simulation and goal programming for healthcare planning in a medical assessment unit European Journal of Operational Research ·J.P. Oddoye, Dylan Francis Jones, Mehrdad Tamiz, Paul E. Schmidt	2007	76
15	Should age be included as a component of track and trigger systems used to identify sick adult patients? Resuscitation ·Gary B. Smith, David R. Prytherch, Paul E. Schmidt, Peter I. Featherstone, John G. Kellett, Breda Deane, Bernie Higgins	2008	69
16	A Comparison of the Quick Sequential (Sepsis-Related) Organ Failure Assessment Score and the National Early Warning Score in Non-ICU Patients With/Without Infection Critical Care Medicine ·Oliver Redfern, Gary B. Smith, David R. Prytherch, Paul Meredith, Matthew Inada-Kim, Paul E. Schmidt	2018	68
17	Comparison of the National Early Warning Score in non-elective medical and surgical patients British journal of surgery ·Caroline Kovacs, Stuart William Jarvis, David R. Prytherch, Paul Meredith, Paul E. Schmidt, Jim Briggs, Gary B. Smith	2016	61
18	A Comparison of the Ability of the Physiologic Components of Medical Emergency Team Criteria and the U.K. National Early Warning Score to Discriminate Patients at Risk of a Range of Adverse Clinical Outcomes* Critical Care Medicine ·Gary B. Smith, David R. Prytherch, Stuart William Jarvis, Caroline Kovacs, Paul Meredith, Paul E. Schmidt, Jim Briggs	2016	60
19	Aggregate National Early Warning Score (NEWS) values are more important than high scores for a single vital signs parameter for discriminating the risk of adverse outcomes Resuscitation ·Stuart William Jarvis, Caroline Kovacs, Jim Briggs, Paul Meredith, Paul E. Schmidt, Peter I. Featherstone, David R. Prytherch, Gary B. Smith	2014	57
20	Decision-tree early warning score (DTEWS) validates the design of the National Early Warning Score (NEWS) Resuscitation ·Tessy Badriyah, Paul Meredith, Stuart William Jarvis, Paul E. Schmidt, Peter I. Featherstone, David R. Prytherch, Gary B. Smith +1 other	2013	48

About Paul E. Schmidt

Paul E. Schmidt is a scholar working on Emergency Medicine, Surgery, Epidemiology, Emergency Medical Services and Health Information Management, having authored 49 papers that have together received 3.6k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Healthcare Technology and Patient Monitoring (26 papers), Sepsis Diagnosis and Treatment (18 papers), Cardiac Arrest and Resuscitation (15 papers), Machine Learning in Healthcare (4 papers), Patient Safety and Medication Errors (3 papers), Nursing education and management (3 papers), Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes (2 papers) and Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare (2 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Emergency Medicine (1.2k citations), Research and Theory (305 citations), Emergency Medical Services (452 citations), Issues, ethics and legal aspects (73 citations) and Epidemiology (962 citations). Paul E. Schmidt has collaborated with scholars based in United Kingdom, Italy and Sweden. Frequent co-authors include Gary B. Smith, David R. Prytherch, Peter I. Featherstone, Paul Meredith, Oliver Redfern, Jim Briggs, Bernie Higgins, Alejandra Recio‐Saucedo, Peter Griffiths and Caroline Kovacs. Their work appears in journals such as Resuscitation, BMJ Quality & Safety, Critical Care Medicine, British journal of surgery and Clinical Medicine.

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