Sean R. Townsend

California Pacific Medical Center — United States

Medicine · Health Sciences

21h-index42.0kcitations57works1.02yr avg
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Research Topics

Sepsis Diagnosis and Treatment(37), Respiratory Support and Mechanisms(10), Intensive Care Unit Cognitive Disorders(9), Emergency and Acute Care Studies(9), Nosocomial Infections in ICU(8)

Publications56 total

Formative Evaluation to Inform Implementation of Sepsis Bundles in Emergency Departments
Annals of Emergency Medicine·2025· 2 cited
Clinical and non-clinical team collaboration to develop breast referral triage to improve service delivery in secondary care
British Journal of Nursing·2024
P‐PB‐3 | A Hemoglobin Threshold Quality Initiative to Improve Pediatric Red Cell Transfusion Justification Compliance
Transfusion·2023Open Access
Assessment of implementation methods in sepsis: study protocol for a cluster-randomized hybrid type 2 trial
Trials·2023· 10 citedOpen Access
Surviving Sepsis Campaign
Critical Care Medicine·2023· 81 cited
The authors reply
Critical Care Medicine·2022
Antibiotic Administration and Timing: Risks, Delay, Zombies*
Critical Care Medicine·2021· 5 cited
Effects of Compliance With the Early Management Bundle (SEP-1) on Mortality Changes Among Medicare Beneficiaries With Sepsis
CHEST Journal·2021· 64 cited
50 Years of Sepsis Investigation/Enlightenment Among Adults—The Long and Winding Road
Critical Care Medicine·2021· 10 cited
Regarding Journal of Thoracic Disease Vol 12, Supplement 1 (February 2020) (Sepsis: Science and Fiction)—Driving blind: instituting SEP-1 without high quality outcomes data
Journal of Thoracic Disease·2021· 1 citedOpen Access
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Measure Stewards’ Assessment of the Infectious Diseases Society of America’s Position Paper on SEP-1
Clinical Infectious Diseases·2020· 6 cited
CMS Measure Stewards' Assessment of the Infectious Diseases Society of America's Position Paper on SEP-1
Clinical Infectious Diseases·2020
COUNTERPOINT: Should the Surviving Sepsis Campaign Guidelines Be Retired? No
CHEST Journal·2019· 21 citedOpen Access
Rebuttal From Drs Levy, Rhodes, and Evans
CHEST Journal·2019· 5 cited
Evidence Underpinning the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services' Severe Sepsis and Septic Shock Management Bundle (SEP-1)
Annals of Internal Medicine·2018· 6 cited
Surviving Sepsis Campaign: International Guidelines for Management of Sepsis and Septic Shock: 2016
Critical Care Medicine·2017· 3.7k citedOpen Access
Surviving Sepsis Campaign: International Guidelines for Management of Sepsis and Septic Shock: 2016
Intensive Care Medicine·2017· 6.6k citedOpen Access
Collaborating for Success in Sepsis Quality Improvement*
Critical Care Medicine·2016
Implementation of a multicenter performance improvement program for early detection and treatment of severe sepsis in general medical–surgical wards
Journal of Hospital Medicine·2016· 46 cited
Definitions for Sepsis and Septic Shock
JAMA·2016· 20 cited
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Frequent Co-authors

Mitchell M. Levy(29), Christa Schorr(20), R. Phillip Dellinger(19), Richard Beale(15), Tiffany M. Osborn(11), Andrew Rhodes(10), Herwig Gerlach(9), Derek C. Angus(9), Jean‐Louis Vincent(9), Gary Phillips(9), Laura Evans(8), Jonathan Sevransky(7), John C. Marshall(7), Roman Jaeschke(6), Ruth Kleinpell(6), Julian Bion(6), Margaret M. Parker(6), Graham Ramsay(6), Antonio Artigas(6), Flávia Ribeiro Machado(5)