2026 Douglas R. Osmon: Medicine Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Medicine	76	18673	17541	9304	8594	195	25448

Overview

Douglas R. Osmon is a researcher affiliated with the Mayo Clinic in the United States. Their work primarily focuses on medicine, with a considerable emphasis on surgery and infectious diseases. The subfields of study they contribute to include surgery, infectious diseases, epidemiology, public health, environmental and occupational health, as well as critical care and intensive care medicine.

Osmon has published extensively on topics related to orthopedic infections and treatments, orthopaedic implants and arthroplasty, and total knee arthroplasty outcomes. Other subjects of their research cover infectious diseases and tuberculosis, antifungal resistance and susceptibility, surgical site infection prevention, and antimicrobial resistance in Staphylococcus.

Their recent notable papers include:

Automated Detection of Periprosthetic Joint Infections and Data Elements Using Natural Language Processing, 2020, The Journal of Arthroplasty
Acute Kidney Injury When Treating Periprosthetic Joint Infections After Total Knee Arthroplasties with Antibiotic-Loaded Spacers, 2021, Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery
Synovial fluid α defensin has comparable accuracy to synovial fluid white blood cell count and polymorphonuclear percentage for periprosthetic joint infection diagnosis, 2021, The Bone & Joint Journal
Safety and Tolerability of Fluoroquinolones in Patients with Staphylococcal Periprosthetic Joint Infections, 2021, Clinical Infectious Diseases
Rapid multiplex PCR panel for pneumonia in hospitalised patients with suspected pneumonia in the USA: a single-centre, open-label, pragmatic, randomised controlled trial, 2024, The Lancet Microbe

Douglas R. Osmon frequently collaborates with several co-authors, which indicates a network of ongoing research partnerships. The most frequent co-authors are:

Matthew P. Abdel
Daniel J. Berry
Mark W. Pagnano
Aaron J. Tande
Arlen D. Hanssen

Their research has been published in various scholarly journals, with the highest number of contributions appearing in:

The Journal of Arthroplasty
Journal of Bone and Joint Infection
The Bone & Joint Journal
Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery
Open Forum Infectious Diseases

Douglas R. Osmon's work contributes predominantly to the understanding and treatment of orthopedic infections and arthroplasty outcomes. Their research spans clinical and epidemiological topics, with a strong focus on complications and diagnosis related to joint infections and related surgical interventions.

Best Publications

Diagnosis and Management of Prosthetic Joint Infection: Clinical Practice Guidelines by the Infectious Diseases Society of America

Douglas R. Osmon;Elie F. Berbari;Anthony R. Berendt;Daniel Lew

2671
Citations
Executive summary: diagnosis and management of prosthetic joint infection: clinical practice guidelines by the Infectious Diseases Society of America.

Douglas R. Osmon;Elie F. Berbari;Anthony R. Berendt;Daniel Lew

2354
Citations
Sonication of Removed Hip and Knee Prostheses for Diagnosis of Infection

Andrej Trampuz;Kerryl E. Piper;Melissa J. Jacobson;Arlen D. Hanssen

1776
Citations
Risk Factors for Prosthetic Joint Infection: Case-Control Study

Elie F. Berbari;Arlen D. Hanssen;Mary C. Duffy;James M. Steckelberg

1079
Citations
2015 Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) Clinical Practice Guidelines for the Diagnosis and Treatment of Native Vertebral Osteomyelitis in Adults

Elie F. Berbari;Souha S. Kanj;Todd J. Kowalski;Rabih O. Darouiche

956
Citations
Synovial fluid leukocyte count and differential for the diagnosis of prosthetic knee infection.

Andrej Trampuz;Arlen D Hanssen;Douglas R Osmon;Jayawant N Mandrekar

705
Citations
Outcome of prosthetic joint infections treated with debridement and retention of components.

C. E. Marculescu;E. F. Berbari;A. D. Hanssen;J. M. Steckelberg

563
Citations
Inflammatory blood laboratory levels as markers of prosthetic joint infection: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

Elie Berbari;Tad Mabry;Geoffrey Tsaras;Mark Spangehl

547
Citations
Culture-Negative Prosthetic Joint Infection

Elie F. Berbari;Camelia Marculescu;Irene Sia;Brian D. Lahr

498
Citations
Incidence and risk factors of prosthetic joint infection after total hip or knee replacement in patients with rheumatoid arthritis.

Tim Bongartz;Christine S. Halligan;Douglas R. Osmon;Megan S. Reinalda

471
Citations
Microbiologic Diagnosis of Prosthetic Shoulder Infection by Use of Implant Sonication

Kerryl E. Piper;Melissa J. Jacobson;Robert H. Cofield;John W. Sperling

462
Citations
Staphylococcus aureus prosthetic joint infection treated with debridement and prosthesis retention.

Claudia M. Brandt;William W. Sistrunk;Mary C. Duffy;Arlen D. Hanssen

452
Citations
Executive Summary: 2015 Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) Clinical Practice Guidelines for the Diagnosis and Treatment of Native Vertebral Osteomyelitis in Adults.

Elie F. Berbari;Souha S. Kanj;Todd J. Kowalski;Rabih O. Darouiche

421
Citations
Molecular and antibiofilm approaches to prosthetic joint infection.

Andrej Trampuz;Douglas R. Osmon;Arlen D. Hanssen;James M. Steckelberg

412
Citations
Treatment of infection with débridement and retention of the components following hip arthroplasty.

John R. Crockarell;Arlen D. Hanssen;Douglas R. Osmon;Bernard F. Morrey

397
Citations
Systemic safety of high-dose antibiotic-loaded cement spacers after resection of an infected total knee arthroplasty.

Bryan D. Springer;Gwo Chin Lee;Douglas Osmon;George J. Haidukewych

364
Citations
Dental Procedures as Risk Factors for Prosthetic Hip or Knee Infection: A Hospital-Based Prospective Case-Control Study

Elie F. Berbari;Douglas R. Osmon;Douglas R. Osmon;Alan Carr;Alan Carr;Arlen D. Hanssen;Arlen D. Hanssen

316
Citations
C-Reactive Protein, Erythrocyte Sedimentation Rate and Orthopedic Implant Infection

Kerryl E. Piper;Marta Fernandez-Sampedro;Kathryn E. Steckelberg;Jayawant N. Mandrekar

263
Citations
Prosthetic Joint Infection Diagnosis using Broad-Range PCR of Biofilms Dislodged from Knee and Hip Arthroplasty Surfaces using Sonication

Eric Gomez;Charles Cazanave;Scott A. Cunningham;Kerryl E. Greenwood-Quaintance

260
Citations
Prosthetic Joint Infections

James M. Steckelberg;Douglas R. Osmon

257
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Arlen D. Hanssen Mayo Clinic

James M. Steckelberg Mayo Clinic

Robin Patel Mayo Clinic

Daniel J. Berry Mayo Clinic

Walter R. Wilson Mayo Clinic

David G. Lewallen Mayo Clinic

Raymund R. Razonable Mayo Clinic

Larry M. Baddour Mayo Clinic

Andrej Trampuz Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Eric L. Matteson Mayo Clinic

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