
Professor of Clinical Emergency Medicine
Healthforce Center at UCSF
+1 628 206-5875
Robert Rodriguez, MD is a Professor of Clinical Emergency Medicine at the Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital. Dr. Rodriguez is a member of the LCOE Administrative Core Faculty.
Publications
Long COVID Among Undocumented Latino Immigrant Populations in the Emergency Department.
JAMA network open
Long COVID Illness: Disparities in Understanding and Receipt of Care in Emergency Department Populations.
Annals of emergency medicine
Race, Ethnicity, and Gender Differences in Patient Reported Well-Being and Cognitive Functioning Within 3 Months of Symptomatic Illness During COVID-19 Pandemic.
Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities
Demystifying Hispanic Versus Latino/a Versus Latinx: Which Do Emergency Department Patients Prefer?
Annals of emergency medicine
The Rise of the Term "Latinx" in Medical Research.
Journal of general internal medicine
Characteristics of Intracranial Injuries in Pediatric Patients Following Blunt Head Trauma.
Pediatric emergency care
Traumatic injury to the posterior fossa: a secondary analysis and description of case series from the NEXUS head injury dataset.
Lancet Regional Health. Americas
An evaluation of COVID-19 vaccine messaging platforms in the emergency department.
Academic emergency medicine : official journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine
COVID-19 Vaccine Uptake in Undocumented Latinx Patients Presenting to the Emergency Department.
JAMA network open
Coronavirus Disease 2019 Infections Among Emergency Health Care Personnel: Impact on Delivery of United States Emergency Medical Care, 2020.
Annals of emergency medicine
Trends in Presumed Drug Overdose Out-Of-Hospital Cardiac Arrests in San Francisco, 2015-2023.
Resuscitation
Blunt Head Injury in the Elderly: Analysis of the NEXUS II Injury Cohort.
Annals of emergency medicine
Ethnic and racial differences in self-reported symptoms, health status, activity level, and missed work at 3 and 6 months following SARS-CoV-2 infection.
Frontiers in public health
Prevalence of Symptoms ≤12 Months After Acute Illness, by COVID-19 Testing Status Among Adults - United States, December 2020-March 2023.
MMWR. Morbidity and mortality weekly report
Efficacy of emergency department calcium administration in cardiac arrest: A 9-year retrospective evaluation.
Resuscitation
The Impact of the COVID-19 Shelter-in-Place Order on Traumatic Brain Injuries in San Francisco, California.
The Journal of emergency medicine
Accuracy of physician gestalt in prediction of significant abdominal and pelvic injury in adult blunt trauma patients.
Academic emergency medicine : official journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine
Severe Fatigue and Persistent Symptoms at 3 Months Following Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 Infections During the Pre-Delta, Delta, and Omicron Time Periods: A Multicenter Prospective Cohort Study.
Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America
Association Between SARS-CoV-2 Variants and Frequency of Acute Symptoms: Analysis of a Multi-institutional Prospective Cohort Study-December 20, 2020-June 20, 2022.
Open Forum Infectious Diseases
COVID-19 Booster Vaccine Hesitancy in the Emergency Department.
Annals of emergency medicine
Three-month symptom profiles among symptomatic adults with positive and negative SARS-CoV-2 tests: a prospective cohort study from the INSPIRE group.
Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America
Effect of the Extended Focused Assessment with Sonography for Trauma on the Screening Performance of the National Emergency X-Radiography Utilization Study Chest Decision Instrument.
Annals of emergency medicine
Effect of COVID-19 Vaccine Messaging Platforms in Emergency Departments on Vaccine Acceptance and Uptake: A Cluster Randomized Clinical Trial.
JAMA internal medicine
Perspectives of COVID-19 vaccine-hesitant emergency department patients to inform messaging platforms to promote vaccine uptake.
Academic emergency medicine : official journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine
Physical Examination Sensitivity for Skull Fracture in Pediatric Patients with Blunt Head Trauma: A Secondary Analysis of the National Emergency X-Radiography Utilization Study II Head Computed Tomography Validation Study.
Annals of emergency medicine
Outcomes in Patients With Mild Traumatic Brain Injury Without Acute Intracranial Traumatic Injury.
JAMA network open
Author Correction: Detection of COVID-19 using multimodal data from a wearable device: results from the first TemPredict Study.
Scientific reports
Detection of COVID-19 using multimodal data from a wearable device: results from the first TemPredict Study.
Scientific reports
Factors Associated With Parental Acceptance of COVID-19 Vaccination: A Multicenter Pediatric Emergency Department Cross-Sectional Analysis.
Annals of emergency medicine
Impact of Anti-Immigrant Rhetoric on Latinx Families' Perceptions of Child Safety and Health Care Access.
The Journal of emergency medicine
Anxiety, PTSD, and stressors in medical students during the initial peak of the COVID-19 pandemic.
PloS one
Changes on the health care of people with multiple sclerosis from Latin America during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Multiple sclerosis and related disorders
A Review of COVID-19-Related Publications and Lag Times During the First Six Months of the Year 2020.
The western journal of emergency medicine
Screening performance of the chest X-ray in adult blunt trauma evaluation: Is it effective and what does it miss?
The American journal of emergency medicine
The Rapid Evaluation of COVID-19 Vaccination in Emergency Departments for Underserved Patients Study.
Annals of emergency medicine
Anti-immigrant Rhetoric and the Experiences of Latino Immigrants in the Emergency Department.
The western journal of emergency medicine
Vaccination Rates and Acceptance of SARS-CoV-2 Vaccination Among US Emergency Department Health Care Personnel.
Academic emergency medicine : official journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine
Emergency Medicine Physician Stressors, Concerns and Behavioral Changes during COVID-19: A Longitudinal Study.
Academic emergency medicine : official journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine
Fear of Discovery as a Deterrent to Undocumented Latinx Immigrants' Reporting of Crimes and the Effects of Political Rhetoric.
Academic emergency medicine : official journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine
Symptoms of Anxiety, Burnout, and PTSD and the Mitigation Effect of Serologic Testing in Emergency Department Personnel During the COVID-19 Pandemic.
Annals of emergency medicine
Effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on medical students: a multicenter quantitative study.
BMC medical education
Tackling Another COVID-19 Pandemic Disparity - Distance from Major Academic Medical Centers Encumbers Emergency and Critical Care Physician Surge Capacity.
Academic emergency medicine : official journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine
Occult Overdose Masquerading as Sudden Cardiac Death: From the POstmortem Systematic InvesTigation of Sudden Cardiac Death Study.
Annals of internal medicine
Academic Emergency Medicine Physicians' Anxiety Levels, Stressors and Potential Stress Mitigation Measures during the Acceleration Phase of the COVID-19 Pandemic.
Academic emergency medicine : official journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine
A Review of Journal Impact Metrics and Characteristics to Assist Emergency Medicine Investigators with Manuscript Submission Decisions.
The western journal of emergency medicine
Thoracic Spine Fracture in the Panscan Era.
Annals of emergency medicine
Prevalence of Intracranial Injury in Adult Patients With Blunt Head Trauma With and Without Anticoagulant or Antiplatelet Use.
Annals of emergency medicine
Blunt Traumatic Aortic Injury in the Pan-scan Era.
Academic emergency medicine : official journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine
Association of a Targeted Population Health Management Intervention with Hospital Admissions and Bed-Days for Medicaid-Enrolled Children.
JAMA network open
Commentary: Embracing the Problem of Subsistence Needs in the Emergency Department.
Annals of emergency medicine
Magnetic resonance imaging versus transvaginal ultrasound for complete survey of the pelvic compartments among patients with deep infiltrating endometriosis.
International journal of gynaecology and obstetrics: the official organ of the International Federation of Gynaecology and Obstetrics
An impact analysis of the NEXUS Chest CT clinical decision rule.
The American journal of emergency medicine
Combining qSOFA criteria with initial lactate levels: Improved screening of septic patients for critical illness.
The American journal of emergency medicine
The Folly of the R: A Case Study.
Academic emergency medicine : official journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine
Collecting Unused Medical Supplies in Emergency Departments for Responsible Redistribution.
The Journal of emergency medicine
Pneumothorax and Hemothorax in the Era of Frequent Chest Computed Tomography for the Evaluation of Adult Patients With Blunt Trauma.
Annals of emergency medicine
Utilization of chest CT for injured patients during visits to U.S. emergency departments: 2012-2015.
The American journal of emergency medicine
Blunt Trauma Abdominal and Pelvic Computed Tomography Has Low Yield for Injuries in More Than One Anatomic Region.
The western journal of emergency medicine
Validation of the Pediatric NEXUS II Head Computed Tomography Decision Instrument for Selective Imaging of Pediatric Patients with Blunt Head Trauma.
Academic emergency medicine : official journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine
Scapular Fractures in the Pan-scan Era.
Academic emergency medicine : official journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine
Comparison of qSOFA with current emergency department tools for screening of patients with sepsis for critical illness.
Emergency medicine journal : EMJ
Low Yield of Paired Head and Cervical Spine Computed Tomography in Blunt Trauma Evaluation.
The Journal of emergency medicine
Hemoptysis? Try Inhaled Tranexamic Acid.
The Journal of emergency medicine
Intraoperative Ultrasound-Guided Excision of Axillary Clip in Patients with Node-Positive Breast Cancer Treated with Neoadjuvant Therapy (ILINA Trial) : A New Tool to Guide the Excision of the Clipped Node After Neoadjuvant Treatment.
Annals of surgical oncology
Low Yield of Clinically Significant Injury With Head-To-Pelvis Computed Tomography in Blunt Trauma Evaluation.
The Journal of emergency medicine
Rib Fracture Diagnosis in the Panscan Era.
Annals of emergency medicine
Low yield of blood and wound cultures in patients with skin and soft-tissue infections.
The American journal of emergency medicine
Toward Precision Diagnostics.
Academic emergency medicine : official journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine
Feasibility of Informed Consent for Computed Tomography in Acute Trauma Patients.
Academic emergency medicine : official journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine
Correlation of Physical Exam Findings with Fever in Patients with Skin and Soft Tissue Infections.
The western journal of emergency medicine
Derivation of decision rules to predict clinically important outcomes in acute flank pain patients.
The American journal of emergency medicine
Difference in muscle activation patterns during high-speed versus standard-speed yoga: A randomized sequence crossover study.
Complementary therapies in medicine
Selective chest imaging for blunt trauma patients: The national emergency X-ray utilization studies (NEXUS-chest algorithm).
The American journal of emergency medicine
Differences in energy expenditure during high-speed versus standard-speed yoga: A randomized sequence crossover trial.
Complementary therapies in medicine
The HOME Team: Evaluating the Effect of an EMS-based Outreach Team to Decrease the Frequency of 911 Use Among High Utilizers of EMS.
Prehospital and disaster medicine
Prevalence and Diagnostic Performance of Isolated and Combined NEXUS Chest CT Decision Criteria.
Academic emergency medicine : official journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine
In reply.
Annals of emergency medicine
In reply.
Annals of emergency medicine
Achieving the Triple Aim Through Informed Consent for Computed Tomography.
The western journal of emergency medicine
The Case for 1-Way Clinical Decision Rules in Emergency Medicine.
Annals of emergency medicine
Prevalence of Chest Injury With the Presence of NEXUS Chest Criteria: Data to Inform Shared Decisionmaking About Imaging Use.
Annals of emergency medicine
Clinical Decision Rules for Diagnostic Imaging in the Emergency Department: A Research Agenda.
Academic emergency medicine : official journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine
External Validation of the STONE Score, a Clinical Prediction Rule for Ureteral Stone: An Observational Multi-institutional Study.
Annals of emergency medicine
Barriers to Homeless Persons Acquiring Health Insurance Through the Affordable Care Act.
The Journal of emergency medicine
Prevalence and Clinical Import of Thoracic Injury Identified by Chest Computed Tomography but Not Chest Radiography in Blunt Trauma: Multicenter Prospective Cohort Study.
Annals of emergency medicine
Interruptions of Trauma Resuscitations for Radiographic Procedures.
The Journal of emergency medicine
Clinical profile of injection drug users presenting to the ED.
The American journal of emergency medicine
EMS-STARS: Emergency Medical Services "Superuser" Transport Associations: An Adult Retrospective Study.
Prehospital emergency care : official journal of the National Association of EMS Physicians and the National Association of State EMS Directors
Diagnostic yields, charges, and radiation dose of chest imaging in blunt trauma evaluations.
Academic emergency medicine : official journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine
Validation of a prediction rule for endocarditis in febrile injection drug users.
The American journal of emergency medicine
Study of medical students' malpractice fear and defensive medicine: a "hidden curriculum?".
The western journal of emergency medicine
NEXUS chest: validation of a decision instrument for selective chest imaging in blunt trauma.
JAMA surgery
English-based Pediatric Emergency Medicine Software Improves Physician Test Performance on Common Pediatric Emergencies: A Multicenter Study in Vietnam.
The western journal of emergency medicine
What is the clinical significance of chest CT when the chest x-ray result is normal in patients with blunt trauma?
The American journal of emergency medicine
Fear of discovery among Latino immigrants presenting to the emergency department.
Academic emergency medicine : official journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine
Accuracy of the initial diagnosis among patients with an acutely altered mental status.
Emergency medicine journal : EMJ
Provider perceptions concerning use of chest x-ray studies in adult blunt trauma assessments.
The Journal of emergency medicine
Derivation of a decision instrument for selective chest radiography in blunt trauma.
The Journal of trauma
Cost-effectiveness of targeted human immunodeficiency virus screening in an urban emergency department.
Academic emergency medicine : official journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine
Food, shelter and safety needs motivating homeless persons' visits to an urban emergency department.
Annals of emergency medicine
Focusing on a "serious" review of systems in the emergency department.
The Journal of emergency medicine
A prospective study of primary surrogate decision makers' knowledge of intensive care.
Critical care medicine
Electrocardiographic criteria for detecting acute myocardial infarction in patients with left bundle branch block: a meta-analysis.
Annals of emergency medicine
A Prospective, Randomized Trial in the Emergency Department of Suggestive Audio-Therapy under Deep Sedation for Smoking Cessation.
The western journal of emergency medicine
A longitudinal study of emergency medicine residents' malpractice fear and defensive medicine.
Academic emergency medicine : official journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine
The ability of emergency medical dispatch codes of medical complaints to predict ALS prehospital interventions.
Prehospital emergency care : official journal of the National Association of EMS Physicians and the National Association of State EMS Directors
HIV-1 drug resistance surveillance using dried whole blood spots.
Antiviral therapy
Comparison of reduced-intensity and conventional myeloablative regimens for allogeneic transplantation in non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.
Biology of blood and marrow transplantation : journal of the American Society for Blood and Marrow Transplantation
A prospective study on esophageal Doppler hemodynamic assessment in the ED.
The American journal of emergency medicine
A pilot study of cytokine levels and white blood cell counts in the diagnosis of necrotizing fasciitis.
The American journal of emergency medicine
A pilot study to derive clinical variables for selective chest radiography in blunt trauma patients.
Annals of emergency medicine
Longitudinal assessment of hematopoietic abnormalities after autologous hematopoietic cell transplantation for lymphoma.
Journal of clinical oncology : official journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology
The effect of anthrax bioterrorism on emergency department presentation.
The California journal of emergency medicine
High cytokine levels at admission are associated with fatal outcome in patients with necrotizing fasciitis.
European cytokine network
A case series of patients with black tar heroin-associated necrotizing fasciitis.
The Journal of emergency medicine
Novel approaches to sepsis in the emergency department.
The California journal of emergency medicine
The Future of CaJEM.
The California journal of emergency medicine
EMS activation in a cohort of critically ill patients.
The Journal of emergency medicine
Need and desire for preventive care measures in emergency department patients.
Annals of emergency medicine
Emergency department immunization of the elderly with pneumococcal and influenza vaccines.
Annals of emergency medicine