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Kerstin de Wit

ResearcherEmergency MedicineQueen's University

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Kerstin de Wit

Researcher

Emergency Medicine

Health Sciences

Queen's University

Kingston, Ontario, Canada

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Has led research grants, which requires an independent research appointment. Ask their department whether they supervise graduate students.
88 publications in the last five years, latest in 2026.
Senior (last) author on 22 recent papers, a sign of leading a research group.
Principal investigator on 4 research grants (4 CIHR), most recently in 2025.
Supervised 1 trainee who won CIHR awards, most recently in 2023.

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Publications

1,415

Citations

h-index

128

Collaborators

Grants

Publications by year

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Research

Emergency Department Diagnosis Pulmonary Embolism Deep Vein Thrombosis Falls Intracranial Bleeding Older Adults Testing

Latest papers

Bleeding Risk with Apixaban vs. Rivaroxaban in Acute Venous Thromboembolism
New England Journal of Medicine · 2026
Risk Factors for Traumatic Intracranial Hemorrhage in Older Adults Sustaining a Head Injury in Ground-Level Falls: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis
Annals of Emergency Medicine · 2026
GRADE‐Based Clinical Practice Guidelines for Emergency Department Delirium Risk Stratification, Screening, and Brain Imaging in Older Patients With Suspected Delirium
Academic Emergency Medicine · 2026

All 99 publications

Latest funding

Deep Vein Thrombosis Testing in the Emergency Department (the DVTest study)
CIHR · 2025 · Nominated PI
$1,472,624
Validation of the Falls Clinical Decision Rule for diagnosing intracranial bleeding in older adults after a fall
CIHR · 2024 · Nominated PI
$1,384,652
Canada Reseach Chair Tier 1
CIHR · 2023 · Nominated PI
$1,400,000

All 5 grants and awards

99 publications.

Bleeding Risk with Apixaban vs. Rivaroxaban in Acute Venous Thromboembolism

Castellucci LA, Chen VM, Kovacs MJ, Lazo-Langner A, Greenstreet P, Kahn S, Côté B, Schulman S, de Wit K, Douketis J

New England Journal of Medicine202652 citations

DOI: 10.1056/nejmoa2510703

Risk Factors for Traumatic Intracranial Hemorrhage in Older Adults Sustaining a Head Injury in Ground-Level Falls: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis

Dubucs X, Gingras V, Boucher V, Carmichael P-H, Ruel M, De Wit K, Grewal K, Mercier É, Blanchard P-G, Benhamed A

Annals of Emergency Medicine20269 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2025.05.021 PMID: W4412561539

GRADE‐Based Clinical Practice Guidelines for Emergency Department Delirium Risk Stratification, Screening, and Brain Imaging in Older Patients With Suspected Delirium

Lee S, Khoujah D, Eagles D, Kennedy M, Lo AX, Nickel CH, Arendts G, Ragsdale L, Seidenfeld J, de Wit K

Academic Emergency Medicine20267 citations

DOI: 10.1111/acem.70167

Evidence-based risk stratification of patients with acute pulmonary embolism: communication from the ISTH SSC Subcommittee on Predictive and Diagnostic Variables in Thrombotic Disease

Talerico R, de Wit K, Barco S, Bonorino J, Uil CD, Kraemer CE, Germini F, Iding A, Jones A, Konstantinides S

Journal of Thrombosis and Haemostasis20264 citations

DOI: 10.1016/j.jtha.2025.10.036

Safety and efficiency of diagnostic strategies for ruling out pulmonary embolism in patients with chronic lung disease: an individual-patient data meta-analysis

Mai V, Takada T, Kraaijpoel N, van Es N, Mallick R, Stals MAM, Büller HR, Courtney DM, Freund Y, Galipienzo J

Journal of Thrombosis and Haemostasis20261 citations

DOI: 10.1016/j.jtha.2025.10.004

Applying the Canadian Head CT Criteria to Older Adults Seen in the Emergency Department After a Fall

Kerr G, Chown A, Mercuri M, Clayton N, Mercier É, Morris J, Jeanmonod R, Eagles D, Varner C, Barbic D

Journal of The American Geriatrics Society20261 citationsSenior author

DOI: 10.1111/jgs.70191

Reporting of D-dimer testing in venous thromboembolism diagnostic management studies: a scoping review

Hofstetter RV, Marx CE, Kraaijpoel N, Favaloro EJ, Bossuyt PM, Meijer P, Kitchen S, de Wit K, Robert-Ebadi H, Le Gal G

Journal of Thrombosis and Haemostasis20261 citations

DOI: 10.1016/j.jtha.2026.03.005

Acute effects of inhaled nitric oxide on inspiratory neural drive, dyspnea, and exercise endurance in symptomatic patients post-pulmonary embolism

Phillips DB, James MD, Vincent SG, Smyth RM, Chau B, Darko CA, Milne KM, Collins SÉ, D'Arsigny CL, de-Torres JP

Journal of applied physiology20261 citations

DOI: 10.1152/japplphysiol.00916.2025

Safety and efficiency of D-dimer testing in combination with clinical decision rules to exclude pulmonary embolism in patients with cancer: individual patient data meta-analysis

Vrotniakaite-Bajerciene K, Mallick R, Takada T, Kraaijpoel N, van Smeden M, Moons KGM, Kline JA, Huisman MV, Martens E, Righini M

Journal of Thrombosis and Haemostasis20261 citations

DOI: 10.1016/j.jtha.2025.10.035

Bridging the gap: A qualitative analysis of divergent patient and provider experiences in the emergency department

Bartels SA, Hoffe S, Purkey E, Rang L, de Wit K, McDonough L, Drew CA, Walker M

Canadian Journal of Emergency Medicine2026

DOI: 10.1007/s43678-026-01239-7

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Kerstin de Wit

Research

Latest papers

Latest funding

Bleeding Risk with Apixaban vs. Rivaroxaban in Acute Venous Thromboembolism

Risk Factors for Traumatic Intracranial Hemorrhage in Older Adults Sustaining a Head Injury in Ground-Level Falls: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis

GRADE‐Based Clinical Practice Guidelines for Emergency Department Delirium Risk Stratification, Screening, and Brain Imaging in Older Patients With Suspected Delirium

Evidence-based risk stratification of patients with acute pulmonary embolism: communication from the ISTH SSC Subcommittee on Predictive and Diagnostic Variables in Thrombotic Disease

Safety and efficiency of diagnostic strategies for ruling out pulmonary embolism in patients with chronic lung disease: an individual-patient data meta-analysis

Applying the Canadian Head CT Criteria to Older Adults Seen in the Emergency Department After a Fall

Reporting of D-dimer testing in venous thromboembolism diagnostic management studies: a scoping review

Acute effects of inhaled nitric oxide on inspiratory neural drive, dyspnea, and exercise endurance in symptomatic patients post-pulmonary embolism

Safety and efficiency of D-dimer testing in combination with clinical decision rules to exclude pulmonary embolism in patients with cancer: individual patient data meta-analysis

Bridging the gap: A qualitative analysis of divergent patient and provider experiences in the emergency department

Deep Vein Thrombosis Testing in the Emergency Department (the DVTest study)

Validation of the Falls Clinical Decision Rule for diagnosing intracranial bleeding in older adults after a fall

Canada Reseach Chair Tier 1

A pilot study to assess feasibility of evaluating the safety and efficiency of a simplified diagnostic approach for pulmonary embolism

Canadian emergency department-oriented pulmonary embolism testing (the CED-OPET study)

Frequent collaborators

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