Published in Natl Med J India on May 14, 2004
Commercial nucleic-acid amplification tests for diagnosis of pulmonary tuberculosis in respiratory specimens: meta-analysis and meta-regression. PLoS One (2008) 3.07
Meta-analysis of antibiotics and the risk of community-associated Clostridium difficile infection. Antimicrob Agents Chemother (2013) 1.69
Efficacy of motivational interviewing for smoking cessation: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Tob Control (2010) 1.69
A systematic review of interventions for promoting active transportation to school. Int J Behav Nutr Phys Act (2011) 1.67
Associations between childhood socioeconomic position and adulthood obesity. Epidemiol Rev (2009) 1.63
Assessing tuberculosis case fatality ratio: a meta-analysis. PLoS One (2011) 1.49
The effect of tuberculosis on mortality in HIV positive people: a meta-analysis. PLoS One (2010) 1.46
Hepatitis C Core Antigen Testing for Diagnosis of Hepatitis C Virus Infection: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis. Ann Intern Med (2016) 1.44
Plant sterols/stanols as cholesterol lowering agents: A meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials. Food Nutr Res (2008) 1.28
Understanding systematic reviews and meta-analysis. Arch Dis Child (2005) 1.11
A systematic review of strategies that increase the recruitment and retention of African American adults in genetic and genomic studies. ABNF J (2011) 1.09
Acceptance of a pandemic influenza vaccine: a systematic review of surveys of the general public. Infect Drug Resist (2011) 0.98
Antibody-based detection tests for the diagnosis of Helicobacter pylori infection in children: a meta-analysis. PLoS One (2008) 0.94
External quality assessment for the determination of diphtheria antitoxin in human serum. Clin Vaccine Immunol (2010) 0.91
The interpretation of systematic reviews with meta-analyses: an objective or subjective process? BMC Med Inform Decis Mak (2008) 0.91
Tuberculosis treatment outcome monitoring in European Union countries: systematic review. Eur Respir J (2012) 0.91
Incidence of multiple sclerosis among European Economic Area populations, 1985-2009: the framework for monitoring. BMC Neurol (2013) 0.86
Diagnostic Accuracy of Rapid Antigen Detection Tests for Respiratory Syncytial Virus Infection: Systematic Review and Meta-analysis. J Clin Microbiol (2015) 0.85
Cell proliferation-related genetic polymorphisms and gastric cancer risk: systematic review and meta-analysis. Eur J Hum Genet (2009) 0.83
The assessment of complementary and alternative medicine use among individuals with HIV: a systematic review and recommendations for future research. J Altern Complement Med (2011) 0.81
Opposing systematic reviews: the effects of two quality rating instruments on evidence regarding t'ai chi and bone mineral density in postmenopausal women. J Altern Complement Med (2011) 0.80
Social support networks and eating disorders: an integrative review of the literature. Neuropsychiatr Dis Treat (2014) 0.76
Evaluating systematic reviews in urology: A practical guide. Indian J Urol (2007) 0.75
What are the functional outcomes of right hemisphere stroke patients with or without hemi-inattention complications? A critical narrative review and suggestions for further research. Disabil Rehabil (2015) 0.75
Impact of librarians on reporting of the literature searching component of pediatric systematic reviews. J Med Libr Assoc (2016) 0.75
Effectiveness of early interventions for parental sensitivity following preterm birth: a systematic review protocol. Syst Rev (2017) 0.75
Machine learning and microsimulation techniques on the prognosis of dementia: A systematic literature review. PLoS One (2017) 0.75
Water, sanitation, and hygiene interventions to reduce diarrhoea in less developed countries: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Lancet Infect Dis (2005) 10.12
Interferon-gamma assays in the immunodiagnosis of tuberculosis: a systematic review. Lancet Infect Dis (2004) 8.41
Recurrent reciprocal 1q21.1 deletions and duplications associated with microcephaly or macrocephaly and developmental and behavioral abnormalities. Nat Genet (2008) 4.87
Diagnostic accuracy of nucleic acid amplification tests for tuberculous meningitis: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Lancet Infect Dis (2003) 4.41
Serial testing of health care workers for tuberculosis using interferon-gamma assay. Am J Respir Crit Care Med (2006) 3.70
Rapid tranquillisation of violent or agitated patients in a psychiatric emergency setting. Pragmatic randomised trial of intramuscular lorazepam v. haloperidol plus promethazine. Br J Psychiatry (2004) 3.09
Post-partum depression in a cohort of women from a rural area of Tamil Nadu, India. Incidence and risk factors. Br J Psychiatry (2002) 3.04
Treating water with chlorine at point-of-use to improve water quality and reduce child diarrhea in developing countries: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Am J Trop Med Hyg (2007) 2.88
Non-specialist health worker interventions for the care of mental, neurological and substance-abuse disorders in low- and middle-income countries. Cochrane Database Syst Rev (2013) 2.67
The efficacy of behavioral interventions in reducing HIV risk behaviors and incident sexually transmitted diseases in heterosexual African Americans. AIDS (2008) 2.65
Have online international medical journals made local journals obsolete? PLoS Med (2006) 2.64
Pharmacogenetic differences in response to albuterol between Puerto Ricans and Mexicans with asthma. Am J Respir Crit Care Med (2004) 2.62
Comparison of a whole blood interferon-gamma assay with tuberculin skin testing for the detection of tuberculosis infection in hospitalized children in rural India. J Infect (2006) 2.59
Astragalus-based Chinese herbs and platinum-based chemotherapy for advanced non-small-cell lung cancer: meta-analysis of randomized trials. J Clin Oncol (2006) 2.42
Do U.S. Environmental Protection Agency water quality guidelines for recreational waters prevent gastrointestinal illness? A systematic review and meta-analysis. Environ Health Perspect (2003) 2.27
Burden of disease from inadequate water, sanitation and hygiene in low- and middle-income settings: a retrospective analysis of data from 145 countries. Trop Med Int Health (2014) 2.27
In-house nucleic acid amplification tests for the detection of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in sputum specimens: meta-analysis and meta-regression. BMC Microbiol (2005) 2.24
The schizophrenia drug-treatment paradox: pharmacological treatment based on best possible evidence may be hardest to practise in high-income countries. Br J Psychiatry (2006) 2.24
Nucleic acid amplification tests in the diagnosis of tuberculous pleuritis: a systematic review and meta-analysis. BMC Infect Dis (2004) 2.17
Linking family planning with HIV/AIDS interventions: a systematic review of the evidence. AIDS (2009) 2.05
Systematic reviews of diagnostic test evaluations: What's behind the scenes? ACP J Club (2004) 2.02
Causal inference methods to study nonrandomized, preexisting development interventions. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2010) 1.86
Evaluation of a pre-existing, 3-year household water treatment and handwashing intervention in rural Guatemala. Int J Epidemiol (2009) 1.84
Household environmental conditions are associated with enteropathy and impaired growth in rural Bangladesh. Am J Trop Med Hyg (2013) 1.80
Assessing the impact of drinking water and sanitation on diarrhoeal disease in low- and middle-income settings: systematic review and meta-regression. Trop Med Int Health (2014) 1.64
Intermittent versus daily therapy for treating tuberculosis in children. Cochrane Database Syst Rev (2014) 1.63
Comparison of cemented and uncemented fixation in total hip replacement: a meta-analysis. Acta Orthop (2007) 1.62
Solar drinking water disinfection (SODIS) to reduce childhood diarrhoea in rural Bolivia: a cluster-randomized, controlled trial. PLoS Med (2009) 1.57
Rifamycins (rifampicin, rifabutin and rifapentine) compared to isoniazid for preventing tuberculosis in HIV-negative people at risk of active TB. Cochrane Database Syst Rev (2013) 1.46
Optimal recall period for caregiver-reported illness in risk factor and intervention studies: a multicountry study. Am J Epidemiol (2013) 1.46
Evidence-based medicine: can the evidence be trusted? Indian J Med Ethics (2011) 1.44
Nonmalarial acute undifferentiated fever in a rural hospital in central India: diagnostic uncertainty and overtreatment with antimalarial agents. Am J Trop Med Hyg (2008) 1.43
Clinical trials in India sponsored by the pharmaceutical industry: a proposal for reforms. Natl Med J India (2002) 1.38
Interventions for treating femoral shaft fractures in children and adolescents. Evid Based Child Health (2014) 1.37
Rapid point-of-care HIV testing in pregnant women: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Trop Med Int Health (2007) 1.30
A sea change ahead for recreational water quality criteria. J Water Health (2009) 1.26
Disease transmission models for public health decision making: analysis of epidemic and endemic conditions caused by waterborne pathogens. Environ Health Perspect (2002) 1.24
Research findings from nonpharmaceutical intervention studies for pandemic influenza and current gaps in the research. Am J Infect Control (2010) 1.22
Did a severe flood in the Midwest cause an increase in the incidence of gastrointestinal symptoms? Am J Epidemiol (2004) 1.19
Changing landscape of acute encephalitis syndrome in India: a systematic review. Natl Med J India (2013) 1.18
Coping with the Asian tsunami: perspectives from Tamil Nadu, India on the determinants of resilience in the face of adversity. Soc Sci Med (2008) 1.11
Estimating the impact of unsafe water, sanitation and hygiene on the global burden of disease: evolving and alternative methods. Trop Med Int Health (2014) 1.11
Protection of rabbits against cutaneous papillomavirus infection using recombinant tobacco mosaic virus containing L2 capsid epitopes. Vaccine (2006) 1.10
National and multinational prospective trial registers. Lancet (2008) 1.09
The role of hypothermia in the management of severe brain injury: a meta-analysis. Arch Neurol (2002) 1.05
Chinese herbal medicine and chemotherapy in the treatment of hepatocellular carcinoma: a meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials. Integr Cancer Ther (2005) 1.02
Simulation methods to estimate design power: an overview for applied research. BMC Med Res Methodol (2011) 1.01
H2S as an indicator of water supply vulnerability and health risk in low-resource settings: a prospective cohort study. Am J Trop Med Hyg (2013) 1.01
Interventions for the treatment of metastatic extradural spinal cord compression in adults. Cochrane Database Syst Rev (2008) 1.00
Primaquine for preventing relapse in people with Plasmodium vivax malaria treated with chloroquine. Cochrane Database Syst Rev (2013) 1.00
Delayed internal fixation of femoral shaft fracture reduces mortality among patients with multisystem trauma. J Bone Joint Surg Am (2009) 0.99
Dissemination of drinking water contamination data to consumers: a systematic review of impact on consumer behaviors. PLoS One (2011) 0.98
Water distribution system deficiencies and gastrointestinal illness: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Environ Health Perspect (2014) 0.96
Findings, gaps, and future direction for research in nonpharmaceutical interventions for pandemic influenza. Emerg Infect Dis (2010) 0.96
A dynamic model to assess microbial health risks associated with beneficial uses of biosolids. Risk Anal (2004) 0.95
Metabolic engineering of Aspergillus oryzae NRRL 3488 for increased production of L-malic acid. Appl Microbiol Biotechnol (2013) 0.94
Responsiveness and discriminative capacity of the assessments in ankylosing spondylitis disease-controlling antirheumatic therapy core set and other outcome measures in a trial of etanercept in ankylosing spondylitis. Arthritis Rheum (2004) 0.93
Bias due to secondary transmission in estimation of attributable risk from intervention trials. Epidemiology (2003) 0.93
A stepped wedge, cluster-randomized trial of a household UV-disinfection and safe storage drinking water intervention in rural Baja California Sur, Mexico. Am J Trop Med Hyg (2013) 0.93
Atypical anti-psychotics in delusional parasitosis: a retrospective case series of 20 patients. Int J Dermatol (2010) 0.93
Comment on randomized intervention study of solar disinfection of drinking water in the prevention of dysentery in Kenyan children aged under 5 years. Environ Sci Technol (2012) 0.91
One health national programme across species on zoonoses: a call to the developing world. Infect Ecol Epidemiol (2011) 0.90
The role of disease transmission and conferred immunity in outbreaks: analysis of the 1993 Cryptosporidium outbreak in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Am J Epidemiol (2005) 0.90
Swimmer illness associated with marine water exposure and water quality indicators: impact of widely used assumptions. Epidemiology (2013) 0.90
Bibliometric and content analysis of the Cochrane Complementary Medicine Field specialized register of controlled trials. Syst Rev (2013) 0.89
Chinese herbal medicine and clomiphene citrate for anovulation: a meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials. J Altern Complement Med (2011) 0.89
The natural history of antibody responses to Cryptosporidium parasites in men at high risk of HIV infection. J Infect Dis (2006) 0.89
[Anticancer effects of various fractions extracted from Dioscorea bulbifera on mice bearing HepA]. Zhongguo Zhong Yao Za Zhi (2004) 0.89
Brief Report: Negative Controls to Detect Selection Bias and Measurement Bias in Epidemiologic Studies. Epidemiology (2016) 0.88
Non-specialist health worker interventions for mental health care in low- and middle- income countries. Cochrane Database Syst Rev (2011) 0.87
Investigation of malic acid production in Aspergillus oryzae under nitrogen starvation conditions. Appl Environ Microbiol (2013) 0.86
Endemic cryptosporidiosis and exposure to municipal tap water in persons with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS): a case-control study. BMC Public Health (2003) 0.86
Cochrane and capacity building in low- and middle-income countries: where are we at? Cochrane Database Syst Rev (2013) 0.86
Lung cancer survival with herbal medicine and vitamins in a whole-systems approach: ten-year follow-up data analyzed with marginal structural models and propensity score methods. Integr Cancer Ther (2011) 0.86
Is drinking water a risk factor for endemic cryptosporidiosis? A case-control study in the immunocompetent general population of the San Francisco Bay Area. BMC Public Health (2003) 0.85
Changes in beliefs identify unblinding in randomized controlled trials: a method to meet CONSORT guidelines. Contemp Clin Trials (2005) 0.85
Effects of stimulus intensity on the efficacy and safety of twice-weekly, bilateral electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) combined with antipsychotics in acute mania: a randomised controlled trial. Bipolar Disord (2009) 0.85
Smoking and rheumatoid arthritis: another reason to just say no. Arthritis Rheum (2006) 0.85
Analysis of the spatial distribution of cryptosporidiosis in AIDS patients in San Francisco using density equalizing map projections (DEMP). Int J Hyg Environ Health (2003) 0.84
Pressure-controlled versus volume-controlled ventilation for acute respiratory failure due to acute lung injury (ALI) or acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS). Cochrane Database Syst Rev (2015) 0.84
Strategies to reduce person-to-person transmission during widespread Escherichia coli O157:H7 outbreak. Emerg Infect Dis (2007) 0.84
Randomised trials relevant to mental health conducted in low and middle-income countries: a survey. BMC Psychiatry (2008) 0.84
Chinese herbal medicine and interferon in the treatment of chronic hepatitis B: a meta-analysis of randomized, controlled trials. Am J Public Health (2002) 0.83
International activity in the Cochrane Collaboration with particular reference to India. Natl Med J India (2008) 0.83
Cochrane and Wikipedia: the collaborative potential for a quantum leap in the dissemination and uptake of trusted evidence. Cochrane Database Syst Rev (2013) 0.83
The dilemma of unmodified electroconvulsive therapy. J Clin Psychiatry (2003) 0.83
Colon cancer survival with herbal medicine and vitamins combined with standard therapy in a whole-systems approach: ten-year follow-up data analyzed with marginal structural models and propensity score methods. Integr Cancer Ther (2011) 0.83
Interventions for treating femoral shaft fractures in children and adolescents. Cochrane Database Syst Rev (2014) 0.82
Statistical estimation of parameters in a disease transmission model: analysis of a Cryptosporidium outbreak. Stat Med (2002) 0.82
Minimally invasive versus open surgery for reversal of tubal sterilization. Cochrane Database Syst Rev (2013) 0.81
Ovulation triggers in anovulatory women undergoing ovulation induction. Cochrane Database Syst Rev (2014) 0.81
Factors associated with compliance among users of solar water disinfection in rural Bolivia. BMC Public Health (2011) 0.81