Published in J Clin Epidemiol on April 11, 2007
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Effects of off-pump and on-pump coronary-artery bypass grafting at 1 year. N Engl J Med (2013) 4.27
An observational study of orthopaedic abstracts and subsequent full-text publications. J Bone Joint Surg Am (2002) 4.25
Conducting systematic reviews of diagnostic studies: didactic guidelines. BMC Med Res Methodol (2002) 4.19