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Title |
Journal |
Year |
PubWeight™‹?› |
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1
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A pragmatic-explanatory continuum indicator summary (PRECIS): a tool to help trial designers.
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J Clin Epidemiol
|
2009
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7.86
|
|
2
|
Lay health workers in primary and community health care for maternal and child health and the management of infectious diseases.
|
Cochrane Database Syst Rev
|
2010
|
7.64
|
|
3
|
The case for knowledge translation: shortening the journey from evidence to effect.
|
BMJ
|
2003
|
5.41
|
|
4
|
A substantial and confusing variation exists in handling of baseline covariates in randomized controlled trials: a review of trials published in leading medical journals.
|
J Clin Epidemiol
|
2009
|
4.48
|
|
5
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Effect of educational outreach to nurses on tuberculosis case detection and primary care of respiratory illness: pragmatic cluster randomised controlled trial.
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BMJ
|
2005
|
3.84
|
|
6
|
Task shifting of antiretroviral treatment from doctors to primary-care nurses in South Africa (STRETCH): a pragmatic, parallel, cluster-randomised trial.
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Lancet
|
2012
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3.69
|
|
7
|
A pragmatic-explanatory continuum indicator summary (PRECIS): a tool to help trial designers.
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CMAJ
|
2009
|
3.65
|
|
8
|
Interprofessional education: effects on professional practice and healthcare outcomes (update).
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Cochrane Database Syst Rev
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2013
|
3.63
|
|
9
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A multifaceted intervention for quality improvement in a network of intensive care units: a cluster randomized trial.
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JAMA
|
2011
|
3.08
|
|
10
|
Making trials matter: pragmatic and explanatory trials and the problem of applicability.
|
Trials
|
2009
|
2.77
|
|
11
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Association of ICU or hospital admission with unintentional discontinuation of medications for chronic diseases.
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JAMA
|
2011
|
2.67
|
|
12
|
Translating research into policy and practice in developing countries: a case study of magnesium sulphate for pre-eclampsia.
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BMC Health Serv Res
|
2005
|
2.50
|
|
13
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Ethical issues posed by cluster randomized trials in health research.
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Trials
|
2011
|
2.43
|
|
14
|
Handheld computers for survey and trial data collection in resource-poor settings: development and evaluation of PDACT, a Palm Pilot interviewing system.
|
Int J Med Inform
|
2009
|
2.39
|
|
15
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Why we will remain pragmatists: four problems with the impractical mechanistic framework and a better solution.
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J Clin Epidemiol
|
2009
|
2.30
|
|
16
|
A pragmatic resolution.
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J Clin Epidemiol
|
2009
|
1.99
|
|
17
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The effectiveness of interprofessional education: key findings from a new systematic review.
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J Interprof Care
|
2010
|
1.83
|
|
18
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Multimorbidity, control and treatment of noncommunicable diseases among primary healthcare attenders in the Western Cape, South Africa.
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S Afr Med J
|
2015
|
1.81
|
|
19
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The role for pragmatic randomized controlled trials (pRCTs) in comparative effectiveness research.
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Clin Trials
|
2012
|
1.80
|
|
20
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Failure to cope: the hidden curriculum of emergency department wait times and the implications for clinical training.
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Acad Med
|
2015
|
1.72
|
|
21
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A systematic review of strategies for partner notification for sexually transmitted diseases, including HIV/AIDS.
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Int J STD AIDS
|
2002
|
1.72
|
|
22
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Expanding access to ART in South Africa: the role of nurse-initiated treatment.
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S Afr Med J
|
2010
|
1.71
|
|
23
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Peer review of statistics in medical research. Journal reviewers are even more baffled by sample size issues than grant proposal reviewers.
|
BMJ
|
2002
|
1.65
|
|
24
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A scoping review to improve conceptual clarity of interprofessional interventions.
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J Interprof Care
|
2010
|
1.60
|
|
25
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Implementing nurse-initiated and managed antiretroviral treatment (NIMART) in South Africa: a qualitative process evaluation of the STRETCH trial.
|
Implement Sci
|
2012
|
1.57
|
|
26
|
Allocation techniques for balance at baseline in cluster randomized trials: a methodological review.
|
Trials
|
2012
|
1.55
|
|
27
|
Improving use of targeted temperature management after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest: a stepped wedge cluster randomized controlled trial.
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Crit Care Med
|
2015
|
1.52
|
|
28
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Designing theoretically-informed implementation interventions: fine in theory, but evidence of effectiveness in practice is needed.
|
Implement Sci
|
2006
|
1.46
|
|
29
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Looking inside the black box: a theory-based process evaluation alongside a randomised controlled trial of printed educational materials (the Ontario printed educational message, OPEM) to improve referral and prescribing practices in primary care in Ontario, Canada.
|
Implement Sci
|
2007
|
1.46
|
|
30
|
Staff training and ambulatory tuberculosis treatment outcomes: a cluster randomized controlled trial in South Africa.
|
Bull World Health Organ
|
2005
|
1.43
|
|
31
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Identifying factors likely to influence compliance with diagnostic imaging guideline recommendations for spine disorders among chiropractors in North America: a focus group study using the Theoretical Domains Framework.
|
Implement Sci
|
2012
|
1.38
|
|
32
|
Who is the research subject in cluster randomized trials in health research?
|
Trials
|
2011
|
1.36
|
|
33
|
Ethical and policy issues in cluster randomized trials: rationale and design of a mixed methods research study.
|
Trials
|
2009
|
1.30
|
|
34
|
The Trial Protocol Tool: The PRACTIHC software tool that supported the writing of protocols for pragmatic randomized controlled trials.
|
J Clin Epidemiol
|
2006
|
1.28
|
|
35
|
Making clinical trials more relevant: improving and validating the PRECIS tool for matching trial design decisions to trial purpose.
|
Trials
|
2013
|
1.22
|
|
36
|
Strengthening health human resources and improving clinical outcomes through an integrated guideline and educational outreach in resource-poor settings: a cluster-randomized trial.
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Trials
|
2010
|
1.21
|
|
37
|
Task shifting and integration of HIV care into primary care in South Africa: the development and content of the streamlining tasks and roles to expand treatment and care for HIV (STRETCH) intervention.
|
Implement Sci
|
2011
|
1.20
|
|
38
|
Surge capacity associated with restrictions on nonurgent hospital utilization and expected admissions during an influenza pandemic: lessons from the Toronto severe acute respiratory syndrome outbreak.
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Acad Emerg Med
|
2006
|
1.13
|
|
39
|
Does clinical equipoise apply to cluster randomized trials in health research?
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Trials
|
2011
|
1.13
|
|
40
|
From PALSA PLUS to PALM PLUS: adapting and developing a South African guideline and training intervention to better integrate HIV/AIDS care with primary care in rural health centers in Malawi.
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Implement Sci
|
2011
|
1.12
|
|
41
|
Prioritizing performance measurement for emergency department care: consensus on evidence-based quality of care indicators.
|
CJEM
|
2011
|
1.12
|
|
42
|
Monitoring use of knowledge and evaluating outcomes.
|
CMAJ
|
2010
|
1.11
|
|
43
|
Understanding the relationship between the perceived characteristics of clinical practice guidelines and their uptake: protocol for a realist review.
|
Implement Sci
|
2011
|
1.10
|
|
44
|
Cost-effectiveness of educational outreach to primary care nurses to increase tuberculosis case detection and improve respiratory care: economic evaluation alongside a randomised trial.
|
Trop Med Int Health
|
2010
|
1.06
|
|
45
|
The doctor-nurse game in the age of interprofessional care: a view from Canada.
|
Nurs Inq
|
2008
|
1.06
|
|
46
|
Feedback GAP: study protocol for a cluster-randomized trial of goal setting and action plans to increase the effectiveness of audit and feedback interventions in primary care.
|
Implement Sci
|
2010
|
1.05
|
|
47
|
What is the role and authority of gatekeepers in cluster randomized trials in health research?
|
Trials
|
2012
|
1.04
|
|
48
|
An intervention to improve interprofessional collaboration and communications: a comparative qualitative study.
|
J Interprof Care
|
2010
|
1.04
|
|
49
|
Pressure ulcer multidisciplinary teams via telemedicine: a pragmatic cluster randomized stepped wedge trial in long term care.
|
BMC Health Serv Res
|
2014
|
1.03
|
|
50
|
Using qualitative interviews within medical education research: why we must raise the 'quality bar'.
|
Med Educ
|
2006
|
1.02
|
|
51
|
Interprofessional interaction, negotiation and non-negotiation on general internal medicine wards.
|
J Interprof Care
|
2009
|
1.00
|
|
52
|
Scope of EPOC is clarified.
|
BMJ
|
2003
|
1.00
|
|
53
|
Interprofessional communication with hospitalist and consultant physicians in general internal medicine: a qualitative study.
|
BMC Health Serv Res
|
2012
|
0.99
|
|
54
|
Training for health services and systems research in Sub-Saharan Africa--a case study at four East and Southern African universities.
|
Hum Resour Health
|
2013
|
0.98
|
|
55
|
Why are so few randomized trials useful, and what can we do about it?
|
J Clin Epidemiol
|
2006
|
0.98
|
|
56
|
Evaluating a streamlined clinical tool and educational outreach intervention for health care workers in Malawi: the PALM PLUS case study.
|
BMC Int Health Hum Rights
|
2011
|
0.98
|
|
57
|
Changing professional practice in tuberculosis care: an educational intervention.
|
J Adv Nurs
|
2004
|
0.96
|
|
58
|
Feedback GAP: pragmatic, cluster-randomized trial of goal setting and action plans to increase the effectiveness of audit and feedback interventions in primary care.
|
Implement Sci
|
2013
|
0.96
|
|
59
|
Testing a TheoRY-inspired MEssage ('TRY-ME'): a sub-trial within the Ontario Printed Educational Message (OPEM) trial.
|
Implement Sci
|
2007
|
0.96
|
|
60
|
Challenges in the research ethics review of cluster randomized trials: international survey of investigators.
|
Clin Trials
|
2013
|
0.95
|
|
61
|
Validity and reliability of a multiple-group measurement scale for interprofessional collaboration.
|
BMC Health Serv Res
|
2010
|
0.94
|
|
62
|
"My approach to this job is...one person at a time": Perceived discordance between population-level quality targets and patient-centred care.
|
Can Fam Physician
|
2014
|
0.93
|
|
63
|
Communication channels in general internal medicine: a description of baseline patterns for improved interprofessional collaboration.
|
Qual Health Res
|
2009
|
0.93
|
|
64
|
Cost-effectiveness of nurse-led versus doctor-led antiretroviral treatment in South Africa: pragmatic cluster randomised trial.
|
Trop Med Int Health
|
2013
|
0.93
|
|
65
|
Methodologies to evaluate the effectiveness of knowledge translation interventions: a primer for researchers and health care managers.
|
J Clin Epidemiol
|
2011
|
0.93
|
|
66
|
Effect of widespread restrictions on the use of hospital services during an outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome.
|
CMAJ
|
2007
|
0.91
|
|
67
|
Supporting middle-cadre health care workers in Malawi: lessons learned during implementation of the PALM PLUS package.
|
BMC Health Serv Res
|
2014
|
0.91
|
|
68
|
Impact of a chronic disease self-management program on health care utilization in rural communities: a retrospective cohort study using linked administrative data.
|
BMC Health Serv Res
|
2014
|
0.90
|
|
69
|
An emerging framework for understanding the nature of interprofessional interventions.
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J Interprof Care
|
2009
|
0.90
|
|
70
|
Written parental consent in school-based HIV/AIDS prevention research.
|
Am J Public Health
|
2005
|
0.90
|
|
71
|
Deficiencies in the quality of diabetes care: comparing specialist with generalist care misses the point.
|
J Gen Intern Med
|
2007
|
0.90
|
|
72
|
Nursing emotion work and interprofessional collaboration in general internal medicine wards: a qualitative study.
|
J Adv Nurs
|
2008
|
0.89
|
|
73
|
Survey of consent practices in cluster randomized trials: improvements are needed in ethical conduct and reporting.
|
Clin Trials
|
2013
|
0.89
|
|
74
|
Changes in prescribing patterns following publication of the ALLHAT trial.
|
JAMA
|
2004
|
0.89
|
|
75
|
An innovative telemedicine knowledge translation program to improve quality of care in intensive care units: protocol for a cluster randomized pragmatic trial.
|
Implement Sci
|
2009
|
0.89
|
|
76
|
Looking inside the black box: results of a theory-based process evaluation exploring the results of a randomized controlled trial of printed educational messages to increase primary care physicians' diabetic retinopathy referrals [Trial registration number ISRCTN72772651].
|
Implement Sci
|
2014
|
0.88
|
|
77
|
Implementing wait-time reductions under Ontario government benchmarks (Pay-for-Results): a Cluster Randomized Trial of the Effect of a Physician-Nurse Supplementary Triage Assistance team (MDRNSTAT) on emergency department patient wait times.
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BMC Emerg Med
|
2013
|
0.85
|
|
78
|
Providers' perceptions of barriers to the management of type 2 diabetes in remote Aboriginal settings.
|
Int J Circumpolar Health
|
2011
|
0.84
|
|
79
|
Evaluation of a toolkit to improve cardiovascular disease screening and treatment for people with type 2 diabetes: protocol for a cluster-randomized pragmatic trial.
|
Trials
|
2010
|
0.84
|
|
80
|
Competition in collaborative clothing: a qualitative case study of influences on collaborative quality improvement in the ICU.
|
BMJ Qual Saf
|
2013
|
0.83
|
|
81
|
Improving the clarity of the interprofessional field: implications for research and continuing interprofessional education.
|
J Contin Educ Health Prof
|
2009
|
0.83
|
|
82
|
Health impact of hospital restrictions on seriously ill hospitalized patients: lessons from the Toronto SARS outbreak.
|
Med Care
|
2008
|
0.83
|
|
83
|
A knowledge translation collaborative to improve the use of therapeutic hypothermia in post-cardiac arrest patients: protocol for a stepped wedge randomized trial.
|
Implement Sci
|
2011
|
0.83
|
|
84
|
Structuring communication relationships for interprofessional teamwork (SCRIPT): a Canadian initiative aimed at improving patient-centred care.
|
J Interprof Care
|
2007
|
0.82
|
|
85
|
Health systems research training enhances workplace research skills: a qualitative evaluation.
|
J Contin Educ Health Prof
|
2003
|
0.81
|
|
86
|
Implementation of national guidelines, incorporated within structured diabetes and hypertension records at primary level care in Cape Town, South Africa: a randomised controlled trial.
|
Glob Health Action
|
2013
|
0.81
|
|
87
|
Exploring the nature of interprofessional collaboration and family member involvement in an intensive care context.
|
J Interprof Care
|
2013
|
0.80
|
|
88
|
Delayed educational reminders for long-term medication adherence in ST-elevation myocardial infarction (DERLA-STEMI): protocol for a pragmatic, cluster-randomized controlled trial.
|
Implement Sci
|
2012
|
0.80
|
|
89
|
ACP Journal Club. What kind of randomized trials do patients and clinicians need?
|
Ann Intern Med
|
2009
|
0.80
|
|
90
|
Researchers' perceptions of ethical challenges in cluster randomized trials: a qualitative analysis.
|
Trials
|
2013
|
0.80
|
|
91
|
Antibiotic prescribing of village doctors for children under 15 years with upper respiratory tract infections in rural China: A qualitative study.
|
Medicine (Baltimore)
|
2016
|
0.79
|
|
92
|
Electronic prescribing in an ambulatory care setting: a cluster randomized trial.
|
J Eval Clin Pract
|
2011
|
0.78
|
|
93
|
Interprofessional information work: innovations in the use of the chart on internal medicine teams.
|
J Interprof Care
|
2007
|
0.78
|
|
94
|
Variability in research ethics review of cluster randomized trials: a scenario-based survey in three countries.
|
Trials
|
2014
|
0.78
|
|
95
|
Effectiveness of a group diabetes education programme in underserved communities in South Africa: pragmatic cluster randomized control trial.
|
BMC Fam Pract
|
2012
|
0.78
|
|
96
|
Medicine and nursing: a social contract to improve collaboration and patient-centred care?
|
J Interprof Care
|
2013
|
0.76
|
|
97
|
WITHDRAWN: Chest radiograph in acute respiratory infections.
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Cochrane Database Syst Rev
|
2009
|
0.76
|
|
98
|
Development of a minimization instrument for allocation of a hospital-level performance improvement intervention to reduce waiting times in Ontario emergency departments.
|
Implement Sci
|
2009
|
0.75
|
|
99
|
Managing executive dysfunction following acquired brain injury and stroke using an ecologically valid rehabilitation approach: a study protocol for a randomized, controlled trial.
|
Trials
|
2013
|
0.75
|
|
100
|
Can a Sports Team-based Lifestyle Program (Hockey Fans In Training) Improve Weight In Overweight Men?: 2140 Board #292 June 2, 3: 30 PM - 5: 00 PM.
|
Med Sci Sports Exerc
|
2016
|
0.75
|
|
101
|
Controlled trial of an intervention to improve cholesterol management in diabetes patients in remote Aboriginal communities.
|
Int J Circumpolar Health
|
2010
|
0.75
|
|
102
|
Impact of Hockey Fans in Training Program on Steps and Self-rated Health in Overweight Men: 2130 Board #282 June 2, 3: 30 PM - 5: 00 PM.
|
Med Sci Sports Exerc
|
2016
|
0.75
|
|
103
|
ICES report: five policy recommendations from Toronto's SARS outbreak to improve the safety and efficacy of restrictions on hospital admissions to manage infectious disease outbreaks.
|
Healthc Q
|
2009
|
0.75
|
|
104
|
Partner notification.
|
Clin Evid
|
2002
|
0.75
|
|
105
|
Partner notification.
|
Clin Evid
|
2002
|
0.75
|
|
106
|
Interprofessional collaboration to improve professional practice and healthcare outcomes.
|
Cochrane Database Syst Rev
|
2017
|
0.75
|
|
107
|
Hockey Fans in Training: A Pilot Pragmatic Randomized Controlled Trial.
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Med Sci Sports Exerc
|
2017
|
0.75
|
|
108
|
Consensus on interprofessional collaboration in hospitals: statistical agreement of ratings from ethnographic fieldwork and measurement scales.
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J Eval Clin Pract
|
2010
|
0.75
|
|
109
|
Nurse-physician relations and quality of nursing care: findings from a national survey of nurses.
|
Can J Nurs Res
|
2010
|
0.75
|
|
110
|
Partner notification.
|
Clin Evid
|
2004
|
0.75
|
|
111
|
Partner notification.
|
Clin Evid
|
2003
|
0.75
|