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Title |
Journal |
Year |
PubWeight™‹?› |
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1
|
Water, sanitation, and hygiene interventions to reduce diarrhoea in less developed countries: a systematic review and meta-analysis.
|
Lancet Infect Dis
|
2005
|
10.12
|
|
2
|
Interferon-gamma assays in the immunodiagnosis of tuberculosis: a systematic review.
|
Lancet Infect Dis
|
2004
|
8.41
|
|
3
|
Diagnostic accuracy of nucleic acid amplification tests for tuberculous meningitis: a systematic review and meta-analysis.
|
Lancet Infect Dis
|
2003
|
4.41
|
|
4
|
Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection in health care workers in rural India: comparison of a whole-blood interferon gamma assay with tuberculin skin testing.
|
JAMA
|
2005
|
3.90
|
|
5
|
Serial testing of health care workers for tuberculosis using interferon-gamma assay.
|
Am J Respir Crit Care Med
|
2006
|
3.70
|
|
6
|
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
|
|
7
|
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
|
|
8
|
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
|
|
9
|
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
|
|
10
|
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
|
|
11
|
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
|
|
12
|
Nucleic acid amplification tests in the diagnosis of tuberculous pleuritis: a systematic review and meta-analysis.
|
BMC Infect Dis
|
2004
|
2.17
|
|
13
|
Systematic reviews of diagnostic test evaluations: What's behind the scenes?
|
ACP J Club
|
2004
|
2.02
|
|
14
|
Causal inference methods to study nonrandomized, preexisting development interventions.
|
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A
|
2010
|
1.86
|
|
15
|
Evaluation of a pre-existing, 3-year household water treatment and handwashing intervention in rural Guatemala.
|
Int J Epidemiol
|
2009
|
1.84
|
|
16
|
Household environmental conditions are associated with enteropathy and impaired growth in rural Bangladesh.
|
Am J Trop Med Hyg
|
2013
|
1.80
|
|
17
|
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
|
|
18
|
Comparison of cemented and uncemented fixation in total hip replacement: a meta-analysis.
|
Acta Orthop
|
2007
|
1.62
|
|
19
|
Solar drinking water disinfection (SODIS) to reduce childhood diarrhoea in rural Bolivia: a cluster-randomized, controlled trial.
|
PLoS Med
|
2009
|
1.57
|
|
20
|
Systematic reviews and meta-analyses: an illustrated, step-by-step guide.
|
Natl Med J India
|
2004
|
1.47
|
|
21
|
Optimal recall period for caregiver-reported illness in risk factor and intervention studies: a multicountry study.
|
Am J Epidemiol
|
2013
|
1.46
|
|
22
|
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
|
|
23
|
Cluster-randomised controlled trials of individual and combined water, sanitation, hygiene and nutritional interventions in rural Bangladesh and Kenya: the WASH Benefits study design and rationale.
|
BMJ Open
|
2013
|
1.39
|
|
24
|
Clinical trials in India sponsored by the pharmaceutical industry: a proposal for reforms.
|
Natl Med J India
|
2002
|
1.38
|
|
25
|
Rapid point-of-care HIV testing in pregnant women: a systematic review and meta-analysis.
|
Trop Med Int Health
|
2007
|
1.30
|
|
26
|
A sea change ahead for recreational water quality criteria.
|
J Water Health
|
2009
|
1.26
|
|
27
|
Disease transmission models for public health decision making: analysis of epidemic and endemic conditions caused by waterborne pathogens.
|
Environ Health Perspect
|
2002
|
1.24
|
|
28
|
Did a severe flood in the Midwest cause an increase in the incidence of gastrointestinal symptoms?
|
Am J Epidemiol
|
2004
|
1.19
|
|
29
|
Changing landscape of acute encephalitis syndrome in India: a systematic review.
|
Natl Med J India
|
2013
|
1.18
|
|
30
|
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
|
|
31
|
The role of hypothermia in the management of severe brain injury: a meta-analysis.
|
Arch Neurol
|
2002
|
1.05
|
|
32
|
Simulation methods to estimate design power: an overview for applied research.
|
BMC Med Res Methodol
|
2011
|
1.01
|
|
33
|
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
|
|
34
|
Delayed internal fixation of femoral shaft fracture reduces mortality among patients with multisystem trauma.
|
J Bone Joint Surg Am
|
2009
|
0.99
|
|
35
|
Dissemination of drinking water contamination data to consumers: a systematic review of impact on consumer behaviors.
|
PLoS One
|
2011
|
0.98
|
|
36
|
Water distribution system deficiencies and gastrointestinal illness: a systematic review and meta-analysis.
|
Environ Health Perspect
|
2014
|
0.96
|
|
37
|
A dynamic model to assess microbial health risks associated with beneficial uses of biosolids.
|
Risk Anal
|
2004
|
0.95
|
|
38
|
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
|
|
39
|
Bias due to secondary transmission in estimation of attributable risk from intervention trials.
|
Epidemiology
|
2003
|
0.93
|
|
40
|
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
|
|
41
|
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
|
|
42
|
Swimmer illness associated with marine water exposure and water quality indicators: impact of widely used assumptions.
|
Epidemiology
|
2013
|
0.90
|
|
43
|
The natural history of antibody responses to Cryptosporidium parasites in men at high risk of HIV infection.
|
J Infect Dis
|
2006
|
0.89
|
|
44
|
Brief Report: Negative Controls to Detect Selection Bias and Measurement Bias in Epidemiologic Studies.
|
Epidemiology
|
2016
|
0.88
|
|
45
|
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
|
|
46
|
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
|
|
47
|
Changes in beliefs identify unblinding in randomized controlled trials: a method to meet CONSORT guidelines.
|
Contemp Clin Trials
|
2005
|
0.85
|
|
48
|
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
|
|
49
|
Strategies to reduce person-to-person transmission during widespread Escherichia coli O157:H7 outbreak.
|
Emerg Infect Dis
|
2007
|
0.84
|
|
50
|
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
|
|
51
|
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
|
|
52
|
Statistical estimation of parameters in a disease transmission model: analysis of a Cryptosporidium outbreak.
|
Stat Med
|
2002
|
0.82
|
|
53
|
Factors associated with compliance among users of solar water disinfection in rural Bolivia.
|
BMC Public Health
|
2011
|
0.81
|
|
54
|
Inferences drawn from a risk assessment compared directly with a randomized trial of a home drinking water intervention.
|
Environ Health Perspect
|
2006
|
0.78
|
|
55
|
Meta-analysis of the impact of HIV on the infectiousness of tuberculosis: methodological concerns.
|
Clin Infect Dis
|
2002
|
0.78
|
|
56
|
Clinical presentation, etiology, and survival in adult acute encephalitis syndrome in rural Central India.
|
Clin Neurol Neurosurg
|
2013
|
0.77
|
|
57
|
Microbial risk assessment framework for exposure to amended sludge projects.
|
Environ Health Perspect
|
2008
|
0.77
|
|
58
|
Accuracy and reliability of physical signs in the diagnosis of pleural effusion.
|
Respir Med
|
2006
|
0.76
|
|
59
|
Estimation of treatment efficacy with complier average causal effects (CACE) in a randomized stepped wedge trial.
|
Am J Epidemiol
|
2014
|
0.75
|
|
60
|
Reporting diarrhoea through a vernacular term in Quechua-speaking settings of rural Bolivia.
|
J Health Popul Nutr
|
2011
|
0.75
|
|
61
|
Climate and Health Co-Benefits in Low-Income Countries: A Case Study of Carbon Financed Water Filters in Kenya and a Call for Independent Monitoring.
|
Environ Health Perspect
|
2016
|
0.75
|
|
62
|
Early prediction of median survival among a large AIDS surveillance cohort.
|
BMC Public Health
|
2007
|
0.75
|
|
63
|
Measuring environmental exposure to enteric pathogens in low-income settings: review and recommendations of an interdisciplinary working group.
|
Environ Sci Technol
|
2020
|
0.75
|
|
64
|
Acute Illness Among Surfers After Exposure to Seawater in Dry- and Wet-Weather Conditions.
|
Am J Epidemiol
|
2017
|
0.75
|
|
65
|
Performance of analytical methods for overdispersed counts in cluster randomized trials: sample size, degree of clustering and imbalance.
|
Stat Med
|
2009
|
0.75
|
|
66
|
Coliphages and gastrointestinal illness in recreational waters: pooled analysis of six coastal beach cohorts.
|
Epidemiology
|
2017
|
0.75
|