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Title |
Journal |
Year |
PubWeight™‹?› |
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1
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A comparison of results of meta-analyses of randomized control trials and recommendations of clinical experts. Treatments for myocardial infarction.
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JAMA
|
1992
|
22.27
|
|
2
|
Cumulative meta-analysis of therapeutic trials for myocardial infarction.
|
N Engl J Med
|
1992
|
17.33
|
|
3
|
Efficacy of BCG vaccine in the prevention of tuberculosis. Meta-analysis of the published literature.
|
JAMA
|
1994
|
14.96
|
|
4
|
Guidelines for meta-analyses evaluating diagnostic tests.
|
Ann Intern Med
|
1994
|
5.72
|
|
5
|
A random-effects regression model for meta-analysis.
|
Stat Med
|
1995
|
4.83
|
|
6
|
The efficacy of bacillus Calmette-Guérin vaccination of newborns and infants in the prevention of tuberculosis: meta-analyses of the published literature.
|
Pediatrics
|
1995
|
4.72
|
|
7
|
Reporting on methods in clinical trials.
|
N Engl J Med
|
1982
|
3.98
|
|
8
|
How study design affects outcomes in comparisons of therapy. I: Medical.
|
Stat Med
|
1989
|
3.84
|
|
9
|
Improving health: measuring effects of medical care.
|
Milbank Q
|
1994
|
3.69
|
|
10
|
Some statistical methods for combining experimental results.
|
Int J Technol Assess Health Care
|
1990
|
3.67
|
|
11
|
The comparative effects of postoperative analgesic therapies on pulmonary outcome: cumulative meta-analyses of randomized, controlled trials.
|
Anesth Analg
|
1998
|
3.32
|
|
12
|
Heterogeneity in meta-analysis of data from epidemiologic studies: a commentary.
|
Am J Epidemiol
|
1995
|
3.10
|
|
13
|
Vitamin A supplementation and child mortality. A meta-analysis.
|
JAMA
|
1993
|
3.09
|
|
14
|
Chlorination, chlorination by-products, and cancer: a meta-analysis.
|
Am J Public Health
|
1992
|
2.86
|
|
15
|
Guidelines for statistical reporting in articles for medical journals. Amplifications and explanations.
|
Ann Intern Med
|
1988
|
2.77
|
|
16
|
An empirical study of the possible relation of treatment differences to quality scores in controlled randomized clinical trials.
|
Control Clin Trials
|
1990
|
2.71
|
|
17
|
Meta-analysis of multiple outcomes by regression with random effects.
|
Stat Med
|
1998
|
2.56
|
|
18
|
How medical professionals evaluate expressions of probability.
|
N Engl J Med
|
1986
|
2.51
|
|
19
|
Postoperative patient-controlled analgesia: meta-analyses of initial randomized control trials.
|
J Clin Anesth
|
1993
|
2.18
|
|
20
|
Institutional differences in Postoperative death rates. Commentary on some of the findings of the National Halothane Study.
|
JAMA
|
1968
|
2.15
|
|
21
|
Innovation and evaluation.
|
Science
|
1981
|
2.09
|
|
22
|
An experimental pain method sensitive to morphine in man: the submaximum effort tourniquet technique.
|
J Pharmacol Exp Ther
|
1966
|
1.70
|
|
23
|
How study design affects outcomes in comparisons of therapy. II: Surgical.
|
Stat Med
|
1989
|
1.64
|
|
24
|
Comparative efficacy of epidural, subarachnoid, and intracerebroventricular opioids in patients with pain due to cancer.
|
Reg Anesth
|
1997
|
1.46
|
|
25
|
Measuring gain in the evaluation of medical technology. The probability of a better outcome.
|
Int J Technol Assess Health Care
|
1988
|
1.45
|
|
26
|
Quantitative meanings of verbal probability expressions.
|
J Appl Psychol
|
1989
|
1.23
|
|
27
|
Uncertainty of the time of first significance in random effects cumulative meta-analysis.
|
Control Clin Trials
|
1996
|
1.11
|
|
28
|
Findings for public health from meta-analyses.
|
Annu Rev Public Health
|
1985
|
1.09
|
|
29
|
Multiple-outcomes meta-analysis of treatments for periodontal disease.
|
J Dent Res
|
1995
|
1.07
|
|
30
|
Assigned shares in compensation for radiation-related cancers.
|
Risk Anal
|
1986
|
1.07
|
|
31
|
Statistics and ethics in surgery and anesthesia.
|
Science
|
1977
|
1.06
|
|
32
|
Efficacy and safety of nonsteroidal antiinflammatory drugs for cancer pain: a meta-analysis.
|
J Clin Oncol
|
1994
|
0.98
|
|
33
|
Survival from localized breast cancer. Variability across trials and registries.
|
Int J Technol Assess Health Care
|
1993
|
0.91
|
|
34
|
Simple robust procedures for combining risk differences in sets of 2 x 2 tables.
|
Stat Med
|
1996
|
0.90
|
|
35
|
A survey of current problems in meta-analysis. Discussion from the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research inter-PORT Work Group on Literature Review/Meta-Analysis.
|
Med Care
|
1995
|
0.90
|
|
36
|
Implications of measures of quality of life for policy development.
|
J Chronic Dis
|
1987
|
0.85
|
|
37
|
The distribution of sums of rounded percentages.
|
Demography
|
1967
|
0.85
|
|
38
|
Sounding Boards. The clinician's responsibility for helping to improve the treatment of tomorrow's patients.
|
N Engl J Med
|
1980
|
0.83
|
|
39
|
A case study of statistics in the regulatory process: the FD&C Red No. 40 experiments.
|
J Natl Cancer Inst
|
1981
|
0.81
|
|
40
|
Communications: Should mechanisms be established for sharing among clinical trial investigators experiences in handling problems in design, execution, and analysis? Problems of omission in communications.
|
Clin Pharmacol Ther
|
1979
|
0.80
|
|
41
|
Assessing quality of institutional care.
|
Am J Public Health
|
1987
|
0.79
|
|
42
|
Reporting clinical trials in general surgical journals.
|
Surgery
|
1984
|
0.79
|
|
43
|
The promise of risk-based allocation trials in assessing new treatments.
|
Am J Public Health
|
1996
|
0.75
|
|
44
|
A protocol approach to assessing medical technologies.
|
Int J Technol Assess Health Care
|
1987
|
0.75
|
|
45
|
Experimental evidence and social policy: foreword.
|
Milbank Mem Fund Q Health Soc
|
1981
|
0.75
|
|
46
|
Educational data open questions.
|
Science
|
1967
|
0.75
|
|
47
|
Dilemmas in the concept of unnecessary surgery.
|
J Surg Res
|
1978
|
0.75
|
|
48
|
Swine flu: quantifying the "possibility".
|
Science
|
1976
|
0.75
|
|
49
|
Timely topics in statistical methods for clinical trials.
|
Annu Rev Biophys Bioeng
|
1982
|
0.75
|
|
50
|
Lower back pain. Laminectomies, spinal fusions, demographics, and socioeconomics.
|
Int J Technol Assess Health Care
|
1992
|
0.75
|
|
51
|
Using medical registries and data sets for technology assessment. An overview of seven case studies.
|
Int J Technol Assess Health Care
|
1991
|
0.75
|
|
52
|
Laminectomy and the treatment of lower-back pain in Massachusetts.
|
Int J Technol Assess Health Care
|
1993
|
0.75
|
|
53
|
The Education of a Scientific Generalist.
|
Science
|
1949
|
0.75
|
|
54
|
Assessing the effectiveness of ambulatory cardiac monitoring for specific clinical indications. Introduction.
|
Int J Technol Assess Health Care
|
1993
|
0.75
|
|
55
|
Current issues in health care technology assessment.
|
Int J Technol Assess Health Care
|
1989
|
0.75
|
|
56
|
Using medical registries and data sets for technology assessment.
|
Int J Technol Assess Health Care
|
1991
|
0.75
|
|
57
|
The next 100 years of Science.
|
Science
|
1980
|
0.75
|
|
58
|
Randomized clinical trials in surgery.
|
Int J Technol Assess Health Care
|
1989
|
0.75
|
|
59
|
Taking Science out of Social Science.
|
Science
|
1981
|
0.75
|
|
60
|
Technology assessment in the Connecticut Tumor Registry.
|
Int J Technol Assess Health Care
|
1991
|
0.75
|