Published in CMAJ on March 15, 1986
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Problems of spectrum and bias in evaluating the efficacy of diagnostic tests. N Engl J Med (1978) 11.42
A methodological framework for assessing health indices. J Chronic Dis (1985) 9.76
Clinical biostatistics. LIV. The biostatistics of concordance. Clin Pharmacol Ther (1981) 7.33
Selection and interpretation of diagnostic tests and procedures. Principles and applications. Ann Intern Med (1981) 3.85
Computerized cranial tomography. Effect on diagnostic and therapeutic plans. JAMA (1977) 2.46
A randomized trial of percutaneous transhepatic cholangiography with the Chiba needle versus endoscopic retrograde cholangiography for bile duct visualization in jaundice. Gastroenterology (1976) 2.25
The declining specificity of exercise radionuclide ventriculography. N Engl J Med (1983) 2.22
An additional basic science for clinical medicine: II. The limitations of randomized trials. Ann Intern Med (1983) 1.87
E.M.I. scan in the management of head injuries. Lancet (1976) 1.81
The value of lung cancer detection by six-monthly chest radiographs. Thorax (1968) 1.74
Assessment of diagnostic technologies. Science (1979) 1.68
Combined use of leg scanning and impedance plethysmography in suspected venous thrombosis. An alternative to venography. N Engl J Med (1977) 1.66
An evaluation of multiphasic screening on admission to hospital. Precis of a report to the National Health and Medical Research Council. Med J Aust (1976) 1.59
Economic analysis and clinical trials. Control Clin Trials (1984) 1.57
Outcome of endoscopy and barium radiography for acute upper gastrointestinal bleeding: controlled trial in 1037 patients. Br Med J (Clin Res Ed) (1982) 1.46
Psychologically mediated effects of diagnostic tests. Ann Intern Med (1981) 1.44
Diagnostic evaluation of headache. Impact of computerized tomography and cost-effectiveness. JAMA (1980) 1.41
Cranial computed tomography in diagnosis and management of acute head trauma. AJR Am J Roentgenol (1978) 1.15
Computed tomography in patients with an abdominal mass: effective and efficient? A controlled trial. Lancet (1981) 1.12
Observations on the medical efficacy of computed tomography of the chest and abdomen. AJR Am J Roentgenol (1978) 1.02
An additional basic science for clinical medicine: III. The challenges of comparison and measurement. Ann Intern Med (1983) 0.96
Computed tomography of the brain in patients with headache or temporal lobe epilepsy: findings and cost-effectiveness. J Comput Assist Tomogr (1977) 0.96
Ordering patterns and clinical impact of cardiovascular nuclear medicine procedures. Circulation (1980) 0.94
The value of antenatal cardiotocography in the management of high-risk pregnancy: a randomized controlled trial. Br J Obstet Gynaecol (1982) 0.93
Policy formulation and technology assessment. Milbank Mem Fund Q Health Soc (1981) 0.90
Clinical utility and management impact of M-mode echocardiography. Am J Med (1983) 0.87
Controlled assessment of diagnostic techniques: methodological problems. Eff Health Care (1983) 0.86
Metadiagnosis. An epistemologic model of clinical judgment. Am J Med (1983) 0.80
Before-and-after comparisons: a cautionary role. Br Med J (1980) 0.80
Evidence based medicine: what it is and what it isn't. BMJ (1996) 66.70
Changing physician performance. A systematic review of the effect of continuing medical education strategies. JAMA (1995) 26.76
No magic bullets: a systematic review of 102 trials of interventions to improve professional practice. CMAJ (1995) 22.08
Evidence for the effectiveness of CME. A review of 50 randomized controlled trials. JAMA (1992) 20.08
Beneficial effect of carotid endarterectomy in symptomatic patients with high-grade carotid stenosis. N Engl J Med (1991) 18.33
Effects of computer-based clinical decision support systems on physician performance and patient outcomes: a systematic review. JAMA (1998) 18.02
Effects of computer-based clinical decision support systems on clinician performance and patient outcome. A critical appraisal of research. Ann Intern Med (1994) 17.27
Measurement of health status. Ascertaining the minimal clinically important difference. Control Clin Trials (1989) 15.99
A controlled trial of teaching critical appraisal of the clinical literature to medical students. JAMA (1987) 14.20
A performance and failure analysis of SAPHIRE with a MEDLINE test collection. J Am Med Inform Assoc (1995) 13.03
Measuring health-related quality of life. Ann Intern Med (1993) 11.84
Benefit of carotid endarterectomy in patients with symptomatic moderate or severe stenosis. North American Symptomatic Carotid Endarterectomy Trial Collaborators. N Engl J Med (1998) 11.27
Guidelines for reading literature reviews. CMAJ (1988) 10.90
Users' guides to the medical literature. VI. How to use an overview. Evidence-Based Medicine Working Group. JAMA (1994) 10.80
How attractive does a new technology have to be to warrant adoption and utilization? Tentative guidelines for using clinical and economic evaluations. CMAJ (1992) 10.40
Systematic reviews: synthesis of best evidence for clinical decisions. Ann Intern Med (1997) 9.94
Determining a minimal important change in a disease-specific Quality of Life Questionnaire. J Clin Epidemiol (1994) 9.50
Development and validation of a questionnaire to measure asthma control. Eur Respir J (1999) 9.35
Increased absenteeism from work after detection and labeling of hypertensive patients. N Engl J Med (1978) 9.29
The results of direct and indirect treatment comparisons in meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials. J Clin Epidemiol (1997) 9.01
The 6-minute walk: a new measure of exercise capacity in patients with chronic heart failure. Can Med Assoc J (1985) 8.06
Effect of problem-based, self-directed undergraduate education on life-long learning. CMAJ (1993) 7.73
How to keep up with the medical literature: V. Access by personal computer to the medical literature. Ann Intern Med (1986) 7.36
Educational outreach visits: effects on professional practice and health care outcomes. Cochrane Database Syst Rev (2007) 7.25
Randomised clinical trial of strategies for improving medication compliance in primary hypertension. Lancet (1975) 7.22
Users' guides to the medical literature. I. How to get started. The Evidence-Based Medicine Working Group. JAMA (1993) 6.83
Measuring quality of life in children with asthma. Qual Life Res (1996) 6.76
More informative abstracts of articles describing clinical practice guidelines. Ann Intern Med (1993) 6.54
General practice fundholding. BMJ (1990) 6.43
A consumer's guide to subgroup analyses. Ann Intern Med (1992) 6.34
Report of the Canadian Hypertension Society Consensus Conference: 1. Introduction. CMAJ (1993) 6.20
How good are clinical MEDLINE searches? A comparative study of clinical end-user and librarian searches. Comput Biomed Res (1990) 5.95
Users' guides to the medical literature: XXII: how to use articles about clinical decision rules. Evidence-Based Medicine Working Group. JAMA (2000) 5.94
Measuring disease-specific quality of life in clinical trials. CMAJ (1986) 5.56
Evaluation of impairment of health related quality of life in asthma: development of a questionnaire for use in clinical trials. Thorax (1992) 5.37
Sequence and domain relationships of ntrC and nifA from Klebsiella pneumoniae: homologies to other regulatory proteins. EMBO J (1986) 5.20
Risk factors for gastrointestinal bleeding in critically ill patients. Canadian Critical Care Trials Group. N Engl J Med (1994) 5.19
Problems in the handling of clinical and research evidence by medical practitioners. Arch Intern Med (1983) 5.16
Measuring quality of life in asthma. Am Rev Respir Dis (1993) 4.97
A critical appraisal of the efficacy of continuing medical education. JAMA (1984) 4.95
Improvement of medication compliance in uncontrolled hypertension. Lancet (1976) 4.84
Searching MEDLINE for randomized clinical trials involving care of the newborn. Pediatrics (1989) 4.79
Recommendations from the Canadian Hypertension Society Consensus Conference on the Pharmacologic Treatment of Hypertension. CMAJ (1989) 4.76
Randomised controlled trial of respiratory rehabilitation. Lancet (1994) 4.74
Meta-analysis of respiratory rehabilitation in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Lancet (1996) 4.65
Evaluation of SAPHIRE: an automated approach to indexing and retrieving medical literature. Proc Annu Symp Comput Appl Med Care (1991) 4.59
Assessing the minimal important difference in symptoms: a comparison of two techniques. J Clin Epidemiol (1996) 4.55
Validation of an index of the quality of review articles. J Clin Epidemiol (1991) 4.54
Cardiac rehabilitation after myocardial infarction. Combined experience of randomized clinical trials. JAMA (1988) 4.46
Effect of encouragement on walking test performance. Thorax (1984) 4.44
Practitioners of evidence based care. Not all clinicians need to appraise evidence from scratch but all need some skills. BMJ (2000) 4.41
The science of reviewing research. Ann N Y Acad Sci (1993) 4.15
Enhancing retrieval of best evidence for health care from bibliographic databases: calibration of the hand search of the literature. Stud Health Technol Inform (2001) 4.08
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Development and validation of the Mini Asthma Quality of Life Questionnaire. Eur Respir J (1999) 4.00
Multiattribute utility function for a comprehensive health status classification system. Health Utilities Index Mark 2. Med Care (1996) 3.96
Clinical decision support systems for the practice of evidence-based medicine. J Am Med Inform Assoc (2001) 3.90
Systematic implementation of an advance directive program in nursing homes: a randomized controlled trial. JAMA (2000) 3.87
The architecture of diagnostic research. BMJ (2002) 3.82
Measuring quality of life in the parents of children with asthma. Qual Life Res (1996) 3.82
A taxonomy and critical review of tested strategies for the application of clinical practice recommendations: from "official" to "individual" clinical policy. Am J Prev Med (1988) 3.77
Designing medical informatics research and library--resource projects to increase what is learned. J Am Med Inform Assoc (1995) 3.74
The influence of dietary and nondietary calcium supplementation on blood pressure: an updated metaanalysis of randomized controlled trials. Am J Hypertens (1999) 3.72
The Health Utilities Index (HUI) system for assessing health-related quality of life in clinical studies. Ann Med (2001) 3.57
Canadian physicians' attitudes about and preferences regarding clinical practice guidelines. CMAJ (1997) 3.56
Users' guides to the medical literature. JAMA (1993) 3.56
The Internet and evidence-based decision-making: a needed synergy for efficient knowledge management in health care. CMAJ (2000) 3.46
Computer searching of the medical literature. An evaluation of MEDLINE searching systems. Ann Intern Med (1985) 3.45
Positive control and autogenous regulation of the nifLA promoter in Klebsiella pneumoniae. Nature (1983) 3.43
Physician interpretations and textbook definitions of blinding terminology in randomized controlled trials. JAMA (2001) 3.32
The North American Symptomatic Carotid Endarterectomy Trial : surgical results in 1415 patients. Stroke (1999) 3.31
Can simple clinical measurements detect patient noncompliance? Hypertension (1981) 3.29
Interpreting small differences in functional status: the Six Minute Walk test in chronic lung disease patients. Am J Respir Crit Care Med (1997) 3.28
Planning for the information age: a survey of microcomputer use in a faculty of health sciences. CMAJ (1987) 3.24
Stress ulcer prophylaxis in critically ill patients. Resolving discordant meta-analyses. JAMA (1996) 3.21
Intention-to-treat principle. CMAJ (2001) 3.20
Determinants in Canadian health care workers of the decision to withdraw life support from the critically ill. Canadian Critical Care Trials Group. JAMA (1995) 3.08
Effect of HMGcoA reductase inhibitors on stroke. A meta-analysis of randomized, controlled trials. Ann Intern Med (1998) 3.07
Endoscopic therapy for acute nonvariceal upper gastrointestinal hemorrhage: a meta-analysis. Gastroenterology (1992) 3.06
Isoniazid prophylaxis for tuberculosis in HIV infection: a meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials. AIDS (1999) 3.04
Does a mailed continuing education program improve physician performance? Results of a randomized trial in antihypertensive care. JAMA (1986) 3.04
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Effectiveness, efficiency, and NICE. BMJ (2001) 3.03
Clinical impact versus factor analysis for quality of life questionnaire construction. J Clin Epidemiol (1997) 2.98
Effect of calcium supplementation on pregnancy-induced hypertension and preeclampsia: a meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials. JAMA (1996) 2.98
The measurement iterative loop: a framework for the critical appraisal of need, benefits and costs of health interventions. J Chronic Dis (1985) 2.96
How to keep up with the medical literature: I. Why try to keep up and how to get started. Ann Intern Med (1986) 2.94
When should an effective treatment be used? Derivation of the threshold number needed to treat and the minimum event rate for treatment. J Clin Epidemiol (2001) 2.84
Rules of evidence and clinical recommendations on the use of antithrombotic agents. Chest (1992) 2.81