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A proposed hospital quality index: hospital death rates adjusted for case severity. Health Serv Res (1968) 1.92
High and low surgical rates: risk factors for area residents. Am J Public Health (1981) 1.90
Differences among hospitals in Medicare patient mortality. Health Serv Res (1989) 1.69
Measuring outcomes of hospital care using multiple risk-adjusted indexes. Health Serv Res (1991) 1.37
Idiosyncratic drug reactions: a mechanistic evaluation of risk factors. Br J Clin Pharmacol (1992) 1.13
Comparison of hospitals with regard to outcomes of surgery. Health Serv Res (1976) 1.08
Measurement of physicians' performance using existing techniques. West J Med (1980) 0.98
Commentary on some studies on the quality of care. Health Care Financ Rev (1987) 0.79
Surgical training, quality surgical care, and informed consent. Bull N Y Acad Med (1980) 0.75
Presidential address: crisis and apathy. Ann Surg (1970) 0.75
Surgical priorities and the quality of medical care. Bull N Y Acad Med (1972) 0.75
A comparison of results of meta-analyses of randomized control trials and recommendations of clinical experts. Treatments for myocardial infarction. JAMA (1992) 22.27
Cumulative meta-analysis of therapeutic trials for myocardial infarction. N Engl J Med (1992) 17.33
Efficacy of BCG vaccine in the prevention of tuberculosis. Meta-analysis of the published literature. JAMA (1994) 14.96
Guidelines for meta-analyses evaluating diagnostic tests. Ann Intern Med (1994) 5.72
A random-effects regression model for meta-analysis. Stat Med (1995) 4.83
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
Analyzing data from ordered categories. N Engl J Med (1984) 4.40
Reporting on methods in clinical trials. N Engl J Med (1982) 3.98
How study design affects outcomes in comparisons of therapy. I: Medical. Stat Med (1989) 3.84
Improving health: measuring effects of medical care. Milbank Q (1994) 3.69
Some statistical methods for combining experimental results. Int J Technol Assess Health Care (1990) 3.67
The comparative effects of postoperative analgesic therapies on pulmonary outcome: cumulative meta-analyses of randomized, controlled trials. Anesth Analg (1998) 3.32
Heterogeneity in meta-analysis of data from epidemiologic studies: a commentary. Am J Epidemiol (1995) 3.10
Vitamin A supplementation and child mortality. A meta-analysis. JAMA (1993) 3.09
Chlorination, chlorination by-products, and cancer: a meta-analysis. Am J Public Health (1992) 2.86
Guidelines for statistical reporting in articles for medical journals. Amplifications and explanations. Ann Intern Med (1988) 2.77
An empirical study of the possible relation of treatment differences to quality scores in controlled randomized clinical trials. Control Clin Trials (1990) 2.71
Estimating diagnostic accuracy from multiple conflicting reports: a new meta-analytic method. Med Decis Making (1994) 2.65
Reliability of psychiatrists' ratings in community case finding. Am J Public Health Nations Health (1967) 2.64
Meta-analysis of multiple outcomes by regression with random effects. Stat Med (1998) 2.56
How medical professionals evaluate expressions of probability. N Engl J Med (1986) 2.51
Postoperative patient-controlled analgesia: meta-analyses of initial randomized control trials. J Clin Anesth (1993) 2.18
Innovation and evaluation. Science (1981) 2.09
Statistical approaches to classification. Methods for developing classification and other criteria rules. Arthritis Rheum (1990) 1.89
A placebo-controlled double-blind crossover investigation of the side effects attributed to oral contraceptives. Fertil Steril (1971) 1.89
Graphical methods in statistical analysis. Annu Rev Public Health (1987) 1.85
Reliability of newly trained raters in community case finding. Am J Public Health Nations Health (1967) 1.71
An experimental pain method sensitive to morphine in man: the submaximum effort tourniquet technique. J Pharmacol Exp Ther (1966) 1.70
How study design affects outcomes in comparisons of therapy. II: Surgical. Stat Med (1989) 1.64
Comparative efficacy of epidural, subarachnoid, and intracerebroventricular opioids in patients with pain due to cancer. Reg Anesth (1997) 1.46
Measuring gain in the evaluation of medical technology. The probability of a better outcome. Int J Technol Assess Health Care (1988) 1.45
Study of norethindrone in contraception. JAMA (1962) 1.26
Quantitative meanings of verbal probability expressions. J Appl Psychol (1989) 1.23
Uncertainty of the time of first significance in random effects cumulative meta-analysis. Control Clin Trials (1996) 1.11
Findings for public health from meta-analyses. Annu Rev Public Health (1985) 1.09
Multiple-outcomes meta-analysis of treatments for periodontal disease. J Dent Res (1995) 1.07
Assigned shares in compensation for radiation-related cancers. Risk Anal (1986) 1.07
Statistics and ethics in surgery and anesthesia. Science (1977) 1.06
Thoracic CT images: effect of lossy image compression on diagnostic accuracy. Radiology (1994) 1.04
Efficacy and safety of nonsteroidal antiinflammatory drugs for cancer pain: a meta-analysis. J Clin Oncol (1994) 0.98
A validity study using the Leighton instrument. Am J Public Health (1971) 0.97
The series of consecutive cases as a device for assessing outcomes of intervention. N Engl J Med (1984) 0.93
Survival from localized breast cancer. Variability across trials and registries. Int J Technol Assess Health Care (1993) 0.91
Nervousness and depression attributed to oral contraceptives: a double-blind, placebo-controlled study. Am J Obstet Gynecol (1971) 0.91
Simple robust procedures for combining risk differences in sets of 2 x 2 tables. Stat Med (1996) 0.90
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
Enhancement of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-specific CD4+ and CD8+ cytotoxic T-lymphocyte activities in HIV-infected asymptomatic patients given recombinant gp160 vaccine. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (1992) 0.89
Glucose, insulin, and growth hormone studies in long-term users of oral contraceptives. Am J Obstet Gynecol (1970) 0.88
Tree-structured vector quantization of CT chest scans: image quality and diagnostic accuracy. IEEE Trans Med Imaging (1993) 0.88
Statistical concepts fundamental to investigations. N Engl J Med (1985) 0.85
The distribution of sums of rounded percentages. Demography (1967) 0.85
Implications of measures of quality of life for policy development. J Chronic Dis (1987) 0.85
A note on the Wilcoxon-Mann-Whitney test for 2 X kappa ordered tables. Biometrics (1985) 0.84
Sounding Boards. The clinician's responsibility for helping to improve the treatment of tomorrow's patients. N Engl J Med (1980) 0.83
Oral contraceptives and thromboembolism. JAMA (1969) 0.82
A case study of statistics in the regulatory process: the FD&C Red No. 40 experiments. J Natl Cancer Inst (1981) 0.81
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
Reporting clinical trials in general surgical journals. Surgery (1984) 0.79
Assessing quality of institutional care. Am J Public Health (1987) 0.79
Limits of detection and quantification, as applied to an assay for digoxin. Clin Chem (1984) 0.78
The promise of risk-based allocation trials in assessing new treatments. Am J Public Health (1996) 0.75
Evaluation of a new combination oral contraceptive: lynestrenol-mestranol (Lyndiol). Fertil Steril (1969) 0.75
Laminectomy and the treatment of lower-back pain in Massachusetts. Int J Technol Assess Health Care (1993) 0.75
The response of graduate enrollment to placement opportunities. Science (1972) 0.75
Lower back pain. Laminectomies, spinal fusions, demographics, and socioeconomics. Int J Technol Assess Health Care (1992) 0.75
The evaluation of hospital death rates. JAMA (1986) 0.75
Educational data open questions. Science (1967) 0.75
Experiences with evaluating the safety and efficacy of medical technologies. Annu Rev Public Health (1984) 0.75
Parametric and nonparametric analyses of the same data. Soc Sci Med (1989) 0.75
Dilemmas in the concept of unnecessary surgery. J Surg Res (1978) 0.75
Data acquisition for assessment of medical technology: methods other than technical trials. Int J Technol Assess Health Care (1986) 0.75
Assessing the effectiveness of ambulatory cardiac monitoring for specific clinical indications. Introduction. Int J Technol Assess Health Care (1993) 0.75
Criminality and adoption. Science (1985) 0.75
Swine flu: quantifying the "possibility". Science (1976) 0.75
Timely topics in statistical methods for clinical trials. Annu Rev Biophys Bioeng (1982) 0.75
Using medical registries and data sets for technology assessment. An overview of seven case studies. Int J Technol Assess Health Care (1991) 0.75
Reply by dr. Moses. Am J Public Health (1972) 0.75
Current issues in health care technology assessment. Int J Technol Assess Health Care (1989) 0.75
Randomized clinical trials in surgery. Int J Technol Assess Health Care (1989) 0.75
A protocol approach to assessing medical technologies. Int J Technol Assess Health Care (1987) 0.75
The next 100 years of Science. Science (1980) 0.75
Taking Science out of Social Science. Science (1981) 0.75
Scaling data on inter-nation action. Science (1967) 0.75
Experimental evidence and social policy: foreword. Milbank Mem Fund Q Health Soc (1981) 0.75
Technology assessment in the Connecticut Tumor Registry. Int J Technol Assess Health Care (1991) 0.75
Using medical registries and data sets for technology assessment. Int J Technol Assess Health Care (1991) 0.75
The Education of a Scientific Generalist. Science (1949) 0.75
The validity study of the Leighton Instrument. Am J Public Health (1972) 0.75