Published in Soc Sci Med A on May 01, 1981
Relation between general practices' outpatient referral rates and rates of elective admission to hospital. BMJ (1990) 4.66
Diagnostic dilatation and curettage: is it used appropriately? BMJ (1993) 4.28
NHS review. Improving clinical effectiveness in the NHS: an alternative to the white paper. BMJ (1989) 3.66
Socioeconomic variations in the use of common surgical operations. Br Med J (Clin Res Ed) (1985) 3.46
Income, race, and surgery in Maryland. Am J Public Health (1991) 2.65
Medical malpractice in perspective. II--The implications for Britain. Br Med J (Clin Res Ed) (1987) 2.34
Hysterectomy: variations in rates across small areas and across physicians' practices. Am J Public Health (1984) 2.33
Can hospital use be a measure of need for health care? J Epidemiol Community Health (1987) 2.30
Incidence and estimated need of caesarean section, inguinal hernia repair, and operation for strangulated hernia in rural Africa. Br Med J (Clin Res Ed) (1984) 2.28
Geographic variations in elderly hospital and surgical discharge rates, New York State. Am J Public Health (1987) 2.11
Appropriateness of cholecystectomy in the United Kingdom--a consensus panel approach. Gut (1991) 1.93
Geographical variations in use of surgery for glue ear. J R Soc Med (1985) 1.84
Small area statistics: large statistical problems. Am J Public Health (1984) 1.84
Using diagnosis-related groups for studying variations in hospital admissions. Health Care Financ Rev (1988) 1.67
From the surgery to the surgeon: does deprivation influence consultation and operation rates? Br J Gen Pract (1995) 1.57
Variations in lengths of stay and rates of day case surgery: implications for the efficiency of surgical management. J Epidemiol Community Health (1990) 1.50
Variations in physicians' hospitalization practices: a population-based study in Manitoba, Canada. Am J Public Health (1986) 1.49
Geographic variation in the prescription of schedule II opioid analgesics among outpatients in the United States. Health Serv Res (2006) 1.41
Regional distribution of family practitioner services: implications for National Health Service equity and efficiency. J R Coll Gen Pract (1987) 1.41
The extremal quotient in small-area variation analysis. Health Serv Res (1989) 1.36
Need for redefining needs. Health Qual Life Outcomes (2003) 1.23
The politics of occupational medicine. J R Soc Med (1987) 1.23
Supply, workload and utilization: a population-based analysis of surgery in rural Manitoba. Am J Public Health (1983) 1.19
Geographical variation in hospital admission rates: an analysis of workload in the Oxford region, England. J Epidemiol Community Health (1994) 1.16
The epidemiology and spectrum of surgical care in district hospitals of Pakistan. Am J Public Health (1987) 1.16
Equity and medical practice variation: relationships between standardised discharge ratios in total and for selected conditions in English districts. J Epidemiol Community Health (1992) 1.09
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Do cholecystectomy rates correlate with geographic variations in the prevalence of gallstones? J Epidemiol Community Health (1985) 0.95
Length of stay and health outcome. Br Med J (Clin Res Ed) (1984) 0.90
International differences in medical care practices. Health Care Financ Rev (1989) 0.88
Avoiding inappropriate surgery: discussion paper. J R Soc Med (1990) 0.79
Geographical variations in rates of ophthalmic surgery. Br J Ophthalmol (1996) 0.78
Overtreatment in surgery: discussion paper. J R Soc Med (1985) 0.78
What can Europeans learn from Americans? Health Care Financ Rev (1989) 0.75
Improving clinical practice. J R Soc Med (1988) 0.75
Spatial analysis of Percutaneous Transluminal Coronary Angioplasty (PTCA) in Austria. Eur J Epidemiol (1999) 0.75
Design and analysis of randomized clinical trials requiring prolonged observation of each patient. II. analysis and examples. Br J Cancer (1977) 53.23
The complete genome sequence of the gram-positive bacterium Bacillus subtilis. Nature (1997) 33.47
Design and analysis of randomized clinical trials requiring prolonged observation of each patient. I. Introduction and design. Br J Cancer (1976) 22.55
The genome sequence of Schizosaccharomyces pombe. Nature (2002) 14.26
Small-area variations in the use of common surgical procedures: an international comparison of New England, England, and Norway. N Engl J Med (1982) 12.33
Meta-analysis of 74,046 individuals identifies 11 new susceptibility loci for Alzheimer's disease. Nat Genet (2013) 9.46
Cancer patients' information needs and information seeking behaviour: in depth interview study. BMJ (2000) 8.44
Impact of postmenopausal hormone therapy on cardiovascular events and cancer: pooled data from clinical trials. BMJ (1997) 6.32
Alcohol, tobacco and breast cancer--collaborative reanalysis of individual data from 53 epidemiological studies, including 58,515 women with breast cancer and 95,067 women without the disease. Br J Cancer (2002) 5.83
Increasing use of private practice by patients in Oxford requiring common elective surgical operations. Br Med J (Clin Res Ed) (1985) 5.49
Statistics: the problem of examining accumulating data more than once. N Engl J Med (1974) 5.09
A prospective study of acute cerebrovascular disease in the community: the Oxfordshire Community Stroke Project 1981-86. 1. Methodology, demography and incident cases of first-ever stroke. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry (1988) 4.98
Fetal fibronectin in cervical and vaginal secretions as a predictor of preterm delivery. N Engl J Med (1991) 4.68
Relation between general practices' outpatient referral rates and rates of elective admission to hospital. BMJ (1990) 4.66
Mortality among appropriately referred patients refused admission to intensive-care units. Lancet (1997) 4.65
Will payment based on diagnosis-related groups control hospital costs? N Engl J Med (1984) 4.56
Diagnostic dilatation and curettage: is it used appropriately? BMJ (1993) 4.28
Breast cancer and hormonal supplements in postmenopausal women. BMJ (1995) 4.16
Cyclin E controls S phase progression and its down-regulation during Drosophila embryogenesis is required for the arrest of cell proliferation. Cell (1994) 4.07
Use of computerised general practice data for population surveillance: comparative study of influenza data. BMJ (1991) 3.99
Mortality and reoperation after open and transurethral resection of the prostate for benign prostatic hyperplasia. N Engl J Med (1989) 3.97
Methods in health services research. Interpreting the evidence: choosing between randomised and non-randomised studies. BMJ (1999) 3.96
Health checks in general practice: another example of inverse care? BMJ (1990) 3.83
Third generation oral contraception and venous thromboembolism. BMJ (1996) 3.76
The bipolar disorder risk allele at CACNA1C also confers risk of recurrent major depression and of schizophrenia. Mol Psychiatry (2009) 3.59
Deaths and injuries caused by land mines in Mozambique. Lancet (1995) 3.57
Neoplasia of the cervix uteri and contraception: a possible adverse effect of the pill. Lancet (1983) 3.53
Socioeconomic variations in the use of common surgical operations. Br Med J (Clin Res Ed) (1985) 3.46
A total audit of preventive procedures in 45 practices caring for 430,000 patients. BMJ (1990) 3.45
Do British women undergo too many or too few hysterectomies? Soc Sci Med (1988) 3.45
Threats to applicability of randomised trials: exclusions and selective participation. J Health Serv Res Policy (1999) 3.23
Epidemiology and clinical significance of cervical erosion in women attending a family planning clinic. Br Med J (1978) 3.20
Ratio of waist circumference to height may be better indicator of need for weight management. BMJ (1996) 3.17
Lack of willpower or lack of wherewithal? "Internal" and "external" barriers to changing diet and exercise in a three year follow-up of participants in a health check. Soc Sci Med (1998) 3.10
The epidemiology of hysterectomy: findings in a large cohort study. Br J Obstet Gynaecol (1992) 2.99
New evidence on the state of stress of the san andreas fault system. Science (1987) 2.97
Removing barriers to career development in public health. BMJ (2000) 2.82
Medical complications after stroke: a multicenter study. Stroke (2000) 2.81
Mortality in vegetarians and nonvegetarians: detailed findings from a collaborative analysis of 5 prospective studies. Am J Clin Nutr (1999) 2.78
Risk of death from cancer and ischaemic heart disease in meat and non-meat eaters. BMJ (1994) 2.70
Seismicity remotely triggered by the magnitude 7.3 landers, california, earthquake. Science (1993) 2.61
Response of women aged 65-74 to invitation for screening for breast cancer by mammography: a pilot study in London, UK. J Epidemiol Community Health (1996) 2.61
Costs and cost effectiveness of health checks conducted by nurses in primary care: the Oxcheck study. BMJ (1996) 2.58
For and against: Public health does not need to be led by doctors. For. BMJ (2001) 2.57
Reduction in total under-five mortality in western Nepal through community-based antimicrobial treatment of pneumonia. Lancet (1991) 2.54
Familial breast cancer. BMJ (1994) 2.54
Susceptibility locus for Alzheimer's disease on chromosome 10. Science (2000) 2.49
Choosing between randomised and non-randomised studies: a systematic review. Health Technol Assess (1998) 2.49
The frequency distributions of commonly determined blood constituents in healthy blood donors. Clin Chim Acta (1974) 2.49
Measuring the impact of menopausal symptoms on quality of life. BMJ (1993) 2.42
An assessment of prostatectomy for benign urinary tract obstruction. Geographic variations and the evaluation of medical care outcomes. JAMA (1988) 2.42
Mortality in a cohort of long-term users of hormone replacement therapy: an updated analysis. Br J Obstet Gynaecol (1990) 2.41
Fertility after stopping different methods of contraception. Br Med J (1978) 2.40
Strong genetic evidence for a selective influence of GABAA receptors on a component of the bipolar disorder phenotype. Mol Psychiatry (2008) 2.38
Utilisation of hormone replacement therapy by women doctors. BMJ (1995) 2.35
Early oral contraceptive use and breast cancer: results of another case-control study. Br J Cancer (1987) 2.35
Long-term surveillance of mortality and cancer incidence in women receiving hormone replacement therapy. Br J Obstet Gynaecol (1987) 2.34
Essential Ca(2+)-binding motif for Ca(2+)-sensitive inactivation of L-type Ca2+ channels. Science (1995) 2.30
The natural history of lacunar infarction: the Oxfordshire Community Stroke Project. Stroke (1987) 2.24
Genome-wide significant associations in schizophrenia to ITIH3/4, CACNA1C and SDCCAG8, and extensive replication of associations reported by the Schizophrenia PGC. Mol Psychiatry (2012) 2.20
Teenagers and their health. Arch Dis Child (1987) 2.20
Oral contraceptives and breast cancer. Lancet (1983) 2.16
Systematic review of the prospective cohort studies on meat consumption and colorectal cancer risk: a meta-analytical approach. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev (2001) 2.14
Would primary health care workers give appropriate dietary advice after cholesterol screening? BMJ (1989) 2.14
HRT: an analysis of benefits, risks and costs. Br Med Bull (1992) 2.11
Near-field investigations of the landers earthquake sequence, april to july 1992. Science (1993) 2.10
Desmosomal adhesion regulates epithelial morphogenesis and cell positioning. Nat Cell Biol (2001) 2.10
Patients with cancer holding their own records: a randomised controlled trial. Br J Gen Pract (2000) 2.09
Modelling the effects of increased physical activity on coronary heart disease in England and Wales. J Epidemiol Community Health (1997) 2.08
Lipid screening: is it enough to measure total cholesterol concentration? BMJ (1990) 2.06
Strand displacement amplification and homogeneous real-time detection incorporated in a second-generation DNA probe system, BDProbeTecET. Clin Chem (1999) 2.01
Randomized controlled trial of anti-smoking advice by nurses in general practice. J R Coll Gen Pract (1989) 2.01
Propofol for adult procedural sedation in a UK emergency department: safety profile in 1008 cases. Br J Anaesth (2013) 2.01
Factors affecting response to an invitation to attend for a health check. J Epidemiol Community Health (1993) 1.98
Mortality, morbidity and complications following transurethral resection of the prostate for benign prostatic hypertrophy. J Urol (1992) 1.97
Medical Research Council randomised trial of endometrial resection versus hysterectomy in management of menorrhagia. Lancet (1997) 1.95
The clinical effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of bupropion and nicotine replacement therapy for smoking cessation: a systematic review and economic evaluation. Health Technol Assess (2002) 1.93
Mood disorders in the year after first stroke. Br J Psychiatry (1991) 1.93
Plasma lipids and lipoprotein cholesterol concentrations in people with different diets in Britain. Br Med J (Clin Res Ed) (1987) 1.91
Oral contraceptive use and abortion before first term pregnancy in relation to breast cancer risk. Br J Cancer (1982) 1.90
Dietary intake and plasma lipid levels: lessons from a study of the diet of health conscious groups. BMJ (1990) 1.88
Schizophrenia susceptibility alleles are enriched for alleles that affect gene expression in adult human brain. Mol Psychiatry (2011) 1.84
Mortality among women participating in the Oxford/Family Planning Association contraceptive study. Lancet (1977) 1.83
Overview of azathioprine treatment in multiple sclerosis. Lancet (1991) 1.83
Segmentally restricted, cephalic expression of a leucine zipper gene during Drosophila embryogenesis. Mech Dev (1991) 1.82
Plasmid vectors for selecting IS1-promoted deletions in cloned DNA: sequence analysis of the omega interposon. Gene (1991) 1.79
Safer discharge from intensive care to hospital wards. BMJ (2001) 1.79
The Northwick Park electroconvulsive therapy trial. Lancet (1981) 1.79
The "Help Your Patient Stop" initiative. Evaluation of smoking prevalence and dissemination of WHO/UICC guidelines in UK general practice. Lancet (1989) 1.79
Evaluation of peer intervention training for high school alcohol safety education. Accid Anal Prev (1986) 1.77
Protection of cattle against rinderpest with vaccinia virus recombinants expressing the HA or F gene. Science (1988) 1.76
Size constraints for targeting post-transcriptional gene silencing and for RNA-directed methylation in Nicotiana benthamiana using a potato virus X vector. Plant J (2001) 1.75
Oral contraceptives and breast cancer: final report of an epidemiological study. Br J Cancer (1983) 1.71
Respiratory syncytial virus G and/or SH protein alters Th1 cytokines, natural killer cells, and neutrophils responding to pulmonary infection in BALB/c mice. J Virol (1999) 1.71
Are measurements of height made by health visitors sufficiently accurate for routine screening of growth? Arch Dis Child (1990) 1.69