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Evidence for the effectiveness of CME. A review of 50 randomized controlled trials. JAMA (1992) 20.08
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Increased absenteeism from work after detection and labeling of hypertensive patients. N Engl J Med (1978) 9.29
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More informative abstracts of articles describing clinical practice guidelines. Ann Intern Med (1993) 6.54
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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
Evaluation of SAPHIRE: an automated approach to indexing and retrieving medical literature. Proc Annu Symp Comput Appl Med Care (1991) 4.59
Practitioners of evidence based care. Not all clinicians need to appraise evidence from scratch but all need some skills. BMJ (2000) 4.41
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Designing medical informatics research and library--resource projects to increase what is learned. J Am Med Inform Assoc (1995) 3.74
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
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
Planning for the information age: a survey of microcomputer use in a faculty of health sciences. CMAJ (1987) 3.24
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The rational clinical examination. Is this patient taking the treatment as prescribed? JAMA (1993) 2.23
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