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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
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Planning for the information age: a survey of microcomputer use in a faculty of health sciences. CMAJ (1987) 3.24
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A candidate gene approach to searching for low-penetrance breast and prostate cancer genes. Nat Rev Cancer (2005) 2.62
How was your hospital stay? Patients' reports about their care in Canadian hospitals. CMAJ (1994) 2.48
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Local opinion leaders: effects on professional practice and health care outcomes. Cochrane Database Syst Rev (2000) 2.33
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The rational clinical examination. Is this patient taking the treatment as prescribed? JAMA (1993) 2.23
Assessment of methodologic search filters in MEDLINE. Proc Annu Symp Comput Appl Med Care (1993) 2.19
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PREOP: development of an evidence-based expert system to assist with preoperative assessments. Proc Annu Symp Comput Appl Med Care (1991) 1.30
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The Cochrane Collaboration--advances and challenges in improving evidence-based decision making. Med Decis Making (1998) 1.23
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Multicenter randomized trial of a comprehensive prepared meal program in type 2 diabetes. Diabetes Care (1999) 1.12
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Postdysenteric reactive arthritis. A clinical and immunogenetic study following an outbreak of salmonellosis. Arthritis Rheum (1988) 1.09
Cost-effectiveness of a worksite hypertension treatment program. Hypertension (1981) 1.08
A critical review of compliance studies in rheumatoid arthritis. Arthritis Rheum (1984) 1.07
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Failure of weight reduction to reduce mildly elevated blood pressure: a randomized trial. J Hypertens (1984) 1.07
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