Role of Systematic Reviews and Meta‐analysis in Evidence‐based Medicine

Measuring inconsistency in meta-analyses

2003 • 53,662 citations

Bias in meta-analysis detected by a simple, graphical test

1997 • 47,526 citations

Evidence based medicine: what it is and what it isn't

1996 • 14,837 citations

Improving the quality of reports of meta-analyses of randomised controlled trials: the QUOROM statement

1999 • 4,736 citations

Does quality of reports of randomised trials affect estimates of intervention efficacy reported in meta-analyses?

1998 • 3,578 citations

Systematic reviews in health care: Assessing the quality of controlled clinical trials

2001 • 3,272 citations

The Hazards of Scoring the Quality of Clinical Trials for Meta-analysis

1999 • 1,977 citations

Empirical Evidence of Design-Related Bias in Studies of Diagnostic Tests

1999 • 1,799 citations

Systematic Reviews in Health Care

2001 • 1,637 citations

A Comparison of Results of Meta-analyses of Randomized Control Trials and Recommendations of Clinical Experts

1992 • 1,451 citations

The Existence of Publication Bias and Risk Factors for Its Occurrence

1990 • 1,335 citations

Meta-Analysis in Clinical Research

1987 • 1,269 citations

Discrepancies between Meta-Analyses and Subsequent Large Randomized, Controlled Trials

1997 • 1,207 citations

Language bias in randomised controlled trials published in English and German

1997 • 1,002 citations

Systematic Review: Why sources of heterogeneity in meta-analysis should be investigated

1994 • 947 citations

Validity of indirect comparison for estimating efficacy of competing interventions: empirical evidence from published meta-analyses

2003 • 935 citations

Laparoscopic versus open surgery for suspected appendicitis

2018 • 925 citations

Does the inclusion of grey literature influence estimates of intervention effectiveness reported in meta-analyses?

2000 • 767 citations

Meta-analysis of the literature or of individual patient data: is there a difference?

1993 • 752 citations

Laparoscopic techniques versus open techniques for inguinal hernia repair

2003 • 741 citations

The Cochrane Collaboration

1995 • 698 citations

Summing up evidence: one answer is not always enough

1998 • 671 citations

The Need for Evidence-Based Medicine

1995 • 629 citations

Issues in the selection of a summary statistic for meta‐analysis of clinical trials with binary outcomes

2002 • 622 citations

The Cochrane Collaboration: Preparing, Maintaining, and Disseminating Systematic Reviews of the Effects of Health Care

1993 • 548 citations

Methodology and Reports of Systematic Reviews and Meta-analyses

1998 • 535 citations

Why Review Articles on the Health Effects of Passive Smoking Reach Different Conclusions

1998 • 433 citations

The Cochrane Collaboration. Preparing, maintaining, and disseminating systematic reviews of the effects of health care

1995 • 381 citations

Factors Associated With Failure to Publish Large Randomized Trials Presented at an Oncology Meeting

2003 • 302 citations

Investigating causes of heterogeneity in systematic reviews

2002 • 195 citations

Laparoscopic versus open surgery for suspected appendicitis

2002 • 97 citations

Systematic Reviews to Support Evidence-based Medicine

2003 • 45 citations

Chirurgisch-klinische Studien in der praktischen Durchführung

2000 • 26 citations

How relevant are the systematic reviews in the cochrane library to emergency medical practice?

2002 • 23 citations

Survey of the Impact of Randomised Clinical Trials on Surgical Practice in France

1999 • 21 citations

Consensus conferences must include a systematic search and categorization of the evidence

2000 • 12 citations

Systematically Reviewing Previous Work

1998 • 9 citations

[The practice of evidence-based medicine in surgery--evidence and experience].

2003 • 8 citations