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Do Practice Guidelines Guide Practice?

1989 • 1,256 citations

Evidence for the Effectiveness of CME

1992 • 1,035 citations

Reminders to Physicians from an Introspective Computer Medical Record

1984 • 640 citations

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1987 • 410 citations

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1991 • 338 citations

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1984 • 313 citations

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1992 • 289 citations

Improving Physician Compliance With Preventive Medicine Guidelines

1982 • 268 citations

Improving Drug Prescribing in Primary Care: A Critical Analysis of the Experimental Literature

1989 • 260 citations

A Randomized Trial of a Family Physician Intervention for Smoking Cessation

1988 • 241 citations

A taxonomy and critical review of tested strategies for the application of clinical practice recommendations: from "official" to "individual" clinical policy.

1988 • 223 citations

Training Physicians in Counseling about Smoking Cessation

1989 • 206 citations

Encouraging Primary Care Physicians To Help Smokers Quit

1989 • 163 citations

Counseling medical and dental patients about cigarette smoking: the impact of nicotine gum and chart reminders.

1987 • 148 citations

A Computer-Based Monitoring System for Follow-Up of Elevated Blood Pressure

1983 • 148 citations

Evidence for the effectiveness of CME. A review of 50 randomized controlled trials

1992 • 142 citations

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1978 • 88 citations

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1986 • 86 citations

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1980 • 33 citations

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