Practice Guidelines, a New Reality in Medicine

Clinical Epidemiology: A Basic Science for Clinical Medicine.

1991 • 3,572 citations

Consensus methods: characteristics and guidelines for use.

1984 • 1,903 citations

Clinical Epidemiology: The Essentials.

1991 • 1,854 citations

Clinical decision analysis

2005 • 1,645 citations

Clinical practice guidelines : directions for a new program

1990 • 1,386 citations

A method for assessing the quality of a randomized control trial

1981 • 1,370 citations

Rules of Evidence and Clinical Recommendations on the Use of Antithrombotic Agents

1989 • 1,348 citations

Meta-Analyses of Randomized Controlled Trials

1987 • 1,278 citations

Do Practice Guidelines Guide Practice?

1989 • 1,256 citations

Utilities and Quality-Adjusted Life Years

1989 • 830 citations

Clinical Economics

1989 • 701 citations

Guide to Clinical Preventive Services: An Assessment of the Effectiveness of 169 Interventions

1990 • 541 citations

The Periodic Health Examination

1934 • 495 citations

Effects of the National Institutes of Health Consensus Development Program on Physician Practice

1987 • 410 citations

Physician ratings of appropriate indications for six medical and surgical procedures.

1986 • 392 citations

Medical Practice Guidelines: Current Activities and Future Directions

1990 • 364 citations

Practice Guidelines: A New Reality in Medicine

1990 • 300 citations

Assessing the clinical effectiveness of preventive maneuvers: Analytic principles and systematic methods in reviewing evidence and developing clinical practice recommendations A report by the Canadian task force on the periodic health examination

1990 • 266 citations

Meta-analysis. A quantitative approach to research integration

1988 • 242 citations

A manual for assessing health practices & designing practice policies : the explicit approach

1992 • 231 citations

Practice policies: where do they come from?

1990 • 199 citations

Links between passive smoking and disease: a best-evidence synthesis. A report of the Working Group on Passive Smoking.

1990 • 135 citations

Practice Policies—Guidelines for Methods

1990 • 134 citations

The Clinical Efficacy Assessment Project of the American Collegeof Physicians

1985 • 114 citations

Comparing benefits and harms: the balance sheet

1990 • 113 citations

Guidelines for Policy Statements: the Explicit Approach

1990 • 112 citations

A Bayesian Method for Synthesizing Evidence: The Confidence Profile Method

1990 • 103 citations

Common Diagnostic Tests: Use and Interpretation.

1991 • 83 citations

Clinical Practice Guidelines at an HMO: Development and Implementation in a Quality Improvement Model

1990 • 72 citations

Obtaining medically meaningful answers from an overview of randomized clinical trials

1987 • 55 citations

Algorithm based improvement of clinical quality.

1990 • 48 citations

Problems in the medical interpretation of overviews

1987 • 47 citations

Information synthesis: a practical guide.

1986 • 42 citations

Clinical decision making: from theory to practice. What do we do about costs?

1990 • 37 citations

Improving Consensus Development for Health Technology Assessment

1990 • 27 citations

National Priorities for the Assessment of Clinical Conditions and Medical Technologies

1990 • 24 citations

The Expert Panel on Preventive Services: Continuing the Work of the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force

1991 • 20 citations

Research Methods for Obtaining Primary Evidence

1989 • 19 citations

Selection and Evaluation of Empirical Research in Technology Assessment

1989 • 19 citations