Epidemiology and Reporting Characteristics of Systematic Reviews

The CONSORT statement: revised recommendations for improving the quality of reports of parallel-group randomised trials

2001 • 5,358 citations

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

1999 • 4,736 citations

The CONSORT statement: revised recommendations for improving the quality of reports of parallel group randomized trials

2001 • 2,497 citations

Pharmaceutical industry sponsorship and research outcome and quality: systematic review

2003 • 2,099 citations

Publication Bias in Meta‐Analysis

2005 • 2,063 citations

Empirical Evidence for Selective Reporting of Outcomes in Randomized Trials

2004 • 1,728 citations

The CONSORT Statement: Revised Recommendations for Improving the Quality of Reports of Parallel-Group Randomized Trials

2001 • 1,432 citations

Evaluation of the Quality of Prognosis Studies in Systematic Reviews

2006 • 1,355 citations

Meta-Analyses of Randomized Controlled Trials

1987 • 1,278 citations

Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors in childhood depression: systematic review of published versus unpublished data

2004 • 1,074 citations

The Medical Review Article: State of the Science

1987 • 859 citations

Does the CONSORT checklist improve the quality of reports of randomised controlled trials? A systematic review

2006 • 813 citations

Publication bias: the case for an international registry of clinical trials.

1986 • 750 citations

Epidemiology and reporting of randomised trials published in PubMed journals

2005 • 459 citations

Outcome reporting bias in randomized trials funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research

2004 • 441 citations

Optimal search strategies for retrieving systematic reviews from Medline: analytical survey

2004 • 410 citations

Systematic reviews and meta-analyses on treatment of asthma: critical evaluation

2000 • 262 citations

Assessment of methodological quality of primary studies by systematic reviews: results of the metaquality cross sectional study

2005 • 238 citations

Meta-analyses to evaluate analgesic interventions: A systematic qualitative review of their methodology

1996 • 214 citations

Meta-Analyses in Orthopaedic Surgery

2001 • 195 citations

Putting clinical trials into context

2005 • 183 citations

Publishing Protocols of Systematic Reviews

2002 • 162 citations

The Medical Review Article Revisited: Has the Science Improved?

1999 • 150 citations

A systematic evaluation of the quality of meta-analyses in the critical care literature.

2005 • 140 citations

The assessment of systematic reviews in dentistry

2003 • 122 citations

How to report randomized controlled trials. The CONSORT statement

1996 • 114 citations

Systematic reviews: when is an update an update?

2006 • 110 citations

A Comparison of the Quality of Cochrane Reviews and Systematic Reviews Published in Paper-Based Journals

2002 • 109 citations

A systematic review finds that diagnostic reviews fail to incorporate quality despite available tools

2005 • 79 citations

THE TYPICAL COCHRANE REVIEW

2002 • 50 citations

Reports of Large Immunosuppression Trials in Kidney Transplantation: Room for Improvement

2004 • 32 citations