Users' Guides to the Medical Literature

Meta-Analytic Procedures for Social Research.

1994 • 4,403 citations

Meta-analysis in social research

1982 • 3,988 citations

Beta blockade during and after myocardial infarction: An overview of the randomized trials

1985 • 3,248 citations

Publication bias in clinical research

1991 • 3,034 citations

Users' Guides to the Medical Literature

1994 • 2,131 citations

Users' guides to the medical literature. III. How to use an article about a diagnostic test. B. What are the results and will they help me in caring for my patients? The Evidence-Based Medicine Working Group

1994 • 1,852 citations

An Assessment of Clinically Useful Measures of the Consequences of Treatment

1988 • 1,650 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-Analyses of Randomized Controlled Trials

1987 • 1,278 citations

Meta-Analysis in Clinical Research

1987 • 1,269 citations

By how much and how quickly does reduction in serum cholesterol concentration lower risk of ischaemic heart disease?

1994 • 1,235 citations

Lowering cholesterol concentrations and mortality: a quantitative review of primary prevention trials.

1990 • 971 citations

Analysis and Interpretation of Treatment Effects in Subgroups of Patients in Randomized Clinical Trials

1991 • 954 citations

A Consumer's Guide to Subgroup Analyses

1992 • 910 citations

Bias in Treatment Assignment in Controlled Clinical Trials

1983 • 889 citations

The Medical Review Article: State of the Science

1987 • 859 citations

Factors Influencing Publication of Research Results

1992 • 838 citations

Publication Bias: A Problem in Interpreting Medical Data

1988 • 773 citations

Users' Guides to the Medical Literature

1994 • 705 citations

Incorporating variations in the quality of individual randomized trials into meta-analysis

1992 • 649 citations

Users' guides to the medical literature. II. How to use an article about therapy or prevention. B. What were the results and will they help me in caring for my patients? Evidence-Based Medicine Working Group

1994 • 594 citations

Users' guides to the medical literature. I. How to get started. The Evidence-Based Medicine Working Group

1993 • 569 citations

Guidelines for reading literature reviews.

1988 • 499 citations

Cholesterol lowering and mortality: the importance of considering initial level of risk.

1993 • 431 citations

Why do we need systematic overviews of randomized trials? (Transcript of an oral presentation, modified by the editors)

1987 • 404 citations

Should there be a moratorium on the use of cholesterol lowering drugs?

1992 • 345 citations

Should unpublished data be included in meta-analyses? Current convictions and controversies

1993 • 335 citations

Cholesterol lowering trials in coronary heart disease: frequency of citation and outcome.

1992 • 319 citations

Assessing possible hazards of reducing serum cholesterol

1994 • 316 citations

Medical Uses of Statistics.

1989 • 305 citations

NIH clinical trials and publication bias.

1993 • 289 citations

Respiratory Muscle Training in Chronic Airflow Limitation: A Meta-Analysis

1992 • 281 citations

Statistical versus traditional procedures for summarizing research findings.

1980 • 264 citations

Reference bias in reports of drug trials.

1987 • 224 citations

Meta‐analysis of clinical trials as a scientific discipline. II: Replicate variability and comparison of studies that agree and disagree

1987 • 124 citations

Complexity and contradiction in clinical trial research

1987 • 117 citations

Medicines for the year 2000

1979 • 83 citations

The benefits of reducing cholesterol levels: the need to distinguish primary from secondary prevention: 1. A meta‐analysis of cholesterol‐lowering trials

1991 • 26 citations