Medical or Surgical Treatment for Chronic Gastro-oesophageal Reflux? A Systematic Review of Published Evidence of Effectiveness

The number needed to treat: a clinically useful measure of treatment effect

1995 • 1,849 citations

Speed of healing and symptom relief in grade II to IV gastroesophageal reflux disease: A meta-analysis

1997 • 853 citations

Users' guides to the medical literature. II. How to use an article about therapy or prevention. A. Are the results of the study valid? Evidence-Based Medicine Working Group

1993 • 824 citations

Atrophic Gastritis andHelicobacter pyloriInfection in Patients with Reflux Esophagitis Treated with Omeprazole or Fundoplication

1996 • 786 citations

Comparison of Medical and Surgical Therapy for Complicated Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease in Veterans

1992 • 568 citations

Prevalence of Symptoms Suggestive of Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease in an Adult Population

1995 • 326 citations

Medical and Surgical Treatment of Nonallergic Asthma Associated with Gastroesophageal Reflux

1991 • 240 citations

Epidemiology of Reflux Disease and Reflux Esophagitis

1989 • 231 citations

Medical and Surgical Management of Reflux Esophagitis

1975 • 228 citations

Conservative treatment versus antireflux surgery in Barrett's oesophagus: Long-term results of a prospective study

1996 • 211 citations

Choice of long-term strategy for the management of patients with severe esophagitis: A cost-utility analysis

1997 • 156 citations

Confidence Interval Analysis

1990 • 127 citations

Epidemiology of gastro‐esophageal reflux disease

1992 • 103 citations

Cost Effectiveness of Medical versus Surgical Treatment in Patients with Severe or Refractory Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease in The Netherlands

1996 • 99 citations

Fortnightly review: Treatment of gastro-oesophageal reflux disease in adults

1998 • 75 citations

Severe peptic oesophagitis

1969 • 73 citations

Long-Term Comparison of Antireflux Surgery Versus Conservative Therapy for Reflux Esophagitis

1997 • 68 citations

Diseases of the Oesophagus

1952 • 41 citations

Maintenance Treatment with Ranitidine Compared with Fundoplication in Gastro-oesophageal Reflux Disease

1986 • 34 citations

A systematic review of the association between Barrett's esophagus and colon neoplasms.

1995 • 28 citations

Omeprazole (OME) or antireflux surgery (ARS) in the long term management of gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD): Results of a multicentre, randomised clinical trial

1998 • 20 citations

Prospective randomised trial of laparoscopic nissen fundoplication (LNF) versus maintenance proton pump inhibition (PPI) in the treatment of gastro-oesophageal reflux disease (GORD) in patients under 70 years old

2000 • 6 citations