Evaluating the quality of systematic reviews in the emergency medicine literature

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

1999 • 4,736 citations

Does quality of reports of randomised trials affect estimates of intervention efficacy reported in meta-analyses?

1998 • 3,578 citations

Cardiac arrest and resuscitation: A tale of 29 cities

1990 • 916 citations

Users' Guides to the Medical Literature

1995 • 816 citations

Validation of an index of the quality of review articles

1991 • 794 citations

Users' Guides to the Medical Literature

1994 • 776 citations

Guidelines for Meta-analyses Evaluating Diagnostic Tests

1994 • 774 citations

Users' guides to the medical literature. IX. A method for grading health care recommendations. Evidence-Based Medicine Working Group

1995 • 601 citations

Methodology and Reports of Systematic Reviews and Meta-analyses

1998 • 535 citations

Guidelines for reading literature reviews.

1988 • 499 citations

Practice guideline for the management of infants and children 0 to 36 months of age with fever without source

1993 • 448 citations

Agreement among reviewers of review articles

1991 • 288 citations

Strengths and limitations of meta-analysis: Larger studies may be more reliable

1997 • 229 citations

Minimizing the Three Stages of Publication Bias

1990 • 215 citations

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

1996 • 214 citations

Effectiveness of steroid therapy in acute exacerbations of asthma: A meta-analysis

1992 • 213 citations

Antibiotics to prevent infection in pateints with dog bite wounds: A meta-analysis of randomized trials

1994 • 197 citations

Incidence of cardiac arrest: A neglected factor in evaluating survival rates

1993 • 180 citations

Cocaine-induced myocardial infarction: An analysis and review of the literature

1992 • 178 citations

Locating and Appraising Systematic Reviews

1997 • 166 citations

Effectiveness of Emergency Medical Services for Victims of Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest: A Metaanalysis

1996 • 161 citations

Effect of Out-of-Hospital Defibrillation by Basic Life Support Providers on Cardiac Arrest Mortality: A Metaanalysis

1995 • 151 citations

A meta-analysis of blunt cardiac trauma: Ending myocardial confusion

1996 • 130 citations

Ultrasonography to Evaluate Adults for Appendicitis: Decision Making Based on Meta‐analysis and Probabilistic Reasoning

1995 • 118 citations

Antibiotics to prevent infection of simple wounds: A meta-analysis of randomized studies

1995 • 114 citations

Steroids for the treatment of corrosive esophageal injury: A statistical analysis of past studies

1992 • 111 citations

Life Support Courses: Are They Effective?

1996 • 91 citations

Ultrasonography for the Initial Evaluation of Blunt Abdominal Trauma: A Review of Prospective Trials

1996 • 81 citations

Lidocaine in the Treatment of Status Epilepticus

1997 • 53 citations

10. Meta‐analysis: Part 2: assessing the quality of published meta‐analyses

1992 • 48 citations

Efficacy of Ipratropium Bromide in Acute Childhood Asthma: A Meta‐analysis

1995 • 45 citations

Defibrillation by Basic Emergency Medical Technicians: Effect on Survival

1995 • 43 citations

The Use of Antibiotics to Prevent Serious Sequelae in Children at Risk for Occult Bacteremia: A Meta‐analysis

1997 • 39 citations

A pooled analysis of the Ottawa ankle rules used on adults in the ED

1998 • 34 citations

Parenteral vs Oral Antibiotics in the Prevention of Serious Bacterial Infections in Children with Streptococcus pneumoniae Occult Bacteremia: A Meta‐analysis

1998 • 33 citations

Meta-analysis. Part 1: An assessment of its aims, validity and reliability.

1992 • 25 citations

The Cochrane Library: A Resource for Clinical Problem Solving in Emergency Medicine

1999 • 21 citations

Physicochemical characteristics of drugs and response to repeat-dose activated charcoal

1992 • 18 citations

Injury Prevention: Is There a Role for Out‐of‐hospital Emergency Medical Services?

1997 • 18 citations

Epinephrine in cardiopulmonary resuscitation

1991 • 13 citations

Understanding and Evaluating a Meta‐analysis

1994 • 12 citations

The cost of alternative models of care for primary care patients attending accident and emergency departments: a systematic review.

1998 • 11 citations

The Evolution of Abdominal Compression in Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation

1994 • 11 citations

Systematic Reviews A Logical Methodological Extension of Evidence‐based Medicine

1999 • 10 citations

The use and misuse of meta-analysis.

1996 • 9 citations

Possible Reasons for the Variability of Human Responses to IAC‐CPR

1994 • 8 citations

Thrombolysis after acute myocardial infarction.

1997 • 7 citations

Adjunctive dexamethasone therapy for pediatric bacterial meningitis

1996 • 5 citations

Effect of age on myocardial infarction and thrombolysis

1995 • 2 citations