Appraising the Quality of Medical Education Research Methods

The Measurement of Observer Agreement for Categorical Data

1977 • 70,424 citations

Critical evaluation of the Newcastle-Ottawa scale for the assessment of the quality of nonrandomized studies in meta-analyses

2010 • 13,515 citations

Multiple imputation for missing data in epidemiological and clinical research: potential and pitfalls

2009 • 5,914 citations

Randomized, Controlled Trials, Observational Studies, and the Hierarchy of Research Designs

2000 • 3,409 citations

Evaluating non-randomised intervention studies

2003 • 2,748 citations

Empirical evidence of bias in treatment effect estimates in controlled trials with different interventions and outcomes: meta-epidemiological study

2008 • 2,367 citations

A Comparison of Observational Studies and Randomized, Controlled Trials

2000 • 2,320 citations

Technology-Enhanced Simulation for Health Professions Education

2011 • 1,694 citations

Tools for assessing quality and susceptibility to bias in observational studies in epidemiology: a systematic review and annotated bibliography

2007 • 1,466 citations

Comparison of Evidence of Treatment Effects in Randomized and Nonrandomized Studies

2001 • 881 citations

Association Between Funding and Quality of Published Medical Education Research

2007 • 771 citations

Social Media Use in Medical Education

2013 • 582 citations

Comparative effectiveness of instructional design features in simulation-based education: Systematic review and meta-analysis

2012 • 570 citations

Instructional Design Variations in Internet-Based Learning for Health Professions Education: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

2010 • 514 citations

Teaching Empathy to Medical Students

2013 • 512 citations

Computerized Virtual Patients in Health Professions Education: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

2010 • 473 citations

Epidemiology and reporting of randomised trials published in PubMed journals

2005 • 459 citations

Quality of Reporting of Randomized Trials as a Measure of Methodologic Quality

2002 • 404 citations

Testing the Newcastle Ottawa Scale showed low reliability between individual reviewers

2013 • 352 citations

BEME Guide No. 1: Best Evidence Medical Education

1999 • 329 citations

Comparative Effectiveness of Technology-Enhanced Simulation Versus Other Instructional Methods

2012 • 300 citations

What counts as validity evidence? Examples and prevalence in a systematic review of simulation-based assessment

2013 • 278 citations

Quality of Reporting of Noninferiority and Equivalence Randomized Trials

2006 • 255 citations

Technology-Enhanced Simulation to Assess Health Professionals

2013 • 230 citations

Predictive Validity Evidence for Medical Education Research Study Quality Instrument Scores: Quality of Submissions to JGIM’s Medical Education Special Issue

2008 • 227 citations

The role of method in treatment effectiveness research: Evidence from meta-analysis.

2001 • 227 citations

Quality of reporting of experimental studies in medical education: a systematic review

2007 • 225 citations

A Systematic Review of the Methodological Rigor of Studies Evaluating Cultural Competence Training of Health Professionals

2005 • 201 citations

Pitfalls in the pursuit of objectivity: issues of validity, efficiency and acceptability

1991 • 169 citations

Conducting systematic reviews in medical education: a stepwise approach

2012 • 165 citations

A systematic review of the effects of residency training on patient outcomes

2012 • 160 citations

Use of Simulation-Based Education to Improve Outcomes of Central Venous Catheterization: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

2011 • 153 citations

Perspective

2012 • 144 citations

Systematic Review: Association of Shift Length, Protected Sleep Time, and Night Float With Patient Care, Residents' Health, and Education

2010 • 142 citations

Method and reporting quality in health professions education research: a systematic review

2011 • 128 citations

The Impact of Leadership Training Programs on Physicians in Academic Medical Centers

2013 • 125 citations

Patient Safety, Resident Education and Resident Well-Being Following Implementation of the 2003 ACGME Duty Hour Rules

2011 • 113 citations

Can the Accuracy of Abstracts Be Improved by Providing Specific Instructions?

1998 • 105 citations

Methodological Rigor of Quality Improvement Curricula for Physician Trainees: A Systematic Review and Recommendations for Change

2009 • 79 citations

A systematic review of educational interventions to change behaviour of prescribers in hospital settings, with a particular emphasis on new prescribers

2012 • 75 citations

A RIME Perspective on the Quality and Relevance of Current and Future Medical Education Research

2004 • 71 citations

Undergraduate Medical Education in Substance Abuse: A Review of the Quality of the Literature

2010 • 57 citations

A systematic review of titles and abstracts of experimental studies in medical education: many informative elements missing

2007 • 56 citations

An assessment of the methodologic quality of medical education research studies published in The American Journal of Surgery

2009 • 53 citations

Physical Examination Education in Graduate Medical Education—A Systematic Review of the Literature

2013 • 48 citations

A systematic review of the relationship between patient mix and learning in work-based clinical settings. A BEME systematic review: BEME Guide No. 24

2013 • 45 citations

Complementary and Alternative Medicine Education for Medical Profession: Systematic Review

2012 • 39 citations

Proposed Standards for Medical Education Submissions to the Journal of General Internal Medicine

2008 • 29 citations

Methodological Quality and Scientific Impact of Quantitative Nursing Education Research Over 18 Months

2011 • 21 citations

Methodological Quality of Quantitative Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Nursing Research From 2000 to 2010

2012 • 9 citations

Update in Internal Medicine Residency Education: A Review of the Literature in 2010 and 2011

2013 • 6 citations

Comparison of Methodologic Quality and Study/Report Characteristics Between Quantitative Clinical Nursing and Nursing Education Research Articles

2013 • 5 citations