Title	Publication Date	Language	Citations
Correlation of cholinergic abnormalities with senile plaques and mental test scores in senile dementia.	1978/11/25	English	1,286
Association of systolic blood pressure with macrovascular and microvascular complications of type 2 diabetes (UKPDS 36): prospective observational study	2000/08/12		1,284
Reduction of postoperative mortality and morbidity with epidural or spinal anaesthesia: results from overview of randomised	2000/12/16		1,278
Community study of role of viral infections in exacerbations of asthma in 9-11 year old children	1995/05/13	English	1,264
Complexity science: The challenge of complexity in health care	2001/09/15	English	1,255
Homocysteine and cardiovascular disease: evidence on causality from a meta-analysis	2002/11/23		1,245
Continuity of care: a multidisciplinary review	2003/11/22	English	1,227
Effect of antibiotic prescribing in primary care on antimicrobial resistance in individual patients: systematic review and meta-analysis	2010/05/18	English	1,221
Confidence intervals rather than P values: estimation rather than hypothesis testing.	1986/03/15	English	1,216
Pharmaceutical industry sponsorship and research outcome and quality: systematic review	2003/05/29		1,213
Statistics Notes: Diagnostic tests 1: sensitivity and specificity	1994/06/11	English	1,208
How should we define health?	2011/07/26	English	1,188
Abdominal adipose tissue distribution, obesity, and risk of cardiovascular disease and death: 13 year follow up of participants in the study of men born in 1913.	1984/05/12	English	1,182
Increasing response rates to postal questionnaires: systematic review	2002/05/18		1,181
Effectiveness and efficiency of search methods in systematic reviews of complex evidence: audit of primary sources	2005/10/17	English	1,171
The number needed to treat: a clinically useful measure of treatment effect	1995/02/18	English	1,139
MRC trial of treatment of mild hypertension: principal results. Medical Research Council Working Party.	1985/07/13	English	1,137
How do consumers search for and appraise health information on the world wide web? Qualitative study using focus groups, usability tests, and in-depth interviews	2002/03/09		1,135
Simultaneous comparison of multiple treatments: combining direct and indirect evidence	2005/10/13	English	1,132
Patient safety, satisfaction, and quality of hospital care: cross sectional surveys of nurses and patients in 12 countries in Europe and the United States	2012/03/20	English	1,132
Guidelines for authors and peer reviewers of economic submissions to the BMJ	1996/08/03	English	1,125
Improving the reporting of pragmatic trials: an extension of the CONSORT statement	2008/12/30	English	1,119
Quantifying effect of statins on low density lipoprotein cholesterol, ischaemic heart disease, and stroke: systematic review and meta-analysis	2003/06/26	English	1,110
Fetal and placental size and risk of hypertension in adult life.	1990/08/04	English	1,100
Short form 36 (SF36) health survey questionnaire: normative data for adults of working age.	1993/05/29	English	1,091
Adverse events in British hospitals: preliminary retrospective record review	2001/03/03		1,091
Association between postnatal catch-up growth and obesity in childhood: prospective cohort study	2000/04/08		1,090
Statistics notes: Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence	1995/08/19	English	1,085
The case of the misleading funnel plot	2006/09/14	English	1,072
A new system for grading recommendations in evidence based guidelines	2001/08/11	English	1,072