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A Diarylquinoline Drug Active on the ATP Synthase of Mycobacterium tuberculosis
2004 StandoutScience
Assessing the consistency assumption by exploring treatment by covariate interactions in mixed treatment comparison meta‐analysis: individual patient‐level covariates versus aggregate trial‐level covariates
2012
Percutaneous coronary interventions for non-acute coronary artery disease: a quantitative 20-year synopsis and a network meta-analysis
2009
Venous thromboembolism and bleeding in critically ill patients with severe renal insufficiency receiving dalteparin thromboprophylaxis: prevalence, incidence and risk factors
2008
Combination of direct and indirect evidence in mixed treatment comparisons
2004 Standout
Sample size and power considerations in network meta-analysis
2012
Bleeding during critical illness: A prospective cohort study using a new measurement tool
2007
Use of Indirect and Mixed Treatment Comparisons for Technology Assessment
2008
Preferred reporting items for systematic reviews and meta-analyses: the PRISMA statement
2009 Standout
Simultaneous comparison of multiple treatments: combining direct and indirect evidence
2005
Determining Clinically Important Differences in Health Status Measures
1999
Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses: The PRISMA Statement
2009 Standout
Determining a minimal important change in a disease-specific quality of life questionnaire
1994 Standout
Quality of life and utility in irradiated laryngeal cancer patients
2000
Early Goal-Directed Therapy in the Treatment of Severe Sepsis and Septic Shock
2001 Standout
Measurement of fatiguedetermining minimally important clinical differences
2002
Interpreting Change Scores for Pain and Functional Status in Low Back Pain
2008 Standout
Treatment of chronic rhinitis by an allergy specialist improves quality of life outcomes
1999
High Prevalence of Vitamin D Inadequacy and Implications for Health
2006 Standout
Effectiveness of antibiotic prophylaxis in critically ill adult patients: systematic review of randomised controlled trials
1998
Relationship Between Methodological Trial Quality and the Effects of Selective Digestive Decontamination on Pneumonia and Mortality in Critically Ill Patients
2001
Impact of allocation concealment on conclusions drawn from meta-analyses of randomized trials
2007
Prophylaxis Against Deep Vein Thrombosis in Critically Ill Patients With Severe Renal Insufficiency With the Low-Molecular-Weight Heparin Dalteparin<subtitle>An Assessment of Safety and Pharmacodynamics: The DIRECT Study</subtitle>
2008
Consolidated criteria for reporting qualitative research (COREQ): a 32-item checklist for interviews and focus groups
2007 Standout
Prophylaxis of Pneumocystis Pneumonia in Immunocompromised Non-HIV-Infected Patients: Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials
2007
The Prevention of Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia
1999
Gefitinib or Carboplatin–Paclitaxel in Pulmonary Adenocarcinoma
2009 Standout
Asthma exacerbations and sputum eosinophil counts: a randomised controlled trial
2002
Measurement Properties and Interpretability of the Chronic Respiratory Disease Questionnaire (CRQ)
2005
The Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome
2000 Standout
Mixed treatment comparison analysis provides internally coherent treatment effect estimates based on overviews of reviews and can reveal inconsistency
2010
Adjusted indirect comparison may be less biased than direct comparison for evaluating new pharmaceutical interventions
2007
A Multicenter, Randomized, Controlled Clinical Trial of Transfusion Requirements in Critical Care
1999 Standout
A graphical tool for locating inconsistency in network meta-analyses
2013
The Seventh Report of the Joint National Committee on Prevention, Detection, Evaluation, and Treatment of High Blood Pressure<SUBTITLE>The JNC 7 Report</SUBTITLE>
2003 Standout
Characteristics of Networks of Interventions: A Description of a Database of 186 Published Networks
2014
Interpreting Indirect Treatment Comparisons and Network Meta-Analysis for Health-Care Decision Making: Report of the ISPOR Task Force on Indirect Treatment Comparisons Good Research Practices: Part 1
2011
SPIRIT 2013 explanation and elaboration: guidance for protocols of clinical trials
2013 Standout
Explaining heterogeneity in meta-analysis: a comparison of methods
1999
Results of a Home-Based Environmental Intervention among Urban Children with Asthma
2004 Standout
Interpretation of Changes in Health-related Quality of Life
2003 Standout
A systematic evaluation of the quality of meta-analyses in the critical care literature
2005
A case study of multiple-treatments meta-analysis demonstrates that covariates should be considered
2009
An Economic Evaluation of Activated Protein C Treatment for Severe Sepsis
2002
Dosing Frequency of Unfractionated Heparin Thromboprophylaxis
2011
Vitamin D Deficiency
2007 Standout
Mepolizumab and Exacerbations of Refractory Eosinophilic Asthma
2009 Standout
Using the standard error of measurement to identify important changes on the Asthma Quality of Life Questionnaire
2002
Relation of Distribution- and Anchor-Based Approaches in Interpretation of Changes in Health-Related Quality of Life
2001
The costs of asthma
1996
Racism as a Determinant of Health: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
2015 Standout
Maternal and child undernutrition and overweight in low-income and middle-income countries
2013 Standout
Development of the asthma control test
2004 Standout
Early Palliative Care for Patients with Metastatic Non–Small-Cell Lung Cancer
2010 Standout
The Oswestry Disability Index
2000 Standout
The pediatric cancer quality of life inventory-32 (PCQL-32)
1998
Is a subgroup effect believable? Updating criteria to evaluate the credibility of subgroup analyses
2010
Prevention of VTE in Nonsurgical Patients
2012 Standout
Influence of Airway Management on Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia
1998
Impact of appropriateness of initial antibiotic therapy on the outcome of ventilator-associated pneumonia
2000
The PedsQL™: Measurement Model for the Pediatric Quality of Life Inventory
1999 Standout
Checking consistency in mixed treatment comparison meta‐analysis
2010 Standout
Development and validation of a questionnaire to measure asthma control
1999 Standout
Long term hormone therapy for perimenopausal and postmenopausal women
2005
2007 Guidelines for the Management of Arterial Hypertension
2007 Standout
Treatment of postmenopausal osteoporosis
2002
Corticosteroid treatment for sepsis
1995
How to Use an Article Reporting a Multiple Treatment Comparison Meta-analysis
2012
Value of low dose combination treatment with blood pressure lowering drugs: analysis of 354 randomised trials
2003
Effect of Omalizumab on Symptoms of Seasonal Allergic Rhinitis<SUBTITLE>A Randomized Controlled Trial</SUBTITLE>
2001
Graphical Tools for Network Meta-Analysis in STATA
2013 Standout
Lifestyle interventions to reduce raised blood pressure: a systematic review of randomized controlled trials
2006
A Comparative Analysis of Patients With Early-Onset vs Late-Onset Nosocomial Pneumonia in the ICU Setting
2000
The impact of clinically significant upper gastrointestinal bleeding acquired in a pediatric intensive care unit
2001
The development of allergic inflammation
2008 StandoutNature
What is a clinically meaningful change on the Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy–Lung (FACT-L) Questionnaire?Results from Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) Study 5592
2002
Is network meta-analysis as valid as standard pairwise meta-analysis? It all depends on the distribution of effect modifiers
2013
Mortality rate attributable to ventilator-associated nosocomial pneumonia in an adult intensive care unit: A prospective case-control study
2001
Methodological problems in the use of indirect comparisons for evaluating healthcare interventions: survey of published systematic reviews
2009
How Valuable are Multiple Treatment Comparison Methods in Evidence-Based Health-Care Evaluation?
2011
PedsQL™ 4.0: Reliability and Validity of the Pediatric Quality of Life Inventory™ Version 4.0 Generic Core Scales in Healthy and Patient Populations
2001 Standout
The effect of acidified enteral feeds on gastric colonization in critically ill patients: Results of a multicenter randomized trial
1999
Dalteparin thromboprophylaxis for critically ill medical-surgical patients with renal insufficiency
2005
Primary Prevention of Hypertension<SUBTITLE>Clinical and Public Health Advisory From the National High Blood Pressure Education Program</SUBTITLE>
2002
Bleeding and pneumonia in intensive care patients given ranitidine and sucralfate for prevention of stress ulcer: meta-analysis of randomised controlled
2000
Malignant Gliomas in Adults
2008 Standout
Clinical importance of changes in chronic pain intensity measured on an 11-point numerical pain rating scale
2001 Standout
Methods to Explain the Clinical Significance of Health Status Measures
2002
Selective digestive decontamination in patients in intensive care
2000
The Clinical Utility of Invasive Diagnostic Techniques in the Setting of Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia
1999
Prevention of Venous Thromboembolism
2004 Standout
Prevention of coronary and stroke events with atorvastatin in hypertensive patients who have average or lower-than-average cholesterol concentrations, in the Anglo-Scandinavian Cardiac Outcomes Trial—Lipid Lowering Arm (ASCOT-LLA): a multicentre randomised controlled trial
2003 Standout
Mortality of nosocomial pneumonia in ventilated patients: influence of diagnostic tools.
1996
Indirect Comparisons: A Review of Reporting and Methodological Quality
2010
Comparative efficacy and acceptability of 12 new-generation antidepressants: a multiple-treatments meta-analysis
2009 Standout
Accuracy of delayed cultures of plugged telescoping catheter samples for diagnosing bacterial pneumonia
2001
Development, Validation, and Evaluation of a Pediatric Ulcerative Colitis Activity Index: A Prospective Multicenter Study
2007 Standout
Indirect Treatment Comparison/Network Meta-Analysis Study Questionnaire to Assess Relevance and Credibility to Inform Health Care Decision Making: An ISPOR-AMCP-NPC Good Practice Task Force Report
2014
Preferred reporting items for systematic review and meta-analysis protocols (PRISMA-P) 2015 statement
2015 Standout
Multiple Organ Dysfunction Score
1995 Standout
Controversies on diagnosis and prevention of ventilator-associated pneumonia
1999
Clinimetric and Psychometric Strategies for Development of a Health Measurement Scale
1999
Conducting Indirect-Treatment-Comparison and Network-Meta-Analysis Studies: Report of the ISPOR Task Force on Indirect Treatment Comparisons Good Research Practices: Part 2
2011
Quality of life in patients with endoscopy-negative heartburn: reliability and sensitivity of disease-specific instruments
2001
Sipuleucel-T Immunotherapy for Castration-Resistant Prostate Cancer
2010 Standout
Mepolizumab for severe eosinophilic asthma (DREAM): a multicentre, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial
2012 Standout
Prevention of Venous Thromboembolism
2008 Standout
The Pathophysiology and Treatment of Sepsis
2003 Standout
The effects of excluding treatments from network meta-analyses: survey
2013
Anticoagulant prophylaxis to prevent asymptomatic deep vein thrombosis in hospitalized medical patients: a systematic review and meta-analysis
2008
Current Guidelines on Stress Ulcer Prophylaxis
1997
Supine body position as a risk factor for nosocomial pneumonia in mechanically ventilated patients: a randomised trial
1999 Standout
The Quality of Reporting Methods and Results in Network Meta-Analyses: An Overview of Reviews and Suggestions for Improvement
2014
Code Status Documentation in the Outpatient Electronic Medical Records of Patients with Metastatic Cancer
2009
Effects of statins on stroke prevention in patients with and without coronary heart disease: A meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials
2004
Multicenter Prospective Study of Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia During Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome
2000
Determining asthma treatment by monitoring sputum cell counts: effect on exacerbations
2006
Venous thromboembolism in critical illness in a community intensive care unit
2007
A meta-analysis of milk intake and fracture risk: low utility for case finding
2004
Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses: The PRISMA Statement
2009 Standout
Anticoagulation for thrombosis prophylaxis in cancer patients with central venous catheters
2007
How Should Importance and Severity Ratings Be Combined for Item Reduction in the Development of Health Status Instruments?
1999
Interpreting thresholds for a clinically significant change in health status in asthma and COPD
2002
Quantifying heterogeneity in a meta‐analysis
2002 Standout
Validity of indirect comparison for estimating efficacy of competing interventions: empirical evidence from published meta-analyses
2003
Antibiotic prophylaxis to reduce respiratory tract infections and mortality in adults receiving intensive care
2004
Prevention of falls and consequent injuries in elderly people
2005 Standout
Methodology for the Development of Antithrombotic Therapy and Prevention of Thrombosis Guidelines
2012
Cochrane reviews compared with industry supported meta-analyses and other meta-analyses of the same drugs: systematic review
2006
The PRISMA Statement for Reporting Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses of Studies That Evaluate Health Care Interventions: Explanation and Elaboration
2009 Standout
Continuous Subglottic Suctioning for the Prevention of Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia
2001
The Growing Burden of Tuberculosis
2003 Standout
Anti‐immunoglobulin E treatment with omalizumab in allergic diseases: an update on anti‐inflammatory activity and clinical efficacy
2005
The Effects of Ibuprofen on the Physiology and Survival of Patients with Sepsis
1997
Die offiziellen amerikanischen Empfehlungen zur Prävention nosokomialer Pneumonien
1998
Guidelines for management of hypertension: report of the fourth working party of the British Hypertension Society, 2004—BHS IV
2004
Rotation and Restricted Use of Antibiotics in a Medical Intensive Care Unit
2000
Epidemiology of Ventilator-acquired Pneumonia Based on Protected Bronchoscopic Sampling
1998
Ventilator-associated Pneumonia
2002 Standout
Interobserver Variation in Interpreting Chest Radiographs for the Diagnosis of Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome
2000
Global Strategy for the Diagnosis, Management, and Prevention of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
2012 Standout
Dalteparin versus Unfractionated Heparin in Critically Ill Patients
2011
Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses: The PRISMA Statement
2009 Standout
Clinically Significant Upper Gastrointestinal Bleeding Acquired in a Pediatric Intensive Care Unit: A Prospective Study
1998
Mechanical Thromboprophylaxis in Critically Ill Patients: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
2006
Using network meta‐analysis to evaluate the existence of small‐study effects in a network of interventions
2012
Venous thromboembolism in critically ill patients
2008
Exploring the Geometry of Treatment Networks
2008
Statistical approaches for conducting network meta‐analysis in drug development
2011
Oral vitamin D3 and calcium for secondary prevention of low-trauma fractures in elderly people (Randomised Evaluation of Calcium Or vitamin D, RECORD): a randomised placebo-controlled trial
2005
Assessing key assumptions of network meta‐analysis: a review of methods
2013
Surviving Sepsis Campaign guidelines for management of severe sepsis and septic shock
2004 Standout
A selection model for accounting for publication bias in a full network meta‐analysis
2014
Multiple treatment comparison meta-analyses: a step forward into complexity
2011
Dietary Approaches to Prevent and Treat Hypertension
2006
Efficacy of Deep Venous Thrombosis Prophylaxis in the Medical Intensive Care Unit
2006
Dissemination and publication of research findings: an updated review of related biases
2010 Standout
Part 9: Post–Cardiac Arrest Care
2010 Standout
Identification of Cancer Care and Protocol Characteristics Associated With Recruitment in Breast Cancer Clinical Trials
2008
Conceptual and Technical Challenges in Network Meta-analysis
2013
Indirect and mixed‐treatment comparison, network, or multiple‐treatments meta‐analysis: many names, many benefits, many concerns for the next generation evidence synthesis tool
2012
Biologic effects of leukocytes present in transfused cellular blood products
1994
The Role of Selective Digestive Tract Decontamination on Mortality and Respiratory Tract Infections
1994
Waiting list may be a nocebo condition in psychotherapy trials: a contribution from network meta‐analysis
2014
The PRISMA Extension Statement for Reporting of Systematic Reviews Incorporating Network Meta-analyses of Health Care Interventions: Checklist and Explanations
2015 Standout
Systematic Reviews: Synthesis of Best Evidence for Clinical Decisions
1997 Standout
2003 World Health Organization (WHO)/International Society of Hypertension (ISH) statement on management of hypertension
2003 Standout
Evaluation of inconsistency in networks of interventions
2013
Prevention of ventilator-associated pneumonia
2000
Interval versus continuous high-intensity exercise in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: a randomized trial.
2006
Evidence Synthesis for Decision Making 4
2013
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute Workshop on Sodium and Blood Pressure
2000
Antibiotic Resistance in the Intensive Care Unit
2001
Observer variation in assessment of quality of life in patients with oesophageal cancer
1995
Beneficial Effects of Leukocyte Depletion of Transfused Blood on Postoperative Complications in Patients Undergoing Cardiac Surgery
1998
Graphical exploration of network meta-analysis data: the use of multidimensional scaling
2008
Health outcomes associated with various antihypertensive therapies used as first-line agents
2003
Preferred reporting items for systematic reviews and meta-analyses: the PRISMA Statement.
2009 Standout
Stress Ulcer Prophylaxis in Critically III Patients
1996
Network meta‐analysis of individual and aggregate level data
2012
Linear inference for mixed treatment comparison meta-analysis: A two-stage approach
2011
Selecting the best scale for measuring treatment effect in a network meta‐analysis: a case study in childhood nocturnal enuresis
2012
What are minimal important changes for asthma measures in a clinical trial?
1999
Works of Lauren E. Griffith being referenced
Deep venous thrombosis in medical–surgical ICU patients: prevalence, incidence and risk factors
2003
Adaptation to the Intensive Care Environment (ATICE): Development and validation of a new sedation assessment instrument
2003
Interobserver Variation in the Computed Tomographic Evaluation of Mediastinal Lymph Node Size in Patients With Potentially Resectable Lung Cancer
1995
Measuring quality of life in the frail elderly
1993
Barriers to participation in clinical trials of cancer: a meta-analysis and systematic review of patient-reported factors
2006
Measuring Quality of Life in Asthma
1993
Documenting life-support preferences in hospitalized patients
1997
A Comparison of Sucralfate and Ranitidine for the Prevention of Upper Gastrointestinal Bleeding in Patients Requiring Mechanical Ventilation
1998
The influence of dietary and nondietary calcium supplementation on blood pressure An updated metaanalysis of randomized controlled trials
1999
Minimizing errors of omission: Behavioural rEenforcement of Heparin to Avert Venous Emboli: The BEHAVE Study*
2006
Isoniazid prophylaxis for tuberculosis in HIV infection: a meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials
1999
Neither baseline tests of molecular hypercoagulability nor D-dimer levels predict deep venous thrombosis in critically ill medical-surgical patients
2004
II. Meta-Analysis of Alendronate for the Treatment of Postmenopausal Women
2002
Conducting quantitative synthesis when comparing medical interventions: AHRQ and the Effective Health Care Program
2011
Selective Decontamination of the Digestive Tract
1994
A Clinical Trial to Evaluate the Measurement Properties of 2 Direct Preference Instruments Administered with and without Hypothetical Marker States
2003
A Meta-analysis of Etidronate for the Treatment of Postmenopausal Osteoporosis
2001
Burden of Illness in venous ThromboEmbolism in Critical care: a multicenter observational study
2005
Quality of life issues in women with vertebral fractures due to osteoporosis
1993
Effect of Air Filtration Systems on Asthma
2002
Deep venous thrombosis: clinically silent in the intensive care unit
2005
The results of direct and indirect treatment comparisons in meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials
1997 Standout
VII. Meta-Analysis of Calcium Supplementation for the Prevention of Postmenopausal Osteoporosis
2002
Interpretation of rhinoconjunctivitis quality of life questionnaire data
1996
IX: Summary of Meta-Analyses of Therapies for Postmenopausal Osteoporosis
2002
Meta-Analysis of Prophylactic Treatments Against Pneumocystis carinii Pneumonia and Toxoplasma Encephalitis in HIV-Infected Patients
1997
Measuring quality of life in children with asthma
1996
A critical look at transition ratings
2002
Deep venous thrombosis in medical-surgical critically ill patients: Prevalence, incidence, and risk factors
2005
A randomised trial to evaluate the self-administered standardised chronic respiratory questionnaire
2005
A prospective study to identify the risk factors associated with acute reactions to platelet and red cell transfusions
1993
Minimum skills required by children to complete health-related quality of life instruments for asthma: comparison of measurement properties
1997
Relative responsiveness of the Chronic Respiratory Questionnaire, St. Georges Respiratory Questionnaire and four other health-related quality of life instruments for patients with chronic lung disease
2006
Can we individualize the ‘number needed to treat’? An empirical study of summary effect measures in meta-analyses
2002
Thrombocytopenia in medical-surgical critically ill patients: prevalence, incidence, and risk factors
2005
Quality of life after myocardial infarction
1994
Interpreting treatment effects in randomised trials
1998
Interviewer versus self-administered questionnaires in developing a disease-specific, health-related quality of life instrument for asthma
1993
The Attributable Morbidity and Mortality of Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia in the Critically Ill Patient
1999
Risk factors for gastrointestinal bleeding in critically ill patients
1994
Risk Factors for Gastrointestinal Bleeding in Critically Ill Patients
1994
Children and Adult Perceptions of Childhood Asthma
1997
Systematic Review on the Risk and Benefit of Different Cholesterol-Lowering Interventions
1999
Calcium supplementation on bone loss in postmenopausal women
2004
A Comparison of Sucralfate and Ranitidine for the Prevention of Upper Gastrointestinal Bleeding in Patients Requiring Mechanical Ventilation
1999
A Comparison of the Original Chronic Respiratory Questionnaire With a Standardized Version
2003
THE CLINICAL AND ECONOMIC CONSEQUENCES OF CLINICALLY IMPORTANT GASTROINTESTINAL BLEEDING IN THE CRITICALLY ILL
1995
Stress Ulcer Prophylaxis in Critically Ill Patients Resolving Discordant Meta-Analyses
1996