OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of BMJ Evidence-Based Medicine is 3. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Proposed framework for unifying disease definitions in guideline development	158
Development of a generalised tool for evaluating success of clinical practice guidelines implementation (A-GIST)	124
High-value care education can learn from the evidence-based medicine movement: moving beyond competencies and curricula to culture	118
Challenges to delivering evidence-based management for long COVID	76
FDA’s dilemma with the aducanumab approval: public pressure and hope, surrogate markers and efficacy, and possible next steps	72
Decision architecture randomisation: extremely efficient clinical trials that preserve clinician and patient choice?	57
Global considerations for informed consent with shared decision-making in the digital age	51
Making sustainable healthcare decisions: three turns towards sustainable guidelines	46
Measuring progress in institutionalising evidence-informed priority-setting in the Indian healthcare system: an application using the iProSE scale	43
Over 1000 terms have been used to describe evidence synthesis: a scoping review	42
Rapid reviews methods series: assessing the appropriateness of conducting a rapid review	39
Evolution of evidence on overall survival benefits of cancer drugs included on the national reimbursement drug list of China, 2005–2022: an observational study	37
Associations between device-measured and self-reported physical activity and common mental disorders: Findings from a large-scale prospective cohort study	35
Gender and geographical bias in the editorial decision-making process of biomedical journals: a case-control study	35
How to best convey continuous outcomes in patient decision aids	34
Randomized trials on non-pharmaceutical interventions for COVID-19: a scoping review	32
Examining the layered health literacy demands in low-value care contexts	27
Reconsidering the role of tramadol in chronic pain management	26
Deaths attributed to the use of medications purchased online	26
Acupuncture for acute migraine attacks in adults: a systematic review and meta-analysis	26
Exploring the diverse definitions of ‘evidence’: a scoping review	25
Leading with options or issues to support purposeful shared decision-making in clinical practice	24
Deceptive shifts in cancer stage distribution	23
Patient-reported outcomes and acupuncture-related adverse events are overlooked in acupuncture randomised controlled trials: a cross-sectional meta-epidemiological study	23
Ambiguity in care delivery terminology: implications that affect pragmatic clinical trials using non-pharmacological interventions	22

Assessing proposals to update established screening strategies	22
An opportunity for evidence-based care of individuals with monkeypox	21
Romanticised semiology	20
Top 15 Choosing Wisely international campaign recommendations to reduce low-value care	20
Evidence categories in systematic assessment of cancer overdiagnosis	19
Exploring adaptive health technology assessment for evaluating 10 cancer interventions: insights and lessons from a pilot study in India	18
Genetic predisposition, modifiable lifestyles, and their joint effects on human lifespan: evidence from multiple cohort studies	18
Dynamic intervention strategies await inclusion in clinical evidence synthesis	18
Is a one-size-fits-all ‘12-month rule’ appropriate when it comes to the last search date in systematic reviews?	16
Challenges in the selection and measurement of outcomes in psychiatric trials	16
How to use the regulatory data from Health Canada for secondary analyses on new drugs, biologics and vaccines	16
iHealthFacts: a health fact-checking website for the public	16
Interventions for Menière’s disease: an umbrella systematic review	15
Catalogue of bias: novelty bias	15
Effects of various exercise interventions in insomnia patients: a systematic review and network meta-analysis	15
Evidence-based medicine has already adapted and is very much alive	15
Using a journal club to navigate a maze of COVID-19 papers in a front-line hospital service	15
Are we ready for AI-augmented generalists?	14
Overcoming challenges in the implementation of clinical practice guidelines in China	14
Piloting a new method to estimate action thresholds in medicine through intuitive weighing	13
Rapid reviews methods series: Guidance on assessing the certainty of evidence	13
Alcohol use and risk of dementia in diverse populations: evidence from cohort, case–control and Mendelian randomisation approaches	13
Ecological study estimating melanoma overdiagnosis in the USA using the lifetime risk method	13
De-escalation of dual antiplatelet therapy for patients with acute coronary syndrome after percutaneous coronary intervention: a systematic review and network meta-analysis	13
Survey of US physicians’ attitudes and knowledge of AI	13
Development of the Reporting Infographics and Visual Abstracts of Comparative studies (RIVA-C) checklist and guide	13
Direct-to-consumer advertising: a modifiable driver of overdiagnosis and overtreatment	13
Perspectives of clinicians and screening candidates on shared decision-making in prostate cancer screening with the prostate-specific antigen (PSA) test: a qualitative study (PROSHADE study)	12
Outcomes of the first national oral cancer screening programme in Taiwan, 2004–2022: a population-based study	12
Enhancing the transparency of clinical practice guidelines by prospective registration: the PREPARE platform	12
Improving peer review of systematic reviews and related review types by involving librarians and information specialists as methodological peer reviewers: a randomised controlled trial	12
Time deficiency: an affliction of healthcare systems and how to ameliorate it	12
Consistency between trials presented at conferences, their subsequent publications and press releases	11
Clinical effect and contributing factors of acupuncture for knee osteoarthritis: a systematic review and pairwise and exploratory network meta-analysis	11
How to interpret studies using Mendelian randomisation	11
Less is more for patients, practitioners, public and planet: a taxonomy for the harms of too much medicine	11
Correspondence on “How methodological pitfalls have created widespread misunderstanding about long COVID” by Høeget al	11
Likelihood ratio interpretation of the relative risk	11
Reducing the residue of retractions in evidence synthesis: ways to minimise inappropriate citation and use of retracted data	11
Understanding synthetic data: artificial datasets for real-world evidence	10
Rapid Reviews Methods Series: Involving patient and public partners, healthcare providers and policymakers as knowledge users	10
Perspectives on the production, and use, of rapid evidence in decision making during the COVID-19 pandemic: a qualitative study	10
Using absolute risk reduction to guide the equitable distribution of COVID-19 vaccines	9
Adherence to the Guideline for Reporting Evidence-based practice Educational interventions and Teaching (GREET) of studies on evidence-based healthcare e-learning: a cross-sectional study	9
Unknowns of drug company payment disclosure: why the UK needs payment transparency legislation	9
Best way not to misuse p values is not to draw definitive conclusions about hypotheses	9
Assessing the magnitude of reporting bias in trials of homeopathy: a cross-sectional study and meta-analysis	9
AI in healthcare: an introduction for clinicians	8
Clinical trial design and treatment effects: a meta-analysis of randomised controlled and single-arm trials supporting 437 FDA approvals of cancer drugs and indications	8
Mind the gaps between patient experiences and their expectations about outcomes	8

How to promote the application of reporting guidelines in acupuncture research	8
Revisiting the value of Archie Cochrane’s contributions	8
Component network meta-analysis in a nutshell	8
Responsible dissemination of health and medical research: some guidance points	8
Strengthening transparency in randomised trials related to multimorbidity: key points and recommendations to guide reporting	8
Preventable deaths from SARS-CoV-2 in England and Wales: a systematic case series of coroners’ reports during the COVID-19 pandemic	8
Problem-based shared decision-making in diabetes care: a secondary analysis of video-recorded encounters	8
Reporting and methodological quality of studies that use Mendelian randomisation in UK Biobank: a meta-epidemiological study	8
Clinician and health service interventions to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions generated by healthcare: a systematic review	7
Preventing overdiagnosis and overuse: proposed guidance for guideline panels	7
Role of overdiagnosis in the rising incidence of endometrial cancer: a population-based ecological study	7
Comparing traditional and AI-enhanced strategies for developing patient decision aids: a multiple case study	7
Perspectives from China, India and Sri Lanka on the drivers and potential solutions to overuse and overdiagnosis	7
Reporting guideline for the use of Generative Artificial intelligence tools in MEdical Research: the GAMER Statement	7
Curcumin and proton pump inhibitors for functional dyspepsia: a randomised, double blind controlled trial	7
Overly complex methods may impair pragmatic use of core evidence-based medicine principles	6
Twenty-one years of the International Shared Decision Making Conference: lessons learnt and future priorities	6
Correspondence on ‘Less is more for patients, practitioners, public and planet: a taxonomy for the harms of too much medicine’	6
Retrieval barriers in individual participant data reviews with network meta-analysis	6
Integrating large language models in systematic reviews: a framework and case study using ROBINS-I for risk of bias assessment	6
Tramadol versus placebo for chronic pain: a systematic review with meta-analysis and trial sequential analysis	6
Using individual participant data to improve network meta-analysis projects	6
CARE extension guideline for acupuncture case reports	6
Enhancing title and abstract screening for systematic reviews with GPT-3.5 turbo	6
Reducing the environmental impact of healthcare to improve health, sustainability and equity	6
Hidden risks of predictive models in healthcare	5
Integrating a climate lens into the design of education programmes for health professionals	5
Incomplete reporting and spin in acupuncture randomised controlled trials: a cross-sectional meta-epidemiological study	5
Rapid reviews methods series: Guidance on literature search	5
Correspondence on ‘The limits of shared decision making’ by Elwynet al: We call for a more nuanced approach	5
Adapt or die: how the pandemic made the shift from EBM to EBM+ more urgent	5
Identifying and counteracting fraudulent responses in online recruitment for health research: a scoping review	5
The path of Chile towards the institutionalisation of evidence-based health policy	5
Rapid access to innovative medicinal products while ensuring relevant health technology assessment. Position of the French National Authority for Health	5
Successes, shortcomings and learning opportunities for evidence-based medicine from the COVID-19 pandemic	5
Feasibility of multiorgan risk prediction with routinely collected diagnostics: a prospective cohort study in the UK Biobank	5
Developing future leaders in evidence-based medicine: the inaugural David Sackett Fellowship	5
Toward automating GRADE classification: a proof-of-concept evaluation of an artificial intelligence-based tool for semiautomated evidence quality rating in systematic reviews	5
Attitudes of people living with cancer towards trial non-publication and research participation	5
Insights on the German College of General Practitioners and Family Physicians (DEGAM) guideline addressing medical overuse	4
Quality of reporting among systematic reviews underpinning the ESC/ACC guidelines on ventricular arrhythmias and sudden cardiac death	4
Ten resources for understanding bias in health research: EBM live workshop 2022	4
In-person schooling is essential even during periods of high transmission of COVID-19	4
Metro Mapping: development of an innovative methodology to co-design care paths to support shared decision making in oncology	4
Does the format of result presentation and type of conclusion in Cochrane plain language summaries matter? A randomised controlled trial	4
Meta-analysis of continuous outcomes: a user’s guide for analysis and interpretation	4
Ivabradine added to usual care in patients with heart failure: a systematic review with meta-analysis and trial sequential analysis	4
Context matters! What is really tested in an RCT?	4
Teaching evidence-based medicine by using a systematic review framework: implementation in a Swedish university setting	4
Reporting of patient-reported outcomes in trials on alcohol use disorder: a meta-epidemiological study	4
Identifying actionable statements in Chinese health guidelines: a cross-sectional study	4
Theory and practice of Bayesian and frequentist frameworks for network meta-analysis	4
Interpreting the results from the first randomised controlled trial of colonoscopy: does it save lives?	4
Data-dredging bias	4
Different meta-analysis methods can change judgements about imprecision of effect estimates: a meta-epidemiological study	3
Applying the time needed to treat to NICE guidelines on lifestyle interventions	3
Co-production and implementation of an evidence collation strategy for a novel point-of-care information resource: gpevidence.org	3
Innovating in healthcare: perspective from a dual role	3
Rapid review methods series: Guidance on the use of supportive software	3
Teaching evidence-based medicine in Mexico: a systematic review of medical doctor curriculums at a national level	3
All health is not equal: the use of modifiers in NICE technology appraisal	3
Methylphenidate denied access to the WHO List of Essential Medicines for the second time	3
Guest authorship as research misconduct: definitions and possible solutions	3
Advancing evidence-based medicine in China: an interview with Gordon Guyatt	3
Accurate is not enough: select formats for communicating probabilities to achieve specific outcomes	3
Enhanced access but increased testing with virtual care: insights from a multinational survey	3
Towards transparency: adoption of WHO best practices in clinical trial registration and reporting among top medical research funders in the USA	3
Shared decision-making as a method of care	3
Thresholds for interpreting the fragility index derived from sample of randomised controlled trials in cardiology: a meta-epidemiologic study	3
Non-pharmacological interventions for autism spectrum disorder in children: an overview of systematic reviews	3
Efforts towards the institutionalisation of evidence-informed decision-making	3
Registration of health and medical research	3
Smartphone apps for point-of-care information summaries: systematic assessment of the quality and content	3
Health technology assessment in India in the next decade: reflections on a vision for its path to maturity and impact	3
Kidney trajectory charts to assist general practitioners in the assessment of patients with reduced kidney function: a randomised vignette study	3
Bias, quality and reporting in health research: differences and tools for appraisal	3
When does the placebo effect have an impact on network meta-analysis results?	3
From promise to practice: challenges and pitfalls in the evaluation of large language models for data extraction in evidence synthesis	3
Rapid review method series: interim guidance for the reporting of rapid reviews	3