Elie A. Akl, Ph.D. - Publications

Affiliations: 
2008 Social and Preventative Medicine State University of New York, Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, United States 
Area:
Public Health

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2024 Piggott T, Moja L, Garcia CAC, Akl EA, Banzi R, Huttner B, Kredo T, Lavis JN, Schünemann HJ. User-experience testing of an evidence-to-decision framework for selecting essential medicines. Plos Global Public Health. 4: e0002723. PMID 38206901 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgph.0002723  0.427
2023 Piggott T, Moja L, Jenei K, Kredo T, Skoetz N, Banzi R, Trapani D, Leong T, McCaul M, Lavis JN, Akl EA, Nonino F, Iorio A, Laurson-Doube J, Huttner B, et al. GRADE Concept 7: Issues and Insights Linking Guideline Recommendations to Trustworthy Essential Medicine Lists. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology. 111241. PMID 38123105 DOI: 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2023.111241  0.442
2023 Sayfi S, Charide R, Elliott SA, Hartling L, Munan M, Stallwood L, Butcher NJ, Richards DP, Mathew JL, Suvada J, Akl EA, Kredo T, Mbuagbaw L, Motilall A, Baba A, et al. A multimethods randomized trial found that plain language versions improved adults understanding of health recommendations. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology. PMID 38008266 DOI: 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2023.11.009  0.403
2023 Langford BJ, Leung V, Lo J, Akl EA, Nieuwlaat R, Lotfi T, Brown KA, Daneman N, Schwartz KL, Schünemann HJ. Antibiotic prescribing guideline recommendations in COVID-19: a systematic survey. Eclinicalmedicine. 65: 102257. PMID 37842549 DOI: 10.1016/j.eclinm.2023.102257  0.417
2023 Murad MH, Verbeek J, Schwingshackl L, Filippini T, Vinceti M, Akl E, Morgan RL, Mustafa RA, Zeraatkar D, Senerth E, Street R, Lin L, Falck-Ytter Y, Guyatt G, Schünemann HJ. GRADE guidance 38: Updated guidance for rating up certainty of evidence due to a dose-response gradient. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology. PMID 37777140 DOI: 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2023.09.011  0.369
2023 Akl EA, Cuker A, Mustafa RA, Nieuwlaat R, Stevens A, Schünemann H. Prospective collaborative recommendation development: A novel model for more timely and trustworthy guidelines. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology. PMID 37648070 DOI: 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2023.08.015  0.383
2023 Tugwell P, Welch V, Magwood O, Todhunter-Brown A, Akl EA, Concannon TW, Khabsa J, Morley R, Schunemann H, Lytvyn L, Agarwal A, Antequera A, Avey MT, Campbell P, Chang C, et al. Protocol for the development of guidance for collaborator and partner engagement in health care evidence syntheses. Systematic Reviews. 12: 134. PMID 37533051 DOI: 10.1186/s13643-023-02279-1  0.448
2023 Akl EA, Khabsa J, Schünemann HJ, Tomlinson E, Parker R, Tugwell P, Concannon TW. A new taxonomy is proposed for defining the interests of stakeholders' representatives in health research: the case of guideline development. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology. PMID 37311515 DOI: 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2023.06.006  0.384
2023 Schünemann HJ, Brennan S, Akl EA, Hultcrantz M, Alonso-Coello P, Xia J, Davoli M, Rojas MX, Meerpohl JJ, Flottorp S, Guyatt G, Mustafa RA, Langendam M, Dahm P. The development methods of official GRADE articles and requirements for claiming the use of GRADE - a statement by the GRADE Guidance Group. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology. PMID 37211327 DOI: 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2023.05.010  0.466
2023 Goldkuhle M, Guyatt GH, Kreuzberger N, Akl EA, Dahm P, van Dalen EC, Hemkens LG, Klugar M, Mustafa RA, Nonino F, Schünemann HJ, Trivella M, Skoetz N. GRADE concept 4: Rating the certainty of evidence when study interventions or comparators differ from PICO targets. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology. PMID 37146659 DOI: 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2023.04.018  0.403
2023 Petkovic J, Magwood O, Lytvyn L, Khabsa J, Concannon TW, Welch V, Todhunter-Brown A, Palm ME, Akl EA, Mbuagbaw L, Arayssi T, Avey MT, Marusic A, Morley R, Saginur M, et al. Key issues for stakeholder engagement in the development of health and healthcare guidelines. Research Involvement and Engagement. 9: 27. PMID 37118762 DOI: 10.1186/s40900-023-00433-6  0.433
2023 Guyatt G, Zhao Y, Mayer M, Briel M, Mustafa R, Izcovich A, Hultcrantz M, Iorio A, Alba AC, Foroutan F, Sun X, Schunemann H, DeBeer H, Akl EA, Christensen R, et al. GRADE Guidance 36: Updates to GRADE's approach to addressing inconsistency. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology. PMID 36898507 DOI: 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2023.03.003  0.37
2023 Akl EA, El Khoury R, Khamis AM, El Mikati IK, Pardo-Hernandez H, Farran S, Ibrahim R, Khamis M, Hneiny L, Schunemann HJ, Kahale LA. The life and death of living systematic reviews: a methodological survey. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology. 156: 11-21. PMID 36764466 DOI: 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2023.02.005  0.364
2023 Charide R, Stallwood L, Munan M, Sayfi S, Hartling L, Butcher NJ, Offringa M, Elliott S, Richards DP, Mathew JL, Akl EA, Kredo T, Mbuagbaw L, Motillal A, Baba A, et al. Knowledge mobilization activities to support decision-making by youth, parents, and adults using a systematic and living map of evidence and recommendations on COVID-19: protocol for three randomized controlled trials and qualitative user-experience studies. Trials. 24: 27. PMID 36641457 DOI: 10.1186/s13063-023-07067-9  0.442
2022 Magwood O, Riddle A, Petkovic J, Lytvyn L, Khabsa J, Atwere P, Akl EA, Campbell P, Welch V, Smith M, Mustafa RA, Limburg H, Dans LF, Skoetz N, Grant S, et al. PROTOCOL: Barriers and facilitators to stakeholder engagement in health guideline development: A qualitative evidence synthesis. Campbell Systematic Reviews. 18: e1237. PMID 36911345 DOI: 10.1002/cl2.1237  0.304
2022 Petkovic J, Riddle A, Lytvyn L, Khabsa J, Akl EA, Welch V, Magwood O, Atwere P, Graham ID, Grant S, John D, Katikireddi SV, Langlois E, Mustafa RA, Todhunter-Brown A, et al. PROTOCOL: Guidance for stakeholder engagement in guideline development: A systematic review. Campbell Systematic Reviews. 18: e1242. PMID 36911343 DOI: 10.1002/cl2.1242  0.447
2022 Piggott T, Moja L, Akl EA, Lavis J, Cooke G, Kredo T, Hogerzeil HV, Huttner B, Alonso-Coello P, Schünemann H. Decision Criteria for Selecting Essential Medicines and their Connection to Guidelines: An Interpretive Descriptive Qualitative Interview Study. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology. PMID 36584732 DOI: 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2022.12.007  0.454
2022 Schünemann HJ, Brennan S, Davoli M, Mustafa RA, Akl EA, Meerpohl JJ, Flottorp S, Rojas MX, Guyatt G, Langendam M, Alonso Coello P, Dahm P. Strong and high quality evidence synthesis needs Cochrane: A statement of support by the GRADE Guidance Group. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology. PMID 36223813 DOI: 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2022.10.001  0.372
2022 Schünemann HJ, Neumann I, Hultcrantz M, Brignardello-Petersen R, Zeng L, Murad MH, Izcovich A, Morgano GP, Baldeh T, Santesso N, Cuello CG, Mbuagbaw L, Guyatt G, Wiercioch W, Piggott T, ... ... Akl EA, et al. GRADE Guidance article 35: Update on rating imprecision for assessing contextualized certainty of evidence and making decisions. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology. PMID 35934266 DOI: 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2022.07.015  0.375
2022 Zeng L, Brignardello-Petersen R, Hultcrantz M, Mustafa RA, Murad MH, Iorio A, Traversy G, Akl EA, Mayer M, Schünemann HJ, Guyatt GH. GRADE Guidance 34: update on rating imprecision using a minimally contextualized approach. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology. PMID 35934265 DOI: 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2022.07.014  0.368
2022 El Mikati IK, Khabsa J, Harb T, Khamis M, Agarwal A, Pardo-Hernandez H, Farran S, Khamis AM, El Zein O, El-Khoury R, Schünemann HJ, Akl EA. A Framework for the Development of Living Practice Guidelines in Health Care. Annals of Internal Medicine. PMID 35785533 DOI: 10.7326/M22-0514  0.423
2022 Cuker A, Tseng EK, Schünemann HJ, Angchaisuksiri P, Blair C, Dane K, DeSancho MT, Diuguid DL, Griffin DO, Kahn SR, Klok FA, Lee AI, Neumann I, Pai A, Righini M, ... ... Akl EA, et al. American Society of Hematology living guidelines on the use of anticoagulation for thromboprophylaxis in patients with COVID-19: March 2022 update on the use of anticoagulation in critically ill patients Blood Advances. PMID 35748885 DOI: 10.1182/bloodadvances.2022007940  0.374
2022 Cuker A, Tseng EK, Nieuwlaat R, Angchaisuksiri P, Blair C, Dane K, DeSancho MT, Diuguid DL, Griffin DO, Kahn SR, Klok FA, Lee AI, Neumann I, Pai A, Righini M, ... ... Akl EA, et al. American Society of Hematology living guidelines on the use of anticoagulation for thromboprophylaxis in patients with COVID-19: January 2022 update on the use of therapeutic-intensity anticoagulation in acutely ill patients. Blood Advances. PMID 35503027 DOI: 10.1182/bloodadvances.2022007561  0.359
2022 Pottie K, Smith M, Matthews M, Santesso N, Magwood O, Kredo T, Scott S, Bayliss K, Saad A, Haridas R, Detambel N, Motilall A, Tan Y, Steinberg S, Litynska J, ... ... Akl EA, et al. A multistakeholder development process to prioritize and translate COVID-19 health recommendations for patients, caregivers and the public. A case study of the COVID-19 Recommendation Map. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology. PMID 35500815 DOI: 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2022.04.012  0.421
2022 Piggott T, Langendam M, Parmelli E, Adolfsson J, Akl E, Armstrong D, Braithwaite J, Brignardello-Petersen R, Brozek J, Follmann M, Kopp I, Meerpohl JJ, Neamtiu L, Nothacker M, Qaseem A, et al. The GIN-McMaster Guideline Tool Extension for the Integration of Quality Improvement and Quality Assurance in Guidelines: a description of the methods for its development. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology. PMID 35436527 DOI: 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2022.04.002  0.383
2022 Dewidar O, Lotfi T, Langendam M, Parmelli E, Saz Parkinson Z, Solo K, Chu DK, Mathew JL, Akl EA, Brignardello-Petersen R, Mustafa RA, Moja L, Iorio A, Chi Y, Canelo-Aybar C, et al. Which actionable statements qualify as good practice statements In Covid-19 guidelines? A systematic appraisal. Bmj Evidence-Based Medicine. PMID 35428695 DOI: 10.1136/bmjebm-2021-111866  0.407
2022 Dewidar O, Lotfi T, Langendam MW, Parmelli E, Saz Parkinson Z, Solo K, Chu DK, Mathew JL, Akl EA, Brignardello-Petersen R, Mustafa RA, Moja L, Iorio A, Chi Y, Canelo-Aybar C, et al. Good or best practice statements: proposal for the operationalisation and implementation of GRADE guidance. Bmj Evidence-Based Medicine. PMID 35428694 DOI: 10.1136/bmjebm-2022-111962  0.439
2022 Schünemann HJ, Reinap M, Piggott T, Laidmäe E, Köhler K, Pōld M, Ens B, Irs A, Akl EA, Cuello CA, Falavigna M, Gibbens M, Neamtiu L, Parmelli E, Jameleddine M, et al. The ecosystem of health decision making: from fragmentation to synergy. The Lancet. Public Health. 7: e378-e390. PMID 35366410 DOI: 10.1016/S2468-2667(22)00057-3  0.4
2022 Neumann I, Quiñelen E, Nahuelhual P, Burdiles P, Celedón N, Cerda K, Herrera-Omegna P, Kraemer P, Cancino KD, Valenzuela JP, Sepúlveda D, Morgano GP, Akl EA, Schünemann HJ. Using explicit thresholds for benefits and harms in partially contextualized GRADE guidelines. Pilot experience from a living COVID-19 guideline. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology. 147: 69-75. PMID 35364230 DOI: 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2022.03.017  0.451
2022 Song Y, Alonso-Coello P, Ballesteros M, Cluzeau F, Vernooij RWM, Arayssi T, Bhaumik S, Chen Y, Ghersi D, Langlois EV, Padilla PF, Schünemann HJ, Akl EA, Martínez García L. A Reporting Tool for Adapted Guidelines in Health Care: The RIGHT-Ad@pt Checklist. Annals of Internal Medicine. PMID 35286143 DOI: 10.7326/M21-4352  0.393
2022 Morgano GP, Mbuagbaw L, Santesso N, Xie F, Brozek JL, Siebert U, Bognanni A, Wiercioch W, Piggott T, Darzi AJ, Akl EA, Verstijnen IM, Parmelli E, Saz-Parkinson Z, Alonso-Coello P, et al. Defining decision thresholds for judgments on health benefits and harms using the Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development and Evaluation (GRADE) Evidence to Decision (EtD) frameworks: a protocol for a randomised methodological study (GRADE-THRESHOLD). Bmj Open. 12: e053246. PMID 35273045 DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2021-053246  0.448
2022 Piggott T, Langendam MW, Parmelli E, Adolfsson J, Akl EA, Armstrong D, Braithwaite J, Brignardello-Petersen R, Brozek J, Follmann M, Kopp I, Meerpohl JJ, Neamtiu L, Nothacker M, Qaseem A, et al. Integrating Quality Assurance and Quality Improvement With Guidelines: Systematic Stakeholder-Driven Development of an Extension of the Guidelines International Network-McMaster Guideline Development Checklist. Annals of Internal Medicine. PMID 35226517 DOI: 10.7326/M21-3977  0.387
2021 Kahale LA, Elkhoury R, El Mikati I, Pardo-Hernandez H, Khamis AM, Schünemann HJ, Haddaway NR, Akl EA. Tailored PRISMA 2020 flow diagrams for living systematic reviews: a methodological survey and a proposal. F1000research. 10: 192. PMID 35136567 DOI: 10.12688/f1000research.51723.3  0.38
2021 Ute Muti-Schüenemann GE, Szczeklik W, Solo K, Khabsa J, Thomas R, Borowiack E, Khamis AM, Hneiny L, Darzi A, Harrison L, Bak A, Bongnanni A, Morgano GP, Stalteri R, Hajizadeh A, ... ... Akl EA, et al. Update Alert 3: Ventilation Techniques and Risk for Transmission of Coronavirus Disease, Including COVID-19. Annals of Internal Medicine. PMID 34904866 DOI: 10.7326/L21-0424  0.301
2021 Kahale LA, Matar CF, Hakoum MB, Tsolakian IG, Yosuico VE, Terrenato I, Sperati F, Barba M, Schünemann H, Akl EA. Anticoagulation for the initial treatment of venous thromboembolism in people with cancer. The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews. 12: CD006649. PMID 34878173 DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD006649.pub8  0.338
2021 Wiercioch W, Nieuwlaat R, Zhang Y, Alonso-Coello P, Dahm P, Iorio A, Manja V, Mustafa RA, Neumann I, Ortel TL, Rochwerg B, Santesso N, Vesely SK, Akl EA, Schünemann HJ. New methods facilitated the process of prioritizing questions and health outcomes in guideline development. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology. PMID 34843861 DOI: 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2021.11.031  0.423
2021 Cuello-Garcia CA, Santesso N, Morgan RL, Verbeek J, Thayer K, Ansari MT, Meerpohl J, Schwingshackl L, Katikireddi SV, Brozek JL, Reeves B, Murad MH, Falavigna M, Mustafa R, Regidor DL, ... ... Akl EA, et al. GRADE Guidance 24. Optimizing the integration of randomized and non-randomized studies of interventions in evidence syntheses and health guidelines. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology. PMID 34800676 DOI: 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2021.11.026  0.485
2021 Cuker A, Tseng EK, Nieuwlaat R, Angchaisuksiri P, Blair C, Dane K, Davila J, DeSancho MT, Diuguid DL, Griffin DO, Kahn SR, Klok FA, Lee AI, Neumann I, Pai A, ... ... Akl EA, et al. American Society of Hematology living guidelines on the use of anticoagulation for thromboprophylaxis in patients with COVID-19: July 2021 update on post-discharge thromboprophylaxis. Blood Advances. PMID 34727173 DOI: 10.1182/bloodadvances.2021005945  0.367
2021 Yaacoub S, Khabsa J, El-Khoury R, El-Harakeh A, Lotfi T, Saad Z, Itani Z, Khamis AM, El Mikati I, Cuello-Garcia CA, Verdugo-Paiva F, Rada G, Schünemann HJ, Rizk N, Akl EA. COVID-19 transmission during swimming-related activities: a rapid systematic review. Bmc Infectious Diseases. 21: 1112. PMID 34711198 DOI: 10.1186/s12879-021-06802-4  0.354
2021 Kahale LA, Matar CF, Tsolakian I, Hakoum MB, Barba M, Yosuico VE, Terrenato I, Sperati F, Schünemann H, Akl EA. Oral anticoagulation in people with cancer who have no therapeutic or prophylactic indication for anticoagulation. The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews. 10: CD006466. PMID 34622445 DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD006466.pub7  0.342
2021 Kahale LA, Matar CF, Tsolakian I, Hakoum MB, Yosuico VE, Terrenato I, Sperati F, Barba M, Hicks LK, Schünemann H, Akl EA. Antithrombotic therapy for ambulatory patients with multiple myeloma receiving immunomodulatory agents. The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews. 9: CD014739. PMID 34582035 DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD014739  0.301
2021 Lotfi T, Hajizadeh A, Moja L, Akl EA, Piggott T, Kredo T, Langendam MW, Iorio A, Klugar M, Klugarová J, Neumann I, Wiercioch W, Leontiadis GI, Mbuagbaw L, Turgeon AF, et al. A taxonomy and framework for identifying and developing actionable statements in guidelines suggests avoiding informal recommendations. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology. PMID 34562579 DOI: 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2021.09.028  0.401
2021 Cuker A, Tseng EK, Nieuwlaat R, Angchaisuksiri P, Blair C, Dane K, Davila J, DeSancho MT, Diuguid DL, Griffin DO, Kahn SR, Klok FA, Lee AI, Neumann I, Pai A, ... ... Akl EA, et al. American Society of Hematology living guidelines on the use of anticoagulation for thromboprophylaxis in patients with COVID-19: May 2021 update on the use of intermediate intensity anticoagulation in critically ill patients. Blood Advances. PMID 34474482 DOI: 10.1182/bloodadvances.2021005493  0.37
2021 Morgano GP, Wiercioch W, Anderson DR, Brożek JL, Santesso N, Xie F, Cuker A, Nieuwlaat R, Akl EA, Darzi A, Yepes-Nuñez JJ, Exteandia-Ikobaltzeta I, Rahman M, Rajasekhar A, Rogers F, et al. A modeling approach to derive baseline risk estimates for GRADE recommendations:Concepts, development, and results of its application to the American Society of Hematology 2019 guidelines on prevention of venous thromboembolism in surgical hospitalized patients. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology. PMID 34284102 DOI: 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2021.07.010  0.394
2021 McGowan J, Akl EA, Coello PA, Brennan S, Dahm P, Davoli M, Flottorp S, Guyatt G, Langendam M, Meerpohl J, Mustafa R, Rojas MX, Tugwell P, Schünemann HJ. Update on the JCE GRADE series and other GRADE article types. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology. PMID 34089781 DOI: 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2021.05.023  0.335
2021 Wiercioch W, Nieuwlaat R, Dahm P, Iorio A, Mustafa RA, Neumann I, Rochwerg B, Manja V, Alonso-Coello P, Ortel TL, Santesso N, Vesely SK, Akl EA, Schünemann HJ, Bates SM, et al. Development and application of health outcome descriptors facilitated decision-making in the production of practice guidelines. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology. PMID 33992716 DOI: 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2021.04.016  0.426
2021 Hajizadeh A, Lotfi T, Falzon D, Mertz D, Nieuwlaat R, Gebreselassie N, Jaramillo E, Korobitsyn A, Zignol M, Mirzayev F, Ismail N, Brozek J, Loeb M, Piggott T, Darzi A, ... ... Akl EA, et al. Recommendation mapping of the World Health Organization's guidelines on tuberculosis: A new approach to digitizing and presenting recommendations. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology. PMID 33762142 DOI: 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2021.02.009  0.389
2021 Traversy G, Barnieh L, Akl EA, Allan GM, Brouwers M, Ganache I, Grundy Q, Guyatt GH, Kelsall D, Leng G, Moore A, Persaud N, Schünemann HJ, Straus S, Thombs BD, et al. Cmaj : Canadian Medical Association Journal = Journal De L'Association Medicale Canadienne. 193: E324-E330. PMID 33649178 DOI: 10.1503/cmaj.200651-f  0.343
2021 Piggott T, Langendam M, Parmelli E, Adolfsson J, Akl EA, Armstrong D, Braithwaite J, Brignardello-Petersen R, Brozek J, Gore-Booth J, Follmann M, Leś Z, Meerpohl JJ, Neamţiu L, Nothacker M, et al. Bringing two worlds closer together: a critical analysis of an integrated approach to guideline development and quality assurance schemes. Bmc Health Services Research. 21: 172. PMID 33627104 DOI: 10.1186/s12913-020-05819-w  0.409
2021 Parmelli E, Langendam M, Piggott T, Adolfsson J, Akl EA, Armstrong D, Braithwaite J, Brignardello-Petersen R, Follmann M, Leś Z, Meerpohl JJ, Neamtiu L, Qaseem A, Rossi PG, Saz-Parkinson Z, et al. Guideline-based quality assurance: a conceptual framework for the definition of key elements. Bmc Health Services Research. 21: 173. PMID 33627092 DOI: 10.1186/s12913-021-06148-2  0.426
2021 Boon MH, Thomson H, Shaw B, Akl EA, Lhachimi SK, López-Alcalde J, Klugar M, Choi L, Saz-Parkinson Z, Mustafa RA, Langendam MW, Crane O, Morgan RL, Rehfuess E, Johnston BC, et al. Challenges in applying the GRADE approach in public health guidelines and systematic reviews: A concept paper from the GRADE Public Health Group. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology. PMID 33476768 DOI: 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2021.01.001  0.413
2021 Traversy G, Barnieh L, Akl EA, Allan GM, Brouwers M, Ganache I, Grundy Q, Guyatt GH, Kelsall D, Leng G, Moore A, Persaud N, Schünemann HJ, Straus S, Thombs BD, et al. Managing conflicts of interest in the development of health guidelines. Cmaj : Canadian Medical Association Journal = Journal De L'Association Medicale Canadienne. 193: E49-E54. PMID 33431547 DOI: 10.1503/cmaj.200651  0.387
2020 Pottie K, Magwood O, Rahman P, Concannon T, Alonso-Coello P, Garcia AJ, Santesso N, Thombs B, Welch V, Wells GA, Saad A, Archibald D, Grad R, Moore A, Rojas MX, ... ... Akl EA, et al. Validating the "FACE" instrument using stakeholder perceptions of Feasibility, Acceptability, Cost and Equity in guideline implementation. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology. PMID 33276054 DOI: 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2020.11.018  0.377
2020 Darzi AJ, Repp AB, Spencer FA, Morsi RZ, Charide R, Etxeandia-Ikobaltzeta I, Bauer KA, Burnett AE, Cushman M, Dentali F, Kahn SR, Rezende SM, Zakai NA, Agarwal A, Karam SG, ... ... Akl EA, et al. Risk-assessment models for VTE and bleeding in hospitalized medical patients: an overview of systematic reviews. Blood Advances. 4: 4929-4944. PMID 33049056 DOI: 10.1182/bloodadvances.2020002482  0.47
2020 Wiercioch W, Akl EA, Santesso N, Zhang Y, Morgan RL, Yepes-Nuñez JJ, Kowalski S, Baldeh T, Mustafa RA, Laisaar KT, Raid U, Etxeandia-Ikobaltzeta I, Carrasco-Labra A, Ventresca M, Neumann I, et al. Assessing the process and outcome of the development of practice guidelines and recommendations: PANELVIEW instrument development. Cmaj : Canadian Medical Association Journal = Journal De L'Association Medicale Canadienne. 192: E1138-E1145. PMID 33020121 DOI: 10.1503/cmaj.200193  0.429
2020 Akl EA, Morgan RL, Rooney AA, Beverly B, Katikireddi SV, Agarwal A, Alper BS, Alva-Diaz C, Amato L, Ansari MT, Brozek J, Chu DK, Dahm P, Darzi AJ, Falavigna M, et al. Developing trustworthy recommendations as part of an urgent response (1-2 weeks): a GRADE concept paper GRADE Rapid Guidelines project group. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology. PMID 33010401 DOI: 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2020.09.037  0.401
2020 Goldkuhle M, Bender R, Akl EA, van Dalen EC, Nevitt S, Mustafa RA, Guyatt GH, Trivella M, Djulbegovic B, Schünemann H, Cinquini M, Kreuzberger N, Skoetz N. GRADE guidelines: 29. Rating the certainty in time-to-event outcomes - Study limitations due to censoring of participants with missing data in intervention studies. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology. PMID 33007458 DOI: 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2020.09.017  0.401
2020 Santesso N, Akl E, Bhandari M, Busse JW, Cook DJ, Greenhalgh T, Muti P, Schünemann H, Guyatt G. A practical guide for using a survey about attitudes and behaviours to inform health care decisions. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology. PMID 32987165 DOI: 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2019.11.020  0.402
2020 Piggott T, Baldeh T, Akl EA, Junek M, Wiercioch W, Schneider R, Langedam MW, Meerpohl J, Brozek J, Schünemann HJ. Supporting effective participation in health guideline panels: The Guideline Participant Tool. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology. PMID 32987163 DOI: 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2020.07.022  0.454
2020 Brozek JL, Canelo-Aybar C, Akl EA, Bowen JM, Bucher J, Chiu WA, Cronin M, Djulbegovic B, Falavigna M, Guyatt GH, Gordon AA, Boon MH, Hutubessy RCW, Joore MA, Katikireddi V, et al. GRADE Guidelines 30: The GRADE Approach to Assessing the Certainty of Modelled Evidence - an Overview in the Context of Health Decision-making. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology. PMID 32980429 DOI: 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2020.09.018  0.422
2020 Schünemann HJ, Ventresca M, Crowther M, Briel M, Zhou Q, Noble S, Macbeth F, Griffiths G, Garcia D, Lyman GH, Di Nisio M, Iorio A, Mbuagbaw L, Neumann I, van Es N, ... ... Akl EA, et al. Evaluating prophylactic heparin in ambulatory patients with solid tumours: a systematic review and individual participant data meta-analysis. The Lancet. Haematology. 7: e746-e755. PMID 32976752 DOI: 10.1016/S2352-3026(20)30293-3  0.43
2020 Tugwell P, Welch VA, Karunananthan S, Maxwell LJ, Akl EA, Avey MT, Bhutta ZA, Brouwers MC, Clark JP, Cook S, Cuervo LG, Curran JA, Ghogomu ET, Graham IG, Grimshaw JM, et al. When to replicate systematic reviews of interventions: consensus checklist. Bmj (Clinical Research Ed.). 370: m2864. PMID 32933948 DOI: 10.1136/Bmj.M2864  0.323
2020 Kahale LA, Khamis AM, Diab B, Chang Y, Lopes LC, Agarwal A, Li L, Mustafa RA, Koujanian S, Waziry R, Busse JW, Dakik A, Schünemann HJ, Hooft L, Scholten RJ, ... ... Akl EA, et al. Potential impact of missing outcome data on treatment effects in systematic reviews: imputation study. Bmj (Clinical Research Ed.). 370: m2898. PMID 32847800 DOI: 10.1136/Bmj.M2898  0.48
2020 Schünemann HJ, Akl EA, Chou R, Chu DK, Loeb M, Lotfi T, Mustafa RA, Neumann I, Saxinger L, Sultan S, Mertz D. Use of facemasks during the COVID-19 pandemic. The Lancet. Respiratory Medicine. PMID 32758441 DOI: 10.1016/S2213-2600(20)30352-0  0.372
2020 Akl EA, Blazic I, Yaacoub S, Frija G, Chou R, Appiah JA, Fatehi M, Flor N, Hitti E, Jafri H, Jin ZY, Kauczor HU, Kawooya M, Kazerooni EA, Ko JP, et al. Use of Chest Imaging in the Diagnosis and Management of COVID-19: A WHO Rapid Advice Guide. Radiology. 203173. PMID 32729811 DOI: 10.1148/Radiol.2020203173  0.342
2020 Dewidar O, Tsang P, León-García M, Mathew C, Antequera A, Baldeh T, Akl EA, Alonso-Coello P, Petkovic J, Piggott T, Pottie K, Schünemann H, Tugwell P, Welch V. Over half of the WHO guidelines published from 2014 to 2019 explicitly considered health equity issues: A cross sectional survey. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology. PMID 32717312 DOI: 10.1016/J.Jclinepi.2020.07.012  0.485
2020 El-Rayess H, Khamis A, Haddad S, Ghaddara HA, Hakoum M, Ichkhanian Y, Bejjani M, Akl E. Assessing concordance of financial conflicts of interest disclosures with payments' databases: a systematic survey of the health literature. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology. PMID 32622901 DOI: 10.1016/J.Jclinepi.2020.06.040  0.362
2020 Kahale LA, Khamis AM, Diab B, Chang Y, Lopes LC, Agarwal A, Li L, Mustafa RA, Koujanian S, Waziry R, Busse JW, Dakik A, Hooft L, Guyatt GH, Scholten RJPM, ... Akl EA, et al. Meta-Analyses Proved Inconsistent in How Missing Data Were Handled Across Their Included Primary Trials: A Methodological Survey. Clinical Epidemiology. 12: 527-535. PMID 32547244 DOI: 10.2147/Clep.S242080  0.345
2020 Darzi AJ, Karam SG, Spencer FA, Spyropoulos AC, Mbuagbaw L, Woller SC, Zakai NA, Streiff MB, Gould MK, Cushman M, Charide R, Etxeandia-Ikobaltzeta I, Germini F, Rigoni M, Agarwal A, ... ... Akl EA, et al. Risk models for VTE and bleeding in medical inpatients: systematic identification and expert assessment. Blood Advances. 4: 2557-2566. PMID 32542391 DOI: 10.1182/Bloodadvances.2020001937  0.478
2020 Nasrallah AA, Farran SH, Nasrallah ZA, Chahrour MA, Salhab HA, Fares MY, Khachfe HH, Akl EA. A large number of COVID-19 interventional clinical trials were registered soon after the pandemic onset: a descriptive analysis. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology. PMID 32526460 DOI: 10.1016/J.Jclinepi.2020.06.005  0.329
2020 Schünemann HJ, Santesso N, Vist GE, Cuello C, Lotfi T, Flottorp S, Davoli M, Mustafa R, Meerpohl JJ, Alonso-Coello P, Akl EA. Using GRADE in situations of emergencies and urgencies: Certainty in evidence and recommendations matters during the COVID-19 pandemic, now more than ever and no matter what. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology. PMID 32512187 DOI: 10.1016/J.Jclinepi.2020.05.030  0.535
2020 Hakoum MB, Noureldine H, Habib JR, Abou-Jaoude EA, Raslan R, Jouni N, Hasbani DJ, Lopes LC, Guyatt G, Akl EA. Authors of clinical trials seldom reported details when declaring their individual and institutional financial conflicts of interest: a cross-sectional survey. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology. PMID 32512186 DOI: 10.1016/J.Jclinepi.2020.05.026  0.32
2020 Chu DK, Akl EA, Duda S, Solo K, Yaacoub S, Schünemann HJ. Physical distancing, face masks, and eye protection to prevent person-to-person transmission of SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Lancet (London, England). PMID 32497510 DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(20)31142-9  0.421
2020 Wiercioch W, Nieuwlaat R, Akl EA, Kunkle R, Alexander KE, Cuker A, Rajasekhar A, Alonso-Coello P, Anderson DR, Bates SM, Cushman M, Dahm P, Guyatt G, Iorio A, Lim W, et al. Methodology for the American Society of Hematology VTE guidelines: current best practice, innovations, and experiences. Blood Advances. 4: 2351-2365. PMID 32453843 DOI: 10.1182/Bloodadvances.2020001768  0.467
2020 Schünemann HJ, Khabsa J, Solo K, Khamis AM, Brignardello-Petersen R, El-Harakeh A, Darzi A, Hajizadeh A, Bognanni A, Bak A, Izcovich A, Cuello-Garcia CA, Chen C, Borowiack E, Chamseddine F, ... ... Akl EA, et al. Ventilation Techniques and Risk for Transmission of Coronavirus Disease, Including COVID-19. Annals of Internal Medicine. PMID 32442035 DOI: 10.7326/M20-2306  0.38
2020 Yaacoub S, Schünemann HJ, Khabsa J, El-Harakeh A, Khamis AM, Chamseddine F, El Khoury R, Saad Z, Hneiny L, Cuello Garcia C, Muti-Schünemann GEU, Bognanni A, Chen C, Chen G, Zhang Y, ... ... Akl EA, et al. Safe management of bodies of deceased persons with suspected or confirmed COVID-19: a rapid systematic review. Bmj Global Health. 5. PMID 32409328 DOI: 10.1136/Bmjgh-2020-002650  0.457
2020 Ventresca M, Schünemann HJ, Macbeth F, Clarke M, Thabane L, Griffiths G, Noble S, Garcia D, Marcucci M, Iorio A, Zhou Q, Crowther M, Akl EA, Lyman GH, Gloy V, et al. Obtaining and managing data sets for individual participant data meta-analysis: scoping review and practical guide. Bmc Medical Research Methodology. 20: 113. PMID 32398016 DOI: 10.1186/S12874-020-00964-6  0.486
2020 Lotfi T, Itani MI, Howeiss P, Kilzar L, Rizk NA, Akl EA. Practice guidelines on migrants' health: assessment of their quality and reporting. Health and Quality of Life Outcomes. 18: 125. PMID 32380997 DOI: 10.1186/S12955-020-01363-7  0.318
2020 van Es N, Ventresca M, Di Nisio M, Zhou Q, Noble S, Crowther M, Briel M, Garcia D, Lyman GH, Macbeth F, Griffiths G, Iorio A, Lawrence M, Neumann I, Brozek J, ... ... Akl EA, et al. The Khorana score for prediction of venous thromboembolism in cancer patients: an individual patient data meta-analysis. Journal of Thrombosis and Haemostasis : Jth. PMID 32336010 DOI: 10.1111/Jth.14824  0.461
2020 Zeinoun P, Akl EA, Maalouf FT, Meho LI. The Arab Region's Contribution to Global Mental Health Research (2009-2018): A Bibliometric Analysis. Frontiers in Psychiatry. 11: 182. PMID 32265754 DOI: 10.3389/Fpsyt.2020.00182  0.311
2020 El-Harakeh A, Lotfi T, Ahmad A, Morsi RZ, Fadlallah R, Bou-Karroum L, Akl EA. The implementation of prioritization exercises in the development and update of health practice guidelines: A scoping review. Plos One. 15: e0229249. PMID 32196520 DOI: 10.1371/Journal.Pone.0229249  0.369
2020 Akl EA, Haddaway NR, Rada G, Lotfi T. Evidence synthesis 2.0: when systematic, scoping, rapid, living, and overviews of reviews come together. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology. PMID 32145364 DOI: 10.1016/J.Jclinepi.2020.01.025  0.325
2020 Darzi AJ, Karam SG, Charide R, Etxeandia Ikobaltzeta I, Cushman M, Gould MK, Mbuagbaw L, Spencer F, Spyropoulos A, Streiff MB, Woller SC, Zakai N, Germini F, Rigoni M, Agarwal A, ... ... Akl E, et al. Prognostic factors for VTE and Bleeding in Hospitalized Medical Patients: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Blood. PMID 32092132 DOI: 10.1182/Blood.2019003603  0.485
2020 Santesso N, Barbara AM, Kamran R, Akkinepally S, Cairney J, Akl E, Schünemann HJ. Conclusions from surveys may not consider important biases: A systematic survey of surveys. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology. PMID 32068102 DOI: 10.1016/J.Jclinepi.2020.01.019  0.473
2020 Schünemann HJ, Mustafa RA, Brozek J, Steingart KR, Leeflang M, Murad MH, Bossuyt P, Glasziou P, Jaeschke R, Lange S, Meerpohl J, Langendam M, Hultcrantz M, Vist GE, Akl EA, et al. GRADE guidelines: 21 part 1. Study design, risk of bias and indirectness in rating the certainty across a body of evidence for test accuracy. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology. PMID 32060007 DOI: 10.1016/J.Jclinepi.2019.12.020  0.525
2020 Schünemann HJ, Mustafa RA, Brozek J, Steingart KR, Leeflang M, Murad MH, Bossuyt P, Glasziou P, Jaeschke R, Lange S, Meerpohl J, Langendam M, Hultcrantz M, Vist GE, Akl EA, et al. GRADE guidelines: 21 part 2. Inconsistency, Imprecision, publication bias and other domains for rating the certainty of evidence for test accuracy and presenting it in evidence profiles and summary of findings tables. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology. PMID 32058069 DOI: 10.1016/J.Jclinepi.2019.12.021  0.507
2020 Petkovic J, Riddle A, Akl EA, Khabsa J, Lytvyn L, Atwere P, Campbell P, Chalkidou K, Chang SM, Crowe S, Dans L, Jardali FE, Ghersi D, Graham ID, Grant S, et al. Protocol for the development of guidance for stakeholder engagement in health and healthcare guideline development and implementation. Systematic Reviews. 9: 21. PMID 32007104 DOI: 10.1186/S13643-020-1272-5  0.497
2019 Lindner AK, Lejon V, Chappuis F, Seixas J, Kazumba L, Barrett MP, Mwamba E, Erphas O, Akl EA, Villanueva G, Bergman H, Simarro P, Kadima Ebeja A, Priotto G, Franco JR. New WHO guidelines for treatment of gambiense human African trypanosomiasis including fexinidazole: substantial changes for clinical practice. The Lancet. Infectious Diseases. PMID 31879061 DOI: 10.1016/S1473-3099(19)30612-7  0.371
2019 Khabsa J, Semaan A, El-Harakeh A, Khamis AM, Obeid S, Noureldine HA, Akl EA. Financial relationships between patient and consumer representatives and the health industry: A systematic review. Health Expectations : An International Journal of Public Participation in Health Care and Health Policy. PMID 31858662 DOI: 10.1111/Hex.13013  0.317
2019 Fadlallah R, El-Harakeh A, Bou-Karroum L, Lotfi T, El-Jardali F, Hishi L, Akl EA. A common framework of steps and criteria for prioritizing topics for evidence syntheses: a systematic review. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology. PMID 31846688 DOI: 10.1016/J.Jclinepi.2019.12.009  0.356
2019 Murad MH, Liem RI, Lang ES, Akl EA, Meerpohl JJ, DeBaun MR, Tisdale JF, Brandow AM, Lanzkron SM, Chou ST, Webb S, Mustafa RA. 2019 sickle cell disease guidelines by the American Society of Hematology: methodology, challenges, and innovations. Blood Advances. 3: 3945-3950. PMID 31794603 DOI: 10.1182/Bloodadvances.2019000931  0.387
2019 El Moheb M, Nicolas J, Khamis A, Akl E, Refaat MM. Cochrane corner: implantable cardiac defibrillators for patients with non-ischaemic cardiomyopathy. Heart (British Cardiac Society). PMID 31732656 DOI: 10.1136/Heartjnl-2019-315341  0.342
2019 Santesso N, Glenton C, Dahm P, Garner P, Akl E, Alper B, Brignardello-Petersen R, Carrasco-Labra A, De Beer H, Hultcrantz M, Kuijpers T, Meerpohl J, Morgan R, Mustafa R, Skoetz N, et al. GRADE guidelines 26: Informative statements to communicate the findings of systematic reviews of interventions. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology. PMID 31711912 DOI: 10.1016/J.Jclinepi.2019.10.014  0.505
2019 Skoetz N, Goldkuhle M, van Dalen EC, Akl EA, Trivela M, Mustafa RA, Nowak A, Dahm P, Schünemann H, Bender R. GRADE guidelines 27: How to calculate absolute effects for time-to-event outcomes in Summary of Findings tables and Evidence Profiles. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology. PMID 31711910 DOI: 10.1016/J.Jclinepi.2019.10.015  0.453
2019 El-Harakeh A, Morsi RZ, Fadlallah R, Bou-Karroum L, Lotfi T, Akl EA. Prioritization approaches in the development of health practice guidelines: a systematic review. Bmc Health Services Research. 19: 692. PMID 31615509 DOI: 10.1186/S12913-019-4567-2  0.387
2019 Song Y, Darzi A, Ballesteros M, Martínez García L, Alonso-Coello P, Arayssi T, Bhaumik S, Chen Y, Cluzeau F, Ghersi D, Padilla PF, Langlois EV, Schünemann HJ, Vernooij RWM, Akl EA. Extending the RIGHT statement for reporting adapted practice guidelines in healthcare: the RIGHT-Ad@pt Checklist protocol. Bmj Open. 9: e031767. PMID 31551391 DOI: 10.1136/Bmjopen-2019-031767  0.461
2019 Shaya B, Al Homsi N, Eid K, Haidar Z, Khalil A, Merheb K, Honein-Abou Haidar G, Akl EA. Factors associated with the public's trust in physicians in the context of the Lebanese healthcare system: a qualitative study. Bmc Health Services Research. 19: 525. PMID 31351485 DOI: 10.1186/S12913-019-4354-0  0.306
2019 Kahale LA, Guyatt GH, Agoritsas T, Briel M, Busse JW, Carrasco-Labra A, Khamis AM, Zhang Y, Hooft L, Scholten RJ, Akl EA. A guidance was developed to identify participants with missing outcome data in randomized controlled trials. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology. PMID 31299357 DOI: 10.1016/J.Jclinepi.2019.07.003  0.324
2019 Khamis AM, Kahale LA, Pardo-Hernandez H, Schünemann HJ, Akl EA. Methods of conduct and reporting of living systematic reviews: a protocol for a living methodological survey. F1000research. 8: 221. PMID 31231512 DOI: 10.12688/F1000Research.18005.2  0.505
2019 Khamis AM, El Moheb M, Nicolas J, Iskandarani G, Refaat MM, Akl EA. Several reasons explained the variation in the results of 22 meta-analyses addressing the same question. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology. PMID 31150832 DOI: 10.1016/J.Jclinepi.2019.05.023  0.304
2019 Pai M, Yeung CHT, Akl EA, Darzi A, Hillis C, Legault K, Meerpohl JJ, Santesso N, Taruscio D, Verhovsek M, Schünemann HJ, Iorio A. Strategies for eliciting and synthesizing evidence for guidelines in rare diseases. Bmc Medical Research Methodology. 19: 67. PMID 30922227 DOI: 10.1186/S12874-019-0713-0  0.48
2019 Fadlallah R, El-Jardali F, Nomier M, Hemadi N, Arif K, Langlois EV, Akl EA. Using narratives to impact health policy-making: a systematic review. Health Research Policy and Systems. 17: 26. PMID 30836972 DOI: 10.1186/S12961-019-0423-4  0.337
2019 Ajuebor O, Cometto G, Boniol M, Akl EA. Stakeholders' perceptions of policy options to support the integration of community health workers in health systems. Human Resources For Health. 17: 13. PMID 30777095 DOI: 10.1186/S12960-019-0348-6  0.315
2019 Schünemann HJ, Mustafa RA, Brozek J, Santesso N, Bossuyt PM, Steingart KR, Leeflang M, Lange S, Trenti T, Langendam M, Scholten R, Hooft L, Murad MH, Jaeschke R, Rutjes A, ... ... Akl EA, et al. GRADE Guidelines: 22. The GRADE approach for tests and strategies - from test accuracy to patient important outcomes and recommendations. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology. PMID 30738926 DOI: 10.1016/J.Jclinepi.2019.02.003  0.479
2019 Bou-Karroum L, Daou KN, Nomier M, El Arnaout N, Fouad FM, El-Jardali F, Akl EA. Health Care Workers in the setting of the "Arab Spring": a scoping review for the Lancet-AUB Commission on Syria. Journal of Global Health. 9: 010402. PMID 30410745 DOI: 10.7189/Jogh.09.010402  0.352
2018 Rosenbaum SE, Moberg J, Glenton C, Schünemann HJ, Lewin S, Akl E, Mustafa RA, Morelli A, Vogel JP, Alonso-Coello P, Rada G, Vásquez J, Parmelli E, Gülmezoglu AM, Flottorp SA, et al. Developing Evidence to Decision Frameworks and an Interactive Evidence to Decision Tool for Making and Using Decisions and Recommendations in Health Care. Global Challenges (Hoboken, Nj). 2: 1700081. PMID 31565348 DOI: 10.1002/gch2.201700081  0.418
2018 Morgan RL, Thayer KA, Santesso N, Holloway AC, Blain R, Eftim SE, Goldstone AE, Ross P, Ansari M, Akl E, Filippini T, Hansell A, Meerpohl JJ, Mustafa RA, Verbeek J, et al. A risk of bias instrument for non-randomized studies of exposures: A users' guide to its application in the context of GRADE. Environment International. PMID 30473382 DOI: 10.1016/J.Envint.2018.11.004  0.512
2018 Cometto G, Ford N, Pfaffman-Zambruni J, Akl EA, Lehmann U, McPake B, Ballard M, Kok M, Najafizada M, Olaniran A, Ajuebor O, Perry HB, Scott K, Albers B, Shlonsky A, et al. Health policy and system support to optimise community health worker programmes: an abridged WHO guideline. The Lancet. Global Health. 6: e1397-e1404. PMID 30430994 DOI: 10.1016/S2214-109X(18)30482-0  0.38
2018 Kahale LA, Diab B, Khamis AM, Chang Y, Lopes LC, Agarwal A, Li L, Mustafa R, Koujanian S, Waziry R, Busse JW, Dakik A, Guyatt G, Akl EA. Potentially missing data was considerably more frequent than definitely missing data in randomized controlled trials: A methodological survey. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology. PMID 30300676 DOI: 10.1016/J.Jclinepi.2018.10.001  0.313
2018 Alhazzani W, Lewis K, Jaeschke R, Rochwerg B, Møller MH, Evans L, Wilson KC, Patel S, Coopersmith CM, Cecconi M, Guyatt G, Akl EA. Conflicts of interest disclosure forms and management in critical care clinical practice guidelines. Intensive Care Medicine. PMID 30264380 DOI: 10.1007/S00134-018-5367-6  0.317
2018 Arayssi T, Harfouche M, Darzi A, Al Emadi S, Alnaqbi KA, Badsha H, Al Balushi F, Dib C, Elzorkany B, Halabi H, Hammoudeh M, Hazer W, Masri B, Merashli M, Omair M, ... ... Akl EA, et al. Correction to: Recommendations for the management of rheumatoid arthritis in the Eastern Mediterranean region: an adolopment of the 2015 American College of Rheumatology guidelines. Clinical Rheumatology. PMID 30191420 DOI: 10.1007/s10067-018-4282-0  0.369
2018 Tricco AC, Lillie E, Zarin W, O'Brien KK, Colquhoun H, Levac D, Moher D, Peters MDJ, Horsley T, Weeks L, Hempel S, Akl EA, Chang C, McGowan J, Stewart L, et al. PRISMA Extension for Scoping Reviews (PRISMA-ScR): Checklist and Explanation. Annals of Internal Medicine. PMID 30178033 DOI: 10.7326/M18-0850  0.391
2018 El-Jardali F, Fadlallah R, Daouk A, Rizk R, Hemadi N, El Kebbi O, Farha A, Akl EA. Barriers and facilitators to implementation of essential health benefits package within primary health care settings in low-income and middle-income countries: A systematic review. The International Journal of Health Planning and Management. PMID 30132987 DOI: 10.1002/Hpm.2625  0.332
2018 Khamis AM, Bou-Karroum L, Hakoum MB, Al-Gibbawi M, Habib JR, El-Jardali F, Akl EA. The reporting of funding in health policy and systems research: a cross-sectional study. Health Research Policy and Systems. 16: 83. PMID 30119673 DOI: 10.1186/S12961-018-0356-3  0.302
2018 Arayssi T, Harfouche M, Darzi A, Al Emadi S, A Alnaqbi K, Badsha H, Al Balushi F, Dib C, Elzorkany B, Halabi H, Hammoudeh M, Hazer W, Masri B, Merashli M, Omair M, ... ... Akl EA, et al. Recommendations for the management of rheumatoid arthritis in the Eastern Mediterranean region: an adolopment of the 2015 American College of Rheumatology guidelines. Clinical Rheumatology. PMID 30097896 DOI: 10.1007/S10067-018-4245-5  0.48
2018 Bou-Karroum L, Hakoum MB, Hammoud MZ, Khamis AM, Al-Gibbawi M, Badour S, Justina Hasbani D, Cruz Lopes L, El-Rayess HM, El-Jardali F, Guyatt G, Akl EA. Reporting of Financial and Non-financial Conflicts of Interest in Systematic Reviews on Health Policy and Systems Research: A Cross Sectional Survey. International Journal of Health Policy and Management. 7: 711-717. PMID 30078291 DOI: 10.15171/Ijhpm.2017.146  0.359
2018 Zhang Y, Akl EA, Schünemann HJ. Using systematic reviews in guideline development: the GRADE approach. Research Synthesis Methods. PMID 30006970 DOI: 10.1002/Jrsm.1313  0.557
2018 Morgan RL, Florez I, Falavigna M, Kowalski S, Akl EA, Thayer KA, Rooney A, Schünemann HJ. Development of rapid guidelines: 3. GIN-McMaster Guideline Development Checklist extension for rapid recommendations. Health Research Policy and Systems. 16: 63. PMID 30005679 DOI: 10.1186/S12961-018-0330-0  0.491
2018 Matar CF, Kahale LA, Hakoum MB, Tsolakian IG, Etxeandia-Ikobaltzeta I, Yosuico VE, Terrenato I, Sperati F, Barba M, Schünemann H, Akl EA. Anticoagulation for perioperative thromboprophylaxis in people with cancer. The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews. 7: CD009447. PMID 29993117 DOI: 10.1002/14651858.Cd009447.Pub3  0.427
2018 Legault K, Schunemann H, Hillis C, Yeung C, Akl EA, Carrier M, Cervera R, Crowther M, Dentali F, Erkan D, Espinosa G, Khamashta M, Meerpohl JJ, Moffat K, O'Brien S, et al. McMaster RARE-Bestpractices clinical practice guideline on diagnosis and management of the catastrophic antiphospholipid syndrome. Journal of Thrombosis and Haemostasis : Jth. PMID 29978552 DOI: 10.1111/Jth.14192  0.524
2018 Kahale LA, Hakoum MB, Tsolakian IG, Matar CF, Terrenato I, Sperati F, Barba M, Yosuico VE, Schünemann H, Akl EA. Anticoagulation for the long-term treatment of venous thromboembolism in people with cancer. The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews. 6: CD006650. PMID 29920657 DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD006650.pub5  0.34
2018 Kahale LA, Tsolakian IG, Hakoum MB, Matar CF, Barba M, Yosuico VE, Terrenato I, Sperati F, Schünemann H, Akl EA. Anticoagulation for people with cancer and central venous catheters. The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews. 6: CD006468. PMID 29856471 DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD006468.pub6  0.372
2018 Zhang Y, Alonso Coello P, Guyatt G, Yepes-Nuñez JJ, Akl EA, Hazlewood G, Pardo-Hernandez H, Etxeandia-Ikobaltzeta I, Qaseem A, Williams JW, Tugwell P, Flottorp S, Chang Y, Zhang Y, Mustafa RA, et al. GRADE Guidelines: 20. Assessing the certainty of evidence in the importance of outcomes or values and preferences - Inconsistency, Imprecision, and other Domains. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology. PMID 29800687 DOI: 10.1016/J.Jclinepi.2018.05.011  0.458
2018 Al Feghali KA, Ballout RA, Khamis AM, Akl EA, Geara FB. Prophylactic Cranial Irradiation in Patients With Non-Small-Cell Lung Cancer: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials. Frontiers in Oncology. 8: 115. PMID 29732317 DOI: 10.3389/Fonc.2018.00115  0.314
2018 Daou KN, Hakoum MB, Khamis AM, Bou-Karroum L, Ali A, Habib JR, Semaan AT, Guyatt G, Akl EA. Public health journals' requirements for authors to disclose funding and conflicts of interest: a cross-sectional study. Bmc Public Health. 18: 533. PMID 29688846 DOI: 10.1186/S12889-018-5456-Z  0.318
2018 Nomier M, Khamis AM, Ali A, Daou KN, Semaan AT, Diab M, Akl EA. Authorship in reports of clinical practice guidelines: A systematic cross-sectional analysis. International Journal of Clinical Practice. e13083. PMID 29665199 DOI: 10.1111/Ijcp.13083  0.336
2018 Neumann I, Alonso-Coello P, Vandvik PO, Agoritsas T, Mas G, Akl EA, Brignardello-Petersen R, Emparanza J, McCullagh L, De Sitio C, McGinn T, Almodaimegh H, Almodaimegh K, Rivera S, Rojas L, et al. Do clinicians want recommendations? A multi-center study comparing evidence summaries with and without GRADE recommendations. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology. PMID 29530644 DOI: 10.1016/J.Jclinepi.2018.02.026  0.524
2018 Kahale LA, Diab B, Brignardello-Petersen R, Agarwal A, Mustafa RA, Kwong J, Neumann I, Li L, Lopes LC, Briel M, Busse JW, Iorio A, Vandvik PO, Alexander PE, Guyatt G, ... Akl EA, et al. Systematic reviews do not adequately report, or address missing outcome data in their analyses: a methodological survey. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology. PMID 29505859 DOI: 10.1016/J.Jclinepi.2018.02.016  0.346
2018 Zhang Y, Alonso Coello P, Guyatt G, Yepes-Nunez JJ, Akl EA, Hazlewood G, Pardo-Hernandez H, Etxeandia-Ikobaltzeta I, Qaseem A, Williams JW, Tugwell P, Flottorp S, Chang Y, Zhang Y, Mustafa RA, et al. GRADE Guidelines: 19. Assessing the certainty of evidence describing the relative importance of outcomes or values and preferences -- Risk of bias and indirectness. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology. PMID 29452223 DOI: 10.1016/J.Jclinepi.2018.01.013  0.496
2018 Schünemann HJ, Cuello C, Akl EA, Mustafa RA, Meerpohl JJ, Thayer K, Morgan RL, Gartlehner G, Kunz R, Katikireddi SV, Sterne J, Higgins JP, Guyatt G. GRADE Guidelines: 18. How ROBINS-I and other tools to assess risk of bias in non-randomized studies should be used to rate the certainty of a body of evidence. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology. PMID 29432858 DOI: 10.1016/J.Jclinepi.2018.01.012  0.526
2018 Fadlallah R, El-Jardali F, Hemadi N, Morsi RZ, Abou Samra CA, Ahmad A, Arif K, Hishi L, Honein-AbouHaidar G, Akl EA. Barriers and facilitators to implementation, uptake and sustainability of community-based health insurance schemes in low- and middle-income countries: a systematic review. International Journal For Equity in Health. 17: 13. PMID 29378585 DOI: 10.1186/S12939-018-0721-4  0.324
2018 Hakoum MB, Kahale LA, Tsolakian IG, Matar CF, Yosuico VE, Terrenato I, Sperati F, Barba M, Schünemann H, Akl EA. Anticoagulation for the initial treatment of venous thromboembolism in people with cancer. The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews. 1: CD006649. PMID 29363105 DOI: 10.1002/14651858.Cd006649.Pub7  0.422
2018 Ghossoub E, Noufi P, Ghosn O, Khoury R, Talih F, Akl EA. Comparative efficacy and safety of carbamazepine in adults without severe mental illness, with aggressive and violent interpersonal behavior: A systematic review and meta-analysis Aggression and Violent Behavior. 38: 86-93. DOI: 10.1016/J.Avb.2017.12.005  0.303
2017 Abdul-Khalek RA, Darzi AJ, Godah MW, Kilzar L, Lakis C, Agarwal A, Abou-Jaoude E, Meerpohl JJ, Wiercioch W, Santesso N, Brax H, Schünemann H, Akl EA. Methods used in adaptation of health-related guidelines: A systematic survey. Journal of Global Health. 7: 020412. PMID 29302318 DOI: 10.7189/Jogh.07.020412  0.491
2017 Kahale LA, Hakoum MB, Tsolakian IG, Matar CF, Barba M, Yosuico VED, Terrenato I, Sperati F, Schünemann H, Akl EA. Oral anticoagulation in people with cancer who have no therapeutic or prophylactic indication for anticoagulation. The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews. 12: CD006466. PMID 29285754 DOI: 10.1002/14651858.Cd006466.Pub6  0.427
2017 Fadlallah R, Alkhaled L, Brax H, Nasser M, Rajabbik MH, Nass H, Kahale LA, Akl EA. Extent of physician-pharmaceutical industry interactions in low- and middle-income countries: a systematic review. European Journal of Public Health. PMID 29165586 DOI: 10.1093/Eurpub/Ckx204  0.31
2017 Chen Y, Yang K, Marušić A, Qaseem A, Meerpohl JJ, Flottorp S, Akl EA, Schünemann HJ, Chan ESY, Falck-Ytter Y, Ahmed F, Barber S, Chen C, Zhang M, Xu B, et al. [A Reporting Tool for Practice Guidelines in Health Care: The RIGHT Statement]. Zeitschrift Fur Evidenz, Fortbildung Und Qualitat Im Gesundheitswesen. PMID 29128430 DOI: 10.1016/J.Zefq.2017.10.008  0.524
2017 Eslava-Schmalbach J, Mosquera P, Alzate JP, Pottie K, Welch V, Akl EA, Jull J, Lang E, Katikireddi SV, Morton R, Thabane L, Shea B, Stein AT, Singh J, Florez ID, et al. Considering health equity when moving from evidence-based guideline recommendations to implementation: a case study from an uppermiddle income country on the GRADE approach. Health Policy and Planning. 32: 1492. PMID 29117368 DOI: 10.1093/heapol/czx158  0.427
2017 Darzi A, Harfouche M, Arayssi T, Alemadi S, Alnaqbi KA, Badsha H, Al Balushi F, Elzorkany B, Halabi H, Hamoudeh M, Hazer W, Masri B, Omair MA, Uthman I, Ziade N, ... ... Akl EA, et al. Correction to: Adaptation of the 2015 American College of Rheumatology treatment guideline for rheumatoid arthritis for the Eastern Mediterranean Region: an exemplar of the GRADE Adolopment. Health and Quality of Life Outcomes. 15: 214. PMID 29073913 DOI: 10.1186/S12955-017-0791-9  0.52
2017 Eslava-Schmalbach J, Mosquera P, Alzate JP, Pottie K, Welch V, Akl EA, Jull J, Lang E, Katikireddi SV, Morton R, Thabane L, Shea B, Stein AT, Singh J, Florez ID, et al. Considering health equity when moving from evidence-based guideline recommendations to implementation: a case study from an upper-middle income country on the GRADE approach. Health Policy and Planning. PMID 29029068 DOI: 10.1093/Heapol/Czx126  0.531
2017 Hakoum MB, Jouni N, Abou-Jaoude EA, Hasbani DJ, Abou-Jaoude EA, Lopes LC, Khaldieh M, Hammoud MZ, Al-Gibbawi M, Anouti S, Guyatt G, Akl EA. Characteristics of funding of clinical trials: cross-sectional survey and proposed guidance. Bmj Open. 7: e015997. PMID 28982811 DOI: 10.1136/Bmjopen-2017-015997  0.303
2017 Darzi A, Harfouche M, Arayssi T, Alemadi S, Alnaqbi KA, Badsha H, Al Balushi F, Elzorkany B, Halabi H, Hamoudeh M, Hazer W, Masri B, Omair MA, Uthman I, Ziade N, ... ... Akl EA, et al. Adaptation of the 2015 American College of Rheumatology treatment guideline for rheumatoid arthritis for the Eastern Mediterranean Region: an exemplar of the GRADE Adolopment. Health and Quality of Life Outcomes. 15: 183. PMID 28934978 DOI: 10.1186/s12955-017-0754-1  0.369
2017 Alonso-Coello P, Oxman AD, Moberg J, Brignardello-Petersen R, Akl EA, Davoli M, Treweek S, Mustafa RA, Vandvik PO, Meerpohl J, Guyatt GH, Schünemann HJ. [GRADE Evidence to Decision (EtD) frameworks: a systematic and transparent approach to making well informed healthcare choices. 2: Clinical practice guidelines]. Gaceta Sanitaria. PMID 28917831 DOI: 10.1016/J.Gaceta.2017.03.008  0.533
2017 Akl EA, Meerpohl JJ, Elliott J, Kahale LA, Schünemann HJ. Living systematic reviews: 4. living guideline recommendations. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology. PMID 28911999 DOI: 10.1016/J.Jclinepi.2017.08.009  0.532
2017 Pottie K, Mayhew AD, Morton RL, Greenaway C, Akl EA, Rahman P, Zenner D, Pareek M, Tugwell P, Welch V, Meerpohl J, Alonso-Coello P, Hui C, Biggs BA, Requena-Méndez A, et al. Prevention and assessment of infectious diseases among children and adult migrants arriving to the European Union/European Economic Association: a protocol for a suite of systematic reviews for public health and health systems. Bmj Open. 7: e014608. PMID 28893741 DOI: 10.1136/Bmjopen-2016-014608  0.47
2017 Akl EA, Kahale LA, Hakoum MB, Matar CF, Sperati F, Barba M, Yosuico VED, Terrenato I, Synnot A, Schünemann H. Parenteral anticoagulation in ambulatory patients with cancer. The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews. 9: CD006652. PMID 28892556 DOI: 10.1002/14651858.Cd006652.Pub5  0.439
2017 Akl EA, Fadlallah R, Ghandour L, Kdouh O, Langlois E, Lavis JN, Schünemann H, El-Jardali F. The SPARK Tool to prioritise questions for systematic reviews in health policy and systems research: development and initial validation. Health Research Policy and Systems. 15: 77. PMID 28870215 DOI: 10.1186/S12961-017-0242-4  0.496
2017 Alonso-Coello P, Schünemann HJ, Moberg J, Brignardello-Petersen R, Akl EA, Davoli M, Treweek S, Mustafa RA, Rada G, Rosenbaum S, Morelli A, Guyatt GH, Oxman AD. [GRADE Evidence to Decision (EtD) frameworks: a systematic and transparent approach to making well informed healthcare choices. 1: Introduction]. Gaceta Sanitaria. PMID 28822594 DOI: 10.1016/J.Gaceta.2017.02.010  0.5
2017 Pottie K, Welch V, Morton R, Akl EA, Eslava-Schmalbach JH, Katikireddi V, Singh J, Moja L, Lang E, Magrini N, Thabane L, Stanev R, Matovinovic E, Snellman A, Briel M, et al. GRADE Equity Guidelines 4: Guidance on how to assess and address health equity within the evidence to decision process. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology. PMID 28802675 DOI: 10.1016/J.Jclinepi.2017.08.001  0.515
2017 Zhang Y, Flórez ID, Colunga Lozano LE, Bakar Aloweni FA, Kennedy SA, Li A, Craigie S, Zhang S, Agarwal A, Lopes LC, Devji T, Wiercioch W, Riva JJ, Wang M, Jin X, ... ... Akl EA, et al. Reporting and methods for handling missing participant data for continuous outcomes in randomized controlled trials: a systematic survey. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology. PMID 28583378 DOI: 10.1016/J.Jclinepi.2017.05.017  0.481
2017 Zhang Y, Alyass A, Vanniyasingam T, Sadeghirad B, Flórez ID, Pichika SC, Kennedy SA, Abdulkarimova U, Zhang Y, Iljon T, Morgano GP, Colunga Lozano LE, Aloweni FAB, Lopes LC, Yepes-Nuñez JJ, ... ... Akl EA, et al. Reporting quality and optimal methods of handling participants with missing outcome data for continuous outcomes in randomized controlled trials: a systematic survey of the methods literature. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology. PMID 28579378 DOI: 10.1016/J.Jclinepi.2017.05.016  0.328
2017 Guyatt GH, Ebrahim S, Alonso-Coello P, Johnston BC, Mathioudakis AG, Briel M, Mustafa RA, Sun X, Walter SD, Heels-Ansdell D, Neumann I, Kahale LA, Iorio A, Meerpohl J, Schünemann HJ, ... Akl EA, et al. GRADE guidelines 17: Assessing the Risk of Bias Associated with Missing Participant Outcome Data in a body of evidence. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology. PMID 28529188 DOI: 10.1016/J.Jclinepi.2017.05.005  0.495
2017 Hultcrantz M, Rind D, Akl EA, Treweek S, Mustafa RA, Iorio A, Alper BS, Meerpohl JJ, Murad MH, Ansari MT, Katikireddi SV, Östlund P, Tranæus S, Christensen R, Gartlehner G, et al. The GRADE Working Group clarifies the construct of certainty of evidence. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology. PMID 28529184 DOI: 10.1016/J.Jclinepi.2017.05.006  0.527
2017 Akl EA, Welch V, Pottie K, Eslava-Schmalbach J, Darzi A, Sola I, Katikireddi SV, Singh J, Murad MH, Meerpohl J, Stanev R, Lang E, Matovinovic E, Shea B, Agoritsas T, et al. GRADE Equity Guidelines 2: Considering health equity in the GRADE guideline development process. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology. PMID 28499847 DOI: 10.1016/J.Jclinepi.2017.01.017  0.496
2017 Zhang Y, Coello PA, Brożek J, Wiercioch W, Etxeandia-Ikobaltzeta I, Akl EA, Meerpohl JJ, Alhazzani W, Carrasco-Labra A, Morgan RL, Mustafa RA, Riva JJ, Moore A, Yepes-Nuñez JJ, Cuello-Garcia C, et al. Using patient values and preferences to inform the importance of health outcomes in practice guideline development following the GRADE approach. Health and Quality of Life Outcomes. 15: 52. PMID 28460638 DOI: 10.1186/S12955-017-0621-0  0.524
2017 Bou-Karroum L, El-Jardali F, Hemadi N, Faraj Y, Ojha U, Shahrour M, Darzi A, Ali M, Doumit C, Langlois EV, Melki J, AbouHaidar GH, Akl EA. Using media to impact health policy-making: an integrative systematic review. Implementation Science : Is. 12: 52. PMID 28420401 DOI: 10.1186/S13012-017-0581-0  0.331
2017 Hakoum MB, Jouni N, Abou-Jaoude EA, Hasbani DJ, Abou-Jaoude EA, Lopes LC, Khaldieh M, Hammoud MZ, Al Gibbawi M, Anouti S, Guyatt G, Akl EA. Authors of Clinical Trials Reported Individual and Financial Conflicts of Interest More Frequently than Institutional and non-financial Ones: a Methodological Survey. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology. PMID 28412465 DOI: 10.1016/J.Jclinepi.2017.04.002  0.352
2017 Welch VA, Akl EA, Guyatt G, Pottie K, Eslava-Schmalbach J, Ansari MT, de Beer H, Briel M, Dans T, Dans I, Hultcrantz M, Jull J, Katikireddi SV, Meerpohl J, Morton R, et al. GRADE Equity guidelines 1: Health equity in guideline development- introduction and rationale. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology. PMID 28412464 DOI: 10.1016/J.Jclinepi.2017.01.014  0.484
2017 Darzi A, Abou-Jaoude EA, Agarwal A, Lakis C, Wiercioch W, Santesso N, Brax H, El-Jardali F, Schünemann HJ, Akl EA. Frameworks for adaptation of health guidelines: a methodological survey. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology. PMID 28412463 DOI: 10.1016/J.Jclinepi.2017.01.016  0.48
2017 Brax H, Fadlallah R, Al-Khaled L, Kahale LA, Nas H, El-Jardali F, Akl EA. Association between physicians' interaction with pharmaceutical companies and their clinical practices: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Plos One. 12: e0175493. PMID 28406971 DOI: 10.1371/Journal.Pone.0175493  0.337
2017 Welch VA, Akl EA, Pottie K, Ansari MT, Briel M, Christensen R, Dans A, Dans L, Eslava-Schmalbach JH, Guyatt G, Hultcrantz M, Jull J, Katikireddi SV, Lang E, Matovinovic E, et al. GRADE Equity Guidelines 3: Health equity considerations in rating the certainty of synthesized evidence. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology. PMID 28389397 DOI: 10.1016/J.Jclinepi.2017.01.015  0.52
2017 Dahm P, Oxman AD, Djulbegovic B, Guyatt GH, Murad MH, Amato L, Parmelli E, Davoli M, Morgan RL, Mustafa RA, Sultan S, Falck-Ytter Y, Akl EA, Schünemann HJ. Applying GRADE to Coverage Decisions: Results of a Stakeholder Survey and Workshop. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology. PMID 28377194 DOI: 10.1016/J.Jclinepi.2017.02.019  0.423
2017 Brandt L, Vandvik PO, Alonso-Coello P, Akl EA, Thornton J, Rigau D, Adams K, O'Connor P, Guyatt G, Kristiansen A. Multilayered and digitally structured presentation formats of trustworthy recommendations: a combined survey and randomised trial. Bmj Open. 7: e011569. PMID 28188149 DOI: 10.1136/Bmjopen-2016-011569  0.35
2017 El Dib R, Tikkinen KA, Akl EA, Goma HA, Mustafa RA, Agarwal A, Carpenter CR, Zhang Y, Jorge EC, Almeida RA, do Nascimento Junior P, Doles JV, Mustafa AA, Sadeghirad B, Lopes LC, et al. Systematic survey of randomized trials evaluating the impact of alternative diagnostic strategies on patient-important outcomes. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology. PMID 28063913 DOI: 10.1016/J.Jclinepi.2016.12.009  0.493
2017 Al-Hameed FM, Al-Dorzi HM, Abdelaal MA, Alaklabi A, Bakhsh E, Alomi YA, Al Baik M, Aldahan S, Schünemann H, Brozek J, Wiercioch W, Darzi AJ, Waziry R, Akl EA. The Saudi clinical practice guideline for the prophylaxis of venous thromboembolism in long-distance travelers. Saudi Medical Journal. 38: 101-107. PMID 28042639 DOI: 10.15537/smj.2017.1.15738  0.444
2017 Es NV, Ventresca M, Zhou Q, Noble S, Crowther M, Briel M, Garcia DA, Lyman GH, Macbeth F, Griffiths G, Iorio A, Mbuagbaw L, Neumann I, Brozek J, Guyatt G, ... ... Akl EA, et al. The Khorana Score for the prediction of venous thromboembolism in patients with solid cancer: An individual patient data meta-analysis Blood. 130: 627-627. DOI: 10.1182/Blood.V130.Suppl_1.627.627  0.485
2017 Schünemann H, Ventresca M, Crowther M, Nisio MD, Briel M, Zhou Q, Noble S, Macbeth F, Griffiths G, Garcia DA, Lyman GH, Iorio A, Mbuagbaw L, Neumann I, Es NV, ... ... Akl EA, et al. An individual participant data meta-analysis of 13 randomized trials to evaluate the impact of prophylactic use of heparin in oncological patients Blood. 130: 626-626. DOI: 10.1182/Blood.V130.Suppl_1.626.626  0.504
2017 Legault K, Hillis C, Yeung C, Iorio A, Crowther M, Akl E, Carrier M, Cervera R, Dentali F, Erkan D, Espinosa G, Khamashta M, Meerpohl J, Moffat K, O'Brien S, et al. THU0561 Clinical practice guideline for diagnosis and management of catastrophic antiphospholipid syndrome Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases. 76: 418-419. DOI: 10.1136/Annrheumdis-2017-Eular.2085  0.529
2017 Lotfi T, Bou-Karroum L, Darzi A, Hajjar R, Rahyel AE, El-Eid J, Itani M, Brax H, Akik C, Osman M, Hassan G, El-Jardali F, Akl EA. Coordination of health-service provision in humanitarian crises: a systematic review of suggested models The Lancet. 390. DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(17)32088-3  0.348
2016 Chen Y, Yang K, Marušic A, Qaseem A, Meerpohl JJ, Flottorp S, Akl EA, Schünemann HJ, Chan ES, Falck-Ytter Y, Ahmed F, Barber S, Chen C, Zhang M, Xu B, et al. A Reporting Tool for Practice Guidelines in Health Care: The RIGHT Statement. Annals of Internal Medicine. PMID 27893062 DOI: 10.7326/M16-1565  0.524
2016 Murad MH, Guyatt GH, Domecq JP, Vernooij RW, Erwin PJ, Meerpohl JJ, Prutsky GJ, Akl EA, Mueller K, Bassler D, Schandelmaier S, Walter SD, Busse JW, Kasenda B, Pagano G, et al. Randomized trials addressing a similar question are commonly published after a trial stopped early for benefit. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology. PMID 27832953 DOI: 10.1016/J.Jclinepi.2016.10.006  0.31
2016 Al-Hameed FM, Al-Dorzi HM, Abdelaal MA, Alaklabi A, Bakhsh E, Alomi YA, Al Baik M, Aldahan S, Schünemann H, Brozek J, Wiercioch W, Darzi AJ, Waziry R, Akl EA. The Saudi clinical practice guideline for the prophylaxis of venous thromboembolism in medical and critically ill patients. Saudi Medical Journal. 37: 1279-1293. PMID 27761572 DOI: 10.15537/Smj.2016.11.15268  0.516
2016 Schünemann HJ, Wiercioch W, Brozek J, Etxeandia-Ikobaltzeta I, Mustafa RA, Manja V, Brignardello-Petersen R, Neumann I, Falavigna M, AlHazzani W, Santesso N, Zhang Y, Meerpohl JJ, Morgan RL, Rochwerg B, ... ... Akl EA, et al. GRADE Evidence to Decision Frameworks for adoption, adaptation and de novo development of trustworthy recommendations: GRADE-ADOLOPMENT. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology. PMID 27713072 DOI: 10.1016/J.Jclinepi.2016.09.009  0.504
2016 Godah MW, Abdul Khalek RA, Kilzar L, Zeid H, Nahlawi A, Lopes LC, Darzi AJ, Schünemann HJ, Akl EA. A very low number of national adaptations of the World Health Organization guidelines for HIV and Tuberculosis reported their processes. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology. PMID 27565977 DOI: 10.1016/J.Jclinepi.2016.07.017  0.446
2016 Fadlallah R, Nas H, Naamani D, El-Jardali F, Hammoura I, Al-Khaled L, Brax H, Kahale L, Akl EA. Knowledge, Beliefs and Attitudes of Patients and the General Public towards the Interactions of Physicians with the Pharmaceutical and the Device Industry: A Systematic Review. Plos One. 11: e0160540. PMID 27556929 DOI: 10.1371/Journal.Pone.0160540  0.311
2016 Agarwal A, Johnston BC, Vernooij RW, Carrasco-Labra A, Brignardello-Petersen R, Neumann I, Akl EA, Sun X, Briel M, Busse JW, Ebrahim S, Granados CE, Iorio A, Irfan A, Martínez García L, et al. Authors seldom report the most patient-important outcomes and absolute effect measures in systematic review abstracts. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology. PMID 27555080 DOI: 10.1016/J.Jclinepi.2016.08.004  0.486
2016 Carr Z, Clarke M, Akl EA, Schneider R, Murith C, Li C, Parrish-Sprowl J, Stenke L, Cui-Ping L, Bertrand S, Miller C. Using the Grade Approach to Support the Development of Recommendations for Public Health Interventions in Radiation Emergencies. Radiation Protection Dosimetry. PMID 27521205 DOI: 10.1093/Rpd/Ncw234  0.409
2016 Hakoum MB, Anouti S, Al-Gibbawi M, Abou-Jaoude EA, Hasbani DJ, Lopes LC, Agarwal A, Guyatt G, Akl EA. Reporting of financial and non-financial conflicts of interest by authors of systematic reviews: a methodological survey. Bmj Open. 6: e011997. PMID 27515760 DOI: 10.1136/Bmjopen-2016-011997  0.344
2016 Agarwal A, Raad D, Kairouz V, Fudyma J, Curtis AB, Schünemann HJ, Akl EA. The effect of a monetary incentive for administrative assistants on the survey response rate: a randomized controlled trial. Bmc Medical Research Methodology. 16: 94. PMID 27495186 DOI: 10.1186/S12874-016-0201-8  0.452
2016 Guyatt GH, Alonso-Coello P, Schünemann HJ, Djulbegovic B, Nothacker M, Lange S, Murad MH, Akl EA. Guideline panels should seldom make good practice statements: guidance from the GRADE Working Group. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology. PMID 27452192 DOI: 10.1016/J.Jclinepi.2016.07.006  0.45
2016 Garner P, Hopewell S, Chandler J, MacLehose H, Schünemann HJ, Akl EA, Beyene J, Chang S, Churchill R, Dearness K, Guyatt G, Lefebvre C, Liles B, Marshall R, Martínez García L, et al. When and how to update systematic reviews: consensus and checklist. Bmj (Clinical Research Ed.). 354: i3507. PMID 27443385 DOI: 10.1136/Bmj.I3507  0.48
2016 Norris SL, Meerpohl JJ, Akl EA, Schünemann HJ, Gartlehner G, Chen Y, Whittington C. The skills and experience of GRADE methodologists can be assessed with a simple tool. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology. PMID 27421684 DOI: 10.1016/J.Jclinepi.2016.07.001  0.459
2016 Neumann I, Brignardello-Petersen R, Wiercioch W, Carrasco-Labra A, Cuello C, Akl E, Mustafa RA, Al-Hazzani W, Etxeandia-Ikobaltzeta I, Rojas MX, Falavigna M, Santesso N, Brozek J, Iorio A, Alonso-Coello P, et al. The GRADE evidence-to-decision framework: a report of its testing and application in 15 international guideline panels. Implementation Science : Is. 11: 93. PMID 27417219 DOI: 10.1186/S13012-016-0462-Y  0.512
2016 Tarabay R, El Rassi R, Dakik A, Harb A, Ballout RA, Diab B, Khamassi S, Akl EA. Knowledge, attitudes, beliefs, values, preferences, and feasibility in relation to the use of injection safety devices in healthcare settings: a systematic review. Health and Quality of Life Outcomes. 14: 102. PMID 27412354 DOI: 10.1186/S12955-016-0505-8  0.318
2016 Alonso-Coello P, Oxman AD, Moberg J, Brignardello-Petersen R, Akl EA, Davoli M, Treweek S, Mustafa RA, Vandvik PO, Meerpohl J, Guyatt GH, Schünemann HJ. GRADE Evidence to Decision (EtD) frameworks: a systematic and transparent approach to making well informed healthcare choices. 2: Clinical practice guidelines. Bmj (Clinical Research Ed.). 353: i2089. PMID 27365494 DOI: 10.1136/Bmj.I2089  0.495
2016 Alonso-Coello P, Schünemann HJ, Moberg J, Brignardello-Petersen R, Akl EA, Davoli M, Treweek S, Mustafa RA, Rada G, Rosenbaum S, Morelli A, Guyatt GH, Oxman AD. GRADE Evidence to Decision (EtD) frameworks: a systematic and transparent approach to making well informed healthcare choices. 1: Introduction. Bmj (Clinical Research Ed.). 353: i2016. PMID 27353417 DOI: 10.1136/Bmj.I2016  0.468
2016 Jawad M, Jawad S, Waziry RK, Ballout RA, Akl EA. Interventions for waterpipe tobacco smoking prevention and cessation: a systematic review. Scientific Reports. 6: 25872. PMID 27167891 DOI: 10.1038/Srep25872  0.314
2016 Schünemann HJ, Ventresca M, Crowther M, Briel M, Zhou Q, Garcia D, Lyman G, Noble S, Macbeth F, Griffiths G, DiNisio M, Iorio A, Beyene J, Mbuagbaw L, Neumann I, ... ... Akl EA, et al. Use of heparins in patients with cancer: individual participant data meta-analysis of randomised trials study protocol. Bmj Open. 6: e010569. PMID 27130164 DOI: 10.1136/Bmjopen-2015-010569  0.515
2016 Shawwa K, Kallas R, Koujanian S, Agarwal A, Neumann I, Alexander P, Tikkinen KA, Guyatt G, Akl EA. Requirements of Clinical Journals for Authors' Disclosure of Financial and Non-Financial Conflicts of Interest: A Cross Sectional Study. Plos One. 11: e0152301. PMID 27030966 DOI: 10.1371/Journal.Pone.0152301  0.321
2016 Uthman I, Noureldine MH, Arayssi T, Chalhoub NE, Akl EA. How to treat ankylosing spondylitis and nonradiographic axial spondyloarthritis. Key practical messages from the 2015 American College of Rheumatology recommendations. Polskie Archiwum Medycyny WewnęTrznej. 126: 254-61. PMID 27025863 DOI: 10.20452/Pamw.3337  0.357
2016 Sallinen V, Akl EA, You JJ, Agarwal A, Shoucair S, Vandvik PO, Agoritsas T, Heels-Ansdell D, Guyatt GH, Tikkinen KA. Meta-analysis of antibiotics versus appendicectomy for non-perforated acute appendicitis. The British Journal of Surgery. PMID 26990957 DOI: 10.1002/Bjs.10147  0.366
2016 Akl EA, Kahale LA, Ebrahim S, Alonso-Coello P, Schünemann HJ, Guyatt GH. Three challenges described for identifying participants with missing data in trials reports, and potential solutions suggested to systematic reviewers. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology. PMID 26944294 DOI: 10.1016/J.Jclinepi.2016.02.022  0.47
2016 Schünemann HJ, Mustafa R, Brozek J, Santesso N, Alonso-Coello P, Guyatt G, Scholten R, Langendam M, Leeflang MM, Akl EA, Singh J, Meerpohl J, Hultcrantz M, Bossuyt P, Oxman AD, et al. Development of the GRADE Evidence to Decision (EtD) frameworks for tests in clinical practice and public health. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology. PMID 26931285 DOI: 10.1016/J.Jclinepi.2016.01.032  0.495
2016 Lotfi T, Morsi RZ, Rajabbik MH, Alkhaled L, Kahale L, Nass H, Brax H, Fadlallah R, Akl EA. Knowledge, beliefs and attitudes of physicians in low and middle-income countries regarding interacting with pharmaceutical companies: a systematic review. Bmc Health Services Research. 16: 57. PMID 26883210 DOI: 10.1186/S12913-016-1299-4  0.309
2016 Chakhtoura MT, Nakhoul N, Akl EA, Mantzoros CS, El Hajj Fuleihan GA. Guidelines on vitamin D replacement in bariatric surgery: Identification and systematic appraisal. Metabolism: Clinical and Experimental. 65: 586-97. PMID 26833101 DOI: 10.1016/J.Metabol.2015.12.013  0.364
2016 Santesso N, Carrasco-Labra A, Langendam M, Brignardello-Petersen R, Mustafa RA, Heus P, Lasserson T, Opiyo N, Kunnamo I, Sinclair D, Garner P, Treweek S, Tovey D, Akl EA, Tugwell P, et al. Improving GRADE Evidence Tables part 3: Guidance for useful GRADE certainty in the evidence judgments through explanatory footnotes. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology. PMID 26796947 DOI: 10.1016/J.Jclinepi.2015.12.006  0.519
2016 Carrasco-Labra A, Brignardello-Petersen R, Santesso N, Neumann I, Mustafa RA, Mbuagbaw L, Etxeandia Ikobaltzeta I, De Stio C, McCullagh LJ, Alonso-Coello P, Meerpohl JJ, Vandvik PO, Brozek JL, Akl EA, Bossuyt P, et al. Improving GRADE evidence tables part 1: A randomized trial shows improved understanding of content in Summary-of-Findings Tables with a new format. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology. PMID 26791430 DOI: 10.1016/J.Jclinepi.2015.12.007  0.487
2016 Neumann I, Santesso N, Akl EA, Rind DM, Vandvik PO, Alonso-Coello P, Agoritsas T, Mustafa R, Alexander PE, Schunemann H, Guyatt GH. A guide for health professionals to interpret and use recommendations in guidelines developed with the GRADE approach. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology. PMID 26772609 DOI: 10.1016/J.Jclinepi.2015.11.017  0.557
2016 Berntsen CF, Kristiansen A, Akl EA, Sandset PM, Jacobsen EM, Guyatt G, Vandvik PO. Compression Stockings for Preventing the Postthrombotic Syndrome in Patients with Deep Vein Thrombosis. The American Journal of Medicine. 129: 447.e1-447.e20. PMID 26747198 DOI: 10.1016/J.Amjmed.2015.11.031  0.348
2015 Akl EA, Shawwa K, Kahale LA, Agoritsas T, Brignardello-Petersen R, Busse JW, Carrasco-Labra A, Ebrahim S, Johnston BC, Neumann I, Sola I, Sun X, Vandvik P, Zhang Y, Alonso-Coello P, et al. Reporting missing participant data in randomised trials: systematic survey of the methodological literature and a proposed guide. Bmj Open. 5: e008431. PMID 26719310 DOI: 10.1136/Bmjopen-2015-008431  0.346
2015 Mustafa RA, Bdair F, Akl EA, Garg AX, Thiessen-Philbrook H, Salameh H, Kisra S, Nesrallah G, Al-Jaishi A, Patel P, Patel P, Mustafa AA, Schünemann HJ. Effect of Lowering the Dialysate Temperature in Chronic Hemodialysis: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology : Cjasn. PMID 26712807 DOI: 10.2215/CJN.04580415  0.362
2015 Lotfi T, Morsi RZ, Zmeter N, Godah MW, Alkhaled L, Kahale LA, Nass H, Brax H, Fadlallah R, Akl EA. Validity of tools used for surveying physicians about their interactions with pharmaceutical company: a systematic review. Bmc Research Notes. 8: 720. PMID 26606971 DOI: 10.1186/S13104-015-1709-4  0.32
2015 Alexander PE, Bonner AJ, Agarwal A, Li SA, Hariharan A, Izhar Z, Bhatnagar N, Alba C, Akl E, Fei Y, Guyatt GH, Beyene J. Sensitivity sub-group analysis based on single center versus multi center trial status when interpreting meta-analyses pooled estimates: the logical way forward. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology. PMID 26597972 DOI: 10.1016/J.Jclinepi.2015.08.027  0.342
2015 Alonso-Coello P, Carrasco-Labra A, Brignardello-Petersen R, Neumann I, Akl EA, Vernooij RW, Johnston BC, Sun X, Briel M, Busse JW, Ebrahim S, Granados CE, Iorio A, Irfan A, Martínez García L, et al. Systematic reviews suffer from major limitations in reporting absolute effects. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology. PMID 26560992 DOI: 10.1016/J.Jclinepi.2015.11.002  0.468
2015 Johnston BC, Alonso-Coello P, Friedrich JO, Mustafa RA, Tikkinen KA, Neumann I, Vandvik PO, Akl EA, da Costa BR, Adhikari NK, Dalmau GM, Kosunen E, Mustonen J, Crawford MW, Thabane L, et al. Do clinicians understand the size of treatment effects? A randomized survey across 8 countries. Cmaj : Canadian Medical Association Journal = Journal De L'Association Medicale Canadienne. PMID 26504102 DOI: 10.1503/Cmaj.150430  0.348
2015 Akl EA, Carrasco-Labra A, Brignardello-Petersen R, Neumann I, Johnston BC, Sun X, Briel M, Busse JW, Ebrahim S, Granados CE, Iorio A, Irfan A, Martínez García L, Mustafa RA, Ramírez-Morera A, et al. Reporting, handling and assessing the risk of bias associated with missing participant data in systematic reviews: a methodological survey. Bmj Open. 5: e009368. PMID 26423858 DOI: 10.1136/Bmjopen-2015-009368  0.364
2015 Chopra V, Flanders SA, Saint S, Woller SC, O'Grady NP, Safdar N, Trerotola SO, Saran R, Moureau N, Wiseman S, Pittiruti M, Akl EA, Lee AY, Courey A, Swaminathan L, et al. The Michigan Appropriateness Guide for Intravenous Catheters (MAGIC): Results From a Multispecialty Panel Using the RAND/UCLA Appropriateness Method. Annals of Internal Medicine. 163: S1-S40. PMID 26369828 DOI: 10.7326/M15-0744  0.322
2015 Akl EA, El-Jardali F, Bou Karroum L, El-Eid J, Brax H, Akik C, Osman M, Hassan G, Itani M, Farha A, Pottie K, Oliver S. Effectiveness of Mechanisms and Models of Coordination between Organizations, Agencies and Bodies Providing or Financing Health Services in Humanitarian Crises: A Systematic Review. Plos One. 10: e0137159. PMID 26332670 DOI: 10.1371/Journal.Pone.0137159  0.361
2015 Al-Hameed FM, Al-Dorzi HM, Al-Momen AM, Algahtani FH, Al-Zahrani HA, Al-Saleh KA, Al-Sheef MA, Owaidah TM, Alhazzani W, Neumann I, Wiercioch W, Brozek J, Schunemann H, Akl EA. The Saudi Clinical Practice Guideline for the treatment of venous thromboembolism. Outpatient versus inpatient management. Saudi Medical Journal. 36: 1004-10. PMID 26219456 DOI: 10.15537/Smj.2015.8.12024  0.508
2015 Akl EA, Kahale LA, Agoritsas T, Brignardello-Petersen R, Busse JW, Carrasco-Labra A, Ebrahim S, Johnston BC, Neumann I, Sola I, Sun X, Vandvik P, Zhang Y, Alonso-Coello P, Guyatt G. Handling trial participants with missing outcome data when conducting a meta-analysis: a systematic survey of proposed approaches. Systematic Reviews. 4: 98. PMID 26202162 DOI: 10.1186/S13643-015-0083-6  0.352
2015 Carrasco-Labra A, Brignardello-Petersen R, Santesso N, Neumann I, Mustafa RA, Mbuagbaw L, Ikobaltzeta IE, De Stio C, McCullagh LJ, Alonso-Coello P, Meerpohl JJ, Vandvik PO, Brozek JL, Akl EA, Bossuyt P, et al. Comparison between the standard and a new alternative format of the Summary-of-Findings tables in Cochrane review users: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial. Trials. 16: 164. PMID 25873338 DOI: 10.1186/S13063-015-0649-6  0.529
2015 Akl EA, Kahale LA, Schünemann HJ. Association between perioperative low-molecular-weight heparin vs unfractionated heparin and clinical outcomes in patients with cancer undergoing surgery. Jama. 313: 1364-5. PMID 25849181 DOI: 10.1001/Jama.2015.498  0.45
2015 El-Jardali F, Akl EA, Fadlallah R, Oliver S, Saleh N, El-Bawab L, Rizk R, Farha A, Hamra R. Interventions to combat or prevent drug counterfeiting: a systematic review. Bmj Open. 5: e006290. PMID 25787989 DOI: 10.1136/Bmjopen-2014-006290  0.344
2015 Agoritsas T, Heen AF, Brandt L, Alonso-Coello P, Kristiansen A, Akl EA, Neumann I, Tikkinen KA, Weijden Tv, Elwyn G, Montori VM, Guyatt GH, Vandvik PO. Decision aids that really promote shared decision making: the pace quickens. Bmj (Clinical Research Ed.). 350: g7624. PMID 25670178 DOI: 10.1136/Bmj.G7624  0.351
2015 Guyatt GH, Schünemann HJ, Djulbegovic B, Akl EA. Guideline panels should not GRADE good practice statements. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology. 68: 597-600. PMID 25660962 DOI: 10.1016/J.Jclinepi.2014.12.011  0.469
2015 Akl EA, Ward KD, Bteddini D, Khaliel R, Alexander AC, Lotfi T, Alaouie H, Afifi RA. The allure of the waterpipe: a narrative review of factors affecting the epidemic rise in waterpipe smoking among young persons globally. Tobacco Control. 24: i13-i21. PMID 25618895 DOI: 10.1136/Tobaccocontrol-2014-051906  0.366
2015 Kristiansen A, Brandt L, Alonso-Coello P, Agoritsas T, Akl EA, Conboy T, Elbarbary M, Ferwana M, Medani W, Murad MH, Rigau D, Rosenbaum S, Spencer FA, Treweek S, Guyatt G, et al. Development of a novel, multilayered presentation format for clinical practice guidelines. Chest. 147: 754-63. PMID 25317597 DOI: 10.1378/Chest.14-1366  0.362
2015 Jawad M, Bakir AM, Ali M, Jawad S, Akl EA. Key health themes and reporting of numerical cigarette-waterpipe equivalence in online news articles reporting on waterpipe tobacco smoking: a content analysis. Tobacco Control. 24: 43-7. PMID 23868396 DOI: 10.1136/Tobaccocontrol-2013-050981  0.322
2015 Guyatt GH, Thorlund K, Oxman AD, Walter SD, Patrick D, Furukawa TA, Johnston BC, Karanicolas P, Akl EA, Vist G, Kunz R, Brozek J, Kupper LL, Martin SL, Meerpohl JJ, et al. Erratum to “GRADE guidelines: 13. Preparing Summary of Findings tables and evidence profiles—continuous outcomes” [J Clin Epidemiol 2013;66(2):173-183] Journal of Clinical Epidemiology. 68: 475. DOI: 10.1016/J.Jclinepi.2015.02.001  0.483
2014 Akl EA, Kahale LA, Agarwal A, Al-Matari N, Ebrahim S, Alexander PE, Briel M, Brignardello-Petersen R, Busse JW, Diab B, Iorio A, Kwong J, Li L, Lopes LC, Mustafa R, et al. Impact of missing participant data for dichotomous outcomes on pooled effect estimates in systematic reviews: a protocol for a methodological study. Systematic Reviews. 3: 137. PMID 25423894 DOI: 10.1186/2046-4053-3-137  0.385
2014 Kairouz VF, Raad D, Fudyma J, Curtis AB, Schünemann HJ, Akl EA. Assessment of faculty productivity in academic departments of medicine in the United States: a national survey. Bmc Medical Education. 14: 205. PMID 25257232 DOI: 10.1186/1472-6920-14-205  0.407
2014 Kristiansen A, Brandt L, Agoritsas T, Akl EA, Berge E, Flem Jacobsen A, Granan LP, Halvorsen S, Guyatt G, Vandvik PO. Applying new strategies for the national adaptation, updating, and dissemination of trustworthy guidelines: results from the Norwegian adaptation of the Antithrombotic Therapy and the Prevention of Thrombosis, 9th Ed: American College of Chest Physicians Evidence-Based Clinical Practice Guidelines. Chest. 146: 735-61. PMID 25180724 DOI: 10.1378/Chest.13-2993  0.41
2014 Kristiansen A, Brandt L, Agoritsas T, Akl EA, Berge E, Bondi J, Dahm AE, Granan LP, Halvorsen S, Holme PA, Flem Jacobsen A, Jacobsen EM, Neumann I, Sandset PM, Sætre T, et al. Adaptation of trustworthy guidelines developed using the GRADE methodology: a novel five-step process. Chest. 146: 727-34. PMID 25180723 DOI: 10.1378/Chest.13-2828  0.365
2014 El-Jardali F, Akl EA, Karroum LB, Kdouh O, Akik C, Fadlallah R, Hammoud R. Systematic reviews addressing identified health policy priorities in Eastern Mediterranean countries: a situational analysis. Health Research Policy and Systems / Biomed Central. 12: 48. PMID 25139256 DOI: 10.1186/1478-4505-12-48  0.362
2014 Kasenda B, Schandelmaier S, Sun X, von Elm E, You J, Blümle A, Tomonaga Y, Saccilotto R, Amstutz A, Bengough T, Meerpohl JJ, Stegert M, Olu KK, Tikkinen KA, Neumann I, ... ... Akl EA, et al. Subgroup analyses in randomised controlled trials: cohort study on trial protocols and journal publications. Bmj (Clinical Research Ed.). 349: g4539. PMID 25030633 DOI: 10.1136/Bmj.G4539  0.325
2014 Lopes LC, Eikelboom J, Spencer FA, Akl EA, Kearon C, Neumann I, Schulman S, Bhatnagar N, Guyatt G. Shorter or longer anticoagulation to prevent recurrent venous thromboembolism: systematic review and meta-analysis. Bmj Open. 4: e005674. PMID 24996916 DOI: 10.1136/Bmjopen-2014-005674  0.387
2014 Alkhaled L, Kahale L, Nass H, Brax H, Fadlallah R, Badr K, Akl EA. Legislative, educational, policy and other interventions targeting physicians' interaction with pharmaceutical companies: a systematic review. Bmj Open. 4: e004880. PMID 24989618 DOI: 10.1136/Bmjopen-2014-004880  0.384
2014 Akl EA, El-Hachem P, Abou-Haidar H, Neumann I, Schünemann HJ, Guyatt GH. Considering intellectual, in addition to financial, conflicts of interest proved important in a clinical practice guideline: a descriptive study. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology. 67: 1222-8. PMID 24970099 DOI: 10.1016/J.Jclinepi.2014.05.006  0.355
2014 Akl EA, Kahale L, Sperati F, Neumann I, Labedi N, Terrenato I, Barba M, Sempos EV, Muti P, Cook D, Schünemann H. Low molecular weight heparin versus unfractionated heparin for perioperative thromboprophylaxis in patients with cancer. The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews. 6: CD009447. PMID 24966161 DOI: 10.1002/14651858.Cd009447.Pub2  0.426
2014 Akl EA, Kahale L, Neumann I, Barba M, Sperati F, Terrenato I, Muti P, Schünemann H. Anticoagulation for the initial treatment of venous thromboembolism in patients with cancer. The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews. 6: CD006649. PMID 24945634 DOI: 10.1002/14651858.Cd006649.Pub6  0.438
2014 Akl EA, Kahale L, Terrenato I, Neumann I, Yosuico VE, Barba M, Sperati F, Schünemann H. Oral anticoagulation in patients with cancer who have no therapeutic or prophylactic indication for anticoagulation. The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews. 6: CD006466. PMID 24897382 DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD006466.pub4  0.369
2014 Kasenda B, von Elm E, You J, Blümle A, Tomonaga Y, Saccilotto R, Amstutz A, Bengough T, Meerpohl JJ, Stegert M, Tikkinen KA, Neumann I, Carrasco-Labra A, Faulhaber M, Mulla SM, ... ... Akl EA, et al. Prevalence, characteristics, and publication of discontinued randomized trials. Jama. 311: 1045-51. PMID 24618966 DOI: 10.1001/Jama.2014.1361  0.328
2014 Ebrahim S, Johnston BC, Akl EA, Mustafa RA, Sun X, Walter SD, Heels-Ansdell D, Alonso-Coello P, Guyatt GH. Addressing continuous data measured with different instruments for participants excluded from trial analysis: a guide for systematic reviewers. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology. 67: 560-70. PMID 24613497 DOI: 10.1016/J.Jclinepi.2013.11.014  0.367
2014 Walsh N, Verster A, Rodolph M, Akl EA. WHO guidance on the prevention of viral hepatitis B and C among people who inject drugs. The International Journal On Drug Policy. 25: 363-71. PMID 24561223 DOI: 10.1016/J.Drugpo.2014.01.009  0.308
2014 Wu D, Akl EA, Guyatt GH, Devereaux PJ, Brignardello-Petersen R, Prediger B, Patel K, Patel N, Lu T, Zhang Y, Falavigna M, Santesso N, Mustafa RA, Zhou Q, Briel M, et al. Methodological survey of designed uneven randomization trials (DU-RANDOM): a protocol. Trials. 15: 33. PMID 24456965 DOI: 10.1186/1745-6215-15-33  0.448
2014 Schünemann HJ, Wiercioch W, Etxeandia I, Falavigna M, Santesso N, Mustafa R, Ventresca M, Brignardello-Petersen R, Laisaar KT, Kowalski S, Baldeh T, Zhang Y, Raid U, Neumann I, Norris SL, ... ... Akl EA, et al. Guidelines 2.0: systematic development of a comprehensive checklist for a successful guideline enterprise. Cmaj : Canadian Medical Association Journal = Journal De L'Association Medicale Canadienne. 186: E123-42. PMID 24344144 DOI: 10.1503/Cmaj.131237  0.526
2014 Schünemann HJ, Wiercioch W, Etxeandia I, Falavigna M, Santesso N, Mustafa R, Ventresca M, Brignardello-Petersen R, Laisaar KT, Kowalski S, Baldeh T, Zhang Y, Raid U, Neumann I, Norris SL, ... ... Akl EA, et al. Guidelines 2.0: Systematic development of a comprehensive checklist for a successful guideline enterprise△ Chinese Journal of Evidence-Based Medicine. 14: 1135-1149. DOI: 10.7507/1672-2531.20140185  0.513
2013 Schünemann HJ, Tugwell P, Reeves BC, Akl EA, Santesso N, Spencer FA, Shea B, Wells G, Helfand M. Non-randomized studies as a source of complementary, sequential or replacement evidence for randomized controlled trials in systematic reviews on the effects of interventions. Research Synthesis Methods. 4: 49-62. PMID 26053539 DOI: 10.1002/Jrsm.1078  0.557
2013 Alonso-Coello P, Carrasco-Labra A, Brignardello-Petersen R, Neumann I, Akl EA, Sun X, Johnston BC, Briel M, Busse JW, Glujovsky D, Granados CE, Iorio A, Irfan A, García LM, García LM, et al. A methodological survey of the analysis, reporting and interpretation of Absolute Risk ReductiOn in systematic revieWs (ARROW): a study protocol. Systematic Reviews. 2: 113. PMID 24330779 DOI: 10.1186/2046-4053-2-113  0.372
2013 Ter Riet G, Chesley P, Gross AG, Siebeling L, Muggensturm P, Heller N, Umbehr M, Vollenweider D, Yu T, Akl EA, Brewster L, Dekkers OM, Mühlhauser I, Richter B, Singh S, et al. All that glitters isn't gold: a survey on acknowledgment of limitations in biomedical studies. Plos One. 8: e73623. PMID 24324540 DOI: 10.1371/Journal.Pone.0073623  0.341
2013 Prutsky GJ, Domecq JP, Erwin PJ, Briel M, Montori VM, Akl EA, Meerpohl JJ, Bassler D, Schandelmaier S, Walter SD, Zhou Q, Coello PA, Moja L, Walter M, Thorlund K, et al. Initiation and continuation of randomized trials after the publication of a trial stopped early for benefit asking the same study question: STOPIT-3 study design. Trials. 14: 335. PMID 24131702 DOI: 10.1186/1745-6215-14-335  0.348
2013 Langendam MW, Akl EA, Dahm P, Glasziou P, Guyatt G, Schünemann HJ. Assessing and presenting summaries of evidence in Cochrane Reviews. Systematic Reviews. 2: 81. PMID 24059250 DOI: 10.1186/2046-4053-2-81  0.542
2013 Santesso N, Hsu J, Mustafa R, Brozek J, Chen YL, Hopkins JP, Cheung A, Hovhannisyan G, Ivanova L, Flottorp SA, Saeterdal I, Wong AD, Tian J, Uyeki TM, Akl EA, et al. Antivirals for influenza: a summary of a systematic review and meta-analysis of observational studies. Influenza and Other Respiratory Viruses. 7: 76-81. PMID 24034489 DOI: 10.1111/Irv.12085  0.522
2013 Vandvik PO, Brandt L, Alonso-Coello P, Treweek S, Akl EA, Kristiansen A, Fog-Heen A, Agoritsas T, Montori VM, Guyatt G. Creating clinical practice guidelines we can trust, use, and share: a new era is imminent. Chest. 144: 381-9. PMID 23918106 DOI: 10.1378/Chest.13-0746  0.391
2013 Ebrahim S, Akl EA, Mustafa RA, Sun X, Walter SD, Heels-Ansdell D, Alonso-Coello P, Johnston BC, Guyatt GH. Addressing continuous data for participants excluded from trial analysis: a guide for systematic reviewers. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology. 66: 1014-1021.e1. PMID 23774111 DOI: 10.1016/J.Jclinepi.2013.03.014  0.372
2013 Guyatt G, Eikelboom JW, Akl EA, Crowther M, Gutterman D, Kahn SR, Schunemann H, Hirsh J. A guide to GRADE guidelines for the readers of JTH. Journal of Thrombosis and Haemostasis : Jth. 11: 1603-8. PMID 23773710 DOI: 10.1111/Jth.12320  0.525
2013 Garcia D, Akl EA, Carr R, Kearon C. Antiphospholipid antibodies and the risk of recurrence after a first episode of venous thromboembolism: a systematic review. Blood. 122: 817-24. PMID 23760616 DOI: 10.1182/Blood-2013-04-496257  0.337
2013 Neumann I, Akl EA, Valdes M, Bravo S, Araos S, Kairouz V, Schünemann H, Guyatt GH. Low anonymous voting compliance with the novel policy for managing conflicts of interest implemented in the 9th version of the American College of Chest Physicians antithrombotic guidelines. Chest. 144: 1111-6. PMID 23703699 DOI: 10.1378/Chest.13-0169  0.365
2013 Mustafa RA, Santesso N, Brozek J, Akl EA, Walter SD, Norman G, Kulasegaram M, Christensen R, Guyatt GH, Falck-Ytter Y, Chang S, Murad MH, Vist GE, Lasserson T, Gartlehner G, et al. The GRADE approach is reproducible in assessing the quality of evidence of quantitative evidence syntheses. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology. 66: 736-42; quiz 742.e1-. PMID 23623694 DOI: 10.1016/J.Jclinepi.2013.02.004  0.325
2013 Akl EA, Kairouz VF, Sackett KM, Erdley WS, Mustafa RA, Fiander M, Gabriel C, Schünemann H. Educational games for health professionals. The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews. 3: CD006411. PMID 23543543 DOI: 10.1002/14651858.Cd006411.Pub4  0.521
2013 Akl EA, Johnston BC, Alonso-Coello P, Neumann I, Ebrahim S, Briel M, Cook DJ, Guyatt GH. Addressing dichotomous data for participants excluded from trial analysis: a guide for systematic reviewers. Plos One. 8: e57132. PMID 23451162 DOI: 10.1371/Journal.Pone.0057132  0.361
2013 Akl EA, Sackett KM, Erdley WS, Mustafa RA, Fiander M, Gabriel C, Schünemann H. Educational games for health professionals. The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews. 1: CD006411. PMID 23440807 DOI: 10.1002/14651858.Cd006411.Pub3  0.429
2013 Neumann I, Karl R, Rajpal A, Akl EA, Guyatt GH. Experiences with a novel policy for managing conflicts of interest of guideline developers: a descriptive qualitative study. Chest. 144: 398-404. PMID 23412682 DOI: 10.1378/Chest.12-2390  0.332
2013 Rada G, Schünemann HJ, Labedi N, El-Hachem P, Kairouz VF, Akl EA. Systematic evaluation of the methodology of randomized controlled trials of anticoagulation in patients with cancer. Bmc Cancer. 13: 76. PMID 23406262 DOI: 10.1186/1471-2407-13-76  0.496
2013 Guyatt G, Eikelboom J, Crowther M, Akl E, Francis C, Garcia D, Gould M, Hylek E, Kahn S, Kunz R, Quinlan D, Vandvik P, Hirsh J. A response to--there's madness in their methods. Journal of Thrombosis and Haemostasis : Jth. 11: 785-6. PMID 23406024 DOI: 10.1111/Jth.12142  0.333
2013 Bala MM, Akl EA, Sun X, Bassler D, Mertz D, Mejza F, Vandvik PO, Malaga G, Johnston BC, Dahm P, Alonso-Coello P, Diaz-Granados N, Srinathan SK, Hassouneh B, Briel M, et al. Randomized trials published in higher vs. lower impact journals differ in design, conduct, and analysis. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology. 66: 286-95. PMID 23347852 DOI: 10.1016/J.Jclinepi.2012.10.005  0.36
2013 Andrews J, Guyatt G, Oxman AD, Alderson P, Dahm P, Falck-Ytter Y, Nasser M, Meerpohl J, Post PN, Kunz R, Brozek J, Vist G, Rind D, Akl EA, Schünemann HJ. GRADE guidelines: 14. Going from evidence to recommendations: the significance and presentation of recommendations. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology. 66: 719-25. PMID 23312392 DOI: 10.1016/J.Jclinepi.2012.03.013  0.412
2013 Rehfuess EA, Akl EA. Current experience with applying the GRADE approach to public health interventions: an empirical study. Bmc Public Health. 13: 9. PMID 23294803 DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-13-9  0.406
2013 Nesrallah GE, Suri RS, Guyatt G, Mustafa RA, Walter SD, Lindsay RM, Akl EA. Biofeedback dialysis for hypotension and hypervolemia: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Nephrology, Dialysis, Transplantation : Official Publication of the European Dialysis and Transplant Association - European Renal Association. 28: 182-91. PMID 23197678 DOI: 10.1093/Ndt/Gfs389  0.316
2013 Guyatt GH, Thorlund K, Oxman AD, Walter SD, Patrick D, Furukawa TA, Johnston BC, Karanicolas P, Akl EA, Vist G, Kunz R, Brozek J, Kupper LL, Martin SL, Meerpohl JJ, et al. GRADE guidelines: 13. Preparing summary of findings tables and evidence profiles-continuous outcomes. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology. 66: 173-83. PMID 23116689 DOI: 10.1016/J.Jclinepi.2012.08.001  0.453
2013 Guyatt G, Oxman AD, Sultan S, Brozek J, Glasziou P, Alonso-Coello P, Atkins D, Kunz R, Montori V, Jaeschke R, Rind D, Dahm P, Akl EA, Meerpohl J, Vist G, et al. GRADE guidelines: 11. Making an overall rating of confidence in effect estimates for a single outcome and for all outcomes. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology. 66: 151-7. PMID 22542023 DOI: 10.1016/J.Jclinepi.2012.01.006  0.464
2013 Schünemann H, Tugwell P, Reeves B, Akl E, Santesso N, Spencer F, Shea B, Wells G, Helfand M. 059 Nonrandomised Studies as a Source of Complementary, Sequential or Replacement Evidence for Randomised Controlled Trials in Systematic Reviews and Guidelines Bmj Quality & Safety. 22. DOI: 10.1136/Bmjqs-2013-002293.90  0.556
2013 Akl E, Johnston B, Alonso-Coello P, Neumann I, Ebrahim S, Briel M, Cook D, Guyatt G. 057 Handling Trial Participants with Missing Data in Meta-Analyses Of Dichotomous Outcomes: Guidance for Systematic Reviewers Bmj Quality & Safety. 22. DOI: 10.1136/Bmjqs-2013-002293.88  0.366
2013 Ebrahim S, Akl E, Mustafa R, Sun X, Walter S, Heels-Ansdell D, Alonso-Coello P, Johnston B, Guyatt G. 056 Addressing Continuous Data For Participants Excluded From Trial Analysis: A Guide Bmj Quality & Safety. 22. DOI: 10.1136/Bmjqs-2013-002293.87  0.379
2013 Agoritsas T, Brandt L, Heen AA, Kristiansen A, Alonso-Coello P, Akl E, Neumann I, Tikkinen K, Montor V, Guyatt G, Vandvik P. 051 Can We Automatically Produce Generic Decision Aids for the Clinical Encounter Directly from GRADE Guideline Recommendations? Experience from the Share-It Project Bmj Quality & Safety. 22. DOI: 10.1136/Bmjqs-2013-002293.82  0.382
2013 Vandvik P, Brandt L, Kristiansen A, Alonso P, Agoritsas T, Akl E, Guyatt G. 028 How Do Clinicians Like and Understand Trustworthy Guidelines? Randomised Controlled Trial Using Clickers in Educational Sessions Bmj Quality & Safety. 22. DOI: 10.1136/Bmjqs-2013-002293.59  0.38
2013 Brandt L, McCallum S, Kristiansen A, Agoritsas T, Akl E, Vandvik P, Montori V. P352 Game-It (Games For Improving Treatment-Recommendations) Bmj Quality & Safety. 22: 87-88. DOI: 10.1136/Bmjqs-2013-002293.266  0.396
2013 Brozek J, Akl E, Falck-Ytter Y, Kunstman P, Meerpohl J, Mustafa R, Nowak A, Oxman A, Santesso N, Wiercioch W, Schünemann H. P307 Guideline Development Tool (GDT) – Web-Based Solution For Guideline Developers And Authors Of Systematic Reviews Bmj Quality & Safety. 22: 82-82. DOI: 10.1136/Bmjqs-2013-002293.248  0.532
2013 Akl E, El-Hachem P, Abou-Haidar H, Guyatt G. P236 Documentation Of Intellectual Conflicts Of Interests Proved Critical In A Clinical Practice Guideline Bmj Quality & Safety. 22. DOI: 10.1136/Bmjqs-2013-002293.220  0.329
2013 Neumann I, Karl R, Rajpal A, Akl E, Guyatt G. P084 Experiences With The Novel Policy For Managing Conflicts Of Interest Implemented In The 9th Edition Of The American College Of Chest Physicians Antithrombotic Guidelines (At9) Bmj Quality & Safety. 22: 51-51. DOI: 10.1136/Bmjqs-2013-002293.152  0.336
2013 Brandt L, Elde T, Agoritsas T, Guyatt G, Kristiansen A, Alonso-Coello P, Akl E, Meerpohl J, Vandvik P. 084 PLUGGED-IN (Providing Likeable and Understandable Guidelines using GRADE in the EMR with Direct links to Individual patient data) Phase 2 Bmj Quality & Safety. 22. DOI: 10.1136/Bmjqs-2013-002293.115  0.389
2012 Schünemann HJ, Oxman AD, Akl EA, Brozek JL, Montori VM, Heffner J, Hill S, Woodhead M, Campos-Outcalt D, Alderson P, Woitalla T, Puhan MA, Falck-Ytter Y, Bousquet J, Guyatt G, et al. Moving from evidence to developing recommendations in guidelines: article 11 in Integrating and coordinating efforts in COPD guideline development. An official ATS/ERS workshop report. Proceedings of the American Thoracic Society. 9: 282-92. PMID 23256172 DOI: 10.1513/pats.201208-064ST  0.452
2012 Kelson M, Akl EA, Bastian H, Cluzeau F, Curtis JR, Guyatt G, Montori VM, Oliver S, Schünemann HJ. Integrating values and consumer involvement in guidelines with the patient at the center: article 8 in Integrating and coordinating efforts in COPD guideline development. An official ATS/ERS workshop report. Proceedings of the American Thoracic Society. 9: 262-8. PMID 23256169 DOI: 10.1513/pats.201208-061ST  0.434
2012 Guyatt G, Akl EA, Oxman A, Wilson K, Puhan MA, Wilt T, Gutterman D, Woodhead M, Antman EM, Schünemann HJ. Synthesis, grading, and presentation of evidence in guidelines: article 7 in Integrating and coordinating efforts in COPD guideline development. An official ATS/ERS workshop report. Proceedings of the American Thoracic Society. 9: 256-61. PMID 23256168 DOI: 10.1513/pats.201208-060ST  0.464
2012 Wilt TJ, Guyatt G, Kunz R, Macnee W, Puhan MA, Viegi G, Woodhead M, Akl EA, Schünemann HJ. Deciding what type of evidence and outcomes to include in guidelines: article 5 in Integrating and coordinating efforts in COPD guideline development. An official ATS/ERS workshop report. Proceedings of the American Thoracic Society. 9: 243-50. PMID 23256166 DOI: 10.1513/pats.201208-058ST  0.468
2012 Boyd EA, Akl EA, Baumann M, Curtis JR, Field MJ, Jaeschke R, Osborne M, Schünemann HJ. Guideline funding and conflicts of interest: article 4 in Integrating and coordinating efforts in COPD guideline development. An official ATS/ERS workshop report. Proceedings of the American Thoracic Society. 9: 234-42. PMID 23256165 DOI: 10.1513/pats.201208-057ST  0.445
2012 Alshurafa M, Briel M, Akl EA, Haines T, Moayyedi P, Gentles SJ, Rios L, Tran C, Bhatnagar N, Lamontagne F, Walter SD, Guyatt GH. Inconsistent definitions for intention-to-treat in relation to missing outcome data: systematic review of the methods literature. Plos One. 7: e49163. PMID 23166608 DOI: 10.1371/Journal.Pone.0049163  0.382
2012 Kasenda B, von Elm EB, You J, Blümle A, Tomonaga Y, Saccilotto R, Amstutz A, Bengough T, Meerpohl J, Stegert M, Tikkinen KA, Neumann I, Carrasco-Labra A, Faulhaber M, Mulla S, ... ... Akl EA, et al. Learning from failure--rationale and design for a study about discontinuation of randomized trials (DISCO study). Bmc Medical Research Methodology. 12: 131. PMID 22928744 DOI: 10.1186/1471-2288-12-131  0.37
2012 Akl EA, Meerpohl JJ, Raad D, Piaggio G, Mattioni M, Paggi MG, Gurtner A, Mattarocci S, Tahir R, Muti P, Schünemann HJ. Effects of assessing the productivity of faculty in academic medical centres: a systematic review. Cmaj : Canadian Medical Association Journal = Journal De L'Association Medicale Canadienne. 184: E602-12. PMID 22641686 DOI: 10.1503/Cmaj.111123  0.444
2012 Akl EA, Kennedy C, Konda K, Caceres CF, Horvath T, Ayala G, Doupe A, Gerbase A, Wiysonge CS, Segura ER, Schünemann HJ, Lo YR. Using GRADE methodology for the development of public health guidelines for the prevention and treatment of HIV and other STIs among men who have sex with men and transgender people. Bmc Public Health. 12: 386. PMID 22640260 DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-12-386  0.302
2012 Akl EA, Briel M, You JJ, Sun X, Johnston BC, Busse JW, Mulla S, Lamontagne F, Bassler D, Vera C, Alshurafa M, Katsios CM, Zhou Q, Cukierman-Yaffe T, Gangji A, et al. Potential impact on estimated treatment effects of information lost to follow-up in randomised controlled trials (LOST-IT): systematic review. Bmj (Clinical Research Ed.). 344: e2809. PMID 22611167 DOI: 10.1136/Bmj.E2809  0.352
2012 Satchidanand N, Gunukula SK, Lam WY, McGuigan D, New I, Symons AB, Withiam-Leitch M, Akl EA. Attitudes of healthcare students and professionals toward patients with physical disability: a systematic review. American Journal of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation / Association of Academic Physiatrists. 91: 533-45. PMID 22596075 DOI: 10.1097/Phm.0B013E3182555Ea4  0.327
2012 Vandvik PO, Santesso N, Akl EA, You J, Mulla S, Spencer FA, Johnston BC, Brozek J, Kreis J, Brandt L, Zhou Q, Schünemann HJ, Guyatt G. Formatting modifications in GRADE evidence profiles improved guideline panelists comprehension and accessibility to information. A randomized trial. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology. 65: 748-55. PMID 22564503 DOI: 10.1016/J.Jclinepi.2011.11.013  0.511
2012 Akl EA, Karl R, Guyatt GH. Methodologists and context experts disagreed regarding managing conflicts of interest of clinical practice guidelines panels. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology. 65: 734-9. PMID 22564500 DOI: 10.1016/J.Jclinepi.2011.12.013  0.364
2012 Santesso N, Akl EA, Bianchi M, Mente A, Mustafa R, Heels-Ansdell D, Schünemann HJ. Effects of higher- versus lower-protein diets on health outcomes: a systematic review and meta-analysis. European Journal of Clinical Nutrition. 66: 780-8. PMID 22510792 DOI: 10.1038/Ejcn.2012.37  0.479
2012 Lewin S, Bosch-Capblanch X, Oliver S, Akl EA, Vist GE, Lavis JN, Ghersi D, Røttingen JA, Steinmann P, Gulmezoglu M, Tugwell P, El-Jardali F, Haines A. Guidance for evidence-informed policies about health systems: assessing how much confidence to place in the research evidence. Plos Medicine. 9: e1001187. PMID 22448147 DOI: 10.7507/1672-2531.20140132  0.328
2012 Sun X, Briel M, Busse JW, You JJ, Akl EA, Mejza F, Bala MM, Bassler D, Mertz D, Diaz-Granados N, Vandvik PO, Malaga G, Srinathan SK, Dahm P, Johnston BC, et al. Credibility of claims of subgroup effects in randomised controlled trials: systematic review. Bmj (Clinical Research Ed.). 344: e1553. PMID 22422832 DOI: 10.1136/Bmj.E1553  0.394
2012 Neumann I, Rada G, Claro JC, Carrasco-Labra A, Thorlund K, Akl EA, Bates SM, Guyatt GH. Oral direct Factor Xa inhibitors versus low-molecular-weight heparin to prevent venous thromboembolism in patients undergoing total hip or knee replacement: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Annals of Internal Medicine. 156: 710-9. PMID 22412038 DOI: 10.7326/0003-4819-156-10-201205150-00421  0.348
2012 Hsu J, Santesso N, Mustafa R, Brozek J, Chen YL, Hopkins JP, Cheung A, Hovhannisyan G, Ivanova L, Flottorp SA, Saeterdal I, Wong AD, Tian J, Uyeki TM, Akl EA, et al. Antivirals for treatment of influenza: a systematic review and meta-analysis of observational studies. Annals of Internal Medicine. 156: 512-24. PMID 22371849 DOI: 10.7326/0003-4819-156-7-201204030-00411  0.471
2012 Puhan MA, Akl EA, Bryant D, Xie F, Apolone G, ter Riet G. Discussing study limitations in reports of biomedical studies- the need for more transparency. Health and Quality of Life Outcomes. 10: 23. PMID 22360847 DOI: 10.1186/1477-7525-10-23  0.344
2012 Akl EA, Schünemann HJ. Routine heparin for patients with cancer? One answer, more questions. The New England Journal of Medicine. 366: 661-2. PMID 22335745 DOI: 10.1056/Nejme1113672  0.464
2012 Vandvik PO, Lincoff AM, Gore JM, Gutterman DD, Sonnenberg FA, Alonso-Coello P, Akl EA, Lansberg MG, Guyatt GH, Spencer FA. Primary and secondary prevention of cardiovascular disease: Antithrombotic Therapy and Prevention of Thrombosis, 9th ed: American College of Chest Physicians Evidence-Based Clinical Practice Guidelines. Chest. 141: e637S-68S. PMID 22315274 DOI: 10.1378/Chest.11-2306  0.303
2012 Kearon C, Akl EA, Comerota AJ, Prandoni P, Bounameaux H, Goldhaber SZ, Nelson ME, Wells PS, Gould MK, Dentali F, Crowther M, Kahn SR. Antithrombotic therapy for VTE disease: Antithrombotic Therapy and Prevention of Thrombosis, 9th ed: American College of Chest Physicians Evidence-Based Clinical Practice Guidelines. Chest. 141: e419S-94S. PMID 22315268 DOI: 10.1378/Chest.11-2301  0.307
2012 MacLean S, Mulla S, Akl EA, Jankowski M, Vandvik PO, Ebrahim S, McLeod S, Bhatnagar N, Guyatt GH. Patient values and preferences in decision making for antithrombotic therapy: a systematic review: Antithrombotic Therapy and Prevention of Thrombosis, 9th ed: American College of Chest Physicians Evidence-Based Clinical Practice Guidelines. Chest. 141: e1S-23S. PMID 22315262 DOI: 10.1378/Chest.11-2290  0.402
2012 Kahn SR, Lim W, Dunn AS, Cushman M, Dentali F, Akl EA, Cook DJ, Balekian AA, Klein RC, Le H, Schulman S, Murad MH. Prevention of VTE in nonsurgical patients: Antithrombotic Therapy and Prevention of Thrombosis, 9th ed: American College of Chest Physicians Evidence-Based Clinical Practice Guidelines. Chest. 141: e195S-226S. PMID 22315261 DOI: 10.1378/Chest.11-2296  0.326
2012 Guyatt GH, Eikelboom JW, Gould MK, Garcia DA, Crowther M, Murad MH, Kahn SR, Falck-Ytter Y, Francis CW, Lansberg MG, Akl EA, Hirsh J. Approach to outcome measurement in the prevention of thrombosis in surgical and medical patients: Antithrombotic Therapy and Prevention of Thrombosis, 9th ed: American College of Chest Physicians Evidence-Based Clinical Practice Guidelines. Chest. 141: e185S-94S. PMID 22315260 DOI: 10.1378/Chest.11-2289  0.352
2012 Guyatt GH, Akl EA, Crowther M, Gutterman DD, Schuünemann HJ. Executive summary: Antithrombotic Therapy and Prevention of Thrombosis, 9th ed: American College of Chest Physicians Evidence-Based Clinical Practice Guidelines. Chest. 141: 7S-47S. PMID 22315257 DOI: 10.1378/Chest.1412S3  0.377
2012 Guyatt GH, Norris SL, Schulman S, Hirsh J, Eckman MH, Akl EA, Crowther M, Vandvik PO, Eikelboom JW, McDonagh MS, Lewis SZ, Gutterman DD, Cook DJ, Schünemann HJ. Methodology for the development of antithrombotic therapy and prevention of thrombosis guidelines: Antithrombotic Therapy and Prevention of Thrombosis, 9th ed: American College of Chest Physicians Evidence-Based Clinical Practice Guidelines. Chest. 141: 53S-70S. PMID 22315256 DOI: 10.1378/Chest.11-2288  0.361
2012 Guyatt GH, Akl EA, Crowther M, Schünemann HJ, Gutterman DD, Zelman Lewis S. Introduction to the ninth edition: Antithrombotic Therapy and Prevention of Thrombosis, 9th ed: American College of Chest Physicians Evidence-Based Clinical Practice Guidelines. Chest. 141: 48S-52S. PMID 22315255 DOI: 10.1378/Chest.11-2286  0.476
2012 Cohen JM, Akl EA, Kahn SR. Pharmacologic and compression therapies for postthrombotic syndrome: a systematic review of randomized controlled trials. Chest. 141: 308-20. PMID 22315114 DOI: 10.1378/Chest.11-1175  0.309
2012 Akl EA, Sun X, Busse JW, Johnston BC, Briel M, Mulla S, You JJ, Bassler D, Lamontagne F, Vera C, Alshurafa M, Katsios CM, Heels-Ansdell D, Zhou Q, Mills E, et al. Specific instructions for estimating unclearly reported blinding status in randomized trials were reliable and valid Journal of Clinical Epidemiology. 65: 262-267. PMID 22200346 DOI: 10.1016/J.Jclinepi.2011.04.015  0.364
2012 Steen R, Chersich M, Gerbase A, Neilsen G, Wendland A, Ndowa F, Akl EA, Lo YR, De Vlas SJ. Periodic presumptive treatment of curable sexually transmitted infections among sex workers: A systematic review Aids. 26: 437-445. PMID 22095197 DOI: 10.1097/Qad.0B013E32834Ed991  0.3
2012 Akl EA, Guyatt GH, Irani J, Feldstein D, Wasi P, Shaw E, Shaneyfelt T, Levine M, Schünemann HJ. "Might" or "suggest"? No wording approach was clearly superior in conveying the strength of recommendation. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology. 65: 268-75. PMID 22075112 DOI: 10.1016/J.Jclinepi.2011.08.001  0.447
2012 Akl EA, Maroun N, Li CK, Grant BJB, Schünemann HJ. Factors influencing Lebanese medical students' decisions to train abroad: Evaluation of a conceptual framework Open Public Health Journal. 5: 19-27. DOI: 10.2174/1874944501205010019  0.402
2012 Santesso N, Akl E, Mente A, Heels-Ansdell D, Schünemann HJ. Reply to higher- versus lower-protein diets European Journal of Clinical Nutrition. 66: 1375-1375. DOI: 10.1038/Ejcn.2012.155  0.434
2011 Akl EA, Oxman AD, Herrin J, Vist GE, Terrenato I, Sperati F, Costiniuk C, Blank D, Schünemann H. Framing of health information messages Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (Online). 12. PMID 22161408 DOI: 10.1002/14651858.Cd006777.Pub2  0.528
2011 Akl EA, Labedi N, Terrenato I, Barba M, Sperati F, Sempos EV, Muti P, Cook D, Schünemann H. Low molecular weight heparin versus unfractionated heparin for perioperative thromboprophylaxis in patients with cancer. The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews. CD009447. PMID 22071865 DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD009447  0.342
2011 Guyatt GH, Oxman AD, Kunz R, Woodcock J, Brozek J, Helfand M, Alonso-Coello P, Glasziou P, Jaeschke R, Akl EA, Norris S, Vist G, Dahm P, Shukla VK, Higgins J, et al. GRADE guidelines: 7. Rating the quality of evidence--inconsistency. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology. 64: 1294-302. PMID 21803546 DOI: 10.1016/J.Jclinepi.2011.03.017  0.364
2011 Guyatt GH, Oxman AD, Montori V, Vist G, Kunz R, Brozek J, Alonso-Coello P, Djulbegovic B, Atkins D, Falck-Ytter Y, Williams JW, Meerpohl J, Norris SL, Akl EA, Schünemann HJ. GRADE guidelines: 5. Rating the quality of evidence--publication bias. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology. 64: 1277-82. PMID 21802904 DOI: 10.1016/J.Jclinepi.2011.01.011  0.507
2011 Guyatt GH, Oxman AD, Kunz R, Woodcock J, Brozek J, Helfand M, Alonso-Coello P, Falck-Ytter Y, Jaeschke R, Vist G, Akl EA, Post PN, Norris S, Meerpohl J, Shukla VK, et al. GRADE guidelines: 8. Rating the quality of evidence--indirectness. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology. 64: 1303-10. PMID 21802903 DOI: 10.1016/J.Jclinepi.2011.04.014  0.477
2011 Guyatt GH, Oxman AD, Sultan S, Glasziou P, Akl EA, Alonso-Coello P, Atkins D, Kunz R, Brozek J, Montori V, Jaeschke R, Rind D, Dahm P, Meerpohl J, Vist G, et al. GRADE guidelines: 9. Rating up the quality of evidence. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology. 64: 1311-6. PMID 21802902 DOI: 10.1016/J.Jclinepi.2011.06.004  0.482
2011 Akl EA, Labedi N, Barba M, Terrenato I, Sperati F, Muti P, Schünemann H. Anticoagulation for the long-term treatment of venous thromboembolism in patients with cancer. The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews. CD006650. PMID 21678361 DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD006650.pub3  0.347
2011 Akl EA, Vasireddi SR, Gunukula S, Barba M, Sperati F, Terrenato I, Muti P, Schünemann H. Anticoagulation for the initial treatment of venous thromboembolism in patients with cancer. The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews. CD006649. PMID 21678360 DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD006649.pub5  0.356
2011 Akl EA, Vasireddi SR, Gunukula S, Yosuico VE, Barba M, Terrenato I, Sperati F, Schünemann H. Oral anticoagulation in patients with cancer who have no therapeutic or prophylactic indication for anticoagulation. The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews. CD006466. PMID 21678357 DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD006466.pub3  0.37
2011 Odgaard-Jensen J, Vist GE, Timmer A, Kunz R, Akl EA, Schünemann H, Briel M, Nordmann AJ, Pregno S, Oxman AD. Randomisation to protect against selection bias in healthcare trials. The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews. MR000012. PMID 21491415 DOI: 10.1002/14651858.Mr000012.Pub3  0.45
2011 Akl EA, Gunukula S, Barba M, Yosuico VE, van Doormaal FF, Kuipers S, Middeldorp S, Dickinson HO, Bryant A, Schünemann H. Parenteral anticoagulation in patients with cancer who have no therapeutic or prophylactic indication for anticoagulation. The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews. CD006652. PMID 21491396 DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD006652.pub3  0.355
2011 Akl EA, Vasireddi SR, Gunukula S, Barba M, Sperati F, Terrenato I, Muti P, Schünemann H. Anticoagulation for the initial treatment of venous thromboembolism in patients with cancer. The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews. CD006649. PMID 21491395 DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD006649.pub4  0.356
2011 Akl EA, Vasireddi SR, Gunukula S, Yosuico VED, Barba M, Sperati F, Cook D, Schünemann H. Anticoagulation for patients with cancer and central venous catheters Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews. CD006468. PMID 21491394 DOI: 10.1002/14651858.Cd006468.Pub4  0.475
2011 Sun X, Briel M, Busse JW, You JJ, Akl EA, Mejza F, Bala MM, Bassler D, Mertz D, Diaz-Granados N, Vandvik PO, Malaga G, Srinathan SK, Dahm P, Johnston BC, et al. The influence of study characteristics on reporting of subgroup analyses in randomised controlled trials: systematic review. Bmj (Clinical Research Ed.). 342: d1569. PMID 21444636 DOI: 10.1136/Bmj.D1569  0.328
2011 Akl EA, Oxman AD, Herrin J, Vist GE, Terrenato I, Sperati F, Costiniuk C, Blank D, Schünemann H. Using alternative statistical formats for presenting risks and risk reductions Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (Online). 3. PMID 21412897 DOI: 10.1002/14651858.Cd006776.Pub2  0.5
2011 Akl EA, Vasireddi SR, Gunukula S, Barba M, Sperati F, Terrenato I, Muti P, Schünemann H. Anticoagulation for the initial treatment of venous thromboembolism in patients with cancer. The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews. CD006649. PMID 21328285 DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD006649.pub3  0.356
2011 Akl EA, Vasireddi SR, Gunukula S, Yosuico VED, Barba M, Sperati F, Cook D, Schünemann H. Anticoagulation for patients with cancer and central venous catheters Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (Online). 2. PMID 21328283  0.356
2011 Akl EA, Gunukula S, Barba M, Yosuico VED, van Doormaal FF, Kuipers S, Middeldorp S, Dickinson HO, Bryant A, Schünemann H. Parenteral anticoagulation in patients with cancer who have no therapeutic or prophylactic indication for anticoagulation Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (Online). 1. PMID 21249680  0.441
2011 Guyatt GH, Oxman AD, Vist G, Kunz R, Brozek J, Alonso-Coello P, Montori V, Akl EA, Djulbegovic B, Falck-Ytter Y, Norris SL, Williams JW, Atkins D, Meerpohl J, Schünemann HJ. GRADE guidelines: 4. Rating the quality of evidence--study limitations (risk of bias). Journal of Clinical Epidemiology. 64: 407-15. PMID 21247734 DOI: 10.1016/J.Jclinepi.2010.07.017  0.503
2011 Bro?ek JL, Akl EA, Compalati E, Kreis J, Terracciano L, Fiocchi A, Ueffing E, Andrews J, Alonso-Coello P, Meerpohl JJ, Lang DM, Jaeschke R, Williams JW, Phillips B, Lethaby A, et al. Grading quality of evidence and strength of recommendations in clinical practice guidelines part 3 of 3. The GRADE approach to developing recommendations. Allergy. 66: 588-95. PMID 21241318 DOI: 10.1111/J.1398-9995.2010.02530.X  0.552
2011 Guyatt G, Oxman AD, Akl EA, Kunz R, Vist G, Brozek J, Norris S, Falck-Ytter Y, Glasziou P, DeBeer H, Jaeschke R, Rind D, Meerpohl J, Dahm P, Schünemann HJ. GRADE guidelines: 1. Introduction-GRADE evidence profiles and summary of findings tables. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology. 64: 383-94. PMID 21195583 DOI: 10.1016/J.Jclinepi.2010.04.026  0.544
2011 Schünemann H, Hill S, Guyatt G, Akl EA, Ahmed F. The GRADE approach and Bradford Hill's criteria for causation Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health. 65: 392-395. PMID 20947872 DOI: 10.1136/Jech.2010.119933  0.532
2011 Mills EJ, Wu P, Chong G, Ghement I, Singh S, Akl EA, Eyawo O, Guyatt G, Berwanger O, Briel M. Efficacy and safety of statin treatment for cardiovascular disease: A network meta-analysis of 170 255 patients from 76 randomized trials Qjm. 104: 109-124. PMID 20934984 DOI: 10.1093/Qjmed/Hcq165  0.324
2011 Raad D, Gaddam S, Schunemann HJ, Irani J, Abou Jaoude P, Honeine R, Akl EA. Effects of water-pipe smoking on lung function: A systematic review and meta-analysis Chest. 139: 764-774. PMID 20671057 DOI: 10.1378/Chest.10-0991  0.414
2010 Akl EA, Vasireddi SR, Gunukula S, Yosuico VE, Barba M, Terrenato I, Sperati F, Schünemann H. Oral anticoagulation in patients with cancer who have no therapeutic or prophylactic indication for anticoagulation. The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews. CD006466. PMID 21154368 DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD006466.pub2  0.37
2010 Akl EA, Aleem S, Gunukula SK, Honeine R, Abou Jaoude P, Irani J. Survey instruments used in clinical and epidemiological research on waterpipe tobacco smoking: A systematic review Bmc Public Health. 10. PMID 20626899 DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-10-415  0.305
2010 Guyatt G, Akl EA, Hirsh J, Kearon C, Crowther M, Gutterman D, Lewis SZ, Nathanson I, Jaeschke R, Schünemann H. The vexing problem of guidelines and conflict of interest: a potential solution. Annals of Internal Medicine. 152: 738-41. PMID 20479011 DOI: 10.7326/0003-4819-152-11-201006010-00254  0.379
2010 Alfarah Z, Schünemann HJ, Akl EA. Educational games in geriatric medicine education: a systematic review Bmc Geriatrics. 10: 19. PMID 20416055 DOI: 10.1186/1471-2318-10-19  0.51
2010 Schünemann HJ, Sperati F, Barba M, Santesso N, Melegari C, Akl EA, Guyatt G, Muti P. An instrument to assess quality of life in relation to nutrition: item generation, item reduction and initial validation. Health and Quality of Life Outcomes. 8: 26. PMID 20222983 DOI: 10.1186/1477-7525-8-26  0.438
2010 Carling CLL, Kristoffersen DT, Oxman AD, Flottorp S, Fretheim A, Schünemann HJ, Akl EA, Herrin J, MacKenzie TD, Montori VM. The effect of how outcomes are framed on decisions about whether to take antihypertensive medication: a randomized trial Plos One. 5. PMID 20209127 DOI: 10.1371/Journal.Pone.0009469  0.466
2010 Akl EA, Gaddam S, Gunukula SK, Honeine R, Jaoude PA, Irani J. The effects of waterpipe tobacco smoking on health outcomes: A systematic review International Journal of Epidemiology. 39: 834-857. PMID 20207606 DOI: 10.1093/Ije/Dyq002  0.336
2010 Akl EA, Pretorius RW, Sackett K, Erdley WS, Bhoopathi PS, Alfarah Z, Schünemann HJ. The effect of educational games on medical students' learning outcomes: a systematic review: BEME Guide No 14 Medical Teacher. 32: 16-27. PMID 20095770 DOI: 10.3109/01421590903473969  0.458
2010 Guyatt G, Schünemann H, Akl E. Guidelines and Conflicts of Interest Annals of Internal Medicine. 153: 422-422. DOI: 10.7326/0003-4819-153-6-201009210-00022  0.334
2010 Cohen JM, Akl EA, Kahn SR. Systematic Review of Pharmacologic and Compression Therapies for Treatment of Post-Thrombotic Syndrome Blood. 116: 4207-4207. DOI: 10.1182/Blood.V116.21.4207.4207  0.351
2009 Sun X, Briel M, Busse JW, Akl EA, You JJ, Mejza F, Bala M, Diaz-Granados N, Bassler D, Mertz D, Srinathan SK, Vandvik PO, Malaga G, Alshurafa M, Dahm P, et al. Subgroup Analysis of Trials Is Rarely Easy (SATIRE): a study protocol for a systematic review to characterize the analysis, reporting, and claim of subgroup effects in randomized trials. Trials. 10: 101. PMID 19900273 DOI: 10.1186/1745-6215-10-101  0.399
2009 Akl EA, Mustafa R, Wilson MC, Symons A, Moheet A, Rosenthal T, Guyatt GH, Schünemann HJ. Curricula for teaching the content of clinical practice guidelines to family medicine and internal medicine residents in the US: a survey study. Implementation Science : Is. 4: 59. PMID 19772570 DOI: 10.1186/1748-5908-4-59  0.446
2009 Carling CLL, Kristoffersen DT, Flottorp S, Fretheim A, Oxman AD, Schünemann HJ, Akl EA, Herrin J, MacKenzie TD, Montori VM. The effect of alternative graphical displays used to present the benefits of antibiotics for sore throat on decisions about whether to seek treatment: A randomized trial Plos Medicine. 6. PMID 19707579 DOI: 10.1371/Journal.Pmed.1000140  0.457
2009 Carling CLL, Kristoffersen DT, Montori VM, Herrin J, Schünemann HJ, Treweek S, Akl EA, Oxman AD. The effect of alternative summary statistics for communicating risk reduction on decisions about taking statins: A randomized trial Plos Medicine. 6. PMID 19707575 DOI: 10.1371/Journal.Pmed.1000134  0.486
2009 Briel M, Lane M, Montori VM, Bassler D, Glasziou P, Malaga G, Akl EA, Ferreira-Gonzalez I, Alonso-Coello P, Urrutia G, Kunz R, Culebro CR, da Silva SA, Flynn DN, Elamin MB, et al. Stopping randomized trials early for benefit: a protocol of the Study Of Trial Policy Of Interim Truncation-2 (STOPIT-2). Trials. 10: 49. PMID 19580665 DOI: 10.1186/1745-6215-10-49  0.496
2009 Akl EA, Briel M, You JJ, Lamontagne F, Gangji A, Cukierman-Yaffe T, Alshurafa M, Sun X, Nerenberg KA, Johnston BC, Vera C, Mills EJ, Bassler D, Salazar A, Bhatnagar N, et al. LOST to follow-up Information in Trials (LOST-IT): a protocol on the potential impact. Trials. 10: 40. PMID 19519891 DOI: 10.1186/1745-6215-10-40  0.462
2009 Brozek JL, Akl EA, Jaeschke R, Lang DM, Bossuyt P, Glasziou P, Helfand M, Ueffing E, Alonso-Coello P, Meerpohl J, Phillips B, Horvath AR, Bousquet J, Guyatt GH, Schünemann HJ. Grading quality of evidence and strength of recommendations in clinical practice guidelines: Part 2 of 3. the GRADE approach to grading quality of evidence about diagnostic tests and strategies Allergy: European Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology. 64: 1109-1116. PMID 19489757 DOI: 10.1111/J.1398-9995.2009.02083.X  0.501
2009 Broek JL, Akl EA, Alonso-Coello P, Lang D, Jaeschke R, Williams JW, Phillips B, Lelgemann M, Lethaby A, Bousquet J, Guyatt GH, Schünemann HJ. Grading quality of evidence and strength of recommendations in clinical practice guidelines: Part 1 of 3. An overview of the GRADE approach and grading quality of evidence about interventions Allergy: European Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology. 64: 669-677. PMID 19210357 DOI: 10.1111/J.1398-9995.2009.01973.X  0.527
2009 Barba M, Schünemann HJ, Sperati F, Akl EA, Musicco F, Guyatt G, Muti P. The effects of metformin on endogenous androgens and SHBG in women: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Clinical Endocrinology. 70: 661-70. PMID 19178532 DOI: 10.1111/J.1365-2265.2008.03459.X  0.448
2009 Brozek JL, Guyatt GH, Heels-Ansdell D, Degl'Innocenti A, Armstrong D, Fallone CA, Wiklund I, van Zanten SV, Chiba N, Barkun AN, Akl EA, Schünemann HJ. Specific HRQL instruments and symptom scores were more responsive than preference-based generic instruments in patients with GERD. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology. 62: 102-10. PMID 18619804 DOI: 10.1016/J.Jclinepi.2008.02.012  0.435
2008 Akl EA, Terrenato I, Barba M, Sperati F, Muti P, Schünemann HJ. Extended perioperative thromboprophylaxis in patients with cancer. A systematic review. Thrombosis and Haemostasis. 100: 1176-80. PMID 19132245 DOI: 10.1160/Th08-04-0218  0.521
2008 Carling C, Kristoffersen DT, Herrin J, Treweek S, Oxman AD, Schünemann H, Akl EA, Montori V. How should the impact of different presentations of treatment effects on patient choice be evaluated? A pilot randomized trial Plos One. 3. PMID 19030110 DOI: 10.1371/Journal.Pone.0003693  0.471
2008 Akl EA, Mustafa R, Slomka T, Alawneh A, Vedavalli A, Schünemann HJ. An educational game for teaching clinical practice guidelines to Internal Medicine residents: Development, feasibility and acceptability Bmc Medical Education. 8. PMID 19017400 DOI: 10.1186/1472-6920-8-50  0.451
2008 Akl EA, Rohilla S, Barba M, Sperati F, Terrenato I, Muti P, Bdair F, Schünemann HJ. Anticoagulation for the initial treatment of venous thromboembolism in patients with cancer: a systematic review. Cancer. 113: 1685-94. PMID 18720360 DOI: 10.1002/Cncr.23814  0.463
2008 Akl EA, Barba M, Rohilla S, Terrenato I, Sperati F, Muti P, Schünemann HJ. Low-molecular-weight heparins are superior to vitamin K antagonists for the long term treatment of venous thromboembolism in patients with cancer: a cochrane systematic review. Journal of Experimental & Clinical Cancer Research : Cr. 27: 21. PMID 18634550 DOI: 10.1186/1756-9966-27-21  0.48
2008 Akl EA, van Doormaal FF, Barba M, Kamath G, Kim SY, Kuipers S, Middeldorp S, Yosuico V, Dickinson HO, Schünemann HJ. Parenteral anticoagulation may prolong the survival of patients with limited small cell lung cancer: a Cochrane systematic review. Journal of Experimental & Clinical Cancer Research : Cr. 27: 4. PMID 18577254 DOI: 10.1186/1756-9966-27-4  0.446
2008 Akl EA, Muti P, Schünemann HJ. Anticoagulation in patients with cancer: an overview of reviews. Polskie Archiwum Medycyny WewnęTrznej. 118: 183-93. PMID 18575417  0.387
2008 Akl EA, Terrenato I, Barba M, Sperati F, Sempos EV, Muti P, Cook DJ, Schünemann HJ. Low-molecular-weight heparin vs unfractionated heparin for perioperative thromboprophylaxis in patients with cancer: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Archives of Internal Medicine. 168: 1261-9. PMID 18574082 DOI: 10.1001/Archinte.168.12.1261  0.473
2008 Akl EA, Maroun N, Major S, Afif C, Abdo A, Choucair J, Sakr M, Li CK, Grant BJ, Schünemann HJ. Post-graduation migration intentions of students of Lebanese medical schools: a survey study. Bmc Public Health. 8: 191. PMID 18518954 DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-8-191  0.404
2008 Karanicolas PJ, Bhandari M, Taromi B, Akl EA, Bassler D, Alonso-Coello P, Rigau D, Bryant D, Smith SE, Walter SD, Guyatt GH. Blinding of outcomes in trials of orthopaedic trauma: an opportunity to enhance the validity of clinical trials. The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery. American Volume. 90: 1026-33. PMID 18451395 DOI: 10.2106/Jbjs.G.00963  0.339
2008 Akl EA, Kamath G, Yosuico V, Kim SY, Barba M, Sperati F, Cook DJ, Schünemann HJ. Thromboprophylaxis for patients with cancer and central venous catheters: a systematic review and a meta-analysis. Cancer. 112: 2483-92. PMID 18404702 DOI: 10.1002/Cncr.23479  0.485
2008 Johnston BC, Da Costa BR, Devereaux PJ, Akl EA, Busse JW. The use of expertise-based randomized controlled trials to assess spinal manipulation and acupuncture for low back pain: A systematic review Spine. 33: 914-918. PMID 18404113 DOI: 10.1097/Brs.0B013E31816B4Be4  0.358
2008 Akl EA, Muti P, Schünemann HJ. Anticoagulation in patients with cancer: an overview of reviews. Polskie Archiwum Medycyny Wewnetrznej-Polish Archives of Internal Medicine. 118: 183-193. DOI: 10.20452/Pamw.356  0.474
2008 Brozek J, Akl EA, Jaeschke R, Terrenato I, Cilenti V, Cazzola M, Fabbri L, O'Byrne P, Guyatt GH, Schünemann H. Long-acting beta2-agonists for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: Serious adverse events Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews. DOI: 10.1002/14651858.Cd007200  0.373
2007 Akl EA, Maroun N, Guyatt G, Oxman AD, Alonso-Coello P, Vist GE, Devereaux PJ, Montori VM, Schünemann HJ. Symbols were superior to numbers for presenting strength of recommendations to health care consumers: a randomized trial. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology. 60: 1298-305. PMID 17998085 DOI: 10.1016/J.Jclinepi.2007.03.011  0.486
2007 Akl EA, Karmath G, Yosuico V, Kim SY, Barba M, Sperati F, Cook D, Schünemann HJ. Anticoagulation for thrombosis prophylaxis in cancer patients with central venous catheters Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (Online). PMID 17636845 DOI: 10.1002/14651858.Cd006468.Pub2  0.492
2007 Akl EA, Grant BJB, Guyatt GH, Montori VM, Schünemann HJ. A Decision Aid for COPD patients considering inhaled steroid therapy: Development and before and after pilot testing Bmc Medical Informatics and Decision Making. 7. PMID 17504536 DOI: 10.1186/1472-6947-7-12  0.462
2007 Akl EA, Maroun N, Major S, Chahoud B, Schünemann HJ. Graduates of Lebanese medical schools in the United States: an observational study of international migration of physicians. Bmc Health Services Research. 7: 49. PMID 17411430 DOI: 10.1186/1472-6963-7-49  0.417
2007 Ferreira-González I, Busse JW, Heels-Ansdell D, Montori VM, Akl EA, Bryant DM, Alonso J, Jaeschke R, Schünemann HJ, Permanyer-Miralda G, Domingo-Salvany A, Guyatt GH. Problems with use of composite end points in cardiovascular trials: Systematic review of randomised controlled trials British Medical Journal. 334: 786-788. PMID 17403713 DOI: 10.1136/Bmj.39136.682083.Ae  0.47
2007 Akl EA, Mustafa R, Bdair F, Schünemann HJ. The United States physician workforce and international medical graduates: Trends and characteristics Journal of General Internal Medicine. 22: 264-268. PMID 17356997 DOI: 10.1007/S11606-006-0022-2  0.418
2007 Akl EA, Maroun N, Major S, Afif C, Chahoud B, Choucair J, Sakr M, Schünemann HJ. Why are you draining your brain? Factors underlying decisions of graduating Lebanese medical students to migrate. Social Science & Medicine (1982). 64: 1278-84. PMID 17125896 DOI: 10.1016/J.Socscimed.2006.10.021  0.403
2007 Akl EA, Oxman AD, Herrin J, Vist G, Costiniuk C, Blank D, Schünemann HJ. Negative versus positive framing of health information Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews. DOI: 10.1002/14651858.Cd006777  0.415
2007 Akl EA, Van Doormaal FF, Barba M, Kamath G, Kim SY, Kuipers S, Middeldorp S, Yosuico V, Dickinson HO, Schünemann HJ. Parenteral anticoagulation for prolonging survival in patients with cancer who have no other indication for anticoagulation Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews. DOI: 10.1002/14651858.Cd006652  0.498
2007 Akl EA, Barba M, Muti P, Rohilla S, Schünemann H, Sperati F, Terrenato I. Anticoagulation for the intial treatment of venous thromboembolism in patients with cancer Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews. DOI: 10.1002/14651858.Cd006649  0.43
2007 Akl EA, Kamath G, Kim SY, Yosuico V, Barba M, Terrenato I, Sperati F, Schünemann HJ. Oral anticoagulation for prolonging survival in patients with cancer Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews. DOI: 10.1002/14651858.Cd006466  0.492
2006 Schünemann HJ, Akl EA, Guyatt GH. Interpreting the results of patient reported outcome measures in clinical trials: The clinician's perspective Health and Quality of Life Outcomes. 4. PMID 16973000 DOI: 10.1186/1477-7525-4-62  0.498
2006 Akl EA, Maroun N, Neagoe G, Guyatt G, Schünemann HJ. EBM user and practitioner models for graduate medical education: what do residents prefer? Medical Teacher. 28: 192-4. PMID 16707306 DOI: 10.1080/01421590500314207  0.431
2006 Montori VM, Leung TW, Devereaux PJ, Schünemann HJ, Akl EA, Gafni A, Guyatt GH. Can contraindications compromise evidence-based, patient-centered clinical practice? Canadian Journal of Clinical Pharmacology. 13: e92-e101. PMID 16493178  0.441
2005 Akl EA, Maroun N, Klocke RA, Montori V, Schünemann HJ. Electronic mail was not better than postal mail for surveying residents and faculty. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology. 58: 425-9. PMID 15862729 DOI: 10.1016/J.Jclinepi.2004.10.006  0.403
2005 Montori VM, Permanyer-Miralda G, Ferreira-González I, Busse JW, Pacheco-Huergo V, Bryant D, Alonso J, Akl EA, Domingo-Salvany A, Mills E, Wu P, Schünemann HJ, Jaeschke R, Guyatt GH. Validity of composite end points in clinical trials British Medical Journal. 330: 594-596. PMID 15761002 DOI: 10.1136/Bmj.330.7491.594  0.455
2004 Akl EA, Maroun N, Klocke RA, Schünemann HJ. A survey of internal medicine residents and faculty about the duration of attendings' inpatient rotations. Journal of General Internal Medicine. 19: 1133-9. PMID 15566443 DOI: 10.1111/J.1525-1497.2004.30408.X  0.419
2004 Akl EA, Izuchukwu IS, El-Dika S, Fritsche L, Kunz R, Schünemann HJ. Integrating an evidence-based medicine rotation into an internal medicine residency program Academic Medicine. 79: 897-904. PMID 15326018 DOI: 10.1097/00001888-200409000-00018  0.441
2004 Akl E, Schünemann H. Goodbye, number needed to treat? Journal of Clinical Epidemiology. 57: 219-220. PMID 15125633 DOI: 10.1016/J.Jclinepi.2003.03.002  0.395
2004 Schünemann HJ, Ståhl E, Austin P, Akl E, Armstrong D, Guyatt GH. A comparison of narrative and table formats for presenting hypothetical health states to patients with gastrointestinal or pulmonary disease. Medical Decision Making. 24: 53-60. PMID 15005954 DOI: 10.1177/0272989X03261566  0.462
2004 Schünemann HJ, Akl E. Rapid measurement of B-type natriuretic peptides reduced time to discharge and treatment costs in patients with acute dyspnea Acp Journal Club. 141: 35-35. DOI: 10.7326/Acpjc-2004-141-2-035  0.388
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