| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | The MOS 36-ltem Short-Form Health Survey (SF-36) | Medical Care | 1992 | 29,313 |
| 2 | Consolidated criteria for reporting qualitative research (COREQ): a 32-item checklist for interviews and focus groups | International Journal for Quality in Health Care | 2007 | 20,392 |
| 3 | APACHE II | Critical Care Medicine | 1985 | 15,512 |
| 4 | Assessment of Older People: Self-Maintaining and Instrumental Activities of Daily Living | Gerontologist, The | 1969 | 14,702 |
| 5 | A 12-Item Short-Form Health Survey | Medical Care | 1996 | 14,204 |
| 6 | Qualitative content analysis in nursing research: concepts, procedures and measures to achieve trustworthiness | Nurse Education Today | 2004 | 13,080 |
| 7 | Global Prevalence of Diabetes: Estimates for the year 2000 and projections for 2030 | Diabetes Care | 2004 | 12,778 |
| 8 | The qualitative content analysis process | Journal of Advanced Nursing | 2008 | 12,720 |
| 9 | The MOS 36-item short-form health survey (SF-36). I. Conceptual framework and item selection | Medical Care | 1992 | 10,953 |
| 10 | Classification of subtype of acute ischemic stroke. Definitions for use in a multicenter clinical trial. TOAST. Trial of Org 10172 in Acute Stroke Treatment. | Stroke | 1993 | 9,950 |
| 11 | Epidemiology of severe sepsis in the United States: Analysis of incidence, outcome, and associated costs of care | Critical Care Medicine | 2001 | 8,511 |
| 12 | Coding Algorithms for Defining Comorbidities in ICD-9-CM and ICD-10 Administrative Data | Medical Care | 2005 | 8,119 |
| 13 | Comorbidity Measures for Use with Administrative Data | Medical Care | 1998 | 8,081 |
| 14 | Whatever happened to qualitative description? | Research in Nursing and Health | 2000 | 7,865 |
| 15 | Surviving Sepsis Campaign: International guidelines for management of severe sepsis and septic shock: 2008 | Critical Care Medicine | 2008 | 7,331 |
| 16 | Report of the Expert Committee on the Diagnosis and Classification of Diabetes Mellitus | Diabetes Care | 1997 | 7,207 |
| 17 | Duration of hypotension before initiation of effective antimicrobial therapy is the critical determinant of survival in human septic shock* | Critical Care Medicine | 2006 | 7,176 |
| 18 | Atrial fibrillation as an independent risk factor for stroke: the Framingham Study. | Stroke | 1991 | 6,390 |
| 19 | Reversible middle cerebral artery occlusion without craniectomy in rats. | Stroke | 1989 | 6,370 |
| 20 | Surviving Sepsis Campaign | Critical Care Medicine | 2013 | 6,362 |
| 21 | Polyphenols: food sources and bioavailability | American Journal of Clinical Nutrition | 2004 | 6,093 |
| 22 | The MOS 36-Item Short-Form Health Survey (SF-36) | Medical Care | 1993 | 5,797 |
| 23 | American College of Chest Physicians/Society of Critical Care Medicine Consensus Conference | Critical Care Medicine | 1992 | 5,695 |
| 24 | Dietary Modulation of the Human Colonic Microbiota: Introducing the Concept of Prebiotics | Journal of Nutrition | 1995 | 5,657 |
| 25 | Body fat assessed from total body density and its estimation from skinfold thickness: measurements on 481 men and women aged from 16 to 72 Years | British Journal of Nutrition | 1974 | 5,575 |
| 26 | Acute renal failure - definition, outcome measures, animal models, fluid therapy and information technology needs: the Second International Consensus Conference of the Acute Dialysis Quality Initiative (ADQI) Group | Critical Care | 2004 | 5,531 |
| 27 | The integrative review: updated methodology | Journal of Advanced Nursing | 2005 | 5,375 |
| 28 | 2001 SCCM/ESICM/ACCP/ATS/SIS International Sepsis Definitions Conference | Critical Care Medicine | 2003 | 5,266 |
| 29 | Guidelines for the Early Management of Patients With Acute Ischemic Stroke | Stroke | 2013 | 5,246 |
| 30 | Interobserver agreement for the assessment of handicap in stroke patients. | Stroke | 1988 | 5,117 |
| 31 | Hepatic platelet and leukocyte adherence during endotoxemia | Critical Care | 2006 | 5,093 |
| 32 | The Discovery of Grounded Theory; Strategies for Qualitative Research | Nursing Research | 1968 | 4,998 |
| 33 | APACHE II: a severity of disease classification system | Critical Care Medicine | 1985 | 4,965 |
| 34 | Diagnosis and Classification of Diabetes Mellitus | Diabetes Care | 2010 | 4,938 |
| 35 | Global Burden of Diabetes, 1995-2025: Prevalence, numerical estimates, and projections | Diabetes Care | 1998 | 4,873 |
| 36 | Insulin sensitivity indices obtained from oral glucose tolerance testing: comparison with the euglycemic insulin clamp | Diabetes Care | 1999 | 4,832 |
| 37 | Assessment of older people: self-maintaining and instrumental activities of daily living | Gerontologist, The | 1969 | 4,813 |
| 38 | Content analysis and thematic analysis: Implications for conducting a qualitative descriptive study | Australian Journal of Cancer Nursing | 2013 | 4,801 |
| 39 | Purposeful Sampling for Qualitative Data Collection and Analysis in Mixed Method Implementation Research | Administration and Policy in Mental Health and Mental Health Services Research | 2015 | 4,645 |
| 40 | Measurements of acute cerebral infarction: a clinical examination scale. | Stroke | 1989 | 4,625 |
| 41 | Surviving Sepsis Campaign guidelines for management of severe sepsis and septic shock | Critical Care Medicine | 2004 | 4,598 |
| 42 | Surviving Sepsis Campaign: International Guidelines for Management of Sepsis and Septic Shock: 2016 | Intensive Care Medicine | 2017 | 4,590 |
| 43 | 9/Geriatric Depression Scale (GDS) | Clinical Gerontologist | 1986 | 4,551 |
| 44 | The Patient Health Questionnaire-2 | Medical Care | 2003 | 4,547 |
| 45 | Relatives of the Impaired Elderly: Correlates of Feelings of Burden | Gerontologist, The | 1980 | 4,374 |
| 46 | The Sickness Impact Profile: Development and Final Revision of a Health Status Measure | Medical Care | 1981 | 4,333 |
| 47 | Concurrent and Predictive Validity of a Self-reported Measure of Medication Adherence | Medical Care | 1986 | 4,262 |
| 48 | Outcomes for Implementation Research: Conceptual Distinctions, Measurement Challenges, and Research Agenda | Administration and Policy in Mental Health and Mental Health Services Research | 2011 | 4,123 |
| 49 | Cardiovascular Morbidity and Mortality Associated With the Metabolic Syndrome | Diabetes Care | 2001 | 4,086 |
| 50 | Use and Abuse of HOMA Modeling | Diabetes Care | 2004 | 4,019 |
| 51 | Diagnosis and Classification of Diabetes Mellitus | Diabetes Care | 2014 | 3,999 |
| 52 | The MOS 36-ltem Short-Form Health Survey (SF-36): III. Tests of Data Quality, Scaling Assumptions, and Reliability Across Diverse Patient Groups | Medical Care | 1994 | 3,992 |
| 53 | PedsQL™ 4.0: Reliability and Validity of the Pediatric Quality of Life Inventory™ Version 4.0 Generic Core Scales in Healthy and Patient Populations | Medical Care | 2001 | 3,975 |
| 54 | 2018 Guidelines for the Early Management of Patients With Acute Ischemic Stroke: A Guideline for Healthcare Professionals From the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association | Stroke | 2018 | 3,971 |
| 55 | Surviving Sepsis Campaign: International Guidelines for Management of Severe Sepsis and Septic Shock, 2012 | Intensive Care Medicine | 2013 | 3,906 |
| 56 | Standards of Medical Care in Diabetes—2014 | Diabetes Care | 2014 | 3,893 |
| 57 | Guidelines for the Prevention of Stroke in Patients With Stroke and Transient Ischemic Attack | Stroke | 2014 | 3,891 |
| 58 | The fifth edition of the addiction severity index | Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment | 1992 | 3,878 |
| 59 | International Association of Diabetes and Pregnancy Study Groups Recommendations on the Diagnosis and Classification of Hyperglycemia in Pregnancy | Diabetes Care | 2010 | 3,870 |
| 60 | Modeling Valuations for EuroQol Health States | Medical Care | 1997 | 3,859 |
| 61 | Guidance for conducting systematic scoping reviews | International Journal of Evidence-Based Healthcare | 2015 | 3,820 |
| 62 | Clinical predictors of mortality due to COVID-19 based on an analysis of data of 150 patients from Wuhan, China | Intensive Care Medicine | 2020 | 3,757 |
| 63 | Guidelines for the Early Management of Patients With Acute Ischemic Stroke: 2019 Update to the 2018 Guidelines for the Early Management of Acute Ischemic Stroke: A Guideline for Healthcare Professionals From the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association | Stroke | 2019 | 3,733 |
| 64 | Insulin Resistance: A Multifaceted Syndrome Responsible for NIDDM, Obesity, Hypertension, Dyslipidemia, and Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease | Diabetes Care | 1991 | 3,723 |
| 65 | Interpretation of Changes in Health-related Quality of Life | Medical Care | 2003 | 3,681 |
| 66 | Use of the SOFA score to assess the incidence of organ dysfunction/failure in intensive care units | Critical Care Medicine | 1998 | 3,667 |
| 67 | Diabetes, Other Risk Factors, and 12-Yr Cardiovascular Mortality for Men Screened in the Multiple Risk Factor Intervention Trial | Diabetes Care | 1993 | 3,663 |
| 68 | Effects of Diet and Exercise in Preventing NIDDM in People With Impaired Glucose Tolerance: The Da Qing IGT and Diabetes Study | Diabetes Care | 1997 | 3,612 |
| 69 | Caregiving and the Stress Process: An Overview of Concepts and Their Measures | Gerontologist, The | 1990 | 3,529 |
| 70 | Progress in Development of the Index of ADL | Gerontologist, The | 1970 | 3,470 |
| 71 | Global Prevalence and Major Risk Factors of Diabetic Retinopathy | Diabetes Care | 2012 | 3,439 |
| 72 | Follow-up Report on the Diagnosis of Diabetes Mellitus | Diabetes Care | 2003 | 3,392 |
| 73 | Bioavailability and bioefficacy of polyphenols in humans. I. Review of 97 bioavailability studies | American Journal of Clinical Nutrition | 2005 | 3,389 |
| 74 | Multiple Organ Dysfunction Score | Critical Care Medicine | 1995 | 3,338 |
| 75 | The Prevalence of Comorbid Depression in Adults With Diabetes: A meta-analysis | Diabetes Care | 2001 | 3,328 |
| 76 | Determination and Quantification Of Content Validity | Nursing Research | 1986 | 3,291 |
| 77 | The content validity index: Are you sure you know what's being reported? critique and recommendations | Research in Nursing and Health | 2006 | 3,260 |
| 78 | The MOS Short-form General Health Survey | Medical Care | 1988 | 3,192 |
| 79 | Measures of adult pain: Visual Analog Scale for Pain (VAS Pain), Numeric Rating Scale for Pain (NRS Pain), McGill Pain Questionnaire (MPQ), Short‐Form McGill Pain Questionnaire (SF‐MPQ), Chronic Pain Grade Scale (CPGS), Short Form‐36 Bodily Pain Scale (SF‐36 BPS), and Measure of Intermittent and Constant Osteoarthritis Pain (ICOAP) | Arthritis Care and Research | 2011 | 3,177 |
| 80 | A short questionnaire for the measurement of habitual physical activity in epidemiological studies | American Journal of Clinical Nutrition | 1982 | 3,166 |
| 81 | Dietary pattern analysis: a new direction in nutritional epidemiology | Current Opinion in Lipidology | 2002 | 3,112 |
| 82 | Flavonoid antioxidants: chemistry, metabolism and structure-activity relationships | Journal of Nutritional Biochemistry | 2002 | 3,093 |
| 83 | Management of Hyperglycemia in Type 2 Diabetes: A Patient-Centered Approach | Diabetes Care | 2012 | 3,077 |
| 84 | Standards of Medical Care in Diabetes—2013 | Diabetes Care | 2013 | 3,076 |
| 85 | Successful Aging | Gerontologist, The | 1997 | 3,070 |
| 86 | Clinical Practice Guidelines for the Management of Pain, Agitation, and Delirium in Adult Patients in the Intensive Care Unit | Critical Care Medicine | 2013 | 3,066 |
| 87 | Flavonoids: an overview | Journal of Nutritional Science | 2016 | 3,066 |
| 88 | Systematic review of the health benefits of physical activity and fitness in school-aged children and youth | International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity | 2010 | 3,061 |
| 89 | The phenolic constituents ofPrunus domestica. I.—The quantitative analysis of phenolic constituents | Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture | 1959 | 3,047 |
| 90 | Sarcopenia in Asia: Consensus Report of the Asian Working Group for Sarcopenia | Journal of the American Medical Directors Association | 2014 | 3,035 |
| 91 | Vascular Contributions to Cognitive Impairment and Dementia | Stroke | 2011 | 2,989 |
| 92 | Medical Management of Hyperglycemia in Type 2 Diabetes: A Consensus Algorithm for the Initiation and Adjustment of Therapy | Diabetes Care | 2009 | 2,988 |
| 93 | The American College of Rheumatology Preliminary Diagnostic Criteria for Fibromyalgia and Measurement of Symptom Severity | Arthritis Care and Research | 2010 | 2,964 |
| 94 | Glycemic index of foods: a physiological basis for carbohydrate exchange | American Journal of Clinical Nutrition | 1981 | 2,937 |
| 95 | Dietary Reference Intakes for Energy, Carbohydrate, Fiber, Fat, Fatty Acids, Cholesterol, Protein and Amino Acids | Journal of the American Dietetic Association | 2002 | 2,927 |
| 96 | Global nutrition transition and the pandemic of obesity in developing countries | Nutrition Reviews | 2012 | 2,923 |
| 97 | Validation and Standardization of the Generalized Anxiety Disorder Screener (GAD-7) in the General Population | Medical Care | 2008 | 2,912 |
| 98 | Polyphenols: Chemistry, Dietary Sources, Metabolism, and Nutritional Significance | Nutrition Reviews | 1998 | 2,905 |
| 99 | Fruit, vegetables, and cancer prevention: A review of the epidemiological evidence | Nutrition and Cancer | 1992 | 2,879 |
| 100 | Adjustment for total energy intake in epidemiologic studies | American Journal of Clinical Nutrition | 1997 | 2,873 |
