| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Screening for Breast Cancer: U.S. Preventive Services Task Force Recommendation Statement | Annals of Internal Medicine | 2016 | 1,499 |
| 2 | Screening for Breast Cancer: U.S. Preventive Services Task Force Recommendation Statement | Annals of Internal Medicine | 2009 | 1,373 |
| 3 | Will All Americans Become Overweight or Obese? Estimating the Progression and Cost of the US Obesity Epidemic | Obesity | 2008 | 1,174 |
| 4 | Systems for grading the quality of evidence and the strength of recommendations I: Critical appraisal of existing approaches The GRADE Working Group | BMC Health Services Research | 2004 | 883 |
| 5 | Excess Length of Stay, Charges, and Mortality Attributable to Medical Injuries During Hospitalization | JAMA - Journal of the American Medical Association | 2003 | 862 |
| 6 | Hysterectomy rates in the United States 1990–1997 | Obstetrics and Gynecology | 2002 | 566 |
| 7 | Preventable adverse drug events in hospitalized patients | Critical Care Medicine | 1997 | 548 |
| 8 | Cost of Hospitalization for Preterm and Low Birth Weight Infants in the United States | Pediatrics | 2007 | 458 |
| 9 | Updated U.S. population standard for the Veterans RAND 12-item Health Survey (VR-12) | Quality of Life Research | 2009 | 455 |
| 10 | Conducting quantitative synthesis when comparing medical interventions: AHRQ and the Effective Health Care Program | Journal of Clinical Epidemiology | 2011 | 447 |
| 11 | AHRQ Series Paper 5: Grading the strength of a body of evidence when comparing medical interventions—Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality and the Effective Health-Care Program | Journal of Clinical Epidemiology | 2010 | 403 |
| 12 | Cognitive interventions to reduce diagnostic error: a narrative review | BMJ Quality and Safety | 2012 | 349 |
| 13 | Screening for Depression in Adults: U.S. Preventive Services Task Force Recommendation Statement | Annals of Internal Medicine | 2009 | 340 |
| 14 | Adjusting Health Expenditures for Inflation: A Review of Measures for Health Services Research in the United States | Health Services Research | 2018 | 330 |
| 15 | Agency for Health Care Policy and Research | Medical Care | 1999 | 329 |
| 16 | Combining Activities of Daily Living with Instrumental Activities of Daily Living to Measure Functional Disability | Journals of Gerontology - Series B Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences | 1998 | 302 |
| 17 | Nurse Staffing Levels and Adverse Events Following Surgery in U.S. Hospitals | Journal of Nursing Scholarship | 1998 | 286 |
| 18 | Racial/ethnic differences in children's access to care | American Journal of Public Health | 2000 | 278 |
| 19 | Study Design in Qualitative Research2: Sampling and Data Collection Strategies | Education for Health: Change in Learning and Practice | 2000 | 276 |
| 20 | The Burden of Environmental Tobacco Smoke Exposure on the Respiratory Health of Children 2 Months Through 5 Years of Age in the United States: Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 1988 to 1994 | Pediatrics | 1998 | 268 |
| 21 | Systems for grading the quality of evidence and the strength of recommendations II: Pilot study of a new system | BMC Health Services Research | 2005 | 256 |
| 22 | Pathways To Access: Health Insurance, The Health Care Delivery System, And Racial/Ethnic Disparities, 1996–1999 | Health Affairs | 2003 | 253 |
| 23 | Population-Based Trends in Volumes and Rates of Ambulatory Lumbar Spine Surgery | Spine | 2006 | 250 |
| 24 | Kawasaki Syndrome Hospitalizations in the United States, 1997 and 2000 | Pediatrics | 2003 | 246 |
| 25 | Cardiac Device Implantation in the United States from 1997 through 2004: A Population-based Analysis | Journal of General Internal Medicine | 2008 | 239 |
| 26 | Benefits and Harms of Prostate-Specific Antigen Screening for Prostate Cancer: An Evidence Update for the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force | Annals of Internal Medicine | 2008 | 239 |
| 27 | The Medical Expenditure Panel Survey | Medical Care | 2009 | 231 |
| 28 | Clinicians' attitudes to clinical practice guidelines: a systematic review | Medical Journal of Australia | 2002 | 226 |
| 29 | Multiple Hospitalizations for Patients With Diabetes | Diabetes Care | 2003 | 223 |
| 30 | Characteristics of Nursing Homes that Affect Resident Outcomes | Journal of Aging and Health | 1991 | 222 |
| 31 | The effect of Medicaid reimbursement on quality of care in nursing homes | Journal of Health Economics | 1996 | 222 |
| 32 | More Offers, Fewer Takers for Employment-Based Health Insurance: 1987 and 1996 | Health Affairs | 1997 | 220 |
| 33 | Differential item functioning and health assessment | Quality of Life Research | 2007 | 214 |
| 34 | Stimulant Medication Use in Children: A 12-Year Perspective | American Journal of Psychiatry | 2012 | 210 |
| 35 | The evidence on the effectiveness of management for malignant pleural effusion: a systematic review | European Journal of Cardio-thoracic Surgery | 2006 | 209 |
| 36 | Hispanic Healthcare Disparities | Medical Care | 2004 | 208 |
| 37 | Study Designs for Effectiveness and Translation Research | American Journal of Preventive Medicine | 2007 | 198 |
| 38 | Reduction in Acute Gastroenteritis Hospitalizations among US Children After Introduction of Rotavirus Vaccine: Analysis of Hospital Discharge Data from 18 US States | Journal of Infectious Diseases | 2010 | 196 |
| 39 | Administrative data based patient safety research: a critical review | Quality and Safety in Health Care | 2003 | 190 |
| 40 | Assessing Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Treatment across Episodes of Mental Health Care | Health Services Research | 2014 | 190 |
| 41 | How will we know "good" qualitative research when we see it? Beginning the dialogue in health services research | Health Services Research | 1999 | 189 |
| 42 | Employment patterns of long-term cancer survivors | Psycho-Oncology | 2002 | 188 |
| 43 | Explaining Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Care | Medical Care | 2006 | 185 |
| 44 | The incident user design in comparative effectiveness research | Pharmacoepidemiology and Drug Safety | 2013 | 181 |
| 45 | The use of formal and informal home care by the disabled elderly | Health Services Research | 1992 | 181 |
| 46 | Diarrhea- and Rotavirus-Associated Hospitalizations Among Children Less Than 5 Years of Age: United States, 1997 and 2000 | Pediatrics | 2006 | 180 |
| 47 | The Relationship of Vision and Hearing Impairment to One-Year Mortality and Functional Decline | Journal of Aging and Health | 1992 | 176 |
| 48 | The Competing Demands of Employment and Informal Caregiving to Disabled Elders | Medical Care | 1990 | 175 |
| 49 | The healthcare cost and utilization project: an overview | Effective Clinical Practice: ECP | 2002 | 175 |
| 50 | Changes in Financial Burdens for Health Care | JAMA - Journal of the American Medical Association | 2006 | 174 |
