| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
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| 1 | Peginterferon alfa-2b plus ribavirin compared with interferon alfa-2b plus ribavirin for initial treatment of chronic hepatitis C: a randomised trial | Lancet, The | 2001 | 5,888 |
| 2 | An Intervention to Decrease Catheter-Related Bloodstream Infections in the ICU | New England Journal of Medicine | 2006 | 4,369 |
| 3 | Physical Activity and Public Health | Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise | 2007 | 3,959 |
| 4 | Primary angioplasty versus intravenous thrombolytic therapy for acute myocardial infarction: a quantitative review of 23 randomised trials | Lancet, The | 2003 | 3,757 |
| 5 | Infectious Diseases Society of America and the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America Guidelines for Developing an Institutional Program to Enhance Antimicrobial Stewardship | Clinical Infectious Diseases | 2007 | 3,390 |
| 6 | Interferon Alfa-2b Alone or in Combination with Ribavirin as Initial Treatment for Chronic Hepatitis C | New England Journal of Medicine | 1998 | 3,341 |
| 7 | American Society of Clinical Oncology/College of American Pathologists Guideline Recommendations for Immunohistochemical Testing of Estrogen and Progesterone Receptors in Breast Cancer | Journal of Clinical Oncology | 2010 | 2,667 |
| 8 | A Comparison of Immediate Angioplasty with Thrombolytic Therapy for Acute Myocardial Infarction | New England Journal of Medicine | 1993 | 1,848 |
| 9 | Diagnostic Performance of Digital versus Film Mammography for Breast-Cancer Screening | New England Journal of Medicine | 2005 | 1,787 |
| 10 | The Long-Term Effect of Doxazosin, Finasteride, and Combination Therapy on the Clinical Progression of Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia | New England Journal of Medicine | 2003 | 1,780 |
| 11 | Acute Renal Failure After Coronary Intervention | American Journal of Medicine | 1997 | 1,553 |
| 12 | Diagnostic Accuracy of Noninvasive Coronary Angiography Using 64-Slice Spiral Computed Tomography | Journal of the American College of Cardiology | 2005 | 1,375 |
| 13 | Daptomycin versus Standard Therapy for Bacteremia and Endocarditis Caused byStaphylococcus aureus | New England Journal of Medicine | 2006 | 1,347 |
| 14 | The International Position on Laparoscopic Liver Surgery | Annals of Surgery | 2009 | 1,325 |
| 15 | Flat-panel cone-beam computed tomography for image-guided radiation therapy | International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics | 2002 | 1,170 |
| 16 | 2012 HRS/EHRA/ECAS expert consensus statement on catheter and surgical ablation of atrial fibrillation: recommendations for patient selection, procedural techniques, patient management and follow-up, definitions, endpoints, and research trial design | Journal of Interventional Cardiac Electrophysiology | 2012 | 1,167 |
| 17 | Emergence of Vancomycin Resistance inStaphylococcus aureus | New England Journal of Medicine | 1999 | 1,054 |
| 18 | First-Trimester or Second-Trimester Screening, or Both, for Down's Syndrome | New England Journal of Medicine | 2005 | 1,044 |
| 19 | Renal-Artery Stenosis | New England Journal of Medicine | 2001 | 934 |
| 20 | Multiple Complex Coronary Plaques in Patients with Acute Myocardial Infarction | New England Journal of Medicine | 2000 | 918 |
| 21 | Recommendations for laparoscopic liver resection: a report from the second international consensus conference held in Morioka | Annals of Surgery | 2015 | 891 |
| 22 | Coronary Angioplasty with or without Stent Implantation for Acute Myocardial Infarction | New England Journal of Medicine | 1999 | 880 |
| 23 | Degenerative lumbar spondylolisthesis with spinal stenosis. A prospective study comparing decompression with decompression and intertransverse process arthrodesis. | Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery - Series A | 1991 | 879 |
| 24 | Prevention of Premature Discontinuation of Dual Antiplatelet Therapy in Patients With Coronary Artery Stents | Circulation | 2007 | 874 |
| 25 | The use of active breathing control (ABC) to reduce margin for breathing motion | International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics | 1999 | 853 |
| 26 | Contrast-Induced Acute Kidney Injury | Journal of the American College of Cardiology | 2008 | 802 |
| 27 | Accelerated Partial Breast Irradiation Consensus Statement From the American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) | International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics | 2009 | 797 |
| 28 | Cardio-renal syndromes: report from the consensus conference of the Acute Dialysis Quality Initiative | European Heart Journal | 2010 | 797 |
| 29 | Comparison of Primary Coronary Angioplasty and Intravenous Thrombolytic Therapy for Acute Myocardial Infarction | JAMA - Journal of the American Medical Association | 1997 | 796 |
| 30 | 1997 Volvo Award Winner in Clinical Studies | Spine | 1997 | 773 |
| 31 | Practice guidelines for performance of the routine mid‐trimester fetal ultrasound scan | Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology | 2011 | 760 |
| 32 | SCCT guidelines for the interpretation and reporting of coronary CT angiography: A report of the Society of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography Guidelines Committee | Journal of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography | 2014 | 755 |
| 33 | HRS/EHRA/ECAS Expert Consensus Statement on Catheter and Surgical Ablation of Atrial Fibrillation: Recommendations for Personnel, Policy, Procedures and Follow-Up: A report of the Heart Rhythm Society (HRS) Task Force on Catheter and Surgical Ablation of Atrial Fibrillation Developed in partnership with the European Heart Rhythm Association (EHRA) and the European Cardiac Arrhythmia Society (ECAS); in collaboration with the American College of Cardiology (ACC), American Heart Association (AHA), and the Soci | Europace | 2007 | 741 |
| 34 | Age- and Sex-Related Differences in All-Cause Mortality Risk Based on Coronary Computed Tomography Angiography Findings | Journal of the American College of Cardiology | 2011 | 668 |
| 35 | Prevalence of Urinary Incontinence and Other Urological Symptoms in the Noninstitutionalized Elderly | Journal of Urology | 1986 | 637 |
| 36 | Surgical vs Nonoperative Treatment for Lumbar Disk Herniation | JAMA - Journal of the American Medical Association | 2006 | 637 |
| 37 | MYH9 is a major-effect risk gene for focal segmental glomerulosclerosis | Nature Genetics | 2008 | 636 |
| 38 | Intensity-modulated arc therapy with dynamic multileaf collimation: an alternative to tomotherapy | Physics in Medicine and Biology | 1995 | 615 |
| 39 | Direct evidence that prostate tumors show high sensitivity to fractionation (low α/β ratio), similar to late-responding normal tissue | International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics | 2002 | 612 |
| 40 | Retropubic versus Transobturator Midurethral Slings for Stress Incontinence | New England Journal of Medicine | 2010 | 605 |
| 41 | From Vulnerable Plaque to Vulnerable Patient—Part III: Executive Summary of the Screening for Heart Attack Prevention and Education (SHAPE) Task Force Report | American Journal of Cardiology | 2006 | 594 |
| 42 | A randomized, double-blind trial comparing pegylated interferon alfa-2b to interferon alfa-2b as initial treatment for chronic hepatitis C | Hepatology | 2001 | 585 |
| 43 | A Randomized Controlled Trial of Multi-Slice Coronary Computed Tomography for Evaluation of Acute Chest Pain | Journal of the American College of Cardiology | 2007 | 580 |
| 44 | Surgical Compared with Nonoperative Treatment for Lumbar Degenerative Spondylolisthesis | Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery - Series A | 2009 | 546 |
| 45 | Adaptive radiation therapy | Physics in Medicine and Biology | 1997 | 543 |
| 46 | Contrast-Induced Acute Kidney Injury | Journal of the American College of Cardiology | 2016 | 533 |
| 47 | The incidence of oesophageal adenocarcinoma in non-dysplastic Barrett's oesophagus: a meta-analysis | Gut | 2012 | 532 |
| 48 | First-trimester maternal serum PAPP-A and free-beta subunit human chorionic gonadotropin concentrations and nuchal translucency are associated with obstetric complications: A population-based screening study (The FASTER Trial) | American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology | 2004 | 529 |
| 49 | The CT-STAT (Coronary Computed Tomographic Angiography for Systematic Triage of Acute Chest Pain Patients to Treatment) Trial | Journal of the American College of Cardiology | 2011 | 522 |
| 50 | Angiogenic Gene Therapy (AGENT) Trial in Patients With Stable Angina Pectoris | Circulation | 2002 | 517 |
