| Sex-based differences in the effect of digoxin for the treatment of heart failure | New England Journal of Medicine | 2002 | 462 |
| Randomized trial of an education and support intervention to prevent readmission of patients with heart failure | Journal of the American College of Cardiology | 2002 | 457 |
| The consistency of adherence to antiretroviral therapy predicts biologic outcomes for human immunodeficiency virus-infected persons in clinical trials | Clinical Infectious Diseases | 2002 | 376 |
| Use of opioid medications for chronic noncancer pain syndromes in primary care | Journal of General Internal Medicine | 2002 | 253 |
| Aspiration risk after acute stroke: comparison of clinical examination and fiberoptic endoscopic evaluation of swallowing | Dysphagia | 2002 | 167 |
| Risk and predictors of stroke after myocardial infarction among the elderly: results from the Cooperative Cardiovascular Project | Circulation | 2002 | 71 |
| Sex differences in cardiac catheterization after acute myocardial infarction: the role of procedure appropriateness | Annals of Internal Medicine | 2002 | 71 |
| Incidence and type of aspiration in acute care patients requiring mechanical ventilation via a new tracheotomy | Chest | 2002 | 67 |
| Differences between African Americans and whites in the outcome of heart failure: Evidence for a greater functional decline in African Americans | American Heart Journal | 2002 | 56 |
| Molecular pathobiology of thyroid neoplasms | Endocrine Pathology | 2002 | 54 |
| Pacemaker therapy in isolated congenital complete atrioventricular block | PACE - Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology | 2002 | 52 |
| Antimicrobial activities of BMS-284756 compared with those of fluoroquinolones and beta-lactams against gram-positive clinical isolates | Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy | 2002 | 26 |
| Anatomy of the Caucasian alar groove | Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery | 2002 | 26 |
| Nonsteroidal antiinflammatory drugs after acute myocardial infarction | American Heart Journal | 2002 | 26 |
| Steroid-induced myopathy in the ICU | Annals of Pharmacotherapy | 2002 | 20 |
| The soft triangle revisited | Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery | 2002 | 19 |
| Intraoperative radiofrequency ablation of the atrium: effectiveness for treatment of supraventricular tachycardia in congenital heart surgery | Annals of Thoracic Surgery | 2002 | 14 |
| Early bioprosthetic mitral valve "pseudostenosis" after complete preservation of the native mitral apparatus | Annals of Thoracic Surgery | 2002 | 13 |
| Comparative microbial character of consumed food and drinking water | Critical Reviews in Microbiology | 2002 | 12 |
| Prolonged mechanical ventilation and tracheostomy in the elderly | AACN Advanced Critical Care | 2002 | 11 |
| Medical Student Elegies: The Poetics of Caring | Journal of Medical Humanities | 2002 | 9 |
| Economics of treatments for male infertility | Urologic Clinics of North America | 2002 | 7 |
| Pulmonary impairment and disability | Clinics in Chest Medicine | 2002 | 7 |
| Surgery in primary hyperparathyroidism: the patient without previous neck surgery | Journal of Bone and Mineral Research | 2002 | 7 |
| Genetics of diabetes mellitus | American Journal of Medical Genetics Part A | 2002 | 6 |
