| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | The MOS 36-ltem Short-Form Health Survey (SF-36) | Medical Care | 1992 | 29,313 |
| 2 | A 12-Item Short-Form Health Survey | Medical Care | 1996 | 14,204 |
| 3 | The MOS 36-item short-form health survey (SF-36). I. Conceptual framework and item selection | Medical Care | 1992 | 10,953 |
| 4 | Coding Algorithms for Defining Comorbidities in ICD-9-CM and ICD-10 Administrative Data | Medical Care | 2005 | 8,119 |
| 5 | Comorbidity Measures for Use with Administrative Data | Medical Care | 1998 | 8,081 |
| 6 | The MOS 36-Item Short-Form Health Survey (SF-36) | Medical Care | 1993 | 5,797 |
| 7 | The Patient Health Questionnaire-2 | Medical Care | 2003 | 4,547 |
| 8 | The Sickness Impact Profile: Development and Final Revision of a Health Status Measure | Medical Care | 1981 | 4,333 |
| 9 | Concurrent and Predictive Validity of a Self-reported Measure of Medication Adherence | Medical Care | 1986 | 4,262 |
| 10 | 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 |
| 11 | 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 |
| 12 | Modeling Valuations for EuroQol Health States | Medical Care | 1997 | 3,859 |
| 13 | Interpretation of Changes in Health-related Quality of Life | Medical Care | 2003 | 3,681 |
| 14 | The MOS Short-form General Health Survey | Medical Care | 1988 | 3,192 |
| 15 | Validation and Standardization of the Generalized Anxiety Disorder Screener (GAD-7) in the General Population | Medical Care | 2008 | 2,912 |
| 16 | The PedsQL™: Measurement Model for the Pediatric Quality of Life Inventory | Medical Care | 1999 | 2,464 |
| 17 | Effectiveness-implementation Hybrid Designs | Medical Care | 2012 | 2,409 |
| 18 | The Patient-Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System (PROMIS) | Medical Care | 2007 | 2,314 |
| 19 | The Concept of Access | Medical Care | 1981 | 2,261 |
| 20 | Effect Sizes for Interpreting Changes in Health Status | Medical Care | 1989 | 2,097 |
| 21 | Evidence Suggesting That a Chronic Disease Self-Management Program Can Improve Health Status While Reducing Hospitalization | Medical Care | 1999 | 1,953 |
| 22 | Variations in Patients’ Adherence to Medical Recommendations | Medical Care | 2004 | 1,876 |
| 23 | Physician Communication and Patient Adherence to Treatment | Medical Care | 2009 | 1,866 |
| 24 | Assessing the Effects of Physician-Patient Interactions on the Outcomes of Chronic Disease | Medical Care | 1989 | 1,730 |
| 25 | A Modification of the Elixhauser Comorbidity Measures Into a Point System for Hospital Death Using Administrative Data | Medical Care | 2009 | 1,573 |
| 26 | Generic and Disease-Specific Measures in Assessing Health Status and Quality of Life | Medical Care | 1989 | 1,496 |
| 27 | Incidence and Types of Adverse Events and Negligent Care in Utah and Colorado | Medical Care | 2000 | 1,437 |
| 28 | Impact of Medication Adherence on Hospitalization Risk and Healthcare Cost | Medical Care | 2005 | 1,429 |
| 29 | Sociobehavioral Determinants of Compliance with Health and Medical Care Recommendations | Medical Care | 1975 | 1,366 |
| 30 | Performance of a Five-Item Mental Health Screening Test | Medical Care | 1991 | 1,352 |
| 31 | Chronic Disease Self-Management Program | Medical Care | 2001 | 1,254 |
| 32 | Psychometric Evaluation and Calibration of Health-Related Quality of Life Item Banks | Medical Care | 2007 | 1,242 |
| 33 | Patient Adherence and Medical Treatment Outcomes | Medical Care | 2002 | 1,224 |
| 34 | Six-Item Screener to Identify Cognitive Impairment Among Potential Subjects for Clinical Research | Medical Care | 2002 | 1,206 |
| 35 | US Valuation of the EQ-5D Health States | Medical Care | 2005 | 1,145 |
| 36 | Multiattribute and Single-Attribute Utility Functions for the Health Utilities Index Mark 3 System | Medical Care | 2002 | 1,114 |
| 37 | The Estimation of a Preference-Based Measure of Health From the SF-12 | Medical Care | 2004 | 1,096 |
| 38 | Overview of the SEER-Medicare data: content, research applications, and generalizability to the United States elderly population | Medical Care | 2002 | 1,089 |
| 39 | The Duke???UNC Functional Social Support Questionnaire | Medical Care | 1988 | 1,052 |
| 40 | Monitoring Depression Treatment Outcomes With the Patient Health Questionnaire-9 | Medical Care | 2004 | 1,017 |
| 41 | Comparison of methods for the scoring and statistical analysis of SF-36 health profile and summary measures: summary of results from the Medical Outcomes Study | Medical Care | 1995 | 984 |
| 42 | The Economic Burden of Prescription Opioid Overdose, Abuse, and Dependence in the United States, 2013 | Medical Care | 2016 | 970 |
| 43 | Can Comorbidity Be Measured By Questionnaire Rather than Medical Record Review? | Medical Care | 1996 | 968 |
| 44 | Meta-analysis of Correlates of Provider Behavior in Medical Encounters | Medical Care | 1988 | 962 |
| 45 | Effectiveness of Interventions to Improve Patient Compliance | Medical Care | 1998 | 911 |
| 46 | The Association of Registered Nurse Staffing Levels and Patient Outcomes | Medical Care | 2007 | 907 |
| 47 | Successes and Failures in the Implementation of Evidence-Based Guidelines for Clinical Practice | Medical Care | 2001 | 858 |
| 48 | Comparisons of Five Health Status Instruments for Orthopedic Evaluation | Medical Care | 1990 | 843 |
| 49 | The Work Limitations Questionnaire | Medical Care | 2001 | 807 |
| 50 | Multiattribute Utility Function for a Comprehensive Health Status Classification System | Medical Care | 1996 | 805 |
