| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Designing and evaluating complex interventions to improve health care | BMJ: British Medical Journal | 2007 | 1,014 |
| 2 | The Epidemiology of Chronic Pain of Predominantly Neuropathic Origin. Results From a General Population Survey | Journal of Pain | 2006 | 826 |
| 3 | Hypertensive diseases of pregnancy and risk of hypertension and stroke in later life: results from cohort study | BMJ: British Medical Journal | 2003 | 595 |
| 4 | The S-LANSS score for identifying pain of predominantly neuropathic origin: Validation for use in clinical and postal research | Journal of Pain | 2005 | 533 |
| 5 | The impact of chronic pain in the community | Family Practice | 2001 | 407 |
| 6 | Gastro-oesophageal reflux symptoms, oesophagitis and Barrett's oesophagus in the general population: the Loiano-Monghidoro study | Gut | 2008 | 399 |
| 7 | The course of chronic pain in the community: results of a 4-year follow-up study | Pain | 2002 | 301 |
| 8 | BSACI guidelines for the management of allergic and non‐allergic rhinitis | Clinical and Experimental Allergy | 2008 | 291 |
| 9 | Cancer risk among users of oral contraceptives: cohort data from the Royal College of General Practitioner's oral contraception study | BMJ: British Medical Journal | 2007 | 269 |
| 10 | Health and Quality of Life Associated With Chronic Pain of Predominantly Neuropathic Origin in the Community | Clinical Journal of Pain | 2007 | 254 |
| 11 | Common characteristics of upper and lower airways in rhinitis and asthma: ARIA update, in collaboration with GA2LEN | Allergy: European Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology | 2007 | 233 |
| 12 | Generation Scotland: the Scottish Family Health Study; a new resource for researching genes and heritability | BMC Medical Genetics | 2006 | 227 |
| 13 | Secondary prevention clinics for coronary heart disease: four year follow up of a randomised controlled trial in primary care | BMJ: British Medical Journal | 2003 | 225 |
| 14 | A novel intranasal therapy of azelastine with fluticasone for the treatment of allergic rhinitis | Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology | 2012 | 212 |
| 15 | Effect of outpatient pharmacists' non-dispensing roles on patient outcomes and prescribing patterns | The Cochrane Library | 2011 | 209 |
| 16 | Achieving asthma control in practice: Understanding the reasons for poor control | Respiratory Medicine | 2008 | 199 |
| 17 | Secondary prevention in coronary heart disease: baseline survey of provision in general practice | BMJ: British Medical Journal | 1998 | 197 |
| 18 | Randomised controlled trial of montelukast plus inhaled budesonide versus double dose inhaled budesonide in adult patients with asthma | Thorax | 2003 | 182 |
| 19 | Effect of a concomitant diagnosis of allergic rhinitis on asthma-related health care use by adults | Clinical and Experimental Allergy | 2005 | 176 |
| 20 | Factors associated with teenage pregnancy in the European Union countries: a systematic review | European Journal of Public Health | 2007 | 165 |
| 21 | Improved Prediction of Fatal Myocardial Infarction Using the Ankle Brachial Index in Addition to Conventional Risk Factors | Circulation | 2004 | 158 |
| 22 | EPOS Primary Care Guidelines: European Position Paper on the Primary Care Diagnosis and Management of Rhinosinusitis and Nasal Polyps 2007 — a summary | Primary Care Respiratory Journal: Journal of the General Practice Airways Group | 2008 | 154 |
| 23 | The value of self-report assessment of adherence, rhinitis and smoking in relation to asthma control | Primary Care Respiratory Journal: Journal of the General Practice Airways Group | 2009 | 142 |
| 24 | Stress, debt and undergraduate medical student performance | Medical Education | 2006 | 139 |
| 25 | Experience-based guidelines for the implementation of telemedicine services | Journal of Telemedicine and Telecare | 2005 | 137 |
| 26 | Can pain can be more or less neuropathic? Comparison of symptom assessment tools with ratings of certainty by clinicians | Pain | 2006 | 135 |
| 27 | The Living & Breathing Study: a study of patients' views of asthma and its treatment | Primary Care Respiratory Journal: Journal of the General Practice Airways Group | 2004 | 132 |
| 28 | Asthma-Related Health Care Resource Use Among Asthmatic Children With and Without Concomitant Allergic Rhinitis | Pediatrics | 2005 | 132 |
| 29 | Associations of depression and anxiety with gender, age, health-related quality of life and symptoms in primary care COPD patients | Family Practice | 2007 | 131 |
| 30 | Inflammatory, haemostatic, and rheological markers for incident peripheral arterial disease: Edinburgh Artery Study | European Heart Journal | 2007 | 127 |
| 31 | International Primary Care Respiratory Group (IPCRG) Guidelines: Diagnosis of respiratory diseases in primary care | Primary Care Respiratory Journal: Journal of the General Practice Airways Group | 2006 | 126 |
| 32 | The impact of asthma exacerbations on health-related quality of life in moderate to severe asthma patients in the UK | Primary Care Respiratory Journal: Journal of the General Practice Airways Group | 2007 | 126 |
| 33 | Patient motivations surrounding participation in phase I and phase II clinical trials of cancer chemotherapy | British Journal of Cancer | 2005 | 124 |
| 34 | Is it me or is it them? Factors that influence the passing of underperforming students | Medical Education | 2008 | 124 |
| 35 | Community pharmacy personnel interventions for smoking cessation | The Cochrane Library | 2004 | 122 |
| 36 | Accessibility, acceptability, and effectiveness in primary care of routine telephone review of asthma: pragmatic, randomised controlled trial | BMJ: British Medical Journal | 2003 | 120 |
| 37 | Patient-centredness in physiotherapy from the perspective of the chronic low back pain patient | Physiotherapy | 2008 | 119 |
| 38 | Breathing exercises for asthma: a randomised controlled trial | Thorax | 2008 | 119 |
| 39 | A systematic review of the use of simulated patients and pharmacy practice research | International Journal of Pharmacy Practice | 2010 | 119 |
| 40 | Mobile phone technology in the management of asthma | Journal of Telemedicine and Telecare | 2005 | 117 |
| 41 | Clinically Important Improvements in Asthma-Specific Quality of Life, But No Difference in Conventional Clinical Indexes in Patients Changed From Conventional Beclomethasone Dipropionate to Approximately Half the Dose of Extrafine Beclomethasone Dipropionate | Chest | 2002 | 116 |
| 42 | The prevalence of dysfunctional breathing in adults in the community with and without asthma | Primary Care Respiratory Journal: Journal of the General Practice Airways Group | 2005 | 116 |
| 43 | Effect of montelukast on lung function in asthma patients with allergic rhinitis: analysis from the COMPACT trial | Allergy: European Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology | 2006 | 116 |
| 44 | Training pharmacists and pharmacy assistants in the stage-of-change model of smoking cessation: a randomised controlled trial in Scotland | Tobacco Control | 1998 | 112 |
| 45 | Inhaled corticosteroids for asthma: impact of practice level device switching on asthma control | BMC Pulmonary Medicine | 2009 | 111 |
| 46 | The MEDMAN study: a randomized controlled trial of community pharmacy-led medicines management for patients with coronary heart disease | Family Practice | 2007 | 107 |
| 47 | Not all asthma inhalers are the same: factors to consider when prescribing an inhaler | Primary Care Respiratory Journal: Journal of the General Practice Airways Group | 2009 | 104 |
| 48 | Cost effectiveness of nurse led secondary prevention clinics for coronary heart disease in primary care: follow up of a randomised controlled trial | BMJ: British Medical Journal | 2005 | 103 |
| 49 | COPD screening efforts in primary care: what is the yield? | Primary Care Respiratory Journal: Journal of the General Practice Airways Group | 2007 | 96 |
| 50 | Issues Related to Monitoring the Safety of Over-The-Counter (OTC) Medicines | Drug Safety | 2003 | 94 |
