| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Assessing the quality of reports of randomized clinical trials: Is blinding necessary? | Contemporary Clinical Trials | 1996 | 16,054 |
| 2 | Short form 36 (SF36) health survey questionnaire: normative data for adults of working age. | BMJ: British Medical Journal | 1993 | 1,383 |
| 3 | Questionnaire on the perceptions of patients about total knee replacement | Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery: British Volume | 1998 | 1,346 |
| 4 | Population-based study of event-rate, incidence, case fatality, and mortality for all acute vascular events in all arterial territories (Oxford Vascular Study) | Lancet, The | 2005 | 848 |
| 5 | Risk of venous thromboembolism in users of hormone replacement therapy | Lancet, The | 1996 | 818 |
| 6 | The unhealthy lifestyle of people with schizophrenia | Psychological Medicine | 1999 | 756 |
| 7 | Clonal Relationships between Invasive and CarriageStreptococcus pneumoniaeand Serotype‐ and Clone‐Specific Differences in Invasive Disease Potential | Journal of Infectious Diseases | 2003 | 563 |
| 8 | Quality of life measures in health care. I: Applications and issues in assessment. | BMJ: British Medical Journal | 1992 | 552 |
| 9 | QUESTIONNAIRE ON THE PERCEPTIONS OF PATIENTS ABOUT SHOULDER SURGERY | Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery: British Volume | 1996 | 545 |
| 10 | Surveys of patients satisfaction: I--Important general considerations. | BMJ: British Medical Journal | 1991 | 473 |
| 11 | Meta-analysis on efficacy of nicotine replacement therapies in smoking cessation | Lancet, The | 1994 | 445 |
| 12 | Inguinal Hernia Repair: Incidence of Elective and Emergency Surgery, Readmission and Mortality | International Journal of Epidemiology | 1996 | 427 |
| 13 | Criterion validity and reliability of the SF-36 in a population sample | Quality of Life Research | 1994 | 407 |
| 14 | Questionnaire on the perceptions of patients about total hip replacement | Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery: British Volume | 1996 | 358 |
| 15 | Suicide after discharge from psychiatric inpatient care | Lancet, The | 1993 | 357 |
| 16 | Routine follow up of breast cancer in primary care: randomised trial | BMJ: British Medical Journal | 1996 | 351 |
| 17 | Measuring the impact of menopausal symptoms on quality of life. | BMJ: British Medical Journal | 1993 | 269 |
| 18 | Self-reported Functioning and Well-being in Patients with Parkinson's Disease: Comparison of the Short-form Health Survey (SF-36) and the Parkinson's Disease Questionnaire (PDQ-39) | Age and Ageing | 1995 | 267 |
| 19 | Intensive Care Society's APACHE II study in Britain and Ireland--II: Outcome comparisons of intensive care units after adjustment for case mix by the American APACHE II method. | BMJ: British Medical Journal | 1993 | 260 |
| 20 | Data sharing in genomics — re-shaping scientific practice | Nature Reviews Genetics | 2009 | 253 |
| 21 | Detecting differences in quality of care: the sensitivity of measures of process and outcome in treating acute myocardial infarction | BMJ: British Medical Journal | 1995 | 253 |
| 22 | The risk of alcohol | Addiction | 1993 | 250 |
| 23 | IDEAL framework for surgical innovation 1: the idea and development stages | BMJ, The | 2013 | 245 |
| 24 | Dietary Intervention in Primary Care: Validity of the DINE Method for Diet Assessment | Family Practice | 1994 | 232 |
| 25 | Mortality, Morbidity and Complications following Transurethral Resection of the Prostate for Benign Prostatic Hypertrophy | Journal of Urology | 1992 | 229 |
| 26 | A Prospective Population-Based Study of Microalbuminuria as a Predictor of Mortality in NIDDM | Diabetes Care | 1993 | 221 |
| 27 | Surveys of patient satisfaction: II--Designing a questionnaire and conducting a survey. | BMJ: British Medical Journal | 1991 | 211 |
| 28 | Questionnaire on the perceptions of patients about shoulder surgery | Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery: British Volume | 1996 | 196 |
| 29 | The effect of general practitioners' advice to heavy drinking men | Addiction | 1992 | 183 |
| 30 | Elective total hip replacement: incidence, emergency readmission rate, and postoperative mortality. | BMJ: British Medical Journal | 1991 | 181 |
| 31 | Effectiveness of health checks conducted by nurses in primary care: results of the OXCHECK study after one year | BMJ: British Medical Journal | 1994 | 170 |
| 32 | Taking healthcare interventions from trial to practice | BMJ: British Medical Journal | 2010 | 168 |
| 33 | Framing the doctor-patient relationship in chronic illness: a comparative study of general practitioners' accounts | Sociology of Health and Illness | 2004 | 163 |
| 34 | Randomised controlled trial of laparoscopic versus open repair of inguinal hernia: early results | BMJ: British Medical Journal | 1995 | 162 |
| 35 | Misoprostol and illegal abortion in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | Lancet, The | 1993 | 156 |
| 36 | Patients' health related quality of life before and after aesthetic surgery | Journal of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery | 1996 | 153 |
| 37 | Intensive Care Society's APACHE II study in Britain and Ireland--I: Variations in case mix of adult admissions to general intensive care units and impact on outcome. | BMJ: British Medical Journal | 1993 | 147 |
| 38 | Career preferences of doctors who qualified in the United Kingdom in 1993 compared with those of doctors qualifying in 1974, 1977, 1980, and 1983 | BMJ: British Medical Journal | 1996 | 142 |
| 39 | Intensive Care Societyʼs Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation (APACHE II) study in Britain and Ireland | Critical Care Medicine | 1994 | 131 |
| 40 | Geographic Distribution and Clonal Diversity of Streptococcus pneumoniae Serotype 1 Isolates | Journal of Clinical Microbiology | 2003 | 131 |
| 41 | Mortality of doctors in different specialties: findings from a cohort of 20000 NHS hospital consultants. | Occupational and Environmental Medicine | 1997 | 121 |
| 42 | Ethical issues in human genomics research in developing countries | BMC Medical Ethics | 2011 | 120 |
| 43 | Cost-effectiveness of 3 Methods to Enhance the Sensitivity of Papanicolaou Testing | JAMA - Journal of the American Medical Association | 1999 | 110 |
| 44 | Cause-specific mortality: understanding uncertain tips of the disease iceberg. | Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health | 1993 | 108 |
| 45 | Evaluating the responsiveness of the endometriosis health profile questionnaire: The EHP-30 | Quality of Life Research | 2004 | 108 |
| 46 | Computerised linking of medical records: methodological guidelines. | Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health | 1993 | 102 |
| 47 | Should breast reduction surgery be rationed? A comparison of the health status of patients before and after treatment: postal questionnaire survey | BMJ: British Medical Journal | 1996 | 101 |
| 48 | Smoking, alcohol and the risk of Dupuytren's contracture | Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery: British Volume | 1997 | 101 |
| 49 | Factors Affecting General Practitioners' Recruitment of Patients into a Prospective Study | Family Practice | 1993 | 99 |
| 50 | Assessing the Privacy Risks of Data Sharing in Genomics | Public Health Genomics | 2011 | 99 |
