| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
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| 1 | Questionnaire on the perceptions of patients about total knee replacement | Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery: British Volume | 1998 | 1,346 |
| 2 | The development and validation of a short measure of functioning and well being for individuals with Parkinson's disease | Quality of Life Research | 1995 | 1,004 |
| 3 | Meta-analysis on efficacy of nicotine replacement therapies in smoking cessation | Lancet, The | 1994 | 445 |
| 4 | Criterion validity and reliability of the SF-36 in a population sample | Quality of Life Research | 1994 | 407 |
| 5 | Questionnaire on the perceptions of patients about total hip replacement | Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery: British Volume | 1996 | 358 |
| 6 | Routine follow up of breast cancer in primary care: randomised trial | BMJ: British Medical Journal | 1996 | 351 |
| 7 | Overview of azathioprine treatment in multiple sclerosis | Lancet, The | 1991 | 220 |
| 8 | Mortality in a cohort of long-term users of hormone replacement therapy: an updated analysis | BJOG: an International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology | 1990 | 218 |
| 9 | Effectiveness of health checks conducted by nurses in primary care: results of the OXCHECK study after one year | BMJ: British Medical Journal | 1994 | 170 |
| 10 | Oral contraceptives and reproductive factors in multiple sclerosis incidence | Contraception | 1993 | 154 |
| 11 | Patients' health related quality of life before and after aesthetic surgery | Journal of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery | 1996 | 153 |
| 12 | Comparison of measures to assess outcomes in total hip replacement surgery. | Quality and Safety in Health Care | 1996 | 145 |
| 13 | 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 |
| 14 | Smoking, Alcohol And The Risk Of Dupuytren's Contracture | Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery: British Volume | 1997 | 101 |
| 15 | Epidemiology of Carpal Tunnel Syndrome in Women of Childbearing Age. Findings in a Large Cohort Study | International Journal of Epidemiology | 1990 | 97 |
| 16 | Randomised trial of lipid lowering dietary advice in general practice: the effects on serum lipids, lipoproteins, and antioxidants | BMJ: British Medical Journal | 1995 | 97 |
| 17 | Health-related quality of life in parkinson's disease: A study of outpatient clinic attenders | Movement Disorders | 1997 | 95 |
| 18 | Childhood leukaemia and non-Hodgkin's lymphoma near large rural construction sites, with a comparison with Sellafield nuclear site | BMJ: British Medical Journal | 1995 | 95 |
| 19 | Evaluation of computer support for prescribing (CAPSULE) using simulated cases | BMJ: British Medical Journal | 1997 | 78 |
| 20 | Fatal Stroke and Use of Oral Contraceptives: Findings from a Case-Control Study | American Journal of Epidemiology | 1992 | 75 |
| 21 | The effects of fundholding in general practice on prescribing habits three years after introduction of the scheme | BMJ: British Medical Journal | 1995 | 69 |
| 22 | Measuring change over time: a comparison of results from a global single item of health status and the multi-dimensional SF-36 health status survey questionnaire in patients presenting with menorrhagia | Quality of Life Research | 1994 | 58 |
| 23 | Sensitivity to change of health status measures in a randomized controlled trial: comparison of the COOP charts and the SF-36 | Quality of Life Research | 1995 | 55 |
| 24 | The Problem of ‘Noise’ in Monitoring Patient-Based Outcomes: Generic, Disease-Specific and Site-Specific Instruments for Total Hip Replacement | Journal of Health Services Research and Policy | 1996 | 55 |
| 25 | SMOKING, ALCOHOL AND THE RISK OF DUPUYTREN’S CONTRACTURE | Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery: British Volume | 1997 | 47 |
| 26 | The prevalence of a family history of cancer in general practice | Family Practice | 1995 | 40 |
| 27 | Predictors of successful smoking cessation following advice from nurses in general practice | Addiction | 1993 | 36 |
| 28 | Combined oral contraceptives: risks and benefits | British Medical Bulletin | 1993 | 36 |
| 29 | Reliability of questionnaire responses as compared with interview in the elderly: Views of the outcome of transurethral resection of the prostate | Social Science and Medicine | 1991 | 31 |
| 30 | Oral contraceptive use and benign gallbladder disease; revisited | Contraception | 1994 | 25 |
| 31 | Quality of life and patient preference for sequential versus continuous combined HRT: the UK Kliofem® multicenter study experience | International Journal of Gynecology and Obstetrics | 1997 | 25 |
| 32 | The association of oral contraception with kidney cancer, colon cancer, gallbladder cancer (including extrahepatic bile duct cancer) and pituitary tumours | Contraception | 1991 | 22 |
| 33 | Use of aspirin by general practitioners in suspected acute myocardial infarction | BMJ: British Medical Journal | 1994 | 22 |
| 34 | Combined analysis of mortality in three United Kingdom nuclear industry workforces, 1946-1988 | Radiation Research | 1994 | 21 |
| 35 | Oral contraceptives and pregnancy in relation to peptic ulcer | Contraception | 1992 | 17 |
| 36 | An Analysis of Review Articles Published in Primary Care Journals | Family Practice | 1993 | 17 |
| 37 | Assessing the Impact of Blood Sample Type on the Estimated Prevalence of Impaired Glucose Tolerance and Diabetes Mellitus in Epidemiological Surveys | Diabetic Medicine | 1995 | 13 |
| 38 | The interaction between research and policy-alcohol and general practice in the United Kingdom | Addiction | 1993 | 11 |
| 39 | Social class, marital status, and cancer of the uterine cervix in England and Wales, 1950-1983. | Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health | 1992 | 10 |
| 40 | A comparison of two methods of follow‐up in a trial of prophylactic volume expansion in preterm babies | Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology | 1998 | 9 |
| 41 | Differences in hospital casemix, and the relationship between casemix and hospital costs | Journal of Public Health | 0 | 8 |
| 42 | Infection and childhood leukaemia near nuclear sites | Lancet, The | 1997 | 7 |
| 43 | Oestrogens and breast cancer: Exogenous hormones | British Medical Bulletin | 1991 | 5 |
| 44 | Childhood leukaemia on Greek Islands | Lancet, The | 1992 | 4 |
| 45 | Delay and completeness of cancer registration in a post-marketing surveillance study of cimetidine | Pharmacoepidemiology and Drug Safety | 1993 | 3 |
| 46 | How to Use Overviews of Prevention Trials to Treat Individual Patients | Cerebrovascular Diseases | 1996 | 3 |
| 47 | Cardiovascular Disease Prevention and the NHS Reforms | European Journal of Cardiovascular Prevention and Rehabilitation | 1996 | 1 |
| 48 | Internal validity of trials is more important than generalisability | BMJ: British Medical Journal | 1996 | 1 |
| 49 | Benefits and risks of combined oral contraceptives | Methods of Information in Medicine | 1993 | 1 |
