Most-cited papers on Clinical Practice Guidelines

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1. K/DOQI clinical practice guidelines for chronic kidney disease: Evaluation, classification, and stratification

   2002 · Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS) · Levey, Andrew S., Coresh, Josef, Bolton, Kline et al.

   11,655 cited

2. EASL Clinical Practice Guidelines: Management of hepatocellular carcinoma

   2018 · Journal of Hepatology · Galle, Peter R., Forner, Alejandro, Llovet, Josep M. et al.

   11,421 cited

3. European Guidelines on cardiovascular disease prevention in clinical practice (version 2012): The Fifth Joint Task Force of the European Society of Cardiology and Other Societies on Cardiovascular Disease Prevention in Clinical Practice (constituted by representatives of nine societies and by invited experts) * Developed with the special contribution of the European Association for Cardiovascular Prevention & Rehabilitation (EACPR)

   2012 · European Heart Journal · Members:, Authors/Task Force, Perk, Joep, Backer, Guy De et al.

   8,514 cited

4. KDIGO Clinical Practice Guidelines for Acute Kidney Injury

   2012 · Nephron Clinical Practice · Khwaja, Arif

   7,871 cited

5. 2017 ACC/AHA/AAPA/ABC/ACPM/AGS/APhA/ASH/ASPC/NMA/PCNA Guideline for the Prevention, Detection, Evaluation, and Management of High Blood Pressure in Adults: A Report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force on Clinical Practice Guidelines

   2017 · Hypertension · Whelton, Paul K., Carey, Robert M., Aronow, Wilbert S. et al.

   7,349 cited

6. Why Don't Physicians Follow Clinical Practice Guidelines?

   1999 · JAMA · Cabana, Michael D., Rand, Cynthia S., Powe, Neil R. et al.

   6,668 cited

7. 2016 European Guidelines on cardiovascular disease prevention in clinical practice

   2016 · European Heart Journal · Piepoli, Massimo, Hoes, Arno W., Agewall, Stefan et al.

   6,472 cited

8. 2018 AHA/ACC/AACVPR/AAPA/ABC/ACPM/ADA/AGS/APhA/ASPC/NLA/PCNA Guideline on the Management of Blood Cholesterol: A Report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force on Clinical Practice Guidelines

   2019 · Circulation · Grundy, Scott M., Stone, Neil J., Bailey, Alison et al.

   6,161 cited

9. 2021 ESC Guidelines on cardiovascular disease prevention in clinical practice

   2021 · European Heart Journal · Visseren, Frank L.J., Mach, François, Smulders, Yvo M. et al.

   6,096 cited

10. Safety, ethical considerations, and application guidelines for the use of transcranial magnetic stimulation in clinical practice and research

    2009 · Clinical Neurophysiology · Rossi, Símone, Hallett, Mark, Rossini, Paolo Maria et al.

    5,416 cited

11. EASL 2017 Clinical Practice Guidelines on the management of hepatitis B virus infection

    2017 · Journal of Hepatology · Lampertico, Pietro, Agarwal, Kosh, Berg, Thomas et al.

    5,394 cited

12. EASL–EORTC Clinical Practice Guidelines: Management of hepatocellular carcinoma

    2012 · Journal of Hepatology

    5,203 cited

13. EASL–EASD–EASO Clinical Practice Guidelines for the management of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease

    2016 · Journal of Hepatology

    4,821 cited

14. 2019 ACC/AHA Guideline on the Primary Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease: Executive Summary: A Report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force on Clinical Practice Guidelines

    2019 · Circulation · Arnett, Donna K., Blumenthal, Roger S., Albert, Michelle A. et al.

    4,515 cited

15. Clinical Practice Guidelines by the Infectious Diseases Society of America for the Treatment of Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Infections in Adults and Children

    2011 · Clinical Infectious Diseases · Liu, Catherine, Bayer, Arnold S., Cosgrove, Sara E. et al.

    4,153 cited

16. Management of Adults With Hospital-acquired and Ventilator-associated Pneumonia: 2016 Clinical Practice Guidelines by the Infectious Diseases Society of America and the American Thoracic Society

    2016 · Clinical Infectious Diseases · Kalil, André C., Metersky, Mark L., Klompas, Michael et al.

    3,869 cited

17. Clinical Practice Guidelines for the Management of Pain, Agitation, and Delirium in Adult Patients in the Intensive Care Unit

    2012 · Critical Care Medicine · Barr, Juliana, Fraser, Gilles L., Puntillo, Kathleen et al.

    3,779 cited

18. Clinical Practice Guidelines for the Prevention and Management of Pain, Agitation/Sedation, Delirium, Immobility, and Sleep Disruption in Adult Patients in the ICU

    2018 · Critical Care Medicine · Devlin, John W., Skrobik, Yoanna, Gélinas, Céline et al.

    3,766 cited

19. 2020 ACC/AHA Guideline for the Management of Patients With Valvular Heart Disease: A Report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Joint Committee on Clinical Practice Guidelines

    2020 · Circulation · Otto, Catherine M, Nishimura, Rick A., Bonow, Robert O. et al.

    3,588 cited

20. Clinical Practice Guidelines for the Diagnosis and Management of Intravascular Catheter-Related Infection: 2009 Update by the Infectious Diseases Society of America

    2009 · Clinical Infectious Diseases · Mermel, Leonard A., Allon, Michael, Bouza, Emilio et al.

    3,580 cited

21. Clinical Practice Guidelines for the Management Candidiasis: 2009 Update by the Infectious Diseases Society of America

    2009 · Clinical Infectious Diseases · Pappas, Peter G., Kauffman, Carol A., Andes, David R. et al.

    3,202 cited

22. 2017 ACC/AHA/HFSA Focused Update of the 2013 ACCF/AHA Guideline for the Management of Heart Failure: A Report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force on Clinical Practice Guidelines and the Heart Failure Society of America

    2017 · Circulation · Yancy, Clyde W., Jessup, Mariell, Bozkurt, Biykem et al.

    3,131 cited

23. Clinical Practice Guidelines We Can Trust

    2011 · National Academies Press eBooks · Services, Board on Health Care

    3,109 cited

24. International Clinical Practice Guidelines for the Treatment of Acute Uncomplicated Cystitis and Pyelonephritis in Women: A 2010 Update by the Infectious Diseases Society of America and the European Society for Microbiology and Infectious Diseases

    2011 · Clinical Infectious Diseases · Gupta, Kalpana, Hooton, Thomas M., Naber, Kurt G. et al.

    2,984 cited

25. Clinical Practice Guidelines for Clostridium difficile Infection in Adults: 2010 Update by the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA) and the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA)

    2010 · Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology · Cohen, Stuart H., Gerding, Dale N., Johnson, Stuart et al.

    2,941 cited

26. EASL Clinical Practice Guidelines: Management of chronic hepatitis B virus infection

    2012 · Journal of Hepatology

    2,922 cited

27. Primary breast cancer: ESMO Clinical Practice Guidelines for diagnosis, treatment and follow-up

    2010 · Annals of Oncology · Aebi, Stefan, Davidson, T., Gruber, Günther et al.

    2,861 cited