G
Gordon H. Guyatt
Researcher at McMaster University
Publications - 1749
Citations - 262329
Gordon H. Guyatt is an academic researcher from McMaster University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Randomized controlled trial & Medicine. The author has an hindex of 231, co-authored 1620 publications receiving 228631 citations. Previous affiliations of Gordon H. Guyatt include Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center & Cayetano Heredia University.
Papers
More filters
Journal ArticleDOI
Users" Guides to the Medical Literature XXV. Evidence-Based Medicine: Principles for Applying the Users' Guides to Patient Care
Gordon H. Guyatt,R. Brian Haynes,Roman Jaeschke,Deborah J. Cook,Lee A. Green,C. David Naylor,Mark C. Wilson,W. Scott Richardson +7 more
TL;DR: This series provides clinicians with strategies and tools to interpret and integrate evidence from published research in their care of patients to relate to the value-laden nature of clinical decisions and to the hierarchy of evidence postulated by evidence-based medicine.
Journal ArticleDOI
Effect of early surgery after hip fracture on mortality and complications: systematic review and meta-analysis
Nicole Simunovic,Philip J. Devereaux,Sheila Sprague,Gordon H. Guyatt,Emil H. Schemitsch,Justin DeBeer,Mohit Bhandari +6 more
TL;DR: Earlier surgery was associated with a lower risk of death and lower rates of postoperative pneumonia and pressure sores among elderly patients with hip fracture, suggesting that reducing delays may reduce mortality and complications.
Journal ArticleDOI
Pulmonary Rehabilitation for Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
TL;DR: RCTs of rehabilitation in patients with COPD found that rehabilitation relieves dyspnea and fatigue, improves emotional function and enhances patients' sense of control over their condition.
Journal Article
Grading Quality of Evidence and Strength of Recommendations for Diagnostic Tests and Strategies
Holger J. Schünemann,Andrew D Oxman,Jan Brozek,Paul Glasziou,Roman Jaeschke,Gunn Elisabeth Vist,John W Williams,Regina Kunz,Jonathan C. Craig,Victor M. Montori,Patrick M.M. Bossuyt,Gordon H. Guyatt +11 more
TL;DR: How patient-important outcomes are taken into account in this process to grade the quality of evidence and strength of recommendations for diagnostic tests or strategies is explained.
Journal ArticleDOI
Development and validation of the Mini Asthma Quality of Life Questionnaire
TL;DR: The Mini Asthma Quality of Life Questionnaire has good measurement properties but they are not quite as strong as those of the original Asthma quality of life Questionnaire.