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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.

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Measuring health-related quality of life.

TL;DR: Patients, clinicians, and health care administrators are all keenly interested in the effects of medical interventions on HRQL, because increasing efforts exist to incorporate HRQLs as measures of the quality of care and of clinical effectiveness, and because payers are beginning to use HRQL information in reimbursement decisions.
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Users' Guides to the Medical Literature

TL;DR: Without a way of critically appraising the information they receive, clinicians are relatively helpless in deciding what new information to learn and decide how to modify their practice.
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What is “quality of evidence” and why is it important to clinicians?

TL;DR: Guideline developers use a bewildering variety of systems to rate the quality of the evidence underlying their recommendations as mentioned in this paper, some are facile, some confused, and others sophisticated but complex.