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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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Users' guides to the medical literature XVI. How to use a treatment recommendation

TL;DR: This work proposes a hierarchy of rigor of recommendations to guide clinicians when judging the usefulness of particular recommendations, and in an era in which clinicians are barraged by recommendations as to how to manage their patients, this hierarchy provides a potentially useful set of guides.
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Pooling health-related quality of life outcomes in meta-analysis-a tutorial and review of methods for enhancing interpretability.

TL;DR: 12 approaches in three categories are identified for enhancing interpretability and usefulness of systematic reviews involving HRQL outcomes: summary estimates derived from the pooled standardized mean difference, conversion to units of the most familiar instrument or to risk difference or odds ratio.
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Quality of life in asthma clinical trials: comparison of salmeterol and salbutamol.

TL;DR: Asthma-specific quality of life, both overall and for the individual domains (activity limitation, symptoms, emotional function, and exposure to environmental stimuli) was better with Salmeterol than with placebo, and better with salmeterol more than with salbutamol (p < 0.001).