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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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Perioperative covert stroke in patients undergoing non-cardiac surgery (NeuroVISION): a prospective cohort study.

TL;DR: NeuroVISION assessed patients aged 65 years or older who underwent inpatient, elective, non-cardiac surgery and had brain MRI after surgery to investigate the relationship between perioperative covert stroke and cognitive decline 1 year after surgery and the association with an increased risk of cognitive decline.
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N of 1 randomized trials for investigating new drugs.

TL;DR: N of 1 RCTs can be used to define the rapidity with which a drug begins and ceases its clinical action, the likely range of the optimal drug dose, and the optimal outcomes on which subsequent trials should focus.

Combined Corticosteroid and Antiviral Treatment for Bell Palsy

TL;DR: In this paper, the association of corticosteroids and antiviral agents with the risk of unsatisfactory facial recovery in patients with Bell palsy was investigated using randomized controlled trials.
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In the dark: the reporting of blinding status in randomized controlled trials.

TL;DR: In conclusion, prestigious journals should abandon the term "double blind" and explicitly report the blinding status of the groups involved in RCTs, and clinicians will be left with uncertainty about the validity of R CTs that guide their clinical practice.