Gordon H. Guyatt
McMaster University
1754 Papers
10.7K Citations
Gordon H. Guyatt is an academic researcher from McMaster University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Medicine & Randomized controlled trial. The author has an hindex of 231, co-authored 1620 publications. Previous affiliations of Gordon H. Guyatt include Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center & Cayetano Heredia University.
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Papers
•Journal Article
Measuring disease-specific quality of life in clinical trials
TL;DR: This article describes a pragmatic approach to questionnaire construction that yields consistently satisfactory disease-specific measures of quality of life and outlines a more efficient, less costly strategy that leaves reproducibility, responsiveness and validity untested.
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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.
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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.
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Association of Postoperative High-Sensitivity Troponin Levels With Myocardial Injury and 30-Day Mortality Among Patients Undergoing Noncardiac Surgery.
Philip J. Devereaux,Bruce M Biccard,Alben Sigamani,Denis Xavier,Matthew T. V. Chan,Sadeesh Srinathan,Michael Walsh,Valsa Abraham,Rupert M Pearse,Chew Yin Wang,Daniel I. Sessler,Andrea Kurz,Wojciech Szczeklik,Otavio Berwanger,Juan Carlos Villar,Germán Málaga,Amit X. Garg,Clara K Chow,Gareth L. Ackland,Ameen Patel,Flávia Kessler Borges,Emilie P. Belley-Côté,Emmanuelle Duceppe,Jessica Spence,Vikas Tandon,Colin Williams,Robert J. Sapsford,Carisi Anne Polanczyk,Maria Tiboni,Pablo Alonso-Coello,Atiya Faruqui,Diane Heels-Ansdell,Andre Lamy,Richard P. Whitlock,Yannick LeManach,Pavel S Roshanov,Michael McGillion,Peter A. Kavsak,Matthew J. McQueen,Lehana Thabane,Reitze N. Rodseth,Giovanna Lurati Buse,Mohit Bhandari,Ignacia Garutti,Michael J. Jacka,Holger J. Schünemann,Olga L. Cortés,Pierre Coriat,Nazari Dvirnik,Fernando Botto,Shirley Pettit,Allan S. Jaffe,Gordon H. Guyatt +52 more
TL;DR: Among patients undergoing noncardiac surgery, peak postoperative hsTnT during the first 3 days after surgery was significantly associated with 30-day mortality and potential diagnostic criteria for MINS was found.
•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.
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