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Clinical practice guidelines implementation

Clinical practice guidelines implementation is a research topic within Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. Science Explorer counts 32k research works in it since 1950. 11.2% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the development, evaluation, and implementation of clinical practice guidelines in healthcare. It covers topics such as the quality assessment of guidelines, evidence-based medicine, international collaboration in guideline development, and the impact of pathways on patient outcomes.

  • Clinical Guidelines
  • Guideline Development
  • Quality Assessment
  • Practice Recommendations
  • Healthcare Evaluation
  • Evidence-Based Medicine
  • AGREE II Instrument
  • Pathway Implementation
  • International Collaboration
  • Patient Outcomes
Research works
32k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
3.6k
per year above
Top-10% rate
11.2%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2013–17 → 2018–22
-4%
the tick is no change

This ranks research output and citation impact. It says nothing about the quality of diagnosis, treatment or care.

Which countries lead Clinical practice guidelines implementation research?

By volume, the United States and the United Kingdom publish the most (983 and 610 works in 2022–2025).

By volume, 2022–2025

  1. 1 United States 983 works
  2. 2 United Kingdom 610 works
  3. 3 Germany 487 works
  4. 4 China 260 works
  5. 5 Canada 238 works
  6. 6 France 200 works
  7. 7 Australia 185 works
  8. 8 Netherlands 161 works
  9. 9 Japan 116 works
  10. 10 Italy 90 works

How concentrated that is

The same countries as shares of everything the list above accounts for. A node where two countries do two thirds of the work and one spread evenly across twelve read alike as a ranking and not at all alike here.

United States: 29.5%United Kingdom: 18.3%Germany: 14.6%China: 7.8%6 others listed: 29.8%30%largest
United States983 · 29.5%United Kingdom610 · 18.3%Germany487 · 14.6%China260 · 7.8%6 others listed991 · 29.8%

Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.

Which institutions lead Clinical practice guidelines implementation research?

By volume in 2022–2025, University of Michigan publishes the most Clinical practice guidelines implementation research, followed by Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College and McMaster University.

By volume, 2022–2025

  1. 1 University of Michigan United States 24 works
  2. 2 Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College China 19 works
  3. 3 McMaster University Canada 17 works
  4. 4 University College London United Kingdom 15 works
  5. 5 University of Toronto Canada 14 works
  6. 6 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill United States 14 works
  7. 7 Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin Germany 14 works
  8. 8 The University of Sydney Australia 13 works
  9. 9 Monash University Australia 13 works
  10. 10 Harvard University United States 12 works

Who are the leading researchers in Clinical practice guidelines implementation?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Clinical practice guidelines implementation include David Moher, Douglas G. Altman and Elie A. Akl.

  1. 1 David Moher 38k citations
  2. 2 Douglas G. Altman 23k citations
  3. 3 Elie A. Akl 18k citations
  4. 4 Jeremy Grimshaw 14k citations
  5. 5 Tammy Hoffmann 13k citations
  6. 6 Gordon Guyatt 6.8k citations

Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.

Where is Clinical practice guidelines implementation research done?

The largest centres of Clinical practice guidelines implementation research in 2022–2025 are London (United Kingdom), Beijing (China), Paris (France) and Berlin (Germany). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Utrecht.

Largest cities, 2022–2025

  1. 1 London United Kingdom 150 works
  2. 2 Beijing China 80 works
  3. 3 Paris France 65 works
  4. 4 Berlin Germany 58 works
  5. 5 New York United States 55 works
  6. 6 Melbourne Australia 54 works
  7. 7 Toronto Canada 54 works
  8. 8 Boston United States 40 works
  9. 9 Dublin Ireland 38 works
  10. 10 Sydney Australia 37 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. UtrechtNL · 35.7 works7.5×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Clinical practice guidelines implementation than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Clinical practice guidelines implementation?

Among universities, judged by research, McMaster University, Monash University and Medizinische Hochschule Hannover score highest, combining excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.

0%20%40%mean 17.46%fractional works in this node (log) →share in the world top 10% →McMaster University: 17, 26.7%Monash University: 12, 33.7%Medizinische Hochschule Hannover: 10, 14.7%Witten/Herdecke University: 10, 10.5%The University of Sydney: 13, 16.1%Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College: 19, 10.9%University of Toronto: 14, 18.0%University of Liverpool: 9, 12.2%University College London: 15, 12.9%Harvard University: 12, 18.9%Monash UniversityMcMaster UniversityMedizinische Hochsch…Witten/Herdecke Univ…
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One dot per university in the table below. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1McMaster University Canada 64.326.7%7.6×17 -11.7%
2Monash University Australia 59.233.7%3.6×12 +49.6%
3Medizinische Hochschule Hannover Germany 45.914.7%10.6×10 -39.3%
4Witten/Herdecke University Germany 44.210.5%27.2×10 -29.0%
5The University of Sydney Australia 42.316.1%3.1×13 +63.4%
6Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College China 41.910.9%4.6×19 +22.3%
7University of Toronto Canada 41.518.0%2.4×14 +21.6%
8University of Liverpool United Kingdom 40.412.2%4.2×9 +131.2%
9University College London United Kingdom 39.812.9%2.6×15 +24.6%
10Harvard University United States 39.618.9%2.4×12 +23.8%

Universities only. Score blends excellence (30%), specialisation (25%), size (20%), growth (15%) and international reach (10%), 2015–2022; growth compares 2010–14 with 2015–19.

Is Clinical practice guidelines implementation research growing?

Output in 2018–2022 was 4% lower than in 2013–2017, peaking in 2013. The fastest-growing topics are Clinical practice guidelines implementation.

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The same series as a ribbon — one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

Which topics inside it are moving

Growth and decline on one axis around a shared zero. Two lists side by side hide the thing that matters: whether the growth dwarfs the decline, or the other way round.