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Table 3 EBM (general/family practice) journal-specific content of high-quality, clinically relevant articles†

From: What do evidence-based secondary journals tell us about the publication of clinically important articles in primary healthcare journals?

Journal title

Number articles in 2000 in journal

Number abstracted (% included in EBM)

NNR for abstracted article

Number abstracted or listed (% included in EBM)*

NNR for abstracted or listed**

JAMA

1930

18 (12.5)

107.2

N.A.

N.A.

BMJ

3428

17 (11.8)

201.6

N.A.

N.A.

Lancet

3858

17 (11.8)

226.9

N.A.

N.A.

New England Journal of Medicine

1530

13 (9.0)

117.6

N.A.

N.A.

Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews***

444

8 (5.6)

55.0

N.A.

N.A.

Annals of Internal Medicine

602

7 (4.9)

86.1

N.A.

N.A.

AHRQ/AHCPR Reports***

--

6 (4.2)

N.A.

N.A.

N.A.

Archives of Disease in Childhood

392

4 (2.8)

98.0

N.A.

N.A.

American Journal of Medicine

435

4 (2.8)

108.8

N.A.

N.A.

Archives of Family Medicine (no longer published)

230

3 (2.1)

76.7

N.A.

N.A.

Journal of Family Practice

263

3 (2.1)

87.7

N.A.

N.A.

Annals of Emergency Medicine

294

2 (1.4)

147.0

N.A.

N.A.

BJOG (formerly British Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology)

334

2 (1.4)

157.0

N.A.

N.A.

British Journal of Psychiatry

335

2 (1.4)

167.5

N.A.

N.A.

Journal of Pediatrics

444

2 (1.4)

222.0

N.A.

N.A.

American Journal of Gastroenterology

923

2 (1.4)

461.5

N.A.

N.A.

British Journal of Surgery

402

2 (1.4)

201

N.A.

N.A.

Diabetic Medicine

188

2 (1.4)

144

N.A.

N.A.

Journal of Vascular Surgery

544

2 (1.4)

272

N.A.

N.A.

Neurology

1334

2 (1.4)

667.0

N.A.

N.A.

Pediatrics

811

2 (1.4)

405.5

N.A.

N.A.

Annals of Surgery

301

1 (0.7)

301

N.A.

N.A.

Archives of General Psychiatry

161

1 (0.7)

 

N.A.

N.A.

Archives of Internal Medicine

620

1 (0.7)

620

N.A.

N.A.

Archives of Neurology

313

1 (0.7)

313

N.A.

N.A.

Archives of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine

273

1 (0.7)

273

N.A.

N.A.

Arthritis and Rheumatology

440

1 (0.7)

440

N.A.

N.A.

British Journal of General Practice

453

1 (0.7)

453

N.A.

N.A.

Canadian Respiratory Journal

68

1 (0.7)

68

N.A.

N.A.

Circulation

1351

1 (0.7)

1351

N.A.

N.A.

CMAJ (formerly Canadian Medical Association Journal)

1007

1 (0.7)

1007

N.A.

N.A.

Diabetes Care

529

1 (0.7)

529

N.A.

N.A.

Gastroenterology

543

1 (0.7)

543

N.A.

N.A.

Gut

446

1 (0.7)

446

N.A.

N.A.

Health Psychology

79

1 (0.7)

79

N.A.

N.A.

Heart

450

1 (0.7)

450

N.A.

N.A.

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

384

1 (0.7)

384

N.A.

N.A.

Journal of Clinical Epidemiology

173

1 (0.7)

173

N.A.

N.A.

Journal of Clinical Psychopharmacology

162

1 (0.7)

162

N.A.

N.A.

Journal of Infectious Disease

760

1 (0.7)

760

N.A.

N.A.

Medical Care

162

1 (0.7)

162

N.A.

N.A.

Medical Journal of Australia

598

1 (0.7)

598

N.A.

N.A.

Rheumatology

339

1 (0.7)

339

N.A.

N.A.

Spine

604

1 (0.7)

604

N.A.

N.A.

Thorax

336

1 (0.7)

336

N.A.

N.A.

Total

 

144

 

N.A.

N.A.

Correlation with SCI Impact Factors-correlation coefficient (P-value)

N.A.

0.546 (< 0.001)

N.A.

N.A.

N.A.

  1. † EBM does not include a listing of important but not abstracted articles ("Other Articles Noted" section); *Articles abstracted are those that pass methodological criteria and are deemed to be the most important by a team of practicing general/family practitioners; **The number of articles needed to read (NNR) is a measure of the ratio of number of relevant articles (abstracted) divided into the total number of articles for each title; ***SCI Impact Factors not available for analysis; N.A. Not applicable. Data are for 2000. Note that the AHRQ/AHCPR reports were not considered journal titles and read as such for this report.