Abstract
Clinicians are challenged to identify new practice-changing articles in the medical
literature. To identify the practice-changing articles published in 2017 most relevant
to outpatient general internal medicine, 5 internists reviewed the following sources:
1) titles and abstracts from internal medicine journals with the 7 highest impact
factors, including New England Journal of Medicine, Lancet, Journal of the American Medical Association, British Medical Journal, Public Library of Science Medicine, Annals of Internal Medicine, and JAMA Internal Medicine; 2) synopses and syntheses of individual studies, including collections in the American
College of Physicians Journal Club, Journal Watch, and Evidence-Based Medicine; 3)
databases of synthesis, including Evidence Updates and the Cochrane Library. Inclusion
criteria were perceived clinical relevance to outpatient general medicine, potential
for practice change, and strength of evidence. This process yielded 140 articles.
Clusters of important articles around one topic were considered as a single-candidate
series. A modified Delphi method was utilized by the 5 authors to reach consensus
on 7 topics to highlight and appraise from the 2017 literature
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Published online: February 26, 2018
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