Clinical Epidemiology & Biostatistics


Gordon Guyatt
BSc (Toronto), MD (McMaster), MSc (McMaster) FRCPC

Professor, Department of Clinical Epidemiology & Biostatistics

Joint Member, Department of Medicine

Member, CLARITY (Clinical Advances through Research and Information Translation)

905.525.9140 x 22160
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McMaster University
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Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
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Office location: HSC-2C12

Administrative Assistant: Monica Owen
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Academic Interests

Dr. Guyatt‘s areas of interest include: the dissemination of concepts of evidence-based medicine to health workers and health-care consumers; the measurement of health-related quality of life; clinical trials methodology; overview methodology; and medical decision-making. Dr. Guyatt has been a leading exponent of evidence-based approaches to clinical practice, having coined the term “evidence-based medicine” in 1990.

Selected Publications

  1. Guyatt GH, Oxman AD, Vist GE, Kunz R, Falck-Ytter Y, Alonso-Coello P, Schünemann HJ, for the GRADE Working Group. GRADE: an emerging concensus on rating quality of evidence and strength of recommendations. BMJ 2008 Apr 26;336(7650):924-926.
  2. Guyatt GH, Mills EJ.  In the era of systematic reviews, does the size of an individual trial still matter.  PLoS Med. 2008 Jan 3;5(1):e4.
  3. Montori VM, Gandhi GY, Guyatt GH.  Patient-important outcomes in diabetes--time for consensus.  Lancet. 2007 Sep 29;370(9593):1104-6.
  4. Ferreira-Gonzalez I, Busse JW, Heels-Ansdell D, Montori VM, Akl EA, Bryant DM, Alonso-Coello P, Alonso J, Worster A, Upadhye S, Jaeschke R, Schünemann HJ, Permanyer-Miralda G, Pacheco-Huergo V, Domingo-Salvany A, Wu P, Mills EJ, Guyatt GH.   Problems with use of composite end points in cardiovascular trials: systematic review of randomised controlled trials.  BMJ  2007 Apr 14;334(7597):786.
  5. Guyatt G, Schünemann H. How can quality of life researchers make their work more useful to health workers and their patients?. Qual Life Res. 2007 Sep;16(7):1097-105.

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