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2026

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Medicine

D-Index
136
Citations
228177
World Ranking
1921
National Ranking
5

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Medicine in Norway Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Medicine in Norway Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Medicine in Norway Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Medicine in Norway Leader Award

Overview

Andrew D Oxman is affiliated with the Norwegian Institute of Public Health in Norway. Their research spans multiple disciplines within health professions and social sciences, with a particular focus on health sciences research and education, health policy implementation science, and health literacy and information accessibility.

Their academic work covers substantial ground, exploring topics such as education and critical thinking development, misinformation and its impacts, patient-provider communication in healthcare, and educational strategies and epistemologies.

Frequent collaborators in their research include Sarah Rosenbaum, Allen Nsangi, Simon Lewin, Matt Oxman, and Margaret Kaseje.

Andrew D Oxman has published extensively in several venues, including:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • F1000Research
  • Trials
  • PLoS ONE
  • Journal of Evidence-Based Medicine

Their significant recent papers include:

  • Health communication in and out of public health emergencies: to persuade or to inform? (2022, Health Research Policy and Systems)
  • Effects of the Informed Health Choices podcast on the ability of parents of primary school children in Uganda to assess the trustworthiness of claims about treatment effects: one-year follow up of a randomised trial (2020, Trials)
  • Development of a checklist for people communicating evidence-based information about the effects of healthcare interventions: a mixed methods study (2020, BMJ Open)
  • Effects of the Informed Health Choices primary school intervention on the ability of children in Uganda to assess the reliability of claims about treatment effects, 1-year follow-up: a cluster-randomised trial (2020, Trials)
  • Teaching critical thinking about health using digital technology in lower secondary schools in Rwanda: A qualitative context analysis (2021, PLoS ONE)

The main fields of study represented in Andrew D Oxman's body of work include:

  • Health Professions
  • Social Sciences

Within these, subfields of particular focus are:

  • General Health Professions
  • Education
  • Sociology and Political Science
  • Health
  • Economics and Econometrics

Best Publications

  • The Cochrane Collaboration’s tool for assessing risk of bias in randomised trials

    Julian P T Higgins;Douglas G Altman;Peter C Gøtzsche;Peter Jüni

  • GRADE: an emerging consensus on rating quality of evidence and strength of recommendations

    Gordon H Guyatt;Andrew David Oxman;Gunn Elisabeth Vist;Regina Kunz

  • Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses: The PRISMA Statement

    D Moher;A Liberati;J Tetzlaff;D G Altman

  • GRADE guidelines: 1. Introduction-GRADE evidence profiles and summary of findings tables

    Gordon Guyatt;Andrew D Oxman;Elie A Akl;Regina Kunz

  • Grading quality of evidence and strength of recommendations.

    David Atkins;Dana Best;Peter A Briss;Martin Eccles

  • GRADE guidelines: 3. Rating the quality of evidence

    Howard Balshem;Mark Helfand;Mark Helfand;Holger J. Schünemann;Andrew D. Oxman

  • Audit and feedback: effects on professional practice and healthcare outcomes

    Noah Ivers;Gro Jamtvedt;Signe Flottorp;Jane M Young

  • Changing Physician Performance: A Systematic Review of the Effect of Continuing Medical Education Strategies

    DA Davis;MA Thomson;AD Oxman;RB Haynes

  • Evidence-Based Medicine: A New Approach to Teaching the Practice of Medicine

    Gordon Guyatt;John Cairns;David Churchill;Deborah Cook

  • What is “quality of evidence” and why is it important to clinicians?

    Gordon H Guyatt;Andrew D Oxman;Regina Kunz;Gunn E Vist

  • GRADE guidelines: A new series of articles in the Journal of Clinical Epidemiology △

    Gordon H. Guyatt;Andrew D. Oxman;Holger J. Schünemann;Peter Tugwell

  • GRADE guidelines: 4. Rating the quality of evidence—study limitations (risk of bias)

    Gordon H. Guyatt;Andrew D. Oxman;Gunn Vist;Regina Kunz

  • Closing the gap between research and practice: an overview of systematic reviews of interventions to promote the implementation of research findings

    Lisa A Bero;Roberto Grilli;Jeremy M Grimshaw;Emma Harvey

  • No magic bullets: a systematic review of 102 trials of interventions to improve professional practice

    A D Oxman;M A Thomson;D A Davis;R B Haynes

  • GRADE guidelines: 6. Rating the quality of evidence-imprecision

    Gordon H. Guyatt;Andrew D. Oxman;Regina Kunz;Jan Brozek

  • GRADE guidelines: 7. Rating the quality of evidence—inconsistency

    Gordon H. Guyatt;Andrew D. Oxman;Regina Kunz;James Woodcock

  • Changing provider behavior: an overview of systematic reviews of interventions.

    Jeremy M. Grimshaw;Liz Shirran;Ruth Thomas;Graham Mowatt

  • Going from evidence to recommendations

    Gordon H Guyatt;Andrew D Oxman;Regina Kunz;Yngve Falck-Ytter

  • Continuing education meetings and workshops: effects on professional practice and health care outcomes

    Louise Forsetlund;Arild Bjørndal;Arash Rashidian;Gro Jamtvedt

  • GRADE guidelines: 8. Rating the quality of evidence--indirectness

    Gordon H Guyatt;Andrew D Oxman;Regina Kunz;James Woodcock

Frequent Co-Authors

Atle Fretheim
Atle Fretheim Norwegian Institute of Public Health
Holger J. Schünemann
Holger J. Schünemann Humanitas University
Gordon H. Guyatt
Gordon H. Guyatt McMaster University
Simon Lewin
Simon Lewin South African Medical Research Council
Elie A. Akl
Elie A. Akl American University of Beirut
John N. Lavis
John N. Lavis McMaster University
Roman Jaeschke
Roman Jaeschke McMaster University
Jan Brozek
Jan Brozek McMaster University
Iain Chalmers
Iain Chalmers University of Oxford

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