Clinical guidelines: using clinical guidelines.

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

Who cites it

62 citing papers in PubMed, 7 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

1. A Systematic Review of Dental Antibiotic Stewardship Interventions.Community dentistry and oral epidemiology · 2025
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2. Ethics and end-of-life in pediatric and neonatal ICUs: a systematic review of recommendations.BMC palliative care · 2025
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3. Evaluation of international guidance for the community treatment of 'personality disorders': A systematic review.PloS one · 2023
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4. Critical appraisal of tobacco dependence treatment guidelines.International journal of clinical pharmacy · 2021
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5. Physical activity, sedentary behaviour and sleep in COPD guidelines: A systematic review.Chronic respiratory disease · 2017
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6. The systematic guideline review: method, rationale, and test on chronic heart failure.BMC health services research · 2009
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7. Factors influencing the implementation of clinical guidelines for health care professionals: a systematic meta-review.BMC medical informatics and decision making · 2008
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8. Implementing work-related Mental-health guidelines in general PRacticE (IMPRovE): findings of a parallel cluster randomised controlled trial.BMJ mental health · 2025
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9. Effectiveness of a strategy that uses educational games to implement clinical practice guidelines among Spanish residents of family and community medicine (e-EDUCAGUIA project): a clinical trial by clusters.Implementation science : IS · 2016
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10. A group randomised trial of two methods for disseminating a smoking cessation programme to public antenatal clinics: effects on patient outcomes.Tobacco control · 2006
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11. Randomised controlled trial of tailored strategies to implement guidelines for the management of patients with depression in general practice.The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners · 2001
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12. Cost-Effectiveness of IMPRovE: A Multicomponent Intervention to Increase Adherence to Guideline Recommendations for the Diagnosis and Management of Work-Related Mental Health Conditions in General Practice.Journal of occupational rehabilitation · 2026
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13. Changes in Health Facility Readiness for Providing Quality Maternal and Newborn Care After Implementing the Safer Births Bundle of Care Package in Five Regions of Tanzania.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025
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14. Adherence to the Swedish paediatric guidelines for urinary tract infections.Acta paediatrica (Oslo, Norway : 1992) · 2025
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15. Quality improvement project to improve cardiovascular risk screening in patients with rheumatoid arthritis.BMJ open quality · 2025
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16. The development of the GIN-McMaster checklist extension for guideline adaptation protocol.Clinical and public health guidelines · 2025
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17. Readiness to provide comprehensive emergency obstetric and neonatal care: a cross-sectional study in 30 health facilities in Tanzania.BMC health services research · 2024
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18. Standardising the management of open extremity fractures: a scoping review of national guidelines.European journal of orthopaedic surgery & traumatology : orthopedie traumatologie · 2023
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19. Paving the way for solutions improving access to kidney transplantation: a qualitative study from a multistakeholder perspective.BMJ open · 2023
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20. Examining clinician choice to follow-up (or not) on automated notifications of medication non-adherence by clinical decision support systems.BMC medical informatics and decision making · 2023
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2 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

Corrections and comments

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Authors and funding

5 authors.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

Abstract

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