Clinical guidelines: quantity without quality.

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

9 citing papers in PubMed.

1. Communicating risk using absolute risk reduction or prolongation of life formats: cluster-randomised trial in general practice.The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners · 2014
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2. Development and description of a decision analysis based decision support tool for stroke prevention in atrial fibrillation.Quality & safety in health care · 2002
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3. Developing evidence-based clinical practice guidelines in hospitals in Australia, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines and Thailand: values, requirements and barriers.BMC health services research · 2009
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4. Production and quality of clinical practice guidelines in Argentina (1994-2004): a cross-sectional study.Implementation science : IS · 2008
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5. A critical review of guidelines for low back pain treatment.European spine journal : official publication of the European Spine Society, the European Spinal Deformity Society, and the European Section of the Cervical Spine Research Society · 2006
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6. What is the quality of drug therapy clinical practice guidelines in Canada?CMAJ : Canadian Medical Association journal = journal de l'Association medicale canadienne · 2001
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7. Quality to the fore in health policy--at last. But the NHS mustn't encourage quality improvement with punitive approaches.BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · 1998
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8. What are hospitals doing about clinical guidelines?Quality in health care : QHC · 1997
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9. Automating complex guidelines for chronic disease: lessons learned.Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA
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Corrections and comments

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Authors and funding

2 authors.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

Abstract

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