FEV1 and PEF in COPD management.

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

7 citing papers in PubMed.

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4. Spirometry in primary care for case finding and management of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease primary care diagnostic technology update.The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners · 2011
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5. Diagnosis of airway obstruction in primary care in the UK: the CADRE (COPD and Asthma Diagnostic/management REassessment) programme 1997-2001.International journal of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease · 2006
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6. Detecting chronic obstructive pulmonary disease using peak flow rate: cross sectional survey.BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · 2003
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Corrections and comments

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  Spirometry in primary care.2000
• Comment on
  BTS guidelines for the management of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. The COPD Guidelines Group of the Standards of Care Committee of the BTS.1997

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

Abstract

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