The limits to demand for health care.

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

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Corrections and comments

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  Commentary: an open debate is not an admission of failure.2000
• Commented on by
  Limits to demand for health care. Article contained several fallacies.2001
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  Limits to demand for health care. Rationing is needed in a national health service.2001
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  Limits to demand for health care. Gap between demand for services and cost of providing them should certainly be assessed.2001

Authors and funding

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Funding

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Abstract

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