Evidence should be accessible as well as relevant.

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

2 citing papers in PubMed.

1. Bridging the gap between therapeutic research results and physician prescribing decisions: knowledge transfer, a prerequisite to knowledge translation.European journal of clinical pharmacology · 2004
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2. Research that influences policy and practice - characteristics of operational research to improve malaria control in Mpumalanga Province, South Africa.Malaria journal · 2002
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Corrections and comments

• Comment on
  All members of primary care team are aware of importance of evidence based medicine.1998
• Comment on
  Evidence produced in evidence based medicine needs to be relevant.2000

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

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