Using clinical evidence.

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

12 citing papers in PubMed.

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4. The process and costs of publishing medical journals in Sri Lanka: an economic evaluation.BMJ open · 2011
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5. Policies to enhance prescribing efficiency in europe: findings and future implications.Frontiers in pharmacology · 2010
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6. Effectiveness of strategies to encourage general practitioners to accept an offer of free access to online evidence-based information: a randomised controlled trial.Implementation science : IS · 2009
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7. Potential bias in ophthalmic pharmaceutical clinical trials.Clinical ophthalmology (Auckland, N.Z.) · 2008
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8. Best paediatric evidence; is it accessible and used on-call?Archives of disease in childhood · 2004
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9. Evidence-based medicine and psychiatric practice.The Psychiatric quarterly · 2003
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10. BMJ journals free to the developing world.BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · 2002
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11. Using clinical evidence. Randomised controlled trials are not the only evidence.BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · 2001
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12. Britain's gift: a "Medline" of synthesised evidence.BMJ (Clinical research ed.)
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Corrections and comments

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  Using clinical evidence. Randomised controlled trials are not the only evidence.2001
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  Using clinical evidence. Obstetricians seem to be overstating the evidence in major placenta praevia.2001
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  Using clinical evidence. Clinical evidence is one of respondents' three favourite sources of information.2001

Authors and funding

1 author.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

Abstract

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