Adrenaline syringes are vastly over prescribed.

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

11 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 41 citations in OpenAlex.

1. An evidence and consensus based guideline for acute diarrhoea management.Archives of disease in childhood · 2001
   Guideline
2. A qualitative study exploring parents' experiences with epinephrine use for their child's anaphylactic reaction.Clinical and translational allergy · 2018
   Article
3. Prescription rates of adrenaline auto-injectors for children in UK general practice: a retrospective cohort study.The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners · 2017
   Article
4. Anaphylaxis from bee pollen supplement.CMAJ : Canadian Medical Association journal = journal de l'Association medicale canadienne · 2012
   Article
5. When doctors disagree: a qualitative study of doctors' and parents' views on the risks of childhood food allergy.Health expectations : an international journal of public participation in health care and health policy · 2008
   Article
6. Clinical immunology review series: an approach to the patient with anaphylaxis.Clinical and experimental immunology · 2008
   Review
7. Adrenaline in the treatment of anaphylaxis: what is the evidence?BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · 2003
   Review
8. Adrenaline given outside the context of life threatening allergic reactions.BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · 2003
   Article
9. Food allergy in childhood.Archives of disease in childhood · 2003
   Article
10. Fine needle aspiration biopsy of thyroid nodules.Archives of disease in childhood · 2001
    Article
11. Management of hyponatraemia in patients with acute cerebral insults.Archives of disease in childhood · 2001
    Review

Corrections and comments

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Authors and funding

1 author at 1 institution in 1 country.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

Abstract

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