Risks--listen and don't mislead.

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

6 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

1. Using alternative statistical formats for presenting risks and risk reductions.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2011
   Pooled it
2. Communicating risk to patients and the public.The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners · 2012
   Article
3. Shared decision-making based on different features of risk in the context of diabetes mellitus and rheumatoid arthritis.Therapeutics and clinical risk management · 2007
   Article
4. Identifying and managing patients at low risk of bowel cancer in general practice.BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · 2003
   Review
5. Patients' understanding of risk associated with medication use: impact of European Commission guidelines and other risk scales.Drug safety · 2003
   Review
6. Measuring patients' preferences for treatment and perceptions of risk.Quality in health care : QHC · 2001
   Review

Corrections and comments

• Comment on
  Patients' responses to risk information about the benefits of treating hypertension.2001

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

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