MMR and the age of unreason.

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

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

1. A systematic review of decision support needs of parents making child health decisions.Health expectations : an international journal of public participation in health care and health policy · 2008
   Pooled it
2. Choosing, deciding, or participating: what do patients want in primary care?The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners · 2008
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3. The lure of 'patient choice'.The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners · 2007
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4. Predicting uptake of MMR vaccination: a prospective questionnaire study.The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners · 2004
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5. Managing controversy through consultation: a qualitative study of communication and trust around MMR vaccination decisions.The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners · 2004
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6. Immunisation policy: from compliance to concordance?The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners · 2003
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7. The new contract: renaissance or requiem for general practice?The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners · 2002
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8. MMR vaccine debate. Debate crystallises dilemma facing many medical disciplines.BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · 2002
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Corrections and comments

• Comment on
  Parents' perspectives on the MMR immunisation: a focus group study.2001

Authors and funding

1 author.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

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