Medicalisation, limits to medicine, or never enough money to go around?

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.

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4. On professionalism.The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners · 2003
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5. Desert docs.The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners · 2003
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6. Reflections on annual appraisal.The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners · 2003
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7. Postcard 6... Community care. Social entrepreneurs are creating better communities.The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners · 2003
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8. Worth doing badly? Sexual health promotion in primary care.The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners · 2003
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9. Hippocrates appraises 21st century doctors.The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners · 2003
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10. [Clinico-pharmacologic explanation models of cerivastatin associated rhabdomyolysis].Wiener medizinische Wochenschrift (1946) · 2003
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11. Too much medicine?BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · 2002
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Corrections and comments

• Comment on
  Economic benefit analysis of primary prevention with pravastatin. Assumptions are methodologically flawed.1998

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

Abstract

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