Dyspepsia management in primary care: a decision analysis of competing strategies.

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

20 citing papers in PubMed.

1. Usefulness of a fast track list for anxious patients in a upper GI endoscopy.BMC surgery · 2012
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2. Comparison between empirical prokinetics, Helicobacter test-and-treat and empirical endoscopy in primary-care patients presenting with dyspepsia: a one-year study.World journal of gastroenterology · 2006
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3. Helicobacter pylori test and eradicate versus prompt endoscopy for management of dyspeptic patients: 6.7 year follow up of a randomised trial.Gut · 2004
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4. Up-Front Endoscopy Maximizes Cost-Effectiveness and Cost-Satisfaction in Uninvestigated Dyspepsia.Clinical gastroenterology and hepatology : the official clinical practice journal of the American Gastroenterological Association · 2023
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5. Helicobacter Pylori "Test-and-Treat" Strategy for Management of Dyspepsia: A Comprehensive Review.Clinical and translational gastroenterology · 2013
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6. Current management strategies and emerging treatments for functional dyspepsia.Nature reviews. Gastroenterology & hepatology · 2013
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7. Outcomes research in gastroenterology and endoscopy.World journal of gastrointestinal endoscopy · 2012
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8. Cost-effectiveness of six strategies for Helicobacter pylori diagnosis and management in uninvestigated dyspepsia assuming a high resource intensity practice pattern.BMC health services research · 2010
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9. A one-year economic evaluation of six alternative strategies in the management of uninvestigated upper gastrointestinal symptoms in Canadian primary care.Canadian journal of gastroenterology = Journal canadien de gastroenterologie · 2010
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10. Non-invasive testing for Helicobacter pylori in patients hospitalized with peptic ulcer hemorrhage: a cost-effectiveness analysis.Digestive diseases and sciences · 2010
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11. Evaluation and management of dyspepsia.Therapeutic advances in gastroenterology · 2010
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12. Adherence to best practice guidelines in dyspepsia: a survey comparing dyspepsia experts, community gastroenterologists and primary-care providers.Alimentary pharmacology & therapeutics · 2009
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13. Eradication of helicobacter pylori to prevent gastroduodenal diseases: hitting more than one bird with the same stone.Therapeutic advances in gastroenterology · 2008
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14. Helicobacter pylori Eradication Therapy in Nonulcer Dyspepsia is Beneficial.Saudi journal of gastroenterology : official journal of the Saudi Gastroenterology Association · 2008
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15. An economic model of long-term use of celecoxib in patients with osteoarthritis.BMC gastroenterology · 2007
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16. Current concepts in the management of Helicobacter pylori infection: the Maastricht III Consensus Report.Gut · 2007
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17. Gastroenterology services in the UK. The burden of disease, and the organisation and delivery of services for gastrointestinal and liver disorders: a review of the evidence.Gut · 2007
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18. Frontiers in functional dyspepsia.Current gastroenterology reports · 2005
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19. Dyspepsia management in the millennium: to test and treat or not?Gut · 2003
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20. Nonulcer dyspepsia.Current gastroenterology reports · 2002
    Review

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Authors and funding

3 authors.

Funding

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Abstract

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