Evidence map›Paper›PMID 12016191›Full record

ArticleBMJ (Clinical research ed.)2002

Private finance and "value for money" in NHS hospitals: a policy in search of a rationale?

Allyson M Pollock, Jean Shaoul, Neil Vickers

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Article in BMJ (Clinical research ed.), 2002. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 11 papers.

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11citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

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.

2 · The registry

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.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

11 citing papers in PubMed.

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  4. A critical look at the Portuguese public-private partnerships in healthcare.The International journal of health planning and management · 2021
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  7. Can a learning-disabled nation learn healthcare lessons from abroad?Healthcare policy = Politiques de sante · 2007
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  8. A post-take ward round.Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine · 2005
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  9. Community pneumonia--more help is needed to diagnose and assess severity.The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners · 2002
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  10. A wake up call for primary care.The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners · 2002
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Allyson M PollockHealth Policy and Health Services Research Unit, School of Public Policy, UCL, London WC1H 9QU. allyson.pollock@ucl.ac.uk
Jean Shaoul
Neil Vickers

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Capital FinancingForecastingHealth PolicyHospitals, PublicHumansOrganizational PolicyPrivate SectorRisk AssessmentState MedicineUnited Kingdom

Identifiers

PMID12016191
PMCPMC1123165

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Registered trials

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