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ReviewJournal of the Royal Society of Medicine2003

The doctor, the patient and the world-wide web: how the internet is changing healthcare.

J A Powell, M Darvell, J A M Gray

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Review in Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, 2003. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 67 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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0cells of the map it votes in
67citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
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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

67 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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  14. Cyberchondria levels in women with human papilloma virus.The journal of obstetrics and gynaecology research · 2022
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  16. Internet search by the patients undergoing hernia surgery about the disease and surgeon selection.Hernia : the journal of hernias and abdominal wall surgery · 2022
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  18. How access to online health information affects the dental hygiene client experience.Canadian journal of dental hygiene : CJDH = Journal canadien de l'hygiene dentaire : JCHD · 2021
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  19. A Survey of Patients' Opinions and Preferences on the Use of E-Prescriptions in Poland.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021
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7 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

J A PowellHealth Services Research Unit, Department of Public Health & Policy, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, Keppel Street, London WC1E 7HT, UK. john.powell@lshtm.ac.uk
M Darvell
J A M Gray

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

InternetAttitude of Health PersonnelAttitude to HealthDelivery of Health CareHealth EducationHumansMedical Informatics

Identifiers

PMID12562977
PMCPMC539397

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Registered trials

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Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.