Why clinical information standards matter.

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

5 citing papers in PubMed.

1. Sixteen years of ICPC use in Norwegian primary care: looking through the facts.BMC medical informatics and decision making · 2010
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2. Coding Geriatric syndromes: How good are we?CME journal. Geriatric medicine · 2008
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3. How computers help make efficient use of consultations.BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · 2005
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4. Lessons from the central Hampshire electronic health record pilot project: evaluation of the electronic health record for supporting patient care and secondary analysis.BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · 2004
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5. Use of SNOMED CT to represent clinical research data: a semantic characterization of data items on case report forms in vasculitis research.Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA
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Corrections and comments

• Comment on
  Randomised crossover trial comparing the performance of Clinical Terms Version 3 and Read Codes 5 byte set coding schemes in general practice.2003
• Comment on
  Use of Read codes in diabetes management in a south London primary care group: implications for establishing disease registers.2003

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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