Are all evidence-based practices alike? Problems in the ranking of evidence.

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

13 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

1. Evidence-based guidelines for use of probiotics in preterm neonates.BMC medicine · 2011
   Pooled it
2. Evidence in chronic kidney disease-mineral and bone disorder guidelines: is it time to treat or time to wait?Clinical kidney journal · 2020
   Review
3. Improving education and coping of scoliosis patients undergoing surgery, and their families, using e-health.Journal of children's orthopaedics · 2016
   Article
4. Workshop Report: concepts and methods in the economics of nutrition--gateways to better economic evaluation of nutrition interventions.The British journal of nutrition · 2012
   Article
5. A critical appraisal of the quality of critical care pharmacotherapy clinical practice guidelines and their strength of recommendations.Intensive care medicine · 2010
   Review
6. Can family physicians practise good medicine without following clinical practice guidelines? Yes.Canadian family physician Medecin de famille canadien · 2010
   Article
7. The need to reform our assessment of evidence from clinical trials: a commentary.Philosophy, ethics, and humanities in medicine : PEHM · 2008
   Article
8. Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease and the Canadian blood system after the tainted blood tragedy.Social science & medicine (1982) · 2007
   Article
9. [How are the quality of evidence and the strength of recommendations to be classified?].Atencion primaria · 2006
   Article
10. Users' guide to the surgical literature. Case-control studies in surgical journals.Canadian journal of surgery. Journal canadien de chirurgie · 2005
    Article
11. Clinical epidemiology of testicular germ cell tumors.World journal of urology · 2004
    Review
12. Grading evidence.CMAJ : Canadian Medical Association journal = journal de l'Association medicale canadienne · 2004
    Article
13. Development and validation of a convenient formula evaluating the value and applicability of medical literature in clinical practice.Pakistan journal of medical sciences
    Article

Corrections and comments

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  Letters, numbers, symbols and words: how to communicate grades of evidence and recommendations.2003

Authors and funding

1 author.

Funding

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Abstract

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