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ArticleCMAJ : Canadian Medical Association journal = journal de l'Association medicale canadienne2004

So what has the Cochrane Collaboration ever done for us? A report card on the first 10 years.

Jeremy Grimshaw

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Article in CMAJ : Canadian Medical Association journal = journal de l'Association medicale canadienne, 2004. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
12citing 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

12 citing papers in PubMed.

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  6. Archie Cochrane and his vision for evidence-based medicine.Plastic and reconstructive surgery · 2009
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  8. The use of older studies in meta-analyses of medical interventions: a survey.Open medicine : a peer-reviewed, independent, open-access journal · 2009
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  9. Assessing and scaling the knowledge pyramid: the good-guideline guide.CMAJ : Canadian Medical Association journal = journal de l'Association medicale canadienne · 2006
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  10. Perils of systematic reviews.CMAJ : Canadian Medical Association journal = journal de l'Association medicale canadienne · 2005
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  11. The Cochrane Collaboration at 10: kudos and challenges.CMAJ : Canadian Medical Association journal = journal de l'Association medicale canadienne · 2004
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  12. MachineProse: an ontological framework for scientific assertions.Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

Jeremy GrimshawClinical Epidemiology Program, Ottawa Health Research Institute, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ont. jgrimshaw@ohri.ca <jgrimshaw@ohri.ca>

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

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Identifiers

PMID15451837
PMCPMC517860

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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.