Inverse and positive care laws.

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. Traditional acupuncture for people with medically unexplained symptoms: a longitudinal qualitative study of patients' experiences.The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners · 2011
   Trial
2. Who gets to deliver in a health facility? An investigation of wealth-based inequities in institutional delivery in Ghana.BMJ open · 2026
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3. Falls ahead: US family medicine on the brink.The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners · 2023
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4. Equity-oriented monitoring in the context of universal health coverage.PLoS medicine · 2014
   Review
5. Time to acknowledge the workings of the 80/20 principle?The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners · 2005
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Corrections and comments

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Authors and funding

1 author.

Funding

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Abstract

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