Response to an article in the April 2005 issue of Medical Care regarding racial/ethnic disparities in medical care for heart disease among Medicare beneficiaries: results of Cromwell et al's study are very likely biased.

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

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Corrections and comments

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  Race/ethnic disparities in utilization of lifesaving technologies by Medicare ischemic heart disease beneficiaries.2005

Authors and funding

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Funding

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Abstract

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