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ArticleCanadian journal of surgery. Journal canadien de chirurgie2005

Review of a Canadian forum on international surgery: the Bethune Round Table.

Robert H Taylor, Gwen Hollaar

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Article in Canadian journal of surgery. Journal canadien de chirurgie, 2005. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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5citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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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

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

  1. Pooled it
  2. Review
  3. Article
  4. Article
  5. International surgery and the Canadian Journal of Surgery.Canadian journal of surgery. Journal canadien de chirurgie · 2008
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Robert H TaylorDepartment of Surgery, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC. rhtaylor@interchange.ubc.ca
Gwen Hollaar

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The Bethune Round Table is an annual conference on international surgery that is unique in North America. Hosted by the Office of International Surgery at the University of Toronto, the conference provides a forum for profiling the global realities of surgical need, particularly as they relate to vulnerable and disadvantaged people of low-income countries. The 2004 Bethune Round Table, drawing on input from 4 continents, highlighted "emerging directions". Presentations and discussions focused on the themes of current surgical realities, the implications for surgical education, the role of specialized surgical services and the function of surgical partnerships.

Indexed as

Congresses as TopicForecastingGeneral SurgeryHumansOntarioQuality of Health Care

Identifiers

PMID16417054
PMCPMC3211729

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Registered trials

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