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SynthesisBMC health services research2006

The relationship between organisational characteristics and the effects of clinical guidelines on medical performance in hospitals, a meta-analysis.

Rob Dijkstra, Michel Wensing, Ruth Thomas, Reinier Akkermans, Joze Braspenning, Jeremy Grimshaw, Richard Grol

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Synthesis in BMC health services research, 2006. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 42 papers, 4 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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42citing papers in PubMed, 4 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

42 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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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

7 authors.

Rob DijkstraCentre for Quality of Care Research-117, Radboud University, PO Box 9101, 6500 HB Nijmegen, The Netherlands. r.dijkstra@kwazo.umcn.nl
Michel Wensing
Ruth Thomas
Reinier Akkermans
Joze Braspenning
Jeremy Grimshaw
Richard Grol

Funding

Chief Scientist Office HSRU2Wellcome Trust GR063790MA
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Guideline AdherenceLeadershipPractice Guidelines as TopicEvidence-Based MedicineHealth Facility EnvironmentHealth Services ResearchHospital AdministrationHumansOrganizational CultureOrganizational ObjectivesQuality Assurance, Health CareResearch Design

Identifiers

PMID16646968
PMCPMC1479332

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Registered trials

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