Evidence map›Paper›PMID 16816264›Full record

ArticleJournal of the Royal Society of Medicine2006

Medical journals and the mass media: moving from love and hate to love.

Richard Smith

Abstract read
In one paragraph

Article in Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, 2006. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
7citing papers in PubMed
–field-weighted citation impact
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

7 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Article
  2. Information on nosocomial infections in the mainstream media: an opinion document.Revista espanola de quimioterapia : publicacion oficial de la Sociedad Espanola de Quimioterapia · 2019
    Article
  3. Article
  4. Article
  5. Communicating science: press releases at EHP.Environmental health perspectives · 2010
    Article
  6. Article
  7. Clinical studies in medical journals.Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine · 2007
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

Richard SmithUnitedHealth Europe. richardswssmith@yahoo.co.uk

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Attitude to HealthMass MediaEditorial PoliciesHumansPeriodicals as TopicPublishing

Identifiers

PMID16816264
PMCPMC1484561

What OpenQuestion holds

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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.