Can early diagnosis and effective management combat the irresistible rise of COPD?

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

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Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

Who cites it

6 citing papers in PubMed.

1. Prognostic value of first-recorded breathlessness for future chronic respiratory and heart disease: a cohort study using a UK national primary care database.The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners · 2020
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2. Finding the 'missing millions': do we need incentives to optimise COPD outcomes?Primary care respiratory journal : journal of the General Practice Airways Group · 2013
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3. Trends in the epidemiology of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in England: a national study of 51 804 patients.The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners · 2010
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4. Accuracy of diagnostic registers and management of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: the Devon primary care audit.Respiratory research · 2008
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5. Early diagnosis of COPD.The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners · 2006
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6. Questions about COPD.The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners · 2006
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Corrections and comments

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  Early diagnosis of COPD.2006
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  Questions about COPD.2006

Authors and funding

1 author.

Funding

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Abstract

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