Evidence map›Paper›PMID 17185449›Full record

ReviewArchives of disease in childhood2007

A paper that changed my practice: S McKenzie. Cough but is it asthma? Arch Dis Child 1994;70:1-2.

D Spencer

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Review in Archives of disease in childhood, 2007. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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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

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

D SpencerDepartment of Respiratory Paediatrics, Regional Cardiothoracic Centre, Freeman Hospital, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE7 7DN, UK. david.spencer@nuth.northy.nhs.uk

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Most doctors can identify key papers that have influenced their approach to the management of a particular clinical problem, although sometimes the gestation period of this effect can be very prolonged. In this short review I discuss the effects of a seminal paper by Sheila Mackenzie from the early 1990s on my current approach to the diagnosis and management of chronic cough in children.

Indexed as

AsthmaBronchodilator AgentsChildChild, PreschoolChronic DiseaseCoughDiagnosis, DifferentialHumansBronchodilator Agents

Identifiers

PMID17185449
PMCPMC2083138

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