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ArticleJournal of general internal medicine2008

Tips for teachers of evidence-based medicine: making sense of diagnostic test results using likelihood ratios.

W Scott Richardson, Mark C Wilson, Sheri A Keitz, Peter C Wyer, EBM Teaching Scripts Working Group

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Article in Journal of general internal medicine, 2008. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
8citing papers in PubMed
0.8field-weighted citation impact, top 23% of its field
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

8 citing papers in PubMed, 18 citations in OpenAlex.

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  4. The 3-min appraisal of a diagnostic test.Indian journal of orthopaedics · 2011
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  8. Teaching Tips--a new series in JGIM.Journal of general internal medicine · 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

5 authors at 4 institutions in 3 countries.

W Scott RichardsonBoonshoft School of Medicine, Wright State University and the Three Owl Learning Institute, Dayton, OH, USA.
Mark C Wilson
Sheri A Keitz
Peter C Wyer
EBM Teaching Scripts Working Group
Royal College of Physicians · GBUniversity of Iowa · USUniversity of Miami · USWright State University · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Diagnostic Tests, RoutineProblem-Based LearningData Interpretation, StatisticalDiagnosisEducation, Medical, UndergraduateEvidence-Based MedicineHumansOdds RatioSensitivity and Specificity

Identifiers

PMID18064524
PMCPMC2173935
OpenAlexW2087850911

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.