Harming through protection?

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

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.

Who cites it

21 citing papers in PubMed.

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7. Ethics Issues Arising in the Transition to Learning Health Care Systems: Results from Interviews with Leaders from 25 Health Systems.EGEMS (Washington, DC) · 2016
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8. Ethical oversight in quality improvement and quality improvement research: new approaches to promote a learning health care system.BMC medical ethics · 2015
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11. How variability in the institutional review board review process affects minimal-risk multisite health services research.Annals of internal medicine · 2012
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12. Variability in obtaining institutional review board approval for quality improvement activities in residency programs.Journal of graduate medical education · 2012
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13. Ethical issues posed by cluster randomized trials in health research.Trials · 2011
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14. Nosocomial infection reduction in VLBW infants with a statewide quality-improvement model.Pediatrics · 2011
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15. Ethics review as a component of institutional approval for a multicentre continuous quality improvement project: the investigator's perspective.BMC health services research · 2010
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16. A statewide quality improvement collaborative to reduce neonatal central line-associated blood stream infections.Journal of perinatology : official journal of the California Perinatal Association · 2010
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18. What would it take to improve the quality of healthcare: more money, or more data?Clinical medicine (London, England) · 2009
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19. Ethical and legal issues in the use of health information technology to improve patient safety.HEC forum : an interdisciplinary journal on hospitals' ethical and legal issues · 2008
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Corrections and comments

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  An intervention to decrease catheter-related bloodstream infections in the ICU.2006

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