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ArticleNature reviews. Rheumatology2009

Therapy: Guidelines in rheumatology: quo vadis?

Arthur Kavanaugh

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Article in Nature reviews. Rheumatology, 2009. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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0cells of the map it votes in
1citing papers 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

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

1 citing paper in PubMed.

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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

1 author.

Arthur KavanaughCenter for Innovative Therapy, Division of Rheumatology, Allergy, and Immunology, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093-0943, USA. akavanaugh@ucsd.edu

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The choice of optimum second-line DMARDs for patients with rheumatoid arthritis is fraught with challenges. The implementation of evidence-based guidelines designed to inform clinicians' decisions requires careful consideration of several important issues.

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Practice Guidelines as TopicAntirheumatic AgentsArthritis, RheumatoidHumansAntirheumatic Agents

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