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ArticleCanadian journal of surgery. Journal canadien de chirurgie2009

How to use an article about prognosis.

Robert R Hansebout, Sylvie D Cornacchi, Ted Haines, Charlie H Goldsmith

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Article in Canadian journal of surgery. Journal canadien de chirurgie, 2009. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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10citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
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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

10 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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  8. Users' guide to the surgical literature: how to perform a high-quality literature search.Canadian journal of surgery. Journal canadien de chirurgie · 2015
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  9. Evidence on prognosis.Plastic and reconstructive surgery · 2013
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  10. Appraisal and use of a prognostic study from the urological literature.Indian journal of urology : IJU : journal of the Urological Society of India · 2011
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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

4 authors.

Robert R HanseboutSurgical Outcomes Research Centre, Department of Surgery, McMaster University and St. Joseph's Healthcare, Hamilton, Ont.
Sylvie D Cornacchi
Ted Haines
Charlie H Goldsmith

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Identifiers

PMID19680521
PMCPMC2724829

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