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ArticleThe New England journal of medicine2011

Better evidence about screening for lung cancer.

Harold C Sox

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Article in The New England journal of medicine, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 19 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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19citing papers in PubMed, 3 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

19 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

  1. Lung Cancer Screening, Version 3.2018, NCCN Clinical Practice Guidelines in Oncology.Journal of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network : JNCCN · 2018
    Guideline
  2. Guideline
  3. Lung cancer screening.Journal of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network : JNCCN · 2012
    Guideline
  4. Trial
  5. Trial
  6. Reducing the time before consulting with symptoms of lung cancer: a randomised controlled trial in primary care.The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners · 2013
    Trial
  7. Article
  8. Lung cancer screening: an urgent necessity.Jornal brasileiro de pneumologia : publicacao oficial da Sociedade Brasileira de Pneumologia e Tisilogia · 2025
    Article
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  12. ESR/ERS white paper on lung cancer screening.The European respiratory journal · 2015
    Article
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  15. Review
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

Harold C Sox

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Diagnostic ErrorsTomography, X-Ray ComputedCost-Benefit AnalysisHumansLung NeoplasmsRadiography, Thoracic

Identifiers

PMID21714644

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