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ArticleRadiology2012

Falling prey to the sunk cost bias: a potential harm of patient radiation dose histories.

Jonathan D Eisenberg, H Benjamin Harvey, Donald A Moore, G Scott Gazelle, Pari V Pandharipande

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Article in Radiology, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers.

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14citing 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

14 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Trial
  2. Radiation risk issues in recurrent imaging.The British journal of radiology · 2021
    Review
  3. The cumulative radiation dose paradigm in pediatric imaging.The British journal of radiology · 2021
    Review
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  5. Organ dose variability and trends in tomosynthesis and radiography.Journal of medical imaging (Bellingham, Wash.) · 2017
    Article
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  13. Death of the ALARA Radiation Protection Principle as Used in the Medical Sector.Dose-response : a publication of International Hormesis Society
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  14. Are Continued Efforts to Reduce Radiation Exposures from X-Rays Warranted?Dose-response : a publication of International Hormesis Society
    Article
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.

Jonathan D EisenbergInstitute for Technology Assessment, Massachusetts General Hospital, 101 Merrimac St, 10th Floor, Boston, MA 02114, USA.
H Benjamin Harvey
Donald A Moore
G Scott Gazelle
Pari V Pandharipande

Funding

Cost-Effectiveness of Radiofrequency Ablation for Small, Incidental Renal TumorsK07CA133097 · NCI · MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL · PI PANDHARIPANDE, PARI VIJAY · 2009 to 2013
$891k
NCI NIH HHS K07 CA133097NCI NIH HHS K07CA133097
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Decision MakingMedical History TakingRadiation DosageCost-Benefit AnalysisHumansLinear ModelsPatient SafetyRadiometryRegistriesRisk AssessmentTomography, X-Ray Computed

Identifiers

PMID22623688
PMCPMC3359514

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