Whole System Demonstrator trial: policy, politics, and publication ethics.

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

3 citing papers in PubMed.

1. Evaluation of Digitalisation in Healthcare and the Quantification of the "Unmeasurable".Journal of general internal medicine · 2023
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2. What is quality in assisted living technology? The ARCHIE framework for effective telehealth and telecare services.BMC medicine · 2015
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3. The impact of telehealthcare on the quality and safety of care: a systematic overview.PloS one · 2013
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Corrections and comments

• Comment on
  Effect of telehealth on use of secondary care and mortality: findings from the Whole System Demonstrator cluster randomised trial.2012

Authors and funding

1 author.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

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