Encouraging patients to ask questions: how to overcome "white-coat silence".

What it found

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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

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Who cites it

24 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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