Efficacy vs effectiveness.

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

10 citing papers in PubMed.

1. Effect of a Remotely Delivered Self-directed Behavioral Intervention on Body Weight and Physical Health Status Among Adults With Obesity: The D-ELITE Randomized Clinical Trial.JAMA · 2022
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2. Mind the (research) gap: a retrospective observational study on the utilization of new medical technologies and related research activities in German hospitals.Health research policy and systems · 2025
   Observational
3. Cecal retroflexion is infrequently performed in routine practice and the retroflexed view is of poor quality.BMC gastroenterology · 2021
   Observational
4. Bridging Gaps in Evidence-based Clinical Practice in Inflammatory Bowel Diseases: Observational Comparative Effectiveness Research for the Win.Clinical gastroenterology and hepatology : the official clinical practice journal of the American Gastroenterological Association · 2019
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5. A multicentre controlled pre-post trial of an implementation science intervention to improve venous thromboembolism prophylaxis in critically ill patients.Intensive care medicine · 2019
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6. Observational vs randomized: David vs Goliath for thromboprophylaxis in critically ill patients?Intensive care medicine · 2019
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7. Implementation of M-CHAT Screening for Autism in Primary Care in Saudi Arabia.Global pediatric health · 2019
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8. Health Services Research: Cardiology in the Changing Health Care Landscape.Journal of the American College of Cardiology · 2017
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9. The use of random-effects models to identify health care center-related characteristics modifying the effect of antipsychotic drugs.Clinical epidemiology · 2017
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10. The Intersection of Massage Practice and Research: Community Massage Therapists as Research Personnel on an NIH-funded Effectiveness Study.International journal of therapeutic massage & bodywork · 2014
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Authors and funding

2 authors.

Funding

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Abstract

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