Evidence map›Paper›PMID 23897129›Full record

ArticleJournal of general internal medicine2013

Pharmaceutical sales representatives and patient safety.

Barbara Mintzes, Joel Lexchin, Michael S Wilkes, Marie-Dominique Beaulieu, Ellen Reynolds, Jason Sutherland, Geneviève Durrieu

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Article in Journal of general internal medicine, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
2citing 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

2 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors.

Barbara MintzesSchool of Population and Public Health, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, V6T 1Z3, Canada, Barbara.mintzes@ti.ubc.ca.
Joel Lexchin
Michael S Wilkes
Marie-Dominique Beaulieu
Ellen Reynolds
Jason Sutherland
Geneviève Durrieu

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Patient SafetyDrug IndustryDrug Information ServicesHumansMarketing

Identifiers

PMID23897129
PMCPMC3797338

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Registered trials

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