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ArticleCanadian family physician Medecin de famille canadien2014

Oral vitamin B12: a cost-effective alternative.

Michael R Kolber, Sherilyn K D Houle

Abstract read
In one paragraph

Article in Canadian family physician Medecin de famille canadien, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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7citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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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

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

  1. Oral vitamin BThe Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2018
    Pooled it
  2. Review
  3. Comment on "Efficacy of Long-Term Oral Vitamin BGE Portuguese journal of gastroenterology · 2019
    Article
  4. Article
  5. Response to letters about vitamin B12.Canadian family physician Medecin de famille canadien · 2014
    Article
  6. Vitamin B12 doses and the elderly.Canadian family physician Medecin de famille canadien · 2014
    Article
  7. Elaboration on vitamin B12.Canadian family physician Medecin de famille canadien · 2014
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Michael R KolberUniversity of Alberta, Medicine, EPICORE Centre, 3rd Floor, Brain and Aging Research Building, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB T6G 2M8. sherilyn.houle@ualberta.ca.
Sherilyn K D Houle

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Administration, OralBiological AvailabilityCost-Benefit AnalysisDosage FormsHumansInjectionsVitamin B 12Vitamin B 12 DeficiencyVitamin B ComplexDosage FormsVitamin B 12Vitamin B Complex

Identifiers

PMID24522672
PMCPMC3922551

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Registered trials

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Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.