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ArticleAnnals of surgery2014

Closing in on surgical practice variations.

David R Urbach

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Article in Annals of surgery, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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6citing 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

6 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Article
  2. Laparoscopic colectomy: trends in implementation in Canada and globallyCanadian journal of surgery. Journal canadien de chirurgie · 2019
    Review
  3. Article
  4. Thresholds of Principle and Preference: Exploring Procedural Variation in Postgraduate Surgical Education.Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges · 2015
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

David R UrbachFrom the Department of Surgery, University Health Network, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; and Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Decision Support TechniquesPractice Guidelines as TopicHealthcare DisparitiesHumansSurgical Procedures, Operative

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PMID24603297

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