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ArticleSexually transmitted infections2014

Relative or absolute? A significant intervention for chlamydia screening with small absolute benefit.

William C Miller, Nadia L Nguyen

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Article in Sexually transmitted infections, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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0cells of the map it votes in
6citing 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

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

  1. Pooled it
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  3. General practice chlamydia testing: a qualitative study of staff approaches using behavioural change theory.The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

William C MillerDivision of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, , Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA.
Nadia L Nguyen

Funding

Training in Sexually Transmitted Infections and HIVT32AI007001 · NIAID · UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL · PI SENA-SOBERANO, ARLENE C. · 1985 to 2025
$10.9M
NIAID NIH HHS T32 AI007001
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Mass ScreeningChlamydiaChlamydia InfectionsFemaleGeneral PracticeHumansMaleChlamydia InfectionChlamydia TrachomatisEpidemiology (Clinical)Screening

Identifiers

PMID24719029
PMCPMC4526139

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