Were my diagnosis and treatment correct? No news is not necessarily good news.

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

8 citing papers in PubMed.

1. Electronic Trigger-Based Intervention to Reduce Delays in Diagnostic Evaluation for Cancer: A Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial.Journal of clinical oncology : official journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology · 2015
   Trial
2. CASNET2: evaluation of an electronic safety netting cancer toolkit for the primary care electronic health record: protocol for a pragmatic stepped-wedge RCT.BMJ open · 2020
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3. GPs' understanding and practice of safety netting for potential cancer presentations: a qualitative study in primary care.The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners · 2018
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4. Responsibility for follow-up during the diagnostic process in primary care: a secondary analysis of International Cancer Benchmarking Partnership data.The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners · 2018
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5. The global burden of diagnostic errors in primary care.BMJ quality & safety · 2017
   Review
6. Understanding missed opportunities for more timely diagnosis of cancer in symptomatic patients after presentation.British journal of cancer · 2015
   Review
7. Advancing the science of measurement of diagnostic errors in healthcare: the Safer Dx framework.BMJ quality & safety · 2015
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8. Ebola US Patient Zero: lessons on misdiagnosis and effective use of electronic health records.Diagnosis (Berlin, Germany) · 2014
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