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ArticleCanadian journal of surgery. Journal canadien de chirurgie2014

Users' guide to the surgical literature: how to evaluate clinical practice guidelines.

Christopher J Coroneos, Sophocles H Voineskos, Sylvie D Cornacchi, Charlie H Goldsmith, Teegan A Ignacy, Achilleas Thoma

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Article in Canadian journal of surgery. Journal canadien de chirurgie, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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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

8 citing papers in PubMed.

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  2. Clinical practice guidelines for the nutritional risk screening and assessment of cancer patients: a systematic quality appraisal using the AGREE II instrument.Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer · 2021
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  6. Users' guide to the surgical literature: how to assess an article about harm in surgery.Canadian journal of surgery. Journal canadien de chirurgie · 2016
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  8. Evaluating Guidelines: A Review of Key Quality Criteria.Deutsches Arzteblatt international · 2015
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Christopher J CoroneosThe Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Department of Surgery, McMaster University, and the Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ont.
Sophocles H VoineskosThe Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Department of Surgery, McMaster University, and the Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ont.
Sylvie D CornacchiThe Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Department of Surgery, McMaster University, and the Surgical Outcomes Research Centre (SOURCE), McMaster University, Hamilton, Ont.
Charlie H GoldsmithThe †Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, McMaster University, the Surgical Outcomes Research Centre (SOURCE), McMaster University, Hamilton, Ont., and the Faculty of Health Sciences, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada and Arthritis Research Centre of Canada, Richmond, BC.
Teegan A IgnacyThe Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Department of Surgery, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ont., and the Surgical Outcomes Research Centre (SOURCE), McMaster University, Hamilton, Ont.
Achilleas ThomaThe Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Department of Surgery, McMaster University, the Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, and the Surgical Outcomes Research Centre (SOURCE), McMaster University, Hamilton, Ont.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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MEDLINEPractice Guidelines as TopicHumansSurgical Procedures, Operative

Identifiers

PMID25078935
PMCPMC4119123

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