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ArticleNPJ primary care respiratory medicine2014

We need to stop looking for something that is not there….

Marilyn Kendall, Susan Buckingham, Susie Ferguson, Ninian Hewitt, Hilary Pinnock

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In one paragraph

Article in NPJ primary care respiratory medicine, 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.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
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. Pooled it
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  5. The view of pulmonologists on palliative care for patients with COPD: a survey study.International journal of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease · 2017
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  6. Development of the ProPal-COPD tool to identify patients with COPD for proactive palliative care.International journal of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease · 2017
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Marilyn KendallPrimary Palliative Care Research Group, Centre for Population Health Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.
Susan BuckinghamPrimary Palliative Care Research Group, Centre for Population Health Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.
Susie FergusonRoyal Infirmary of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.
Ninian HewittNHS Lothian Managed Clinical Network, Edinburgh, UK.
Hilary PinnockAllergy and Respiratory Research Group, Centre for Population Health Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.

Funding

Chief Scientist Office CZH/4/320Chief Scientist Office PCRCA/08/01
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

FemaleHumansLung NeoplasmsMalePulmonary Disease, Chronic ObstructiveTerminal Care

Identifiers

PMID25079113
PMCPMC4373399

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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.