Implementation of a new 'opt-out' default for tobacco treatment is urgently needed, but requires free access to evidence-based treatments.

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

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Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

Who cites it

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

1. Effectiveness of Very Brief Advice on Tobacco Cessation: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Journal of general internal medicine · 2024
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2. Evolution of a Systematic Approach to Smoking Cessation in Ontario's Regional Cancer Centres.Current oncology (Toronto, Ont.) · 2022
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3. Has the National Fall in Smoking Rates in Ireland Been Replicated in Cancer Patients? A 5-Year Report.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022
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4. Presumed Consent With Opt-Out: An Ethical Consent Approach to Automatically Refer Patients With Cancer to Tobacco Treatment Services.Journal of clinical oncology : official journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology · 2021
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5. Effectiveness of training general practitioners to improve the implementation of brief stop-smoking advice in German primary care: study protocol of a pragmatic, 2-arm cluster randomised controlled trial (the ABCII trial).BMC family practice · 2019
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6. Feasibility of Implementing a Hospital-Based "Opt-Out" Tobacco-Cessation Service.Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco · 2017
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Corrections and comments

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  Response to commentaries: changing the treatment default will improve decision-making.2015

Authors and funding

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Funding

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Abstract

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