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ArticleJAMA internal medicine2015

Preoperative Testing--A Bridge to Nowhere: A Teachable Moment.

Sanjiv M Baxi, Joshua R Lakin

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Article in JAMA internal medicine, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
2citing papers in PubMed
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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

2 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Article
  2. Surgeons' views on preoperative medical evaluation: a qualitative study.Perioperative medicine (London, England) · 2017
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Sanjiv M BaxiDepartment of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco2School of Public Health, Division of Epidemiology, University of California, Berkeley.
Joshua R LakinDepartment of Psychosocial Oncology and Palliative Care, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts4Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.

Funding

Ujima Mentoring ProgramP30MH062246 · NIMH · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO · PI Sheri Ann Lippman · 2001 to 2026
$57.4M
TRAINEESHIPS IN AIDS PREVENTION STUDIEST32MH019105 · NIMH · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO · PI Carol Suzanne Camlin, Glenn-Milo Santos · 1989 to 2026
$15.3M
NIMH NIH HHS P30 MH062246NIMH NIH HHS T32 MH019105NIMH NIH HHS T32 MH19105
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

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Asymptomatic DiseasesIncidental FindingsPreoperative CareStentsCoronary Artery BypassCoronary StenosisFemoral ArteryHumansMaleMass ScreeningMiddle AgedPeripheral Arterial DiseaseSubclavian Steal Syndrome

Identifiers

PMID26052986
PMCPMC4782754

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