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ArticleCanadian family physician Medecin de famille canadien2015

Rational test ordering in family medicine.

Simon Morgan, Mieke van Driel, Justin Coleman, Parker Magin

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Article in Canadian family physician Medecin de famille canadien, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 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

10 citing papers in PubMed.

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  10. Addressing overuse starts with physicians: Choosing Wisely Canada.Canadian family physician Medecin de famille canadien · 2016
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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

4 authors.

Simon MorganGeneral practitioner and medical educator with General Practice Training Valley to Coast in Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia. simon.morgan@gptvtc.com.au.
Mieke van DrielHead of the Discipline of General Practice at the University of Queensland in Australia and a primary care physician with the Kalwun Health Service on the Gold Coast.
Justin ColemanGeneral practitioner with the Inala Indigenous Health Service, Senior Lecturer at Griffith University and the University of Queensland, President of the Australasian Medical Writers Association, and Chair of the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners Choosing Wisely Committee.
Parker MaginMedical educator with General Practice Training Valley to Coast and Conjoint Professor in the Discipline of General Practice at the University of Newcastle.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

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CanadaFamily PracticeHumansMaleMedical OveruseMiddle AgedPractice Patterns, Physicians'

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PMID26071157
PMCPMC4463896

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