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ArticleBMJ (Clinical research ed.)2015

Setting a research agenda for medical overuse.

Daniel J Morgan, Shannon Brownlee, Aaron L Leppin, Nancy Kressin, Sanket S Dhruva, Les Levin, Bruce E Landon, Mark A Zezza, Harald Schmidt, Vikas Saini and 1 more

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Article in BMJ (Clinical research ed.), 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 102 papers, 7 of them syntheses that 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

102 citing papers in PubMed, 7 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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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

11 authors.

Daniel J MorganEpidemiology, and Public Health, Veterans Affairs Maryland Healthcare System, University of Maryland School of Medicine, 685 W Baltimore St, Baltimore, MD 21201, USA.
Shannon BrownleeLown Institute, Dartmouth School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA.
Aaron L LeppinKnowledge and Evaluation Research Unit, Mayo Clinic, MN, USA.
Nancy KressinBoston VA and Boston University, Boston, MA, USA.
Sanket S DhruvaYale University and New Haven VA, New Haven, CT, USA.
Les LevinUniversity of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Bruce E LandonDepartment of Health Care Policy, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA, USA.
Mark A ZezzaLewin Group's Federal Health And Human Services Practice, Washington, DC, USA.
Harald SchmidtMedical Ethics and Health Policy, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
Vikas SainiLown Institute, Harvard Medical School, Brookline, MA, USA.
Adam G ElshaugMenzies Centre for Health Policy, Sydney School of Public Health, University of Sydney, Australia Lown Institute, Sydney, Australia.

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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Health Services MisuseResearchUnnecessary ProceduresHumans

Identifiers

PMID26306661
PMCPMC4563792

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