Evidence map›Paper›PMID 26435666›Full record

ArticlePaediatrics & child health

Caring for children, focusing on children.

Ian Mitchell, Juliet R Guichon, Sam Wong

Erratum issuedOpen access · bronzeAbstract read
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Article in Paediatrics & child health. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 2 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
2citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
1.1field-weighted citation impact, top 14% of its field
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 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 3 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Pooled it
  2. Article
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Ian MitchellPaediatrics, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary; Member, Canadian Paediatric Society Bioethics Committee;
Juliet R GuichonCommunity Health Sciences, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary;
Sam WongUniversity of Alberta, Chair of Canadian Paediatric Society: First Nations, Inuit and Métis Health Committee.
University of Calgary · CACanadian Paediatric Society · CA

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Two First Nations girls with leukemia received a significant amount of media attention in 2014 and 2015. In both cases, the parents refused to continue chemotherapy, the only proven effective treatment; they opted instead for a combination of traditional Aboriginal healing approaches and alternative therapies offered in a facility outside of the country. One child has died; the other relapsed and required chemotherapy to avoid death. Media reports were polarized, focusing either on the historical legacy of distrust felt by First Nations people when accessing health care, or the need for child protection services to intervene. One article in the Canadian Medical Association Journal focused on the legacy of mistrust and methods of countering it, but did not address the legal and ethical duties of physicians in such situations. The present commentary describes the events, responsibilities of professionals involved and a course of action for physicians when faced with similar circumstances.

Indexed as

AboriginalChild protectionDuties of paediatricians

Identifiers

PMID26435666
PMCPMC4578466
OpenAlexW2173014323

What OpenQuestion holds

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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.