Rebuttal: Do electronic medical records improve quality of care? Yes.

Donna P Manca

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In one paragraph

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 5 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it

0cells of the map it votes in

5citing papers in PubMed

–field-weighted citation impact

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

5 citing papers in PubMed.

Successes and challenges towards improving quality of primary health care services: a scoping review.BMC health services research · 2023
Article
Autoimmune haemolytic anaemia due to immunodeficiency.BMJ case reports · 2022
Article
The Impact of Demographic, Socio-Economic and Geographic Factors on Mortality Risk among People Living with Dementia in England (2002-2016).International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021
Article
Construction of a Digestive System Tumor Knowledge Graph Based on Chinese Electronic Medical Records: Development and Usability Study.JMIR medical informatics · 2020
Article
Precision medicine in COPD: where are we and where do we need to go?European respiratory review : an official journal of the European Respiratory Society · 2018
Review

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

Comment on
Do electronic medical records improve quality of care? No.2015

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

Donna P MancaFamily physician at the Grey Nuns Family Medicine Centre in Edmonton, Alta, Director of Research in the Department of Family Medicine Research Program at the University of Alberta, and Director of the Northern Alberta Primary Care Research Network, a network contributing data to the Canadian Primary Care Sentinel Surveillance Network project. dpmanca@ualberta.ca.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Electronic Health RecordsHumansQuality of Health Care

Identifiers

PMID26472802

PMCPMC4607343

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