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ArticleInternational journal of epidemiology2016

Data Resource Profile: The Scottish National Prescribing Information System (PIS).

Samantha Alvarez-Madrazo, Stuart McTaggart, Clifford Nangle, Elizabeth Nicholson, Marion Bennie

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Article in International journal of epidemiology, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 78 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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78citing papers in PubMed, 1 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

78 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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18 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

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

5 authors.

Samantha Alvarez-MadrazoStrathclyde Institute of Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK and.
Stuart McTaggartPublic Health and Intelligence Strategic Business Unit, NHS National Services Scotland, Edinburgh, UK.
Clifford NanglePublic Health and Intelligence Strategic Business Unit, NHS National Services Scotland, Edinburgh, UK.
Elizabeth NicholsonPublic Health and Intelligence Strategic Business Unit, NHS National Services Scotland, Edinburgh, UK.
Marion BennieStrathclyde Institute of Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK and Public Health and Intelligence Strategic Business Unit, NHS National Services Scotland, Edinburgh, UK marion.bennie@strath.ac.uk.

Funding

Arthritis Research UKBritish Heart FoundationCancer Research UKChief Scientist OfficeDepartment of HealthMedical Research Council MR/K007017/1Wellcome Trust
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Drug PrescriptionsInformation SystemsHumansScotland

Identifiers

PMID27165758
PMCPMC5005947

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