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ArticleNPJ primary care respiratory medicine2016

Is the 'blue' colour convention for inhaled reliever medications important? A UK-based survey of healthcare professionals and patients with airways disease.

Monica Fletcher, Jane Scullion, John White, Bronwen Thompson, Toby Capstick

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Article in NPJ primary care respiratory medicine, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
1citing papers in PubMed
0.2field-weighted citation impact, top 37% 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

1 citing paper in PubMed, 3 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Blue inhalers: blowing hot and cold.NPJ primary care respiratory medicine · 2017
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 4 institutions in 1 country.

Monica FletcherEducation for Health, Warwick, UK.
Jane ScullionRespiratory Department, University Hospitals of Leicester, Leicester, UK.
John WhiteRespiratory Department, York NHSFT, York, UK.
Bronwen ThompsonUK Inhaler Group, Leeds, UK.
Toby CapstickPharmacy Department, Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, Warwick, UK.
Health Education England · GBLeeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust · GBUniversity Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust · GBYork Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust · GB

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In many countries, short-acting β

Indexed as

ColorDrug PackagingNebulizers and VaporizersAdministration, InhalationAsthmaBronchodilator AgentsHealth PersonnelHumansPulmonary Disease, Chronic ObstructiveSurveys and QuestionnairesUnited KingdomBronchodilator Agents

Identifiers

PMID27808097
PMCPMC5093406
OpenAlexW2548863613

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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.