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ArticleIndian heart journal

Western guidelines or practice algorithms?-Yorkshire Pudding or Dal Makhni!

Sundeep Mishra

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Article in Indian heart journal. 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
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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

1 citing paper in PubMed.

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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

1 author.

Sundeep MishraProfessor of Cardiology, AIIMS, New Delhi, India. Electronic address: sundeepmishraihj@gmail.com.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Physicians to be able deliver contemporary care need to be updated on the recent developments in diagnosis and treatment. However, there is numerous data available practically on each and every aspect of day-today clinical practice. Clinical guidelines may provide a quick solution for everyday problems but many times they themselves are too many, too voluminous and may confuse more than simplify. More-over, they are based on Western derived clinical data, even clinical practice, developed for ethico-legal and reimbursement purposes and therefore may not be applicable to clinical practice in majority of the world. Thus there is a need to develop simple management algorithms which can be used by physicians from developing world who are often constrained by availability, accessibility and affordability.

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AlgorithmsDelivery of Health CareHumansPhysiciansPractice Guidelines as Topic

Identifiers

PMID27931538
PMCPMC5143804

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