Evidence map›Paper›PMID 28077230›Full record

ArticleLancet (London, England)2017

Addressing overuse and underuse around the world.

Vikas Saini, Shannon Brownlee, Adam G Elshaug, Paul Glasziou, Iona Heath

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Article in Lancet (London, England), 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 62 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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62citing papers in PubMed, 2 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

62 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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  17. [Hospital Profits: Ethical Aspects at the Interface Between Medicine and Economics].Gesundheitswesen (Bundesverband der Arzte des Offentlichen Gesundheitsdienstes (Germany)) · 2023
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  20. Doctors as Resource Stewards? Translating High-Value, Cost-Conscious Care to the Consulting Room.Health care analysis : HCA : journal of health philosophy and policy · 2022
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2 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Vikas SainiLown Institute, Longwood Avenue, Brookline, MA 02446, USA. Electronic address: vsaini@lowninstitute.org.
Shannon BrownleeLown Institute, Longwood Avenue, Brookline, MA 02446, USA; Department of Health Policy, Harvard T H Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA.
Adam G ElshaugLown Institute, Longwood Avenue, Brookline, MA 02446, USA; Menzies Centre for Health Policy, School of Public Health, Sydney Medical School, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
Paul GlasziouCentre for Research in Evidence-Based Practice, Bond University, Australia.
Iona HeathRoyal College of General Practitioners, London, UK.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Identifiers

PMID28077230

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