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ArticleBMC medical ethics2017

On classifying the field of medical ethics.

Kristine Bærøe, Jonathan Ives, Martine de Vries, Jan Schildmann

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Article in BMC medical ethics, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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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

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Kristine BærøeDepartment of Global Public Health and Primary Care, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway. kristine.baroe@uib.no.
Jonathan IvesBiomedical Ethics and Law, Centre for Ethics in Medicine, The University of Bristol, Bristol, UK.
Martine de VriesBiomedical Ethics and Law, Department of Medical Ethics and Health Law, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands.
Jan SchildmannProfessur für Medizinethik an der Wilhelm Löhe Hochschule, Fürth; Medizinische Klinik und Poliklinik III, Klinikum der Universität München, Campus Großhadern, Munich, Germany.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In 2014, the editorial board of BMC Medical Ethics came together to devise sections for the journal that would (a) give structure to the journal (b) help ensure that authors' research is matched to the most appropriate editors and (c) help readers to find the research most relevant to them. The editorial board decided to take a practical approach to devising sections that dealt with the challenges of content management. After that, we started thinking more theoretically about how one could go about classifying the field of medical ethics. This editorial elaborates and reflects on the practical approach that we took at the journal, then considers an alternative theoretically derived approach, and reflects on the possibilities, challenges and value of classifying the field more broadly.

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Editorial PoliciesEthics, Medical

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PMID28449689
PMCPMC5406875

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