Altruism and Medical Practice.

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.

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.

Who cites it

9 citing papers in PubMed.

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4. Reducing Healthcare Employees' Burnout through Ethical Leadership: The Role of Altruism and Motivation.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022
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5. The Moral, Ethical, Personal, and Professional Challenges Faced by Physicians during the COVID-19 Pandemic.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022
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6. Study motivations, specialty preferences, and empathy of dental students in a Nigerian university.The Pan African medical journal · 2022
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7. Enlightened Self-interest in Altruism (ESIA).HEC forum : an interdisciplinary journal on hospitals' ethical and legal issues · 2020
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8. Heroes or cowards: healthcare workers' autonomy right versus patient care duties during the COVID-19 pandemic.Journal of medical ethics and history of medicine · 2020
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Corrections and comments

• Comment on
  Can Appealing to Patient Altruism Reduce Overuse of Health Care Services? An Experimental Survey.2017
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  Association of Intrinsic Motivating Factors and Markers of Physician Well-Being: A National Physician Survey.2017
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  Public Awareness of and Contact With Physicians Who Receive Industry Payments: A National Survey.2017

Authors and funding

1 author.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

Abstract

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