Evidence map›Paper›PMID 28496686›Full record

ArticleJournal of atrial fibrillation

The Cost of Thromboembolic Events and their Prevention among Patients with Atrial Fibrillation.

Thomas Davidson, Magnus Husberg, Magnus Janzon, Lars-Åke Levin

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Article in Journal of atrial fibrillation. 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
1.2field-weighted citation impact, top 20% 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, 8 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Cost-effectiveness of atrial fibrillation screening programmes across European nations.European heart journal. Quality of care & clinical outcomes · 2026
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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

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Thomas DavidsonCenter for Medical Technology Assessment, Department of Medical and Health Sciences, Linköping University, Sweden.
Magnus HusbergCenter for Medical Technology Assessment, Department of Medical and Health Sciences, Linköping University, Sweden.
Magnus JanzonCenter for Medical Technology Assessment, Department of Medical and Health Sciences, Linköping University, Sweden.
Lars-Åke LevinCenter for Medical Technology Assessment, Department of Medical and Health Sciences, Linköping University, Sweden.
Linköping University · SE

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

AnticoagulationAtrial FibrillationCostThromboembolic Events

Identifiers

PMID28496686
PMCPMC4956077
OpenAlexW48849013

What OpenQuestion holds

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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.