Evidence map›Paper›PMID 28899370›Full record

Observational studyBMC urology2017

Resource utilization and costs associated with the addition of an antimuscarinic in patients treated with an alpha-blocker for the treatment of urinary symptoms linked to benign prostatic hyperplasia.

Antoni Sicras-Mainar, Ruth Navarro-Artieda, Ana Mª Mora, Marta Hernández

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In one paragraph

Observational study in BMC urology, 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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0cells of the map it votes in
1citing papers in PubMed
–field-weighted citation impact, top 80% 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, 1 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Observational
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 2 institutions in 1 country.

Antoni Sicras-MainarDirección de Planificación, Badalona Serveis Assistencials SA, Via Augusta, 9, 08911 Badalona, Barcelona, Spain. asicras@bsa.cat.
Ruth Navarro-ArtiedaDocumentación Médica, Hospital Germans Trias i Pujol, Badalona, Barcelona, Spain.
Ana Mª MoraMedical Department, Astellas Pharma S.A, Madrid, Spain.
Marta HernándezMedical Department, Astellas Pharma S.A, Madrid, Spain.
Badalona Serveis Assistencials · ESHospital Universitari Germans Trias i Pujol · ES

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Health Care CostsAdrenergic alpha-AntagonistsAgedDrug Therapy, CombinationHealth ResourcesHumansLower Urinary Tract SymptomsMaleMiddle AgedMuscarinic AntagonistsProstatic HyperplasiaRetrospective StudiesSpainAdrenergic alpha-AntagonistsMuscarinic AntagonistsAntimuscarinicsBenign prostatic hyperplasiaCostsLower urinary tract symptomsResource utilization

Identifiers

PMID28899370
PMCPMC5596857
OpenAlexW2755478379

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Registered trials

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