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ArticlePLoS medicine2017

Evidence-based restructuring of health and social care.

Aziz Sheikh

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Article in PLoS medicine, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3citing papers in PubMed
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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

3 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. From LearningLearning health systems · 2020
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

Aziz SheikhUsher Institute of Population Health Sciences and Informatics, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom.ORCID 0000-0001-7022-3056

Funding

Medical Research Council MR/L011891/1
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In this Perspective, Aziz Sheikh discusses research to evaluate health policy changes in the provision of care, commenting on a study by James Lopez Bernal and colleagues that examined specialist-dominated hospital care versus community-based care in the United Kingdom.

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HospitalizationInterrupted Time Series AnalysisEnglandHealth PolicyHumansUnited Kingdom

Identifiers

PMID29135985
PMCPMC5685478

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