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ArticleHospital pharmacy2017

Critical Appraisal of Biomedical Literature With a Succinct Journal Club Template: The ROOTs Format.

Ashley Johnson, Krisy-Ann Thornby, Mary Ferrill

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Article in Hospital pharmacy, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Ashley JohnsonJonathan M. Wainwright Memorial VA Medical Center, Wainwright Drive Walla Walla, WA, USA.
Krisy-Ann ThornbyPalm Beach Atlantic University, West Palm Beach, FL, USA.
Mary FerrillCalifornia Health Sciences University, Clovis, CA, USA.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Journal clubs are a valuable tool to assist pharmacists in the evaluation of biomedical literature and to promote adoption of evidence-based practices. The concise ROOTs (

Indexed as

journal clubliterature evaluation

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PMID29276278
PMCPMC5735714

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