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ArticleCanadian Urological Association journal = Journal de l'Association des urologues du Canada2018

Canadian Urological Association guideline on the care of the normal foreskin and neonatal circumcision in Canadian infants (abridged version).

Sumit Dave, Kourosh Afshar, Luis H Braga, Peter Anderson

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Article in Canadian Urological Association journal = Journal de l'Association des urologues du Canada, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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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

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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

5 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Foreskin care: Hygiene, importance of counselling, and management of common complications.Canadian family physician Medecin de famille canadien · 2025
    Review
  2. Shared decision-making for pediatric elective penile surgery.Canadian Urological Association journal = Journal de l'Association des urologues du Canada · 2022
    Article
  3. Circumcision in childhood and male sexual function: a blessing or a curse?International journal of impotence research · 2021
    Review
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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.

Sumit DaveDepartment of Surgery (Urology), Western University, London, ON; Canada.
Kourosh AfsharDepartment of Urologic Sciences, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC; Canada.
Luis H BragaDepartment of Surgery (Urology), McMaster University, Hamilton, ON; Canada.
Peter AndersonDepartment of Urology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS; Canada.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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PMID29381455
PMCPMC5937397

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