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ArticleMedical journal of the Islamic Republic of Iran

Rationing in health systems: A critical review.

Iman Keliddar, Ali Mohammad Mosadeghrad, Mehdi Jafari-Sirizi

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Article in Medical journal of the Islamic Republic of Iran. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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15citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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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

15 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

  1. Pooled it
  2. Balancing access to donor human milk: Rationing vs expanding use.Nutrition in clinical practice : official publication of the American Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition · 2026
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  4. Navigation as a system approach: A qualitative descriptive study to inform a statewide cancer navigation approach in Australia.Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer · 2025
    Article
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  8. Rationing in healthcare-a scoping review.Frontiers in public health · 2023
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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

3 authors.

Iman KeliddarTehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
Ali Mohammad MosadeghradSchool of Public Health, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
Mehdi Jafari-SiriziSchool of Health Management and Information Sciences, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Critical reviewHealth Care RationingHealth resourcesHealth systemPatient selection

Identifiers

PMID29445676
PMCPMC5804460

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