Evidence map›Paper›PMID 29472227›Full record

ReviewThe British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners2018

Cognitive tests to help diagnose dementia in symptomatic people in primary care and the community.

Sam Creavin, Susanna Wisniewski, Anna Noel-Storr, Sarah Cullum, MMSE review team

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Review in The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners, 2018. 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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0cells of the map it votes in
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.

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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

5 authors.

Sam CreavinPopulation Health Sciences, Bristol Medical School, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK.
Susanna WisniewskiCochrane Dementia and Cognitive Improvement Group, Oxford University, Oxford, UK.
Anna Noel-StorrCochrane Dementia and Cognitive Improvement Group, Oxford University, Oxford, UK.
Sarah CullumDepartment of Psychological Medicine, School of Medicine, Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand.
MMSE review team

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Mental Status and Dementia TestsPrimary Health CareDementiaEvidence-Based MedicineHumansSensitivity and Specificity

Identifiers

PMID29472227
PMCPMC5819977

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