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ReviewCanadian family physician Medecin de famille canadien2018

Understanding and communicating risk: Measures of outcome and the magnitude of benefits and harms.

Neil R Bell, James A Dickinson, Roland Grad, Harminder Singh, Danielle Kasperavicius, Brett D Thombs

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In one paragraph

Review in Canadian family physician Medecin de famille canadien, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 17 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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17citing 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

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

  1. Pooled it
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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

6 authors.

Neil R BellProfessor in the Department of Family Medicine at the University of Alberta in Edmonton. nrbell@telusplanet.net.
James A DickinsonProfessor in the Department of Family Medicine and the Department of Community Health Sciences at the University of Calgary in Alberta.
Roland GradAssociate Professor in the Department of Family Medicine at McGill University and Senior Investigator at the Lady Davis Institute in Montreal, Que.
Harminder SinghAssociate Professor in the Department of Internal Medicine and the Department of Community Health Sciences at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg and the Department of Hematology and Oncology for CancerCare Manitoba.
Danielle KasperaviciusResearch Coordinator for the Knowledge Translation Program at St Michael's Hospital in Toronto, Ont.
Brett D ThombsProfessor and William Dawson Scholar in the Faculty of Medicine at McGill University and Chair of the Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Care.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

CommunicationMass ScreeningPhysician-Patient RelationsRisk AssessmentDecision MakingHumansOutcome Assessment, Health CarePreventive Medicine

Identifiers

PMID29540382
PMCPMC5851390

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