Evidence map›Paper›PMID 29599021›Full record

ArticleJournal of the American Dental Association (1939)2018

Quality measures everywhere: The case for parsimony.

Elsbeth Kalenderian, Rachel Ramoni, Heiko Spallek, Joel White, Muhammad Walji

Abstract read
In one paragraph

Article in Journal of the American Dental Association (1939), 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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12citing 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

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

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  8. Measuring sealant placement in children at the dental practice level.Journal of the American Dental Association (1939) · 2020
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  9. An International Working Definition for Quality of Oral Healthcare.JDR clinical and translational research · 2020
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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.

Elsbeth Kalenderian
Rachel Ramoni
Heiko Spallek
Joel White
Muhammad Walji

Funding

Implementing Dental Quality Measures in PracticeR01DE024166 · NIDCR · UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HLTH SCI CTR HOUSTON · PI KALENDERIAN, ELSBETH, WALJI, MUHAMMAD · 2015 to 2025
$7.3M
NIDCR NIH HHS R01 DE024166
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Quality Indicators, Health Care

Identifiers

PMID29599021
PMCPMC8259309

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Registered trials

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