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Trial reportCancer epidemiology, biomarkers & prevention : a publication of the American Association for Cancer Research, cosponsored by the American Society of Preventive Oncology2018

The Efficacy of Direct Mail, Patient Navigation, and Incentives for Increasing Mammography and Colonoscopy in the Medicaid Population: A Randomized Controlled Trial.

Jonathan S Slater, Michael J Parks, Christina L Nelson, Kelly D Hughes

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In one paragraph

Trial report in Cancer epidemiology, biomarkers & prevention : a publication of the American Association for Cancer Research, cosponsored by the American Society of Preventive Oncology, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 18 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
18citing papers in PubMed, 3 pooled it
0.9field-weighted citation impact, top 21% of its field
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

18 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 31 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Application of patient navigation programs across the entire continuum of breast cancer care: a GRADE-assessed systematic review with meta-analysis.Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer · 2026
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  5. An RCT to Increase Breast and Colorectal Cancer Screening.American journal of preventive medicine · 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

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Jonathan S SlaterMinnesota Department of Health, Cancer Control Section, St. Paul, Minnesota. jsslater33com@gmail.com.
Michael J ParksMinnesota Department of Health, Cancer Control Section, St. Paul, Minnesota.
Christina L NelsonMinnesota Department of Health, Cancer Control Section, St. Paul, Minnesota.
Kelly D HughesMinnesota Department of Health, Cancer Control Section, St. Paul, Minnesota.
Minnesota Department of Health · US

Funding

MINNESTOTA CANCER PREVENTION & CONTROL PROGRAMU58DP003922 · DP · MINNESOTA STATE DEPT OF HEALTH · PI MANNING, MARY · 2012 to 2014
$19.9M
NCCDPHP CDC HHS U58 DP003922
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

MotivationAgedBreast NeoplasmsCase-Control StudiesColonoscopyColorectal NeoplasmsEarly Detection of CancerFemaleFollow-Up StudiesHumansMaleMammographyMedicaidMiddle AgedPatient NavigationPostal Service

Identifiers

PMID29891726
PMCPMC6125204
OpenAlexW2807749243

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Registered trials

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Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.