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ArticleCanadian family physician Medecin de famille canadien2018

A case of the giggles: Diagnosis and management of giggle incontinence.

Lisa Fernandes, Danielle Martin, Susan Hum

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Article 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 3 papers.

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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.

  1. Giggle incontinence: a scoping review.Pediatric research · 2024
    Article
  2. Article
  3. Interventions for giggle incontinence: A scoping review of therapeutic strategies and outcomes.Indian journal of urology : IJU : journal of the Urological Society of India
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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.

Lisa FernandesClinical pharmacist at the Family Practice Health Centre at Women's College Hospital in Toronto, Ont. lisa.fernandes@wchospital.ca.
Danielle MartinFamily physician and Vice President for Medical Affairs and Health System Solutions at Women's College Hospital and Associate Professor in the Department of Family and Community Medicine and the Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation at the University of Toronto.
Susan HumResearch Associate in the Department of Family and Community Medicine at Women's College Hospital.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

AdolescentEnuresisHumansLaughterMaleUrinary Incontinence

Identifiers

PMID29898935
PMCPMC5999241

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