Evidence map›Paper›PMID 29998328›Full record

ArticleJAMA2018

Testosterone Prescribing in the United States, 2002-2016.

Jacques Baillargeon, Yong-Fang Kuo, Jordan R Westra, Randall J Urban, James S Goodwin

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Article in JAMA, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 59 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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59citing papers in PubMed, 2 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

59 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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  9. Streamlined Testosterone Order Template to Improve the Diagnosis and Evaluation of Hypogonadism in Veterans.Federal practitioner : for the health care professionals of the VA, DoD, and PHS · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Jacques BaillargeonDepartment of Preventive Medicine and Community Health, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston.
Yong-Fang KuoDepartment of Preventive Medicine and Community Health, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston.
Jordan R WestraDepartment of Preventive Medicine and Community Health, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston.
Randall J UrbanDepartment of Internal Medicine, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston.
James S GoodwinDepartment of Internal Medicine, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston.

Funding

UTMB Clinical and Translational Science AwardUL1TR001439 · NCATS · UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MED BR GALVESTON · PI URBAN, RANDALL J · 2015 to 2024
$40.0M
UTMB OAIC Research Education Component (REC)P30AG024832 · NIA · UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL BR GALVESTON · PI JAMES S. GOODWIN, MD, MELISSA M. MORROW · 2005 to 2026
$26.7M
NCATS NIH HHS UL1 TR001439NIA NIH HHS P30 AG024832
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

AdultAgedDatabases, FactualDrug UtilizationHumansInsurance, HealthMaleMiddle AgedPractice Patterns, Physicians'TestosteroneUnited StatesTestosterone

Identifiers

PMID29998328
PMCPMC6396809

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