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ArticleNPJ primary care respiratory medicine2018

"Tossing a coin:" defining the excessive use of short-acting beta

Shauna McKibben, Andy Bush, Mike Thomas, Chris Griffiths

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Article in NPJ primary care respiratory medicine, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 8 papers.

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8citing 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

8 citing papers in PubMed.

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  2. The Association Between Short-Acting βAdvances in therapy · 2024
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  3. A simple and effective evidence-based approach to asthma management: ICS-formoterol reliever therapy.The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners · 2024
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Shauna McKibbenAsthma UK Centre for Applied Research, Barts Institute for Population Health Sciences, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK. s.m.mckibben@qmul.ac.uk.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2725-7044
Andy BushAsthma UK Centre for Applied Research, Imperial College and Royal Brompton Hospital, Biomedical Research Unit at the Royal Brompton & Harefield NHS Foundation Trust and Imperial College London, London, UK.
Mike ThomasAsthma UK Centre for Applied Research, Primary Care and Population Sciences, University of Southampton and NIHR Southampton Biomedical Research Centre, Southampton, UK.
Chris GriffithsAsthma UK Centre for Applied Research, Barts Institute for Population Health Sciences, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The National Review of Asthma Deaths (NRAD) identified high prescribing of short-acting beta

Indexed as

Attitude of Health PersonnelGeneral PracticePrimary Health CareSecondary Health CareAdrenergic beta-2 Receptor AgonistsAdultAsthmaDrug UtilizationFemaleHumansMaleMiddle AgedPrescription Drug OveruseAdrenergic beta-2 Receptor Agonists

Identifiers

PMID30022059
PMCPMC6052065

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