Reply to 'Comment on 'Addition of ultrasound to mammography in the case of dense breast tissue: systematic review and meta-analysis".

Matejka Rebolj, Adam Brentnall, Stephen W Duffy

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Article in British journal of cancer, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

0numbers the graph read from it

0cells of the map it votes in

0citing papers in PubMed

–field-weighted citation impact

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

0 citing papers in PubMed.

No citing paper in PubMed yet.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Matejka ReboljCentre for Cancer Prevention, Wolfson Institute of Preventive Medicine, Barts & The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London, Charterhouse Square, London, EC1M 6BQ, UK.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9597-645X

Adam BrentnallCentre for Cancer Prevention, Wolfson Institute of Preventive Medicine, Barts & The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London, Charterhouse Square, London, EC1M 6BQ, UK.

Stephen W DuffyCentre for Cancer Prevention, Wolfson Institute of Preventive Medicine, Barts & The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London, Charterhouse Square, London, EC1M 6BQ, UK. s.w.duffy@qmul.ac.uk.

Funding

Cancer Research UK 16892Cancer Research UK C569/A16891Cancer Research UK C8162/A16892

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

BreastMammographyUltrasonography

Identifiers

PMID30410058

DOI10.1038/s41416-018-0247-y

PMCPMC6265281

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