Correction to: Improving care at scale: process evaluation of a multi-component quality improvement intervention to reduce mortality after emergency abdominal surgery (EPOCH trial).

T J Stephens, C J Peden, R M Pearse, S E Shaw, T E F Abbott, E L Jones, D Kocman, G Martin, EPOCH trial group

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In one paragraph

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

0numbers the graph read from it

0cells of the map it votes in

2citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it

–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

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

Perioperative hypothermia prevention: development of simple principles and practice recommendations using a multidisciplinary consensus-based approach.BMJ open · 2023
Guideline
Effectiveness of quality improvement collaboratives in UK surgical settings and barriers and facilitators influencing their implementation: a systematic review and evidence synthesis.BMJ open quality · 2023
Pooled it

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

Erratum for
Improving care at scale: process evaluation of a multi-component quality improvement intervention to reduce mortality after emergency abdominal surgery (EPOCH trial).2018

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors.

T J StephensCritical Care and Perioperative Medicine Research Group, WHRI, c/o Adult Critical Care Unit, The Royal London Hospital, London, E11BB, UK. t.t.stephens@qmul.ac.uk.

C J PedenKeck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA.

R M PearseCritical Care and Perioperative Medicine Research Group, WHRI, c/o Adult Critical Care Unit, The Royal London Hospital, London, E11BB, UK.

S E ShawNuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.

T E F AbbottCritical Care and Perioperative Medicine Research Group, WHRI, c/o Adult Critical Care Unit, The Royal London Hospital, London, E11BB, UK.

E L JonesWarwick Clinical Trials Unit, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK.

D KocmanSAPPHIRE Group, Department of Health Sciences, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK.

G MartinTHIS Institute (The Healthcare Improvement Studies Institute), University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.

EPOCH trial group

Funding

Department of Health 12/5005/10Department of Health RP_2014-04-022

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Following the publication of this article [1], the authors reported a number of errors which are given below.

Identifiers

PMID30526645

DOI10.1186/s13012-018-0840-8

PMCPMC6287357

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