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ArticleBMJ (Clinical research ed.)2019

Rationalising medications through deprescribing.

Anthony J Avery, Brian G Bell

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Article in BMJ (Clinical research ed.), 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 17 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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17citing papers in PubMed, 3 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

17 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

  1. Comparison of Luteal Support Protocols in Frozen IVF/ICSI Cycles: A Network Meta-Analysis.BJOG : an international journal of obstetrics and gynaecology · 2025
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  6. Frailty, polypharmacy, deprescribing, and 23-hour activity: insights from a mouse model.The journals of gerontology. Series A, Biological sciences and medical sciences · 2026
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  12. GPs' mindlines on deprescribing antihypertensives in older patients with multimorbidity: a qualitative study in English general practice.The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners · 2021
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Anthony J AveryDivision of Primary Care, School of Medicine, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK tony.avery@nottingham.ac.uk.
Brian G BellDivision of Primary Care, School of Medicine, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

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DeprescriptionsHumansInappropriate PrescribingPolypharmacyResearch

Identifiers

PMID30733211

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Registered trials

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