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ArticleFuture hospital journal2016

Back to the future?

Douglas Seaton

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Article in Future hospital journal, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited 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

0 citing papers in PubMed.

No citing paper in PubMed yet.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

Douglas SeatonGeneral and Respiratory Medicine, Ipswich Hospital, Ipswitch, UK.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The author reflects on his personal experience of some of the changes that have affected the NHS over the last four decades and expresses his concern about its current direction of travel. Douglas Seaton trained in Liverpool and Morgantown, West Virginia. He was appointed as a consultant in general and respiratory medicine at Ipswich Hospital in 1978, and retired from clinical practice in 2006.

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health strategyNHSretrospective

Identifiers

PMID31098186
PMCPMC6465857

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