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ArticleAEM education and training2019

Thinking Critically About Appraising FOAM.

Teresa M Chan, Anuja Bhalerao, Brent Thoma, N Seth Trueger, Andrew Grock

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Article in AEM education and training, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers.

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14citing 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

14 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Traditional and modern educational resource use in Emergency Medicine registrars (trainees) and specialists in South Africa.African journal of emergency medicine : Revue africaine de la medecine d'urgence · 2026
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  7. FOAM authorship: Who's teaching our learners?AEM education and training · 2024
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  14. Thinking Critically About Appraising FOAM.AEM education and training · 2019
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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

5 authors.

Teresa M ChanDepartment of Medicine Division of Emergency Medicine McMaster University, and the McMaster Education Research, Innovation, and Theory Program Hamilton Ontario Canada.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6104-462X
Anuja BhaleraoSchool of Medicine University of Toronto Toronto Ontario Canada.
Brent ThomaDepartment of Emergency Medicine University of Saskatchewan Saskatoon Saskatchewan Canada.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1124-5786
N Seth TruegerDepartment of Emergency Medicine Northwestern University Chicago IL.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8797-2192
Andrew GrockDivision of Emergency Medicine Greater Los Angeles VA Healthcare System, and the Department of Emergency Medicine David Geffen School of Medicine UCLA Los Angeles CA.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Identifiers

PMID31637359
PMCPMC6795350

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Registered trials

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