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ArticleMedical education online2019

Best practice versus actual practice: an audit of survey pretesting practices reported in a sample of medical education journals.

Colleen Y Colbert, Judith C French, Alejandro C Arroliga, S Beth Bierer

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Article in Medical education online, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.

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11citing 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

11 citing papers in PubMed.

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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

4 authors.

Colleen Y ColbertEducation Institute, Cleveland Clinic and Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2608-7218
Judith C FrenchGeneral Surgery Residency Program, Cleveland Clinic and Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western University, Cleveland, Ohio.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8393-8376
Alejandro C ArroligaDepartment of Medicine, Baylor Scott & White Health/Texas A&M HSC College of Medicine, Temple, Texas.
S Beth BiererEducation Institute, Cleveland Clinic and Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7952-8822

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Education, MedicalHumansPeriodicals as TopicPilot ProjectsPsychometricsReproducibility of ResultsSurveys and QuestionnairesAudithealthcarepretestingquestionnairequestionnaire methodologysurvey methodologysurvey validation

Identifiers

PMID31671286
PMCPMC6830238

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Registered trials

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Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.