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ArticleBMJ (Clinical research ed.)2020

The poor performance of apps assessing skin cancer risk.

Jessica Morley, Luciano Floridi, Ben Goldacre

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Article in BMJ (Clinical research ed.), 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 4 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
4citing 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

4 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Article
  2. Before and beyond trust: reliance in medical AI.Journal of medical ethics · 2022
    Article
  3. Article
  4. Lesion-directed screening to optimize skin cancer detection in dermatology practice: an observational study.Journal of the European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology : JEADV · 2021
    Observational
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Jessica MorleyNuffield Department of Primary Care, University of Oxford, Oxford OX2 6GG, UK jessica.morley@phc.ox.ac.uk.
Luciano FloridiOxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
Ben GoldacreNuffield Department of Primary Care, University of Oxford, Oxford OX2 6GG, UK.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Mobile ApplicationsSkin NeoplasmsSmartphoneAdultAlgorithmsData CollectionHumans

Identifiers

PMID32048610

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Registered trials

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