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ArticleThe Journal of family practice2020

PURL: Can drinking more water prevent urinary tract infections?

Benjamin J McCollum, Thomas Garigan, John Earwood

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Article in The Journal of family practice, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
4citing papers in PubMed
0.4field-weighted citation impact, top 36% of its field
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, 4 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Benjamin J McCollumFamily Medicine Residency, Dwight David Eisenhower Army Medical Center, Fort Gordon, GA, USA.
Thomas GariganFamily Medicine Residency, Dwight David Eisenhower Army Medical Center, Fort Gordon, GA, USA.
John EarwoodFamily Medicine Residency, Dwight David Eisenhower Army Medical Center, Fort Gordon, GA, USA.
Eisenhower Medical Center · US

Funding

TRANSLATIONAL RESEARCH UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO: CLINICAL TRIALSUL1RR024999 · NCRR · UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO · PI SOLWAY, JULIAN · 2007 to 2011
$25.3M
NCRR NIH HHS UL1 RR024999
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A high-quality randomized controlled trial says 'Yes.'

Indexed as

DrinkingUrinary Tract InfectionsFemaleHumansWaterWater

Identifiers

PMID32289134
PMCPMC7271893
OpenAlexW3015642061

What OpenQuestion holds

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Registered trials

None linked

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.