Translating Hand Surgery Evidence to Policy and Practice.

Jacob S Nasser, Kevin C Chung

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Review in Hand clinics, 2020. 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, 0 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Jacob S NasserThe George Washington School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Washington DC, USA.

Kevin C ChungSection of Plastic Surgery, Comprehensive Hand Center, Michigan Medicine, University of Michigan Medical School, 1500 East Medical Center Drive, 2130 Taubman Center, SPC 5340, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-5340, USA. Electronic address: kecchung@med.umich.edu.

George Washington University · USMichigan Medicine · US

Funding

Evidence-Based Research in Hand SurgeryK24AR053120 · NIAMS · UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR · PI CHUNG, KEVIN C · 2008 to 2018

$1.6M

NIAMS NIH HHS K24 AR053120

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Hand surgery researchers should focus on developing high-quality evidence to support the development of health policies affecting surgical care. Policy-makers and leaders of national hand societies can help reduce the variation of care for patients receiving hand surgery by incorporating evidence into guidelines and policies. Comprehensive guidelines for perioperative care help encourage the translation of evidence into practice. Moreover, the identification of institutional-level barriers and facilitators of integration ensures the successful implementation of hand surgery-specific programs. The development of robust metrics to evaluate the effect of policy on practice helps examine the feasibility of clinical guidelines.

Indexed as

Practice Guidelines as TopicAdrenal Cortex HormonesEvidence-Based MedicineHandHumansOrthopedicsPostoperative PainTrigger Finger DisorderAdrenal Cortex HormonesClinical practice guidelinesEvidence-based medicineHand surgeryHealth policyImplementing policy

Identifiers

PMID32307044

DOI10.1016/j.hcl.2020.01.002

PMCPMC10193284

OpenAlexW3017176963

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