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ArticleJournal of the Royal Society of Medicine2021

What is the balance of benefits and harms for lung cancer screening with low-dose computed tomography?

Stephen H Bradley, Bethany Shinkins, Martyn Pt Kennedy

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Article in Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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6citing 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

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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

6 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Stephen H BradleyLeeds Institute of Health Sciences, 4468University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-2038-2056
Bethany ShinkinsTest Evaluation Group, Academic Unit of Health Economics, 4468University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, UK.
Martyn Pt KennedyDepartment of Respiratory Medicine, 4472Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, Leeds LS9 7TF, UK.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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AgedCost-Benefit AnalysisEarly Detection of CancerEuropeFemaleHumansLung NeoplasmsMaleMass ScreeningMiddle AgedPatient SafetyRadiation DosageRandomized Controlled Trials as TopicSmokersTomography, X-Ray Computed

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PMID33715495
PMCPMC8091370

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