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SynthesisFrontiers in medicine2021

Systematic Review of the Effect of a Zero-Markup Policy for Essential Drugs on Healthcare Costs and Utilization in China, 2015-2021.

Wen-Yi Liu, Chia-Hsien Hsu, Ting-Jun Liu, Pei-En Chen, Boyuan Zheng, Ching-Wen Chien, Tao-Hsin Tung

Abstract readSystematic Review
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Synthesis in Frontiers in medicine, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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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

15 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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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

7 authors.

Wen-Yi LiuDepartment of Health Policy Management, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States.
Chia-Hsien HsuDepartment of Public Health, College of Health Science, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, China.
Ting-Jun LiuTai Kang Institute of Healthcare Management, Beijing, China.
Pei-En ChenInstitute of Health Policy and Management, College of Public Health, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan.
Boyuan ZhengInstitute for Hospital Management, Tsing Hua University, Shenzhen, China.
Ching-Wen ChienInstitute for Hospital Management, Tsing Hua University, Shenzhen, China.
Tao-Hsin TungEvidence-Based Medicine Center, Taizhou Hospital of Zhejiang Province Affiliated to Wenzhou Medical University, Linhai, China.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

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Chinahealthcaremedical expendituresystematic reviewzero-markup policy

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PMID34368173
PMCPMC8339310

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