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ReviewAnnals of medicine and surgery (2012)2021

Practical guide for the use of medical evidence in scientific publication: Recommendations for the medical student: Narrative review.

Ivan David Lozada-Martínez, Laura Marcela Acevedo-Aguilar, Laura Marcela Mass-Hernández, Duván Matta-Rodríguez, Jhoyner Alberto Jiménez-Filigrana, Karen Elizabeth Garzón-Gutiérrez, Sergio Antonio Barahona-Botache, Danna Lianeth Vásquez-Castañeda, Sharon Del Rosario Caicedo-Giraldo, Sabrina Rahman

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In one paragraph

Review in Annals of medicine and surgery (2012), 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
7citing papers in PubMed
1.8field-weighted citation impact, top 15% 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

7 citing papers in PubMed, 11 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. [Interpretation of effect measures in clinical research: A practical guide for the clinician].Revista medica del Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social · 2026
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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

10 authors at 8 institutions in 2 countries.

Ivan David Lozada-MartínezMedical and Surgical Research Center, School of Medicine, University of Cartagena, Cartagena, Colombia.
Laura Marcela Acevedo-AguilarMedical and Surgical Research Center, School of Medicine, University of Cartagena, Cartagena, Colombia.
Laura Marcela Mass-HernándezMedical and Surgical Research Center, School of Medicine, University of Cartagena, Cartagena, Colombia.
Duván Matta-RodríguezSchool of Medicine, Universidad de Ciencias Aplicadas y Ambientales, Bogotá, Colombia.
Jhoyner Alberto Jiménez-FiligranaSchool of Medicine, Universidad El Bosque, Bogotá, Colombia.
Karen Elizabeth Garzón-GutiérrezSchool of Medicine, Fundación Universitaria Juan N. Corpas, Bogotá, Colombia.
Sergio Antonio Barahona-BotacheSchool of Medicine, Universidad Surcolombiana, Neiva, Colombia.
Danna Lianeth Vásquez-CastañedaSchool of Medicine, Universidad Tecnológica de Pereira, Pereira, Colombia.
Sharon Del Rosario Caicedo-GiraldoSchool of Medicine, Universidad del Tolima, Ibagué, Colombia.
Sabrina RahmanIndependent University, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
University of Cartagena · COFundación Universitaria Juan N. Corpas · COIndependent University · BDTechnological University of Pereira · COUniversidad El Bosque · COUniversidad Surcolombiana · COUniversity of Applied and Environmental Sciences · COUniversity of Tolima · CO

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Currently, the adaptation of scientific evidence in clinical problem solving is based on the evidence-based medicine method. Medical students and health professionals should have an adequate knowledge of this method and thus provide adequate health care and increasingly provide high quality scientific publications that can be subsequently integrated in different clinical scenarios. Several scales and tools have been proposed as guides to recognize the different levels of quality of the available evidence, their degrees of recommendation and the biases and fallacies that may occur both in the clinical and research areas, with the aim of identifying the best available evidence. However, few students and professionals are aware of them and make proper use of them. Therefore, it is necessary to synthesize these tools in an understandable and practical way.

Indexed as

BiasEvidence-based medicineMedical studentResearchScientific publication

Identifiers

PMID34659747
PMCPMC8503847
OpenAlexW3206467249

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Registered trials

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