'Show me the data!' Using time series to display performance data for hospital boards.

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.

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.

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed.

1. Cluster randomised evaluation of a training intervention to increase the use of statistical process control charts for hospitals in England: making data count.BMJ quality & safety · 2025
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2. Equity at the point of care: auditing AI-supported resource allocation in obstetric emergencies.Frontiers in public health · 2026
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3. Reducing unwarranted variation: can a 'clinical dashboard' be helpful for hospital executive boards and top-level leaders?BMJ leader · 2024
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Corrections and comments

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  Retrospective evaluation of an intervention based on training sessions to increase the use of control charts in hospitals.2023

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

Abstract

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