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ArticleBMJ evidence-based medicine2023

The limits of shared decision making.

Glyn Elwyn, Amy Price, Juan Victor Ariel Franco, Pål Gulbrandsen

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Article in BMJ evidence-based medicine, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 34 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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34citing papers in PubMed, 1 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

34 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Glyn ElwynThe Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, USA glynelwyn@gmail.com.ORCID 0000-0002-0917-6286
Amy PriceDepartment of Anesthesia, Stanford School of Medicine, Stanford University, California, USA.
Juan Victor Ariel FrancoInstitute of General Practice, Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany.
Pål GulbrandsenInstitute of Clinical Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Decision MakingDecision Making, SharedHumansPhysician-Patient RelationsClinical Decision-MakingShared Decision Making

Identifiers

PMID36522136
PMCPMC10423476

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