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ReviewCJC pediatric and congenital heart disease2023

The Role of Congenital Heart Disease Patient Organizations in Advocacy, Resources, and Support Across the Lifespan.

Shelagh Ross, Amy Verstappen

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Review in CJC pediatric and congenital heart disease, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
6citing papers in PubMed
1.7field-weighted citation impact, top 14% 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

6 citing papers in PubMed, 8 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Global inequity in pediatric and congenital heart care-is it economics or inertia?Indian journal of thoracic and cardiovascular surgery · 2025
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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

2 authors.

Shelagh RossGlobal Alliance for Rheumatic & Congenital Hearts (Global ARCH), Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.
Amy VerstappenGlobal Alliance for Rheumatic & Congenital Hearts (Global ARCH), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Congenital heart disease patient organizations, comprising experts with lived experience, and their families and supporters, have become an essential voice for patient advocacy, resources, and support. Thanks largely to the Internet, these organizations are growing in number worldwide. Their common voice can be used to influence research, be the catalyst for advocacy efforts for new programmes and supports, and connect patients and providers in endeavours beyond the clinical setting. The result has become more active engagement with how policy decisions, research directions, and laws are decided that will shape patients' lives. From advocating for much-needed mental health support, policies to combat discrimination and the lack of access to support services, and partnerships with clinicians and others to develop educational resources and tools, congenital heart disease patient organizations are having a considerable impact on patient lives and ultimately patient outcomes.

Identifiers

PMID38161679
PMCPMC10755777
OpenAlexW4386648139

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