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ArticleJournal of graduate medical education2024

Understanding the Differences That Differentiate: A Model for Deciding Which Literature Review to Conduct.

Lara Varpio, Robin Parker, Anna MacLeod

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Article in Journal of graduate medical education, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers, 1 of them a synthesis 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

5 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline 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

3 authors.

Lara Varpiois Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, and Co-Director, Research in Medical Education, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1412-4341
Robin Parkeris Evidence Synthesis Librarian, W.K. Kellogg Health Sciences Library and Department of Community Health & Epidemiology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada; and.
Anna MacLeodis Professor and Director, Education Research, Faculty of Medicine, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0939-7767

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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Review Literature as TopicHumansResearch Design

Identifiers

PMID38993309
PMCPMC11234308

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