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ArticleCanadian family physician Medecin de famille canadien2025

Reducing the environmental burden of unnecessary investigations.

Ilona Hale, Samantha Green

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Article in Canadian family physician Medecin de famille canadien, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 2 papers.

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2citing papers in PubMed
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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

2 citing papers in PubMed.

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  2. Correction.Canadian family physician Medecin de famille canadien · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Ilona HaleFamily physician in Kimberley, BC, and Clinical Assistant Professor in the Department of Family Practice at the University of British Columbia.
Samantha GreenFamily physician at St Michael's Hospital in Toronto, Ont, Faculty Lead in Climate Change and Health in the Department of Family and Community Medicine at the University of Toronto, and President-Elect of the Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Identifiers

PMID39965965
PMCPMC11998720

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