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ArticleCMAJ : Canadian Medical Association journal = journal de l'Association medicale canadienne2025

The "pause" on the Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Care is misguided.

Roland Grad, René Wittmer, Geneviève Bois, Yun Jen, Marc-André Gagnon

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Article in CMAJ : Canadian Medical Association journal = journal de l'Association medicale canadienne, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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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.

  1. CMAJ : Canadian Medical Association journal = journal de l'Association medicale canadienne · 2025
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  2. CMAJ : Canadian Medical Association journal = journal de l'Association medicale canadienne · 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

5 authors.

Roland GradFamily physician, McGill University, Montréal, Que.
René WittmerFamily physician, Université de Montréal, Montréal, Que.
Geneviève BoisFamily physician, Université de Montréal, Montréal, Que.
Yun JenSpecialist in public health and preventive medicine, École de santé publique de l'Université de Montréal, Montréal, Que.
Marc-André GagnonAssociate professor, School of Public Policy and Administration, Carleton University, Ottawa, Ont.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Identifiers

PMID40294949
PMCPMC12040330

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