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ArticleThe British journal of surgery2025

Potential for error when relying on administrative data.

Hila Zelicha, Douglas S Bell, Yijun Chen, Edward H Livingston

Abstract read
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Article in The British journal of surgery, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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4citing 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

4 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Article
  2. Electronic health records research: easy evidence, harder oversight.European heart journal. Digital health · 2026
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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

4 authors.

Hila ZelichaDepartment of Surgery, Faculty of Health Sciences, UCLA, Los Angeles, California, USA.
Douglas S BellDepartment of Medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine, UCLA, Los Angeles, California, USA.
Yijun ChenDepartment of Surgery, Faculty of Health Sciences, UCLA, Los Angeles, California, USA.
Edward H LivingstonDepartment of Surgery, Faculty of Health Sciences, UCLA, Los Angeles, California, USA.

Funding

UCLA Clinical Translational Science InstituteUL1TR001881 · NCATS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES · PI ARLEEN F. BROWN, ARASH NAEIM · 2016 to 2026
$118.1M
National Center for Advancing Translational ScienceNCATS NIH HHS UL1 TR001881NIH HHSUCLA Clinical and Translational Science Institute UL1TR001881UCLA Department of Surgery Research Funds
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Identifiers

PMID40673449
PMCPMC12268322

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