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ArticlePlastic surgery (Oakville, Ont.)2025

Industry Payments to Plastic Surgeons: A Blind Spot for Physician Accountability in Canada.

Anna-Lisa V Nguyen, Rebecca Courtemanche, Mirko S Gilardino, Jugpal S Arneja

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Article in Plastic surgery (Oakville, Ont.), 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited 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

0 citing papers in PubMed.

No citing paper in PubMed yet.

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.

Anna-Lisa V NguyenSchulich School of Medicine and Dentistry, Western University, Windsor, ON, Canada.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7402-3438
Rebecca CourtemancheDivision of Plastic Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8805-3670
Mirko S GilardinoDivision of Plastic Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery, McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, QC, Canada.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3582-1565
Jugpal S ArnejaDivision of Plastic Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5870-7039

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Identifiers

PMID40842712
PMCPMC12361167

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