Conveying the benefits and risks of treatment.

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.

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.

Who cites it

7 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

1. The effects of information framing on the practices of physicians.Journal of general internal medicine · 1999
   Pooled it
2. Same information, different decisions: the influence of evidence on the management of hypertension in the elderly.The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners · 1996
   Trial
3. Health professionals: how do they assess new medicines?Pharmacy world & science : PWS · 2005
   Article
4. Patients' responses to risk information about the benefits of treating hypertension.The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners · 2001
   Article
5. Risk communication in the patient-health professional relationship.Health care analysis : HCA : journal of health philosophy and policy · 1998
   Review
6. Who needs antiplatelet therapy?The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners · 1996
   Review
7. The integration of evidence based medicine and personal care in family practice.Irish journal of medical science
   Article

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

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