Evidence map›Paper›PMID 7742666›Full record

ArticleBMJ (Clinical research ed.)1995

Evidence based medicine.

F Davidoff, B Haynes, D Sackett, R Smith

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Article in BMJ (Clinical research ed.), 1995. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 102 papers, 5 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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102citing papers in PubMed, 5 pooled it
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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

102 citing papers in PubMed, 5 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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  5. A combination of systematic review and clinicians' beliefs in interventions for subacromial pain.The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners · 2002
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  6. 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
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42 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

F Davidoff
B Haynes
D Sackett
R Smith

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

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Decision Support TechniquesInformation ServicesPeriodicals as TopicUnited KingdomUnited States

Identifiers

PMID7742666
PMCPMC2549494

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Registered trials

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