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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

8 citing papers in PubMed.

1. A multidisciplinary approach for improving services in primary care: randomised controlled trial of screening for haemoglobin disorders.BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · 1998
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2. James Mackenzie Lecture 2010: Beyond the numbers game--the call of leadership.The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners · 2012
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3. Improving knowledge transfer on chronic respiratory diseases: a Canadian perspective. How to translate recent advances in respiratory diseases into day-to-day care.The journal of nutrition, health & aging · 2008
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4. General practitioners' perceptions of effective health care.BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · 1999
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5. General practitioners' use of guidelines in the consultation and their attitudes to them.The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners · 1999
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6. The implementation of evidence-based medicine in general practice prescribing.The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners · 1998
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7. Applying the results of clinical trials to patients to general practice: perceived problems, strengths, assumptions, and challenges for the future.The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners · 1998
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8. Understanding the relation between research and clinical policy: a study of clinicians' views.Quality in health care : QHC · 1997
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Corrections and comments

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

Authors and funding

1 author.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

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