"Is my practice evidence-based?".

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

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

1. Effectiveness of training in evidence-based medicine skills for healthcare professionals: a systematic review.BMC medical education · 2016
   Pooled it
2. Randomised controlled trial of the READER method of critical appraisal in general practice.BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · 1998
   Trial
3. Adoption of Innovation in Herpes Simplex Virus Keratitis.Cornea · 2020
   Review
4. Barriers to the use of evidence-based medicine: knowledge and skills, attitude, and external factors.Perspectives on medical education · 2013
   Article
5. Evidence-based practice in road casualty reduction.Injury prevention : journal of the International Society for Child and Adolescent Injury Prevention · 2007
   Article
6. Gaining insight into the Clinical Practice Guideline development processes: qualitative study in a workshop to implement the GRADE proposal in Spain.BMC health services research · 2006
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7. The impact of evidence on physicians' inpatient treatment decisions.Journal of general internal medicine · 2004
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8. Identifying the research question and planning the project.Emergency medicine journal : EMJ · 2002
   Article
9. Intuition and evidence--uneasy bedfellows?The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners · 2002
   Review
10. Questioning in general practice--a tool for change.The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners · 2000
    Article
11. Expediting the transfer of evidence into practice: building clinical partnerships.Bulletin of the Medical Library Association · 2000
    Article
12. Framework for teaching and learning informed shared decision making.BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · 1999
    Review
13. General practitioners' perceptions of effective health care.BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · 1999
    Article
14. Moving towards evidence based emergency medicine: use of a structured critical appraisal journal club.Journal of accident & emergency medicine · 1998
    Article
15. 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
    Article
16. Evidence-based veterinary medicine at 20 - a commentary on historical, philosophical, practical, and ethical aspects.Veterinary evidence
    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

1 author.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

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