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ArticleBMJ (Clinical research ed.)1998

Rationing health care.

A Weale

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Article in BMJ (Clinical research ed.), 1998. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 16 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
16citing papers 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

16 citing papers in PubMed.

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  3. Mind the gap! Three approaches to scarcity in health care.Medicine, health care, and philosophy · 2008
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  5. RCGP 'virtual genetics' group meeting: 'the use of the family history in primary care'.The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners · 2002
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  8. The end of the affair--public health medicine 1974-2002.The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners · 2002
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  9. An oral history of general practice 4: changing practice.The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners · 2002
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  10. Defining and cultivating the virtues.The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners · 2002
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  11. Beta interferon, NICE, and rationing.The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners · 2002
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

A Weale

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Health Care RationingResource AllocationHumansSocial ValuesState MedicineUnited KingdomHealth Care and Public HealthNational Health Service

Identifiers

PMID9492654
PMCPMC2665626

What OpenQuestion holds

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Registered trials

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