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ArticleBMJ (Clinical research ed.)1998

The NHS's 50 anniversary. Clinical governance and the drive for quality improvement in the new NHS in England.

G Scally, L J Donaldson

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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 156 papers, 5 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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156citing 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

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

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

G ScallyNHS Executive (South and West), Westwood House, Lime Kiln Close, Stoke Gifford, Bristol BS34 8SR. gscally@doh.gov.uk
L J Donaldson

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Quality Assurance, Health CareSocial ResponsibilityAnniversaries and Special EventsData CollectionEvidence-Based MedicineHealth Care ReformLeadershipOrganizational CulturePersonnel ManagementProfessional PracticeQuality ControlStaff DevelopmentState MedicineUnited Kingdom

Identifiers

PMID9651278
PMCPMC1113460

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Registered trials

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