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ArticleBMJ (Clinical research ed.)1998

How risks of breast cancer and benefits of screening are communicated to women: analysis of 58 pamphlets.

E K Slaytor, J E Ward

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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 47 papers, 5 of them syntheses that 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

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

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  2. Screening for breast cancer with mammography.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2013
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  5. Increasing informed uptake and non-uptake of screening: evidence from a systematic review.Health expectations : an international journal of public participation in health care and health policy · 2001
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

E K SlaytorNeeds Assessment and Health Outcomes Unit, Central Sydney Area Health Service, Locked Bag 8, Newtown, 2042, NSW, Australia.
J E Ward

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

CommunicationMass ScreeningPamphletsBreast NeoplasmsFemaleHumansPatient Education as TopicRisk FactorsTruth Disclosure

Identifiers

PMID9677220
PMCPMC28619

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