Moving towards evidence based emergency medicine: use of a structured critical appraisal journal club.

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

5 citing papers in PubMed.

1. Characteristics of evidence-based medicine training in Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada emergency medicine residencies - a national survey of program directors.BMC medical education · 2014
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2. Are you an evidence based emergency physician?Emergency medicine journal : EMJ · 2007
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3. Journal clubs.Journal of accident & emergency medicine · 1999
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4. Towards evidence based emergency medicine: best BETs from the Manchester Royal Infirmary. Antibiotics and corneal abrasion.Journal of accident & emergency medicine · 1998
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5. The best evidence topic report: a modified CAT for summarising the available evidence in emergency medicine.Journal of accident & emergency medicine · 1998
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Corrections and comments

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  Journal clubs in clinical medicine.2002

Authors and funding

8 authors.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

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