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ArticleBMJ quality & safety2018

Advancing the science of patient decision aids through reporting guidelines.

Robert J Volk, Angela Coulter

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Article in BMJ quality & safety, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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0cells of the map it votes in
9citing papers in PubMed, 1 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

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

  1. Are We Improving? Update and Critical Appraisal of the Reporting of Decision Process and Quality Measures in Trials Evaluating Patient Decision Aids.Medical decision making : an international journal of the Society for Medical Decision Making · 2021
    Pooled it
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  4. The International Patient Decision Aid Standards (IPDAS) Collaboration: Evidence Update 2.0.Medical decision making : an international journal of the Society for Medical Decision Making · 2021
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Robert J VolkDepartment of Health Services Research, Division of Cancer Prevention & Population Sciences, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, USA.
Angela CoulterHealth Services Research Unit, Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, Oxfordshire, UK.

Funding

TRANSLATIONAL AND ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY COREP30CA016672 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF TX MD ANDERSON CAN CTR · PI PETER W PISTERS · 1985 to 2026
$279.3M
NCI NIH HHS P30 CA016672
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

ChecklistDecision Support TechniquesDecision MakingHumansNeeds Assessmentqualitative researchquality improvementquality measurement

Identifiers

PMID29371413
PMCPMC5955766

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Registered trials

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