Trials and fast changing technologies: the case for tracker studies.

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

26 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

1. Defining the clinician's role in early health technology assessment during medical device innovation - a systematic review.BMC health services research · 2019
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2. Use of magnetic resonance angiography to select candidates with recently symptomatic carotid stenosis for surgery: systematic review.BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · 2002
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3. Clinical outcomes resulting from telemedicine interventions: a systematic review.BMC medical informatics and decision making · 2001
   Pooled it
4. Do dietary spices impair the patient-reported outcomes for stapled hemorrhoidopexy? A randomized controlled study.Surgical endoscopy · 2011
   Trial
5. Could bipolar vessel sealers prevent bile leaks after hepatectomy?Langenbeck's archives of surgery · 2007
   Trial
6. Analysis of the challenges in ensuring robust and effective clinical evaluation of AI-based digital medical devices.BMJ digital health & AI · 2026
   Review
7. Individualized therapy trials: navigating patient care, research goals and ethics.Nature medicine · 2021
   Review
8. Redefining standards-response to: introductions of technological innovations in neurosurgery.Acta neurochirurgica · 2021
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9. Global COVID-19 vaccine roll-out: time to randomise vaccine allocation?Lancet (London, England) · 2021
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10. Outcomes of cryoballoon or radiofrequency ablation in symptomatic paroxysmal or persistent atrial fibrillation.Europace : European pacing, arrhythmias, and cardiac electrophysiology : journal of the working groups on cardiac pacing, arrhythmias, and cardiac cellular electrophysiology of the European Society of Cardiology · 2019
    Observational
11. Using the Idea, Development, Exploration, Assessment, Long-Term Study Framework for Devices (IDEAL-D) to Better Understand the Evolution of Evidence Surrounding Fenestrated Abdominal Aortic Endovascular Grafts.Annals of vascular surgery · 2019
    Review
12. Defining the level of evidence for technology adoption in the localized prostate cancer pathway.Urologic oncology · 2014
    Review
13. Methodological choices for the clinical development of medical devices.Medical devices (Auckland, N.Z.) · 2014
    Review
14. IDEAL framework for surgical innovation 2: observational studies in the exploration and assessment stages.BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · 2013
    Article
15. Effect identification in comparative effectiveness research.EGEMS (Washington, DC) · 2013
    Article
16. Ethics of clinical science in a public health emergency: drug discovery at the bedside.The American journal of bioethics : AJOB · 2013
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17. Challenges in evaluating surgical innovation.Lancet (London, England) · 2009
    Article
18. The challenges faced in the design, conduct and analysis of surgical randomised controlled trials.Trials · 2009
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19. Introducing new technologies: protecting subjects of surgical innovation and research.World journal of surgery · 2003
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20. What to do about poor clinical performance in clinical trials.BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · 2002
    Review

Corrections and comments

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  Tracker trials. Introduction of resistance testing might be an inappropriate use of resources.2000
• Commented on by
  Tracker trials. Continuous process of trial and review is needed.2000
• Commented on by
  Qualitative research in health care. Good communication is essential part of educational process.2000
• Commented on by
  Global COVID-19 vaccine roll-out: time to randomise vaccine allocation?2021

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

Abstract

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