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ReviewBMJ (Clinical research ed.)

Drug treatment of multiple sclerosis.

C H Polman, B M Uitdehaag

Abstract readReview
In one paragraph

Review in BMJ (Clinical research ed.). The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 16 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
16citing papers in PubMed
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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

16 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Ameliorating Effect ofAdvanced biomedical research · 2026
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  3. 2-Bromo-1,4-Naphthalenedione promotes CD8Journal of neuroinflammation · 2024
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  10. Disease modifying agents for multiple sclerosis.The open neurology journal · 2010
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

C H PolmanDepartment of Neurology, Academic Hospital Vrije Universiteit, PO Box 7057, 1007 MB Amsterdam, Netherlands. ch.polman@azu.nl
B M Uitdehaag

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Clinical Trials as TopicHumansImmunosuppression TherapyInterferon-betaMagnetic Resonance ImagingMultiple SclerosisRecurrenceInterferon-beta

Identifiers

PMID10948033
PMCPMC1118391

What OpenQuestion holds

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Registered trials

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