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ArticleBMJ (Clinical research ed.)2004

Open access to industry's clinically relevant data.

Andrew Herxheimer

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Article in BMJ (Clinical research ed.), 2004. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
7citing papers in PubMed
–field-weighted citation impact
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

7 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Review
  2. Article
  3. How can we regulate medicines better?BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · 2007
    Review
  4. Review
  5. A literature review on off-label drug use in children.European journal of pediatrics · 2005
    Review
  6. The availability of references and the sponsorship of original research cited in pharmaceutical advertisements.CMAJ : Canadian Medical Association journal = journal de l'Association medicale canadienne · 2005
    Article
  7. Access to every trial dataset is crucial.BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · 2004
    Article
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

Andrew Herxheimer

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 TopicDrug IndustryInformation Storage and RetrievalAccess to InformationDrug Information ServicesHumansBiomedical and Behavioral Research

Identifiers

PMID15242886
PMCPMC449797

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Registered trials

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Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.