ReviewBMJ (Clinical research ed.)2004
Users' guide to detecting misleading claims in clinical research reports.
Review 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 20 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled 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.
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
20 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Bach Flower Remedies for psychological problems and pain: a systematic review.BMC complementary and alternative medicine · 2009Pooled it
- Do clinicians understand the size of treatment effects? A randomized survey across 8 countries.CMAJ : Canadian Medical Association journal = journal de l'Association medicale canadienne · 2016Trial
- Factors enhancing implementation of occupational safety and health management systems in manufacturing industry of Mutare, Zimbabwe.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
- Evaluation of spin in the abstracts of systematic reviews and meta-analyses of treatments and interventions for smoking cessation.Tobacco prevention & cessation · 2021Article
- Independent discussion sections for improving inferential reproducibility in published research.British journal of anaesthesia · 2019Article
- Misrepresentation and distortion of research in biomedical literature.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2018Article
- Concurrence of Intraoperative Hypotension, Low Minimum Alveolar Concentration, and Low Bispectral Index Is Associated with Postoperative Death.Anesthesiology · 2015Observational
- Comparator bias: why comparisons must address genuine uncertainties.Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine · 2013Article
- Discussing study limitations in reports of biomedical studies- the need for more transparency.Health and quality of life outcomes · 2012Article
- Outcomes, outcomes, every where, nor any stop to think?Journal of general internal medicine · 2011Article
- Interpreting systematic reviews: are we ready to make our own conclusions? A cross-sectional study.BMC medicine · 2011Article
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- Funding a clinical trial: the perspective of a medicines funder.PharmacoEconomics · 2008Article
- Waking up from the DREAM of preventing diabetes with drugs.BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · 2007Review
- Improving the use of research evidence in guideline development: 4. Managing conflicts of interests.Health research policy and systems · 2006Article
- Trial protocols: time for more than tinkering.BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · 2005Article
- Users' guide to detecting misleading claims in research: meta-analyses have led to misleading claims in the past.BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · 2005Article
- Users' guide to detecting misleading claims in research: misleading claims may be symptom of even more serious flaws.BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · 2005Article
- Users' guide to detecting misleading claims in research: discussion section helps redress the balance.BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · 2005Article
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Authors and funding
7 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.
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What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
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.