Clinical trial registration: a statement from the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors.

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

12 citing papers in PubMed.

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4. Data Sharing Policy for Balkan Medical JournalBalkan medical journal · 2019
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5. Trial registration as a safeguard against outcome reporting bias and spin? A case study of randomized controlled trials of acupuncture.PloS one · 2019
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6. Guidelines for randomized clinical trial protocol content: a systematic review.Systematic reviews · 2012
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7. Bidirectional conflicts of interest involving industry and medical journals: who will champion integrity?Mayo Clinic proceedings · 2009
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8. Registration of clinical trials still moving ahead--September 2008 update to Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals.Croatian medical journal · 2008
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9. Fifteenth anniversary of the Croatian Medical Journal: still moving ahead.Croatian medical journal · 2008
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10. Threats to the integrity of the Croatian Medical Journal.Croatian medical journal · 2007
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11. Life of small medical journal--how bibliographical indexing and international visibility affected editorial work in Croatian Medical Journal.Croatian medical journal · 2006
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12. Impact of mandatory registration of clinical trials on small medical journals: scenario on emerging bias.Croatian medical journal · 2006
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Authors and funding

14 authors.

Funding

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Abstract

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