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ReviewBritish journal of sports medicine2005

Reliable change assessment in sport concussion research: a comment on the proposal and reviews of Collie et al.

G H Maassen

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Review in British journal of sports medicine, 2005. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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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

3 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

G H MaassenDepartment of Methodology and Statistics, Faculty of Social Sciences, Utrecht University, PO Box 80.140, Utrecht 3508 TC, The Netherlands. g.maassen@fss.uu.nl

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The proposal of Collie et al for determining reliable change in sports medicine and their review of other current procedures did not address mathematical or theoretical aspects. This article attempts to fill this lacuna, in order to examine the validity of their proposal and the suitability of their review. The conclusions drawn are that Collie et al presented their method too carelessly and their review of other methods leaves serious drawbacks and mistakes unnoticed. A scheme is here provided showing which of the current methods can be used in which situation.

Indexed as

Data Interpretation, StatisticalAnalysis of VarianceBrain ConcussionHumansIndividualityModels, TheoreticalReproducibility of ResultsResearchSports Medicine

Identifiers

PMID16046326
PMCPMC1725285

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