Evidence map›Paper›PMID 16399759›Full record

ArticleBMJ (Clinical research ed.)2006

Is methadone too dangerous for opiate addiction? Methadone is still needed in addiction treatments.

Andrew Byrne, Richard Hallinan

Open access · greenAbstract readCommentLetter
In one paragraph

Article in BMJ (Clinical research ed.), 2006. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
1citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
0.3field-weighted citation impact, top 31% of its field
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

1 citing paper in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 3 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Methadone at tapered doses for the management of opioid withdrawal.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2013
    Pooled it
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Andrew Byrne
Richard Hallinan

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

HumansMethadoneNarcoticsOpioid-Related DisordersMethadoneNarcotics

Identifiers

PMID16399759
PMCPMC1325183
OpenAlexW2027642205

What OpenQuestion holds

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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.