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ArticleBMJ (Clinical research ed.)2006

Case reports of suspected adverse drug reactions: case reports were dismissed too quickly.

Jan P Vandenbroucke

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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 8 papers.

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8citing papers in PubMed
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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

8 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Article
  2. Review of Gardasil.Journal of vaccines & vaccination · 2010
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  3. Time for a new approach to case reports.International journal of surgery case reports · 2010
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  4. Case history: more than a beauty case!: A case for case histories.Netherlands heart journal : monthly journal of the Netherlands Society of Cardiology and the Netherlands Heart Foundation · 2008
    Article
  5. Why do we need Cases Journal?Cases journal · 2008
    Article
  6. WJES and case reports/case series.World journal of emergency surgery : WJES · 2007
    Article
  7. Who will fund hypothesis testing studies?BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · 2006
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  8. Article
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

Jan P Vandenbroucke

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Drug-Related Side Effects and Adverse ReactionsMedical RecordsAdverse Drug Reaction Reporting SystemsHumans

Identifiers

PMID16497772
PMCPMC1382555

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