Is the Jadad score the proper evaluation of trials?

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

27 citing papers in PubMed, 8 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

1. Nutritional supplements and mother's milk composition: a systematic review of interventional studies.International breastfeeding journal · 2021
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2. Systematic Review of Efficacy of Interventions for Social Isolation of Older Adults.Frontiers in psychology · 2021
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3. Comparison of Retzius-Sparing Robot-Assisted Radical Prostatectomy vs. Conventional Robot-Assisted Radical Prostatectomy: An Up-to-Date Meta-Analysis.Frontiers in surgery · 2021
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4. A systematic review of complementary and alternative medicine in oncology: Psychological and physical effects of manipulative and body-based practices.PloS one · 2019
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5. Transcatheter arterial chemoembolization plus sorafenib versus transcatheter arterial chemoembolization alone to treat advanced hepatocellular carcinoma: a meta-analysis.BMC cancer · 2017
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6. A systematic review of psychosocial therapies for children with rheumatic diseases.Pediatric rheumatology online journal · 2017
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7. A meta-analysis to determine the effect of pharmacological and non-pharmacological treatments on fibromyalgia symptoms comprising OMERACT-10 response criteria.Clinical rheumatology · 2016
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8. The Effect of Acupuncture in Breast Cancer-Related Lymphoedema (BCRL): A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Integrative cancer therapies
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9. The Composite Quality Score (CQS) as a trial appraisal tool: inter-rater reliability and rating time.Clinical oral investigations · 2021
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10. Effect of Bariatric Surgery on Male Sexual Function: A Meta-Analysis and Systematic Review.Sexual medicine · 2019
    Review
11. Quality of research: Improper evaluation of the quality of trials of retention rates.British dental journal · 2019
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12. Responses of persons at risk of suicide: A critical interpretive synthesis.Nursing open · 2018
    Review
13. Cap-assisted endoscopy: Do we have enough evidence?Endoscopy international open · 2018
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14. Conflicts of Interest, Selective Inertia, and Research Malpractice in Randomized Clinical Trials: An Unholy Trinity.Science and engineering ethics · 2015
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15. Management of chronic neuropathic pain: a protocol for a multiple treatment comparison meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials.BMJ open · 2014
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16. CORR Insights ®: Have levels of evidence improved the quality of orthopaedic research?Clinical orthopaedics and related research · 2013
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17. Trial quality checklists: on the need to multiply (not add) scores.Clinical oral investigations · 2013
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18. Opioids for chronic non-cancer pain: a protocol for a systematic review of randomized controlled trials.Systematic reviews · 2013
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19. A note on the jadad score as an efficient tool for measuring trial quality.Journal of gastrointestinal surgery : official journal of the Society for Surgery of the Alimentary Tract · 2013
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20. Systematic review and network meta-analysis of interventions for fibromyalgia: a protocol.Systematic reviews · 2013
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Authors and funding

1 author.

Funding

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Abstract

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