Randomized, controlled trials: is there a role for them in surgery?

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

4 citing papers in PubMed.

1. Cross-disciplinary research in cancer: an opportunity to narrow the knowledge-practice gap.Current oncology (Toronto, Ont.) · 2013
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2. The feasibility of performing a randomised controlled trial for femoroacetabular impingement surgery.Bone & joint research · 2013
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3. Does the dosage matter in sclerosing polidocanol injections in Achilles tendinopathy?Knee surgery, sports traumatology, arthroscopy : official journal of the ESSKA · 2009
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4. [Ethical and empirical limitations of randomized controlled trials].Medizinische Klinik (Munich, Germany : 1983) · 2008
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Corrections and comments

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  Standards of reporting of randomized controlled trials in general surgery: can we do better?2006
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  Comparison of effects in randomized controlled trials with observational studies in digestive surgery.2006
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  The reporting of randomized clinical trials using a surgical intervention is in need of immediate improvement: a systematic review.2006

Authors and funding

1 author.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

Abstract

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