Evidence map›Paper›PMID 17947785›Full record

ReviewBMJ (Clinical research ed.)2007

How can we regulate medicines better?

Silvio Garattini, Vittorio Bertele'

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Review in BMJ (Clinical research ed.), 2007. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 18 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
18citing 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

18 citing papers in PubMed.

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  4. HTA for pharmaceuticals in Europe: will the mountain deliver a mouse?The European journal of health economics : HEPAC : health economics in prevention and care · 2020
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  7. Patients not patents: Drug research and development as a public enterprise.European journal of clinical investigation · 2018
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  12. Risk Management Plans: are they a tool for improving drug safety?European journal of clinical pharmacology · 2010
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  15. The Italian Horizon Scanning Project.European journal of clinical pharmacology · 2009
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Silvio GarattiniMario Negri Institute for Pharmacological Research, Via Eritrea 62, 20157 Milano, Italy. garattini@marionegri.it
Vittorio Bertele'

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

BiasBiomedical ResearchClinical Trials as TopicDrug ApprovalDrug DesignDrug IndustryDrug Information ServicesEuropean UnionInternational CooperationProduct Surveillance, Postmarketing

Identifiers

PMID17947785
PMCPMC2034743

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.