Balancing science and informed choice in decisions about vertebroplasty.

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

16 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

1. Use of placebo controls in the evaluation of surgery: systematic review.BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · 2014
   Pooled it
2. Evaluation of lumbar facet joint nerve blocks in managing chronic low back pain: a randomized, double-blind, controlled trial with a 2-year follow-up.International journal of medical sciences · 2010
   Trial
3. Appropriateness criteria for treatment of osteoporotic vertebral compression fractures.Osteoporosis international : a journal established as result of cooperation between the European Foundation for Osteoporosis and the National Osteoporosis Foundation of the USA · 2018
   Review
4. Vertebral deformity arising from an accelerated "creep" mechanism.European spine journal : official publication of the European Spine Society, the European Spinal Deformity Society, and the European Section of the Cervical Spine Research Society · 2012
   Article
5. Continuing conservative care versus crossover to radiofrequency kyphoplasty: a comparative effectiveness study on the treatment of vertebral body fractures.European spine journal : official publication of the European Spine Society, the European Spinal Deformity Society, and the European Section of the Cervical Spine Research Society · 2012
   Article
6. Initial non-weight-bearing therapy is important for preventing vertebral body collapse in elderly patients with clinical vertebral fractures.International journal of general medicine · 2012
   Article
7. Balloon kyphoplasty and vertebroplasty in the management of vertebral compression fractures.Osteoporosis international : a journal established as result of cooperation between the European Foundation for Osteoporosis and the National Osteoporosis Foundation of the USA · 2011
   Review
8. Reframing placebo in research and practice.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2011
   Article
9. Have referral patterns for vertebroplasty changed since publication of the placebo-controlled trials?AJNR. American journal of neuroradiology · 2011
   Article
10. Vertebroplasty: a point of view on this surgical treatment.Clinical rheumatology · 2010
    Article
11. The effectiveness and safety of vertebroplasty for osteoporotic vertebral compression fractures. A double blind, prospective, randomized, controlled study.Clinical cases in mineral and bone metabolism : the official journal of the Italian Society of Osteoporosis, Mineral Metabolism, and Skeletal Diseases · 2010
    Article
12. Vertebroplasty for osteoporotic fracture? Think twice.The Journal of family practice · 2009
    Article
13. Surgery: vertebroplasty: one solution does not fit all.Nature reviews. Rheumatology · 2009
    Article
14. Randomized vertebroplasty trials: bad news or sham news?AJNR. American journal of neuroradiology · 2009
    Article
15. Vertebroplasty: about sense and nonsense of uncontrolled "controlled randomized prospective trials".European spine journal : official publication of the European Spine Society, the European Spinal Deformity Society, and the European Section of the Cervical Spine Research Society · 2009
    Article
16. Safety and efficacy of vertebroplasty in the treatment of osteoporotic vertebral compression fractures: a prospective multicenter international randomized controlled study.Clinical cases in mineral and bone metabolism : the official journal of the Italian Society of Osteoporosis, Mineral Metabolism, and Skeletal Diseases
    Article

Corrections and comments

• Commented on by
  Trials of vertebroplasty for vertebral fractures.2009
• Comment on
  A randomized trial of vertebroplasty for painful osteoporotic vertebral fractures.2009
• Comment on
  A randomized trial of vertebroplasty for osteoporotic spinal fractures.2009
• Erratum issued

Authors and funding

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Funding

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Abstract

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