Response to "randomized vertebroplasty trials: bad news or sham news?".

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

9 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 29 citations in OpenAlex.

1. Surgical versus non-surgical treatment for vertebral compression fracture with osteopenia: a systematic review and meta-analysis.PloS one · 2015
   Pooled it
2. Effectiveness of vertebroplasty using individual patient data from two randomised placebo controlled trials: meta-analysis.BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · 2011
   Pooled it
3. Impact of sham-controlled vertebroplasty trials on referral patterns at two academic medical centers.Proceedings (Baylor University. Medical Center) · 2013
   Article
4. Vertebral compression fractures: a review of current management and multimodal therapy.Journal of multidisciplinary healthcare · 2013
   Article
5. Augmentation of implant fixation in osteoporotic bone.Current osteoporosis reports · 2012
   Article
6. 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
7. Vertebroplasty and the placebo response.Radiology · 2011
   Article
8. The case of vertebroplasty trials: promoting a culture of evidence-based procedural medicine.Spine · 2010
   Article
9. Invited editorial presents an accurate summary of the results of two randomised placebo-controlled trials of vertebroplasty.The Medical journal of Australia · 2010
   Review

Corrections and comments

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Authors and funding

7 authors at 4 institutions in 3 countries.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

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