Vertebroplasty appears no better than placebo for painful osteoporotic spinal fractures, and has potential to cause harm.

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

12 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 32 citations in OpenAlex.

1. Effectiveness of vertebroplasty using individual patient data from two randomised placebo controlled trials: meta-analysis.BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · 2011
   Pooled it
2. Prospective comparison of the therapeutic effect of teriparatide with that of combined vertebroplasty with antiresorptive agents for the treatment of new-onset adjacent vertebral compression fracture after percutaneous vertebroplasty.Osteoporosis international : a journal established as result of cooperation between the European Foundation for Osteoporosis and the National Osteoporosis Foundation of the USA · 2012
   Trial
3. Cancer Pain Treatment Strategies in Patients with Cancer.Drugs · 2022
   Review
4. Placebo comparator group selection and use in surgical trials: the ASPIRE project including expert workshop.Health technology assessment (Winchester, England) · 2021
   Article
5. Delayed neurological deficits caused by cement extravasation following vertebroplasty: a case report.The Journal of international medical research · 2021
   Article
6. Cochrane vertebroplasty review misrepresented evidence for vertebroplasty with early intervention in severely affected patients.BMJ evidence-based medicine · 2020
   Article
7. Interventional Techniques to Management of Cancer-Related Pain: Clinical and Critical Aspects.Cancers · 2019
   Review
8. [Cement augmentation for osteoporotic compression fractures].Der Unfallchirurg · 2012
   Article
9. 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
10. On being the Editor of the Medical Journal of Australia: Living dangerously.Mens sana monographs · 2012
    Article
11. Epidemiology of spine care: the back pain dilemma.Physical medicine and rehabilitation clinics of North America · 2010
    Review
12. 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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  Vertebroplasty appears no better than placebo for painful osteoporotic spinal fractures, and has potential to cause harm.2010
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  Vertebroplasty appears no better than placebo for painful osteoporotic spinal fractures, and has potential to cause harm.2010
• Commented on by
  Vertebroplasty for painful acute osteoporotic vertebral fractures: recent Medical Journal of Australia editorial is not relevant to the patient group that we treat with vertebroplasty.2010

Authors and funding

3 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

Abstract

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