Selective outcome reporting: telling and detecting true lies. The state of the science.

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, 7 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

1. Surgical wound closure by staples or sutures?: Systematic review.Medicine · 2020
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2. Simulated presence therapy for dementia.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2020
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3. Preoperative radiotherapy and curative surgery for the management of localised rectal carcinoma.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2018
   Pooled it
4. Sonic and ultrasonic oscillating devices for the management of pain and dental fear in children or adolescents that require caries removal: a systematic review.BMJ open · 2018
   Pooled it
5. Laparoscopic versus open resection for sigmoid diverticulitis.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2017
   Pooled it
6. Simulated presence therapy for dementia.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2017
   Pooled it
7. Systematic review of knowledge translation strategies in the allied health professions.Implementation science : IS · 2012
   Pooled it
8. Diagnostic, preventive and therapeutic evidence in obstetrics for the implementation of patient blood management: a systematic review protocol.BMJ open · 2018
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9. Protocol for validating cardiovascular and cerebrovascular ICD-9-CM codes in healthcare administrative databases: the Umbria Data Value Project.BMJ open · 2017
   Article
10. Lasers for caries removal in deciduous and permanent teeth.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2016
    Review
11. Outcome measures in health research: from assessing validity to outcome reporting.Internal and emergency medicine · 2016
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12. Statistical and methodological considerations for reporting RCTs in medical literature.Korean journal of anesthesiology · 2015
    Review

Corrections and comments

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Authors and funding

6 authors.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

Abstract

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