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ArticleTrials2010

Cars, CONSORT 2010, and clinical practice.

Hywel C Williams

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Article in Trials, 2010. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
6citing 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

6 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Article
  2. An assessment of the quality of reporting randomised controlled trials published in paediatric dentistry journals.European archives of paediatric dentistry : official journal of the European Academy of Paediatric Dentistry · 2015
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  5. IJD(®): Consorting with CONSORT 2010.Indian journal of dermatology · 2013
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

Hywel C WilliamsCentre of Evidence-Based Dermatology, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK. Hywel.Williams@nottingham.ac.uk

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Just like you would not buy a car without key information such as service history, you would not "buy" a clinical trial report without key information such as concealment of allocation. Implementation of the updated CONSORT 2010 statement enables the reader to see exactly what was done in a trial, to whom and when. A fully "CONSORTed" trial report does not necessarily mean the trial is a good one, but at least the reader can make a judgement. Clear reporting is a pre-requisite for judgement of study quality. The CONSORT statement evolves as empirical research moves on. CONSORT 2010 is even clearer than before and includes some new items with a particular emphasis on selective reporting of outcomes. The challenge is for everyone to use it.

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Guidelines as TopicEvidence-Based MedicineGuideline AdherenceHumansInformation DisseminationPeriodicals as TopicRandomized Controlled Trials as TopicResearch DesignTreatment Outcome

Identifiers

PMID20334635
PMCPMC2857833

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