Vertebroplasty and the placebo response.

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

13 citing papers in PubMed.

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8. Compression Fractures in the Setting of Diffuse Idiopathic Skeletal Hyperostosis.Asian spine journal · 2015
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10. Is severe pain immediately after spinal augmentation a predictor of long-term outcomes?AJNR. American journal of neuroradiology · 2013
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12. Should we reconsider the routine use of placebo controls in clinical research?Trials · 2012
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Corrections and comments

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Authors and funding

3 authors.

Funding

Abstract

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