Does oseltamivir really reduce complications of influenza?

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

6 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 13 citations in OpenAlex.

1. Neuraminidase inhibitors for preventing and treating influenza in adults and children.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2014
   Pooled it
2. The value of neuraminidase inhibitors for the prevention and treatment of seasonal influenza: a systematic review of systematic reviews.PloS one · 2013
   Pooled it
3. SCARLET (Supplemental Citicoline Administration to Reduce Lung injury Efficacy Trial): study protocol for a single-site, double-blinded, placebo-controlled, and randomized Phase 1/2 trial of i.v. citicoline (CDP-choline) in hospitalized SARS CoV-2-infected patients with hypoxemic acute respiratory failure.Trials · 2024
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4. TGF-β-induced IL-6 prevents development of acute lung injury in influenza A virus-infected F508del CFTR-heterozygous mice.American journal of physiology. Lung cellular and molecular physiology · 2015
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5. Infection of mice with influenza A/WSN/33 (H1N1) virus alters alveolar type II cell phenotype.American journal of physiology. Lung cellular and molecular physiology · 2015
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6. Postinfection A77-1726 treatment improves cardiopulmonary function in H1N1 influenza-infected mice.American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology · 2012
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Corrections and comments

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  Oseltamivir and risk of lower respiratory tract complications in patients with flu symptoms: a meta-analysis of eleven randomized clinical trials.2011

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Abstract

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