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ArticleBritish journal of clinical pharmacology2013

Network meta-analysis and the comparison of efficacy and tolerability of anti-epileptic drugs for treatment of refractory focal epilepsy.

Gaetano Zaccara, Sanjay M Sisodiya, Fabio Giovannelli, Matthew C Walker, Dominic C Heaney, Heather Angus-Leppan, Tim Wehner, Sofia H Eriksson, Rebecca Liu, Fergus Rugg-Gunn and 2 more

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Article in British journal of clinical pharmacology, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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4citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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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

4 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

  1. Pooled it
  2. Article
  3. Tolerability of new antiepileptic drugs: a network meta-analysis.European journal of clinical pharmacology · 2017
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

12 authors.

Gaetano ZaccaraUnit of Neurology, San Giovanni di Dio Hospital, Firenze, Italy.
Sanjay M Sisodiya
Fabio Giovannelli
Matthew C Walker
Dominic C Heaney
Heather Angus-Leppan
Tim Wehner
Sofia H Eriksson
Rebecca Liu
Fergus Rugg-Gunn
Simon D Shorvon
Josemir W Sander

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

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Research DesignAnticonvulsantsEpilepsies, PartialHumansAnticonvulsants

Identifiers

PMID23738499
PMCPMC3853543

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