Letter to the editor concerning: "Antibiotic treatment in patients with chronic low back pain and vertebral bone edema (Modic type 1 changes): a double-blind randomized controlled trial of efficacy" by Albert HB et al. Eur Spine J (2013) 22:697-707.

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

7 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 12 citations in OpenAlex.

1. Modic changes-Their associations with low back pain and activity limitation: A systematic literature review and meta-analysis.PloS one · 2018
   Pooled it
2. Efficacy of antibiotic treatment in patients with chronic low back pain and Modic changes (the AIM study): double blind, randomised, placebo controlled, multicentre trial.BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · 2019
   Trial
3. Pedicle screw-rod fixation: a feasible treatment for dogs with severe degenerative lumbosacral stenosis.BMC veterinary research · 2015
   Trial
4. Overview: the role of Propionibacterium acnes in nonpyogenic intervertebral discs.International orthopaedics · 2016
   Review
5. Modic (endplate) changes in the lumbar spine: bone micro-architecture and remodelling.European spine journal : official publication of the European Spine Society, the European Spinal Deformity Society, and the European Section of the Cervical Spine Research Society · 2015
   Article
6. Evaluation of intervertebral disc regeneration with implantation of bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells (BMSCs) using quantitative T2 mapping: a study in rabbits.International orthopaedics · 2015
   Article
7. Should we start treating chronic low back pain with antibiotics rather than with pain medications?The Korean journal of pain · 2013
   Review

Corrections and comments

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  Antibiotic treatment in patients with chronic low back pain and vertebral bone edema (Modic type 1 changes): a double-blind randomized clinical controlled trial of efficacy.2013

Authors and funding

2 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Funding

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Abstract

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