Antibiotics for low back pain?

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, 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. Ribosomal PCR assay of excised intervertebral discs from patients undergoing single-level primary lumbar microdiscectomy.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 · 2017
   Article
3. Overview: the role of Propionibacterium acnes in nonpyogenic intervertebral discs.International orthopaedics · 2016
   Review
4. 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
5. The Michel Benoist and Robert Mulholland yearly European Spine Journal Review: a survey of the "surgical research" articles in the European Spine Journal 2014.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
   Review
6. Modic changes - An evidence-based, narrative review on its patho-physiology, clinical significance and role in chronic low back pain.Journal of clinical orthopaedics and trauma
   Article

Corrections and comments

• Commented on by
  Answer to the letter to the editor of Svend Lings entitled "antibiotics for low back pain?" 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) 22:697-707.2014
• Comment on
  Does nuclear tissue infected with bacteria following disc herniations lead to Modic changes in the adjacent vertebrae?2013
• Comment on
  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

1 author at 1 institution in 1 country.

Funding

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Abstract

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