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Trial reportThe European respiratory journal2013

Randomised controlled trial of azithromycin in smokers with asthma.

Euan J Cameron, Rekha Chaudhuri, Frances Mair, Charles McSharry, Nicola Greenlaw, Christopher J Weir, Lisa Jolly, Iona Donnelly, Katie Gallacher, Deborah Morrison and 4 more

Abstract readLetterRandomized Controlled Trial
In one paragraph

Trial report in The European respiratory journal, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 19 papers, 7 of them syntheses that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
19citing papers in PubMed, 7 pooled it
–field-weighted citation impact
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

19 citing papers in PubMed, 7 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

  1. Pooled it
  2. Macrolides versus placebo for chronic asthma.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2021
    Pooled it
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  4. The efficacy and safety of azithromycin in asthma: A systematic review.Journal of cellular and molecular medicine · 2019
    Pooled it
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  6. Antibiotics for exacerbations of asthma.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2018
    Pooled it
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  8. Review
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  10. Asthma and Tobacco Smoking.Journal of personalized medicine · 2022
    Review
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  14. Article
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  19. Novel approaches to the management of noneosinophilic asthma.Therapeutic advances in respiratory disease · 2016
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

14 authors.

Euan J CameronImmunity and Inflammation, University of Glasgow, Glasgow.
Rekha Chaudhuri
Frances Mair
Charles McSharry
Nicola Greenlaw
Christopher J Weir
Lisa Jolly
Iona Donnelly
Katie Gallacher
Deborah Morrison
Mark Spears
Tom J Evans
Kenneth Anderson
Neil C Thomson

Funding

Medical Research Council
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

SmokingAdolescentAdultAgedAnti-Asthmatic AgentsAsthmaAzithromycinDouble-Blind MethodHumansMiddle AgedSurveys and QuestionnairesTobacco Use DisorderTreatment OutcomeYoung AdultAnti-Asthmatic AgentsAzithromycin

Identifiers

PMID24036246
PMCPMC3814414

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Registered trials

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