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ArticleEuropean spine journal : official publication of the European Spine Society, the European Spinal Deformity Society, and the European Section of the Cervical Spine Research Society2014

Answer to the letter to the editor of F. M. Kovacs et al. entitled "overviews should meet the methodological standards of systematic reviews" concerning "the evidence on surgical interventions for low back disorders, an overview of systematic reviews" by Wilco C.H. Jacobs et al.; Eur Spine J, doi:10.1007/s00586-013-2823-4.

Wilco C H Jacobs, Sidney M Rubinstein, Paul C Willems, Wouter A Moojen, Ferran Pellisé, F Cumhur Öner, Wilco C Peul, Maurits W van Tulder

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Article in 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, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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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

0 citing papers in PubMed, 1 citations in OpenAlex.

No citing paper in PubMed yet.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors at 6 institutions in 2 countries.

Wilco C H JacobsDepartment of Neurosurgery, Leiden University Medical Center, Albinusdreef 2, PO Box 9600, 2300 RC, Leiden, The Netherlands, w.c.h.jacobs@lumc.nl.
Sidney M Rubinstein
Paul C Willems
Wouter A Moojen
Ferran Pellisé
F Cumhur Öner
Wilco C Peul
Maurits W van Tulder
EMGO Institute for Health and Care Research · NLLeiden University Medical Center · NLMaastricht University · NLMedisch Centrum Haaglanden · NLUniversity Medical Center Utrecht · NLVall d'Hebron Hospital Universitari · ES

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Decompression, SurgicalSpinal FusionHumansIntervertebral Disc DisplacementLow Back PainSpinal StenosisSpondylolisthesis

Identifiers

PMID24061967
PMCPMC3906446
OpenAlexW2040350566

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Registered trials

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