Research accomplishments that are too good to be true.

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. Health research and knowledge translation for achieving the sustainable development goals: tackling the hurdles.European journal of public health · 2020
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2. The natural selection of bad science.Royal Society open science · 2016
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3. What's in a Surname? Physique, Aptitude, and Sports Type Comparisons between Tailors and Smiths.PloS one · 2015
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4. Safe oxygen saturation targeting and monitoring in preterm infants: can we avoid hypoxia and hyperoxia?Acta paediatrica (Oslo, Norway : 1992) · 2014
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5. Research accomplishments that are too good to be true: comment.Intensive care medicine · 2014
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6. Research accomplishments that are too good to be true: reply to Ting.Intensive care medicine · 2014
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Authors and funding

1 author.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

Abstract

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