Red flags for 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

10 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

1. Red flags for the early detection of spinal infection in back pain patients.BMC musculoskeletal disorders · 2019
   Pooled it
2. Acute back pain: Clinical and radiologic diagnosis: WFNS spine committee recommendations.World neurosurgery: X · 2024
   Review
3. Informed appropriate imaging for low back pain management: A narrative review.Journal of orthopaedic translation · 2018
   Review
4. [Exposure therapy for chronic back pain].Schmerz (Berlin, Germany) · 2018
   Review
5. Inclusion and exclusion criteria used in non-specific low back pain trials: a review of randomised controlled trials published between 2006 and 2012.BMC musculoskeletal disorders · 2018
   Article
6. Spinal radiographs in those with back pain-when are they appropriate to diagnose vertebral fractures?Osteoporosis international : a journal established as result of cooperation between the European Foundation for Osteoporosis and the National Osteoporosis Foundation of the USA · 2017
   Review
7. Red flags presented in current low back pain guidelines: a review.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 · 2016
   Review
8. Using self-reports of pain and other variables to distinguish between older women with back pain due to vertebral fractures and those with back pain due to degenerative changes.Osteoporosis international : a journal established as result of cooperation between the European Foundation for Osteoporosis and the National Osteoporosis Foundation of the USA · 2016
   Article
9. Imaging studies in patients with spinal pain: Practice audit evaluation of Choosing Wisely Canada recommendations.Canadian family physician Medecin de famille canadien · 2016
   Article
10. The Nijmegen decision tool for chronic low back pain. Development of a clinical decision tool for secondary or tertiary spine care specialists.PloS one · 2014
    Article

Corrections and comments

• Comment on
  Red flags to screen for malignancy and fracture in patients with low back pain: systematic review.2013

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Funding

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Abstract

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