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ArticleCMAJ : Canadian Medical Association journal = journal de l'Association medicale canadienne2014

Conflicts at the heart of the FRAX tool.

Teppo L N Järvinen, Jarkko Jokihaara, Pierre Guy, Pablo Alonso-Coello, Gary S Collins, Karl Michaëlsson, Harri Sievänen

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In one paragraph

Article in CMAJ : Canadian Medical Association journal = journal de l'Association medicale canadienne, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
14citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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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

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

  1. Guideline
  2. Article
  3. Article
  4. Review
  5. Article
  6. Review
  7. A brief history of FRAX.Archives of osteoporosis · 2018
    Review
  8. Article
  9. Observational
  10. Article
  11. Clarifying WHO's position on the FRAX® tool for fracture prediction.Bulletin of the World Health Organization · 2016
    Article
  12. Osteoporosis: the emperor has no clothes.Journal of internal medicine · 2015
    Review
  13. Article
  14. Article
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

7 authors.

Teppo L N Järvinen
Jarkko Jokihaara
Pierre Guy
Pablo Alonso-Coello
Gary S Collins
Karl Michaëlsson
Harri Sievänen

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Conflict of InterestHumansOsteoporotic FracturesPeer Review, ResearchRisk Assessment

Identifiers

PMID24366895
PMCPMC3928201

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Registered trials

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Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.