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ArticleSurgical neurology international2014

RE: The risks of epidural and transforaminal steroid injections in the spine: Commentary and a comprehensive review of the literature.

Laxmaiah Manchikanti, Alan D Kaye, Joshua A Hirsch

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Article in Surgical neurology international, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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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

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Laxmaiah ManchikantiMedical Director, Pain Management Center of Paducah, Paducah, Clinical Professor, Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, Paducah, Kentucky, USA.
Alan D KayeDepartment of Anesthesia, LSU Health Science Center, New Orleans, LA, USA.
Joshua A HirschVice Chief of Interventional Care, Chief of Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery, Service Line Chief of Interventional Radiology, Director of Endovascular Neurosurgery and Neuroendovascular Program, Massachusetts General Hospital, Associate Professor, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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PMID24818045
PMCPMC4014818

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