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ArticleSleep2014

Is melatonin the next "new" therapy to improve sleep and reduce pain?

Carol A Landis

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Article in Sleep, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
4citing papers 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

4 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

Carol A Landis

Funding

BIOBEHAVIORAL NURSING RESEARCH TRAINING PROGRAMT32NR007106 · NINR · UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON · PI LANDIS, CAROL A · 1999 to 2013
$4.6M
Center for Research on the Management of Sleep DisturbancesP30NR011400 · NINR · UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON · PI HEITKEMPER, MARGARET MCLEAN · 2009 to 2013
$2.2M
Sleep Disordered Breathing in Juvenile Idiopathic ArthritisR01NR012734 · NINR · UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON · PI WARD, TERESA M · 2011 to 2014
$1.5M
NINR NIH HHS NR011400NINR NIH HHS NR012734NINR NIH HHS T32NR007106
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

AnimalsMaleMedian NerveMelatoninMicrogliaNeuralgiaSleep DeprivationMelatonin

Identifiers

PMID25142562
PMCPMC4153056

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