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ArticleClinical case reports2014

Aggregating case reports: a way for the future of evidence-based health care?

Debra Jackson, John Daly, Deborah C Saltman

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Article in Clinical case reports, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 23 papers, 13 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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23citing papers in PubMed, 13 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

23 citing papers in PubMed, 13 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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  5. Laryngeal features in Lipoid proteinosis: a systematic review and meta-analysis of individual participant data.European archives of oto-rhino-laryngology : official journal of the European Federation of Oto-Rhino-Laryngological Societies (EUFOS) : affiliated with the German Society for Oto-Rhino-Laryngology - Head and Neck Surgery · 2024
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  13. Four symptoms define the piriformis syndrome: an updated systematic review of its clinical features.European journal of orthopaedic surgery & traumatology : orthopedie traumatologie · 2018
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  18. Identifying main finding sentences in clinical case reports.Database : the journal of biological databases and curation · 2020
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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

3 authors.

Debra JacksonFaculty of Health UTS, Sydney, Australia.
John DalyFaculty of Health UTS, Sydney, Australia.
Deborah C SaltmanFaculty of Health UTS, Sydney, Australia.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Identifiers

PMID25356237
PMCPMC4184623

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