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ArticleEvidence-based complementary and alternative medicine : eCAM2015

The safety of herbal medicine: from prejudice to evidence.

Junhua Zhang, Igho J Onakpoya, Paul Posadzki, Mohamed Eddouks

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Article in Evidence-based complementary and alternative medicine : eCAM, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 68 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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.

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The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

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

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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

4 authors.

Junhua ZhangTianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Tianjin 300193, China.
Igho J OnakpoyaDepartment of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford OX2 6GG, UK.
Paul PosadzkiLee Kong Chian School of Medicine, Singapore 138543.
Mohamed EddouksLee Kong Chian School of Medicine, Singapore 138543 Moulay Ismail University, 52000 Errachidia, Morocco.ORCID 0000-0001-6462-489X

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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Identifiers

PMID25838831
PMCPMC4370194

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