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ArticleThe oncologist2015

Recognizing the Financial Burden of Cancer Patients in Clinical Trials.

Ryan D Nipp, Elizabeth Powell, Bruce Chabner, Beverly Moy

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Article in The oncologist, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 33 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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33citing 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

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

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Ryan D NippMassachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center, Boston, Massachusetts, USA rnipp@mgh.harvard.edu.
Elizabeth PowellMassachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
Bruce ChabnerMassachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
Beverly MoyMassachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

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Clinical Trials as TopicHumansNeoplasmsClinical trialCost of illnessFinancial supportHealth care costsQuality of life

Identifiers

PMID25986245
PMCPMC4571792

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