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ArticleNeuro-oncology practice2015

Health-related quality of life and other clinical outcome assessments in brain tumor patients: challenges in the design, conduct and interpretation of clinical trials.

Linda Dirven, Terri S Armstrong, Martin J B Taphoorn

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Article in Neuro-oncology practice, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 19 papers, 2 of them syntheses that 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

19 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines 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

3 authors.

Linda DirvenVU University Medical Center, Department of Neurology , Amsterdam , Netherlands (L.D., M.J.B.T.); The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, School of Nursing, Department of Family Health , Houston, Texas (T.S.A.); The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Department of Neuro-Oncology, Houston, Texas (T.S.A.); Medical Center Haaglanden, Department of Neurology, The Hague , Netherlands (M.J.B.T.).
Terri S ArmstrongVU University Medical Center, Department of Neurology , Amsterdam , Netherlands (L.D., M.J.B.T.); The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, School of Nursing, Department of Family Health , Houston, Texas (T.S.A.); The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Department of Neuro-Oncology, Houston, Texas (T.S.A.); Medical Center Haaglanden, Department of Neurology, The Hague , Netherlands (M.J.B.T.).
Martin J B TaphoornVU University Medical Center, Department of Neurology , Amsterdam , Netherlands (L.D., M.J.B.T.); The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, School of Nursing, Department of Family Health , Houston, Texas (T.S.A.); The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Department of Neuro-Oncology, Houston, Texas (T.S.A.); Medical Center Haaglanden, Department of Neurology, The Hague , Netherlands (M.J.B.T.).

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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PMID26034635
PMCPMC4369707

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