Screening women for marijuana use does more harm than good.

Jill M Stadterman, Carl L Hart

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Article in American journal of obstetrics and gynecology, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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5citing 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

5 citing papers in PubMed.

"I don't need my kid to be high": prioritizing harm reduction when using cannabis during pregnancy.Harm reduction journal · 2024
Article
The unseen patient: competing priorities between patients and providers when cannabis is used in pregnancy, a qualitative study.Frontiers in global women's health · 2024
Article
Demographic Discrepancies in Prenatal Urine Drug Screening in Washington State Surrounding Recreational Marijuana Legalization and Accessibility.Maternal and child health journal · 2020
Article
Media portrayal of prenatal and postpartum marijuana use in an era of scientific uncertainty.Drug and alcohol dependence · 2018
Article
Reply: To PMID 25772211.American journal of obstetrics and gynecology · 2015
Article

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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Reply: To PMID 25772211.2015
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Prevalence and patterns of marijuana use among pregnant and nonpregnant women of reproductive age.2015

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Jill M StadtermanDepartment of Psychology, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027; Division on Substance Abuse, Department of Psychiatry, College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University, New York State Psychiatric Institute, 1051 Riverside Dr., Unit 120, New York, NY 10032.

Carl L HartDepartment of Psychology, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027; Division on Substance Abuse, Department of Psychiatry, College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University, New York State Psychiatric Institute, 1051 Riverside Dr., Unit 120, New York, NY 10032. Electronic address: clh42@columbia.edu.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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Attitude to HealthFemaleHumansMarijuana AbuseMarijuana SmokingPregnancyPregnancy Complications

Identifiers

PMID26071915

DOI10.1016/j.ajog.2015.06.024

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