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ArticleClinical investigation

Outcome measures for clinical trials assessing treatment of cystic fibrosis lung disease.

Donald R VanDevanter, Michael W Konstan

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Article in Clinical investigation. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 20 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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0cells of the map it votes in
20citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
2.4field-weighted citation impact, top 11% of its field
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

20 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 36 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Unsupervised home spirometryEuropean respiratory review : an official journal of the European Respiratory Society · 2023
    Pooled it
  2. Pooled it
  3. Lumacaftor/Ivacaftor reduces pulmonary exacerbations in patients irrespective of initial changes in FEVJournal of cystic fibrosis : official journal of the European Cystic Fibrosis Society · 2019
    Trial
  4. A chronicInfection and immunity · 2025
    Article
  5. Review
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  7. Evaluating assumptions of definition-based pulmonary exacerbation endpoints in cystic fibrosis clinical trials.Journal of cystic fibrosis : official journal of the European Cystic Fibrosis Society · 2021
    Article
  8. Building global development strategies for cf therapeutics during a transitional cftr modulator era.Journal of cystic fibrosis : official journal of the European Cystic Fibrosis Society · 2020
    Review
  9. Review
  10. Article
  11. Article
  12. Use of FEVJournal of cystic fibrosis : official journal of the European Cystic Fibrosis Society · 2017
    Review
  13. Chest imaging in cystic fibrosis studies: What counts, and can be counted?Journal of cystic fibrosis : official journal of the European Cystic Fibrosis Society · 2017
    Review
  14. Article
  15. Treatment and demographic factors affecting time to next pulmonary exacerbation in cystic fibrosis.Journal of cystic fibrosis : official journal of the European Cystic Fibrosis Society · 2015
    Article
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  19. Review
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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

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Donald R VanDevanterCase Western Reserve University School of Medicine & Rainbow Babies & Children's Hospital, Cleveland, OH, USA.
Michael W KonstanCase Western Reserve University School of Medicine & Rainbow Babies & Children's Hospital, Cleveland, OH, USA.
Case Western Reserve University · US

Funding

Clinical and Translational Science Collaborative of ClevelandUL1TR002548 · NCATS · CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY · PI MCCOMSEY, GRACE A · 2018 to 2022
$35.5M
Translational Research in Cystic FibrosisP30DK027651 · NIDDK · CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY · PI DRUMM, MITCHELL L · 1986 to 2014
$15.6M
NCATS NIH HHS UL1 TR002548NIDDK NIH HHS P30 DK027651
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Cystic fibrosis (CF) is a complex genetic disease characterized by death from loss of lung function. Therapies target pathophysiologic changes associated with pulmonary disease progression. Although therapeutic mechanisms differ, efficacy demonstration is limited to a few accepted outcome measures, each with shortcomings that are becoming more pronounced as CF population health improves. Pulmonary function improvement (as forced expiratory volume in 1 s [FEV

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biomarkersclinical trialscystic fibrosisexacerbationFEV1lung diseaseoutcomes

Identifiers

PMID26146539
PMCPMC4486293
OpenAlexW2058548599

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Registered trials

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