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ArticleSleep medicine reviews2016

Response to comments on "Meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials of oral mandibular advancement devices and continuous positive airway pressure for obstructive sleep apnoea-hypopnoea".

Linda D Sharples, Timothy G Quinnell, TOMADO investigators

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Article in Sleep medicine reviews, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
3citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
0.8field-weighted citation impact, top 26% 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

3 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 6 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Pooled it
  2. Review
  3. Article
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Linda D SharplesUniversity of Leeds, Clinical Trials Research Unit, Leeds, LS2 9JT, United Kingdom; Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Papworth Everard, Cambridge, CB3 8RE, United Kingdom. Electronic address: l.sharples@leeds.ac.uk.
Timothy G QuinnellUniversity of Leeds, Clinical Trials Research Unit, Leeds, LS2 9JT, United Kingdom; Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Papworth Everard, Cambridge, CB3 8RE, United Kingdom.
TOMADO investigators
University of Leeds · GB

Funding

Medical Research Council MC_U105232027
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Continuous Positive Airway PressureMandibular AdvancementHumansSleep Apnea, Obstructive

Identifiers

PMID26447848
OpenAlexW2202723999

What OpenQuestion holds

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Registered trials

None linked

Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.