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ArticleJournal of patient safety2016

A Perspective on the Principles of Integrity in Infectious Disease Research.

Kevin T Kavanagh, Stephen S Tower, Daniel M Saman

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Article in Journal of patient safety, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1citing 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

1 citing paper in PubMed.

  1. Control ofAntimicrobial resistance and infection control · 2019
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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.

Kevin T KavanaghFrom the *Health Watch USA, Somerset, Kentucky; †Health Watch USA, WWAMI School of Medicine, University of Alaska Anchorage, Anchorage, Alaska; and ‡Health Watch USA, Essentia Institute of Rural Health, Duluth, Minnesota.
Stephen S Tower
Daniel M Saman

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The medical literature is prone to overstating results, a condition not thoroughly recognized among policymakers. This article sets forth examples of potential problems with research integrity in the infectious disease literature. We describe articles that may be spun, categories lumped together in hopes of creating a significant effect (and sometimes an insignificant one), changes in metrics, and how trials may fail because of suboptimal interventions. When examined together, the examples show that the problems are widespread and illustrate the difficulty associated with interpreting medical research. The state of the current medical literature makes it of utmost importance that all sections of the manuscript are read, including associated letters to the editors and information on ClinicalTrials.gov before authors' recommendations are accepted.

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InfectionsBiomedical ResearchHumans

Identifiers

PMID27010326
PMCPMC4915748

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