ArticleJournal of the Royal Society of Medicine2016
History of evidence synthesis to assess treatment effects: Personal reflections on something that is very much alive.
Article in Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled 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.
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.
Who cites it
13 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Pooled it
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- Interventions to promote medical student well-being: an overview of systematic reviews.BMJ open · 2024Review
- Opportunities to Retrofit, Reform, and Reimagine Systematic Reviews for Racial Equity.Health equity · 2024Article
- Systematic literature reviews over the years.Journal of market access & health policy · 2023Article
- The development of network meta-analysis.Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine · 2022Article
- Bias against Vitamin C in Mainstream Medicine: Examples from Trials of Vitamin C for Infections.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Review
- Methods used to assess outcome consistency in clinical studies: A literature-based evaluation.PloS one · 2020Article
- Partially systematic thoughts on the history of systematic reviews.Systematic reviews · 2018Article
- Collaboration challenges in systematic reviews: a survey of health sciences librarians.Journal of the Medical Library Association : JMLA · 2017Article
- Early 18th century evidence synthesis.Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine · 2016Article
- Why pick a fight with junior doctors?Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine · 2016Article
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Registered trials
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