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GuidelineThe Journal of family practice2016

PURLs: More isn't better with acute low back pain treatment.

Kevin Frazer, James J Stevermer

Open access · greenAbstract readPractice Guideline
In one paragraph

Guideline in The Journal of family practice, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
1citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
–field-weighted citation impact
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 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 1 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Pooled it
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.

Kevin FrazerDepartment of Family and Community Medicine, University of Missouri-Columbia, MO, USA.
James J StevermerDepartment of Family and Community Medicine, University of Missouri-Columbia, MO, USA.
University of Missouri · US

Funding

TRANSLATIONAL RESEARCH UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO: CLINICAL TRIALSUL1RR024999 · NCRR · UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO · PI SOLWAY, JULIAN · 2007 to 2011
$25.3M
NCRR NIH HHS UL1 RR024999
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Adding cyclobenzaprine or oxycodone/acetaminophen to naproxen for the treatment of acute low back pain does nothing more than increase adverse effects.

Indexed as

AcetaminophenAmitriptylineDrug CombinationsFemaleHumansLow Back PainMaleMuscle Relaxants, CentralNaproxenOxycodonePain MeasurementRandomized Controlled Trials as TopicTreatment OutcomeAcetaminophenAmitriptylinecyclobenzaprineDrug CombinationsMuscle Relaxants, CentralNaproxenOxycodoneoxycodone-acetaminophen

Identifiers

PMID27474822
PMCPMC4913004
OpenAlexW2480149484

What OpenQuestion holds

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Registered trials

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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.