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ArticleRheumatology international2009

Qualitative systemic review of randomized controlled trials on complementary and alternative medicine treatments in fibromyalgia.

Julia Baranowsky, Petra Klose, Frauke Musial, Winfried Häuser, Gustav Dobos, Jost Langhorst

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Article in Rheumatology international, 2009. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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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

5 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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  4. Review
  5. Traditional Chinese Medicine for Fibromyalgia.Practical pain management · 2010
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Julia BaranowskyDepartment of Internal Medicine, Complementary and Integrative Medicine, Kliniken Essen-Mitte, University Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany.
Petra KloseDepartment of Internal Medicine, Complementary and Integrative Medicine, Kliniken Essen-Mitte, University Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany.
Frauke MusialDepartment of Internal Medicine, Complementary and Integrative Medicine, Kliniken Essen-Mitte, University Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany.
Winfried HäuserDepartment of Internal Medicine I, Klinikun Saarbrücken, Saarbrücken, Germany.
Gustav DobosDepartment of Internal Medicine, Complementary and Integrative Medicine, Kliniken Essen-Mitte, University Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany.
Jost LanghorstDepartment of Internal Medicine, Complementary and Integrative Medicine, Kliniken Essen-Mitte, University Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany. jost.langhorst@gmx.de.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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