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ArticleLancet (London, England)2016

Resurrection of evidence for vertebroplasty?

Joshua A Hirsch, Ronil V Chandra

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Article in Lancet (London, England), 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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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

7 citing papers in PubMed.

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  6. Were VCF patients at higher risk of mortality following the 2009 publication of the vertebroplasty "sham" trials?Osteoporosis international : a journal established as result of cooperation between the European Foundation for Osteoporosis and the National Osteoporosis Foundation of the USA · 2018
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  7. Percutaneous Balloon Kyphoplasty in Treatment of Painful Osteoporotic Occult Vertebral Fracture: A Retrospective Study of 89 Cases.Medical science monitor : international medical journal of experimental and clinical research · 2017
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Joshua A HirschNeuroendovascular Program and NeuroInterventional Spine Service, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA; Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA. Electronic address: jahirsch@mgh.harvard.edu.
Ronil V ChandraDiagnostic and Interventional Neuroradiology, Monash Imaging, Monash Health, Melbourne, VIC, Australia; Departments of Medicine and Surgery, Monash University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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VertebroplastyCost SavingsEvidence-Based MedicineFractures, CompressionHumansLength of StayLumbar VertebraeMulticenter Studies as TopicOsteoporotic FracturesRandomized Controlled Trials as TopicThoracic VertebraeTreatment OutcomeUnited Kingdom

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