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ArticleMedical devices (Auckland, N.Z.)2016

Letter to the editor regarding "Clinical effectiveness and safety of powered exoskeleton-assisted walking in patients with spinal cord injury: systematic review with meta-analysis".

Marcel P Dijkers, Katherine G Akers, Sujay S Galen, Diane E Patzer, Phuong T Vu

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Article in Medical devices (Auckland, N.Z.), 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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5citing 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

5 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Trial
  2. Article
  3. A Roadmap Towards Standards for Neurally Controlled End Effectors.IEEE open journal of engineering in medicine and biology · 2021
    Article
  4. Robotic Rehabilitation and Spinal Cord Injury: a Narrative Review.Neurotherapeutics : the journal of the American Society for Experimental NeuroTherapeutics · 2018
    Review
  5. Review
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Marcel P DijkersDepartment of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Wayne State University, Detroit.
Katherine G AkersShiffman Medical Library, Wayne State University, Detroit.
Sujay S GalenPhysical Therapy Program, Wayne State University, Detroit.
Diane E PatzerCenter for Spinal Cord Injury Recovery, Rehabilitation Institute of Michigan, Detroit, MI, USA.
Phuong T VuCenter for Spinal Cord Injury Recovery, Rehabilitation Institute of Michigan, Detroit, MI, USA.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Identifiers

PMID27942236
PMCPMC5136361

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