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ArticleEvidence-based complementary and alternative medicine : eCAM2016

Factors Affecting Recruitment and Attrition in Randomised Controlled Trials of Complementary and Alternative Medicine for Pregnancy-Related Issues.

Ciara Close, Marlene Sinclair, Julie E M McCullough, Sarah Dianne Liddle, Ciara M Hughes

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Article in Evidence-based complementary and alternative medicine : eCAM, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 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

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

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  3. How to Efficiently Recruit Participants in a Perinatal Cohort Study: CAN-B Cohort Strategies/Lessons Learned.Journal of obstetrics and gynaecology Canada : JOGC = Journal d'obstetrique et gynecologie du Canada : JOGC · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Ciara CloseCentre of Public Health, Queen's University, Belfast, Northern Ireland BT12 6BJ, Ireland.ORCID 0000-0002-3203-303X
Marlene SinclairInstitute of Nursing and Health Research, Ulster University, Shore Road, Newtownabbey, Co Antrim, Northern Ireland BT37 0QB, Ireland.ORCID 0000-0003-4444-1505
Julie E M McCulloughInstitute of Nursing and Health Research, Ulster University, Shore Road, Newtownabbey, Co Antrim, Northern Ireland BT37 0QB, Ireland.ORCID 0000-0002-0442-6629
Sarah Dianne LiddleInstitute of Nursing and Health Research, Ulster University, Shore Road, Newtownabbey, Co Antrim, Northern Ireland BT37 0QB, Ireland.ORCID 0000-0001-8151-641X
Ciara M HughesInstitute of Nursing and Health Research, Ulster University, Shore Road, Newtownabbey, Co Antrim, Northern Ireland BT37 0QB, Ireland.ORCID 0000-0002-1064-6775

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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Identifiers

PMID27956921
PMCPMC5124464

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