Evidence map›Paper›PMID 28840321›Full record

ArticleVirchows Archiv : an international journal of pathology2017

Review of the implementation of plasma ctDNA testing on behalf of IQN Path ASBL: a perspective from an EQA providers' survey.

Zandra C Deans, Hannah Williams, Elisabeth M C Dequeker, Cleo Keppens, Nicola Normanno, Ed Schuuring, Simon J Patton, Melanie Cheetham, Rachel Butler, Jacqueline A Hall and 1 more

Abstract read
In one paragraph

Article in Virchows Archiv : an international journal of pathology, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
9citing 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

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

  1. Guideline
  2. Article
  3. Article
  4. Liquid biopsies, are we ready for prime time?Journal for immunotherapy of cancer · 2023
    Article
  5. Article
  6. Liquid biopsy in oncology: a consensus statement of the Spanish Society of Pathology and the Spanish Society of Medical Oncology.Clinical & translational oncology : official publication of the Federation of Spanish Oncology Societies and of the National Cancer Institute of Mexico · 2020
    Article
  7. Article
  8. Article
  9. Article
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

11 authors.

Zandra C DeansUK NEQAS for Molecular Genetics, Department of Laboratory Medicine, Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, Little France Crescent, Edinburgh, EH16 4SA, UK. sandi.deans@ed.ac.uk.
Hannah WilliamsUK NEQAS for Molecular Genetics, Department of Laboratory Medicine, Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, Little France Crescent, Edinburgh, EH16 4SA, UK.
Elisabeth M C DequekerBiomedical Quality Assurance Research Unit, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, KU Leuven / University Hospital of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.
Cleo KeppensBiomedical Quality Assurance Research Unit, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.
Nicola NormannoCell Biology and Biotherapy Unit, Instituto Nazionale Tumouri "Fondazione Giovanni Pascale", IRCCS, Naples, Italy.
Ed SchuuringDepartment of Pathology, University of Groningen, University Medical Center of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands.
Simon J PattonEuropean Molecular Genetics Quality Network, Manchester Centre for Genomic Medicine, St Mary's Hospital, Manchester, M13 9WL, UK.
Melanie CheethamEuropean Molecular Genetics Quality Network, Manchester Centre for Genomic Medicine, St Mary's Hospital, Manchester, M13 9WL, UK.
Rachel ButlerAll Wales Genetic Laboratory, Institute of Medical Genetics, University Hospital of Wales, Heath Park, Cardiff, CF14 4XW, UK.
Jacqueline A HallInternational Quality Network for Pathology (IQN Path ASBL), 3A Sentier de l'Esperance, L-1474, Luxembourg, Luxembourg.
IQN Path ASBL

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Biomarkers, TumorCarcinoma, Non-Small-Cell LungCirculating Tumor DNAColorectal NeoplasmsHumansLaboratoriesLung NeoplasmsPathology, ClinicalQuality Assurance, Health CareSurveys and QuestionnairesBiomarkers, TumorCirculating Tumor DNA

Identifiers

PMID28840321
PMCPMC5711978

What OpenQuestion holds

Textmetadata
LicenceCC BY
Read underepoch 390

Registered trials

None linked

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.