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ReviewJournal of research in pharmacy practice

Tumor Necrosis Factor-alpha Antibodies in Fistulizing Crohn's Disease: An Updated Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.

Pardis Zaboli, Mohammad Abdollahi, Shilan Mozaffari, Shekoufeh Nikfar

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Review in Journal of research in pharmacy practice. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
2citing papers in PubMed
0.4field-weighted citation impact, top 27% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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

2 citing papers in PubMed, 5 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Article
  2. Potential Vaccines for Treating Crohn's DiseaseIranian biomedical journal · 2020
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Pardis ZaboliDepartment of Pharmacoeconomics and Pharmaceutical Administration, Pharmaceutical Management and Economics Research Centre, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
Mohammad AbdollahiDepartment of Toxicology and Pharmacology, Pharmaceutical Sciences Research Center, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
Shilan MozaffariDivision of Pharmaceutical and Narcotic Affaire, Deputy of Food and Drug, Kurdistan University of Medical Science, Sanandaj, Iran.
Shekoufeh NikfarDepartment of Pharmacoeconomics and Pharmaceutical Administration, Pharmaceutical Sciences Research Centre, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
Tehran University of Medical Sciences · IRKurdistan University of Medical Sciences · IR

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Medical treatment for fistulizing Crohn's disease (FCD) is changing rapidly over the time by the introduction of novel therapeutic medicines, while no global consensus is available. This study aims to accomplish a systematic review and meta-analysis on the efficacy of tumor necrosis factor-alpha antibodies (anti-TNF-α antibodies) versus placebo in FCD. A systematic review of published literature was carried out till December 2016, and a meta-analysis of identified studies was done. Data have been explored from PubMed, Scopus, Cochrane Library Database, and Web of Science. Predefined exclusion criteria for included studies in meta-analysis are based on search methodology and are as follows: Randomized clinical trial about Crohn's disease (CD) patients without fistula, pediatrics CD, randomized clinical trials about pregnant women with FCD, nonhuman studies, randomized clinical trials with surgical therapies interventions, conference abstracts, case reports, and language other than English studies. All randomized placebo-controlled trials were included. To assess risk of bias, Jadad score was applied to evaluate trials' methodological quality. Relative risk (RR) and 95% confidence intervals were computed using Mantel-Haenszel and/or Rothman-Boice (for fixed effects) or Der Simonian-Laird (for random effects) techniques. Nine studies attained defined inclusion criteria. The meta-analysis results showed that anti-TNF-α antibodies are remarkably more effective in comparison to placebo for fistula closure maintenance (RR = 2.36; 95% confidence interval: 1.58-3.55;

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Fistulizing Crohn's diseasemeta-analysistumor necrosis factor-α antibodies

Identifiers

PMID29026838
PMCPMC5632933
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