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Observational studyBMJ (Clinical research ed.)2017

Payments by US pharmaceutical and medical device manufacturers to US medical journal editors: retrospective observational study.

Jessica J Liu, Chaim M Bell, John J Matelski, Allan S Detsky, Peter Cram

Abstract readObservational Study
In one paragraph

Observational study in BMJ (Clinical research ed.), 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 35 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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35citing papers in PubMed, 1 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

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

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Jessica J LiuDepartment of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada jessica.liu@uhn.ca.
Chaim M BellDepartment of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
John J MatelskiDepartment of Medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine, University Health Network and Sinai Health System, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Allan S DetskyDepartment of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Peter CramDepartment of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Conflict of InterestEditorial PoliciesEquipment and SuppliesBiomedical ResearchDrug IndustryHumansIncomeManufacturing IndustryPeriodicals as TopicRetrospective StudiesUnited States

Identifiers

PMID29074628
PMCPMC5655612

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Registered trials

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