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ArticleJAMA2018

Characteristics of Interim Publications of Randomized Clinical Trials and Comparison With Final Publications.

Steven Woloshin, Lisa M Schwartz, Pamela J Bagley, Heather B Blunt, Brian White

Abstract readComparative Study
In one paragraph

Article in JAMA, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
7citing papers in PubMed
–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

7 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Efficacy of a Carrageenan gel Against Transmission of Cervical HPV (CATCH): interim analysis of a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, phase 2B trial.Clinical microbiology and infection : the official publication of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases · 2019
    Trial
  2. Ethics in Psychiatric Research.Indian journal of psychiatry · 2022
    Article
  3. Article
  4. Article
  5. Clinical trial publications.Saudi journal of anaesthesia · 2019
    Review
  6. Article
  7. Interim versus final results of the trial-not the flip side of the same coin!Indian journal of thoracic and cardiovascular surgery · 2018
    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

5 authors.

Steven WoloshinCenter for Medicine in the Media, Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, Lebanon, New Hampshire.
Lisa M SchwartzCenter for Medicine in the Media, Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, Lebanon, New Hampshire.
Pamela J BagleyBiomedical Libraries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire.
Heather B BluntBiomedical Libraries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire.
Brian WhiteAtlanticare Regional Medical Center, Pomona, New Jersey.

Funding

PA-20-072: Accelerating the Use of Evidence-based Innovation in Healthcare SystemsU19HS024075 · AHRQ · DARTMOUTH COLLEGE · PI MEARA, ELLEN R. · 2015 to 2021
$19.8M
AHRQ HHS U19 HS024075
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

PublishingRandomized Controlled Trials as TopicHumansPublicationsResearch DesignTime Factors

Identifiers

PMID29362786
PMCPMC5833570

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Registered trials

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