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ArticleClinical orthopaedics and related research2018

Editorial: Sparse-data Bias-What the Savvy Reader Needs to Know.

Seth S Leopold, Raphaël Porcher

Abstract readEditorial
In one paragraph

Article in Clinical orthopaedics and related research, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
13citing papers in PubMed
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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

13 citing papers in PubMed.

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  9. CORR Synthesis: When Should We Be Skeptical of Clinical Prediction Models?Clinical orthopaedics and related research · 2020
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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

2 authors.

Seth S LeopoldS. S. Leopold, Editor-In-Chief, Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research®, Philadelphia, PA, USA R. Porcher, Center of Clinical Epidemiology, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, Hôtel-Dieu, Centre d'Epidémiologie Clinique; Team METHODS, Centre de Recherche en Epidémiologie et Statistiques (CRESS), Paris Descartes University; INSERM U1153, Paris, France.
Raphaël Porcher

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Attitude of Health PersonnelData AccuracyReadingBiomedical ResearchComprehensionData Interpretation, StatisticalHumansModels, StatisticalPeriodicals as TopicPublication Bias

Identifiers

PMID29481361
PMCPMC6260077

What OpenQuestion holds

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Registered trials

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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.