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ArticleSurgical neurology international2018

How to compare outcomes and complications in neurosurgery: We must make the mission possible!

Morgan Broggi, Costanza Zattra, Paolo Ferroli

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Article in Surgical neurology international, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT06878469 (SIMPLIF-AI), which is not on this map. Cited by 3 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that 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.

NCT06878469 narecruitingnot on this mapstarted 2025, after this paper: background citation

SIMPLIF-AI: SIMPLIFication and Standardization of Care Pathways for Patients With Rare Brain Tumors Through Artificial Intelligence

TypeinterventionalSponsorFondazione I.R.C.C.S. Istituto Neurologico Carlo BestaRan2025 to 2027Enrolled200ConditionsBrain TumorsArmsRehaCom
3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

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

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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

3 authors.

Morgan BroggiDepartment of Neurosurgery, Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Neurologico Carlo Besta, Milano, Italy.
Costanza ZattraDepartment of Neurosurgery, Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Neurologico Carlo Besta, Milano, Italy.
Paolo FerroliDepartment of Neurosurgery, Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Neurologico Carlo Besta, Milano, Italy.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

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PMID29629232
PMCPMC5875107

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