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ArticleAmerican journal of obstetrics and gynecology2018

There is insufficient evidence to claim that cerclage is the treatment of choice for patients with a cervical length <10 mm.

Roberto Romero, Agustin Conde-Agudelo, Kypros H Nicolaides

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In one paragraph

Article in American journal of obstetrics and gynecology, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
4citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
1.0field-weighted citation impact, top 24% of its field
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

4 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 8 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Pooled it
  2. Relationship of Amniotic Fluid Sludge and Short Cervix With a High Rate of Preterm Birth in Women After Cervical Cerclage.Journal of ultrasound in medicine : official journal of the American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine · 2022
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Roberto RomeroChief, Perinatology Research Branch, Division of Obstetrics and Maternal-Fetal Medicine, Division of Intramural Research, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, Bethesda, MD, and Detroit, MI; Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI; Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI; Center for Molecular Medicine and Genetics, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI. Electronic address: prbchiefstaff@med.wayne.edu.
Agustin Conde-AgudeloDirector, Division of Epidemiology, Systematic Reviews, and Meta-analyses, Perinatology Research Branch, Division of Obstetrics and Maternal-Fetal Medicine, Division of Intramural Research, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, Bethesda, MD, and Detroit, MI; Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, MI.
Kypros H NicolaidesProfessor and Chief, Harris Birthright Research Centre for Fetal Medicine, King's College Hospital, London, United Kingdom.
Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development · USHarris Birthright Research Centre for Fetal Medicine · GB

Funding

The Role Of Subclinical Infection And Cytokines In Preterm ParturitionZIAHD002400 · NICHD · EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH & HUMAN DEVELOPMENT · PI ROMERO, ROBERTO · 2009 to 2025
$254.4M
Intramural NIH HHS Z99 HD999999
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Cerclage, CervicalPremature BirthUterine Cervical IncompetenceCervix UteriFemaleHumansInfant, NewbornPregnancyProgesteroneProgesterone

Identifiers

PMID29654737
PMCPMC6105270
OpenAlexW2796729043

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Registered trials

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