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ArticleIntensive care medicine2018

Are systematic reviews and meta-analyses still useful research? We are not sure.

Morten Hylander Møller, John P A Ioannidis, Michael Darmon

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Article in Intensive care medicine, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 28 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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28citing 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

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

  1. Prone position for acute respiratory failure in adults.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2015
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  15. Guidance to best tools and practices for systematic reviews1.Journal of pediatric rehabilitation medicine · 2023
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  18. Publication of meta-analyses in sleep medicine: a scoping review.Journal of clinical sleep medicine : JCSM : official publication of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine · 2021
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  19. Challenges to Evidence Synthesis and Identification of Data Gaps in Human Biomonitoring.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021
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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.

Morten Hylander MøllerDepartment of Intensive Care 4131, Copenhagen University Hospital, Rigshospitalet, Blegdamsvej 9, 2100, Copenhagen, Denmark. mortenhylander@gmail.com.
John P A IoannidisMeta-Research Innovation Center at Stanford (METRICS) and Departments of Medicine, Health Research and Policy, and Biomedical Data Science, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA.
Michael DarmonAP-HP, Saint Louis Hospital, Medical Intensive Care Unit, Paris, France.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Meta-Analysis as TopicSystematic Reviews as TopicBiomedical Research

Identifiers

PMID29663048

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Registered trials

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