ArticleNature methods2018
What's in a sample? Increasing transparency in biospecimen procurement methods.
Article in Nature methods, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled 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.
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.
Who cites it
9 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Recommendations for cellular and molecular pathology input into clinical trials: a systematic review and meta-aggregation.The journal of pathology. Clinical research · 2021Pooled it
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- Tissue-Like 3D Standard and Protocols for Microscope Quality Management.Microscopy and microanalysis : the official journal of Microscopy Society of America, Microbeam Analysis Society, Microscopical Society of Canada · 2023Article
- Basic principles of biobanking: from biological samples to precision medicine for patients.Virchows Archiv : an international journal of pathology · 2021Review
- Enhancing Cooperation Between Academic Biobanks and Biomedical Industry: Better Mutual Understanding and New Collaborative Models Are Needed.Biopreservation and biobanking · 2020Article
- Evolution of biobanks and ethical governance for the emerging applications in biomedical research.Journal of oral and maxillofacial pathology : JOMFPReview
Corrections and comments
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Authors and funding
3 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
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Registered trials
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