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ArticleFrontiers in human neuroscience2018

Using tDCS as an Add-On Treatment Prior to FES Therapy in Improving Upper Limb Function in Severe Chronic Stroke Patients: A Randomized Controlled Study.

Nuerjiayi Shaheiwola, Bin Zhang, Jie Jia, Dingguo Zhang

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Article in Frontiers in human neuroscience, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 19 papers, 4 of them syntheses that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
19citing papers in PubMed, 4 pooled it
1.7field-weighted citation impact, top 16% 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

19 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 32 citations in OpenAlex.

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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

4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Nuerjiayi ShaheiwolaState Key Laboratory of Mechanical System and Vibration, Robotics Institute, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China.
Bin ZhangState Key Laboratory of Mechanical System and Vibration, Robotics Institute, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China.
Jie JiaDepartment of Rehabilitation, Huashan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, China.
Dingguo ZhangState Key Laboratory of Mechanical System and Vibration, Robotics Institute, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China.
Shanghai Jiao Tong University · CNFudan University · CN

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

trial registrationChiCTR-ICR-15006108.

Indexed as

functional electrical stimulationhomeostatic mechanismstroketranscranial direct current stimulationupper limb rehabilitation

Identifiers

PMID29970994
PMCPMC6018756
OpenAlexW2809632387

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