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ArticleJournal of neurosurgery2018

Letter to the Editor. Phase III randomized controlled trials are essential to properly evaluate the role of radiotherapy in WHO grade II meningioma.

Michael D Jenkinson, Damien C Weber, Brian J Haylock, Frances C Sherratt, Bridget Young, Michael Weller, Helen Bulbeck, Giovanna Culeddu, Dyfrig A Hughes, Alice Brain and 4 more

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Article in Journal of neurosurgery, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
1citing 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

1 citing paper in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

  1. Guideline
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

14 authors.

Michael D Jenkinson1The Walton Centre NHS Foundation Trust, Liverpool, United Kingdom.
Damien C Weber3Center for Proton Therapy, Paul Scherrer Institute, Villigen, Switzerland.
Brian J Haylock4Clatterbridge Cancer Centre, Wirral, United Kingdom.
Frances C Sherratt5Institute of Psychology, Health and Society, University of Liverpool, United Kingdom.
Bridget Young5Institute of Psychology, Health and Society, University of Liverpool, United Kingdom.
Michael Weller6University Hospital Zurich, Switzerland.
Helen Bulbeck7brainstrust charity, Cowes, Isle of Wight, United Kingdom.
Giovanna Culeddu8Centre for Health Economics and Medicines Evaluation, University of Bangor, United Kingdom; and.
Dyfrig A Hughes8Centre for Health Economics and Medicines Evaluation, University of Bangor, United Kingdom; and.
Alice Brain4Clatterbridge Cancer Centre, Wirral, United Kingdom.
Kumar Das1The Walton Centre NHS Foundation Trust, Liverpool, United Kingdom.
Matthias Preusser9Comprehensive Cancer Centre Vienna, Medical University of Vienna, Austria.
Priya Francis2Institute of Translational Medicine, University of Liverpool, United Kingdom.
Carrol Gamble2Institute of Translational Medicine, University of Liverpool, United Kingdom.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Meningeal NeoplasmsMeningiomaHumansRadiotherapy, AdjuvantRandomized Controlled Trials as Topic

Identifiers

What OpenQuestion holds

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Registered trials

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