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ArticleSystematic reviews2018

Partially systematic thoughts on the history of systematic reviews.

Mike Clarke

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Article in Systematic reviews, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
5citing papers in PubMed
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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

5 citing papers in PubMed.

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  3. Study within a review (SWAR).Journal of evidence-based medicine · 2022
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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

1 author.

Mike ClarkeNorthern Ireland Methodology Hub, Centre for Public Health, Institute of Clinical Sciences, Block B, Queen's University Belfast, Royal Hospitals, Grosvenor Road, Belfast, BT12 6BJ, Northern Ireland. m.clarke@qub.ac.uk.ORCID 0000-0002-2926-7257

Funding

Medical Research Council G0901530
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Six years after the launch of Systematic Reviews by Biomed Central, this article is part of the celebration of the journal. It contains personal reflections on the past, present and future of systematic reviews, using examples relevant to the role of systematic reviews in cataloguing and analysing research, assessing quality and planning new studies. The focus is on the most common of the various types of systematic review in health and social care, namely those assessing the effects of interventions.

Indexed as

Periodicals as TopicSystematic Reviews as TopicBiomedical ResearchHistoryHistory, 19th CenturyHistory, 20th CenturyHistory, 21st CenturyHumansResearch Design

Identifiers

PMID30368251
PMCPMC6204283

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Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.