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ArticleThe spine journal : official journal of the North American Spine Society2018

Response to letter to the editor entitled "thrust manipulation may not decrease the intensity of chronic low back pain" concerning "manipulation and mobilization for treating chronic low back pain: a systematic review and meta-analysis" by Coulter et al. TSJ; doi: 10.1016/j.spinee.2018.01.013.

Ian D Coulter, Cindy Crawford, Eric L Hurwitz, Howard Vernon, Raheleh Khorsan, Marika Suttorp Booth, Patricia M Herman

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Article in The spine journal : official journal of the North American Spine Society, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited 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

0 citing papers in PubMed, 0 citations in OpenAlex.

No citing paper in PubMed yet.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 4 institutions in 2 countries.

Ian D CoulterRAND Corporation, 1776 Main St, Santa Monica, CA 90407-2138, USA; UCLA School of Dentistry, Box 951668, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1668, USA; Southern California University of Health Sciences, 16200 Amber Valley Dr, Whittier, CA 90604, USA. Electronic address: crawford@rand.org.
Cindy CrawfordRAND Corporation, 1776 Main St, Santa Monica, CA 90407-2138, USA.
Eric L HurwitzRAND Corporation, 1776 Main St, Santa Monica, CA 90407-2138, USA; Office of Public Health Studies, University of Hawai`i, Mānoa, 1960 East-West Road, Biomed D104AA, Honolulu, HI 96822, USA.
Howard VernonRAND Corporation, 1776 Main St, Santa Monica, CA 90407-2138, USA; Canadian Memorial Chiropractic College, Division of Research, 6100 Leslie St., Toronto, ON, Canada M2H 3J1.
Raheleh KhorsanUCI Department of Urban Planning and Public Policy, 300 Social Ecology I, Irvine, CA 92697-7075, USA.
Marika Suttorp BoothRAND Corporation, 1776 Main St, Santa Monica, CA 90407-2138, USA.
Patricia M HermanRAND Corporation, 1776 Main St, Santa Monica, CA 90407-2138, USA.
RAND Corporation · USCanadian Memorial Chiropractic College · CASouthern California University of Health Sciences · USUniversity of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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Manipulation, SpinalHumansLow Back Pain

Identifiers

PMID30442418
OpenAlexW2900792795

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