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ArticlePaediatrics & child health2018

Cannabis for the treatment of paediatric epilepsy? An update for Canadian paediatricians.

Richard James Huntsman, Richard Tang-Wai, Bryan Acton, Jane Alcorn, Andrew William Lyon, Darrell David Mousseau, Blair Seifert, Robert Laprairie, Erin Prosser-Loose, Lumir Ondrej Hanuš

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Article in Paediatrics & child health, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3citing 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

3 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Article
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  3. Considerations for clinical trials to study cannabinoids in Canadian children with neurologic disorders.CMAJ : Canadian Medical Association journal = journal de l'Association medicale canadienne · 2018
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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

10 authors.

Richard James HuntsmanCannabinoid Research Initiative of Saskatchewan (CRIS), University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.
Richard Tang-WaiCannabinoid Research Initiative of Saskatchewan (CRIS), University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.
Bryan ActonSaskatchewan Health Authority, Saskatoon Area and Department of Psychology, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.
Jane AlcornCannabinoid Research Initiative of Saskatchewan (CRIS), University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.
Andrew William LyonCannabinoid Research Initiative of Saskatchewan (CRIS), University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.
Darrell David MousseauCannabinoid Research Initiative of Saskatchewan (CRIS), University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.
Blair SeifertCannabinoid Research Initiative of Saskatchewan (CRIS), University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.
Robert LaprairieCannabinoid Research Initiative of Saskatchewan (CRIS), University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.
Erin Prosser-LooseDepartment of Pediatrics, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.
Lumir Ondrej HanušInstitute for Drug Research, School of Pharmacy, Faculty of Medicine, Hebrew University, Ein Kerem Campus, Jerusalem.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The plant

Indexed as

CannabidiolCannabisPaediatric Epilepsy

Identifiers

PMID30455572
PMCPMC6234422

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