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ArticleJournal of spine surgery (Hong Kong)2018

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Morgan Jones, James Holton, Simon Hughes, Marcin Czyz

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Article in Journal of spine surgery (Hong Kong), 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 17 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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17citing papers in PubMed, 3 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

17 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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  16. Blood loss in totalJournal of spine surgery (Hong Kong) · 2022
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Morgan JonesRoyal Orthopaedic Hospital, The woodlands, Bristol Road South, Birmingham, UK.
James HoltonRoyal Orthopaedic Hospital, The woodlands, Bristol Road South, Birmingham, UK.
Simon HughesRoyal Orthopaedic Hospital, The woodlands, Bristol Road South, Birmingham, UK.
Marcin CzyzRoyal Orthopaedic Hospital, The woodlands, Bristol Road South, Birmingham, UK.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Identifiers

PMID30547135
PMCPMC6261760

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