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ArticleBMJ (Clinical research ed.)2018

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Jonathan A Cook, Steven A Julious, William Sones, Lisa V Hampson, Catherine Hewitt, Jesse A Berlin, Deborah Ashby, Richard Emsley, Dean A Fergusson, Stephen J Walters and 11 more

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Article in BMJ (Clinical research ed.), 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 87 papers, 5 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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87citing papers in PubMed, 5 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

87 citing papers in PubMed, 5 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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  4. A review of trauma and orthopaedic randomised clinical trials published in high-impact general medical journals.European journal of orthopaedic surgery & traumatology : orthopedie traumatologie · 2022
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27 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

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

21 authors.

Jonathan A CookCentre for Statistics in Medicine, Nuffield Department of Orthopaedics, Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal Sciences, University of Oxford, Botnar Research Centre, Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre, Oxford OX3 7LD, UK jonathan.cook@ndorms.ox.ac.uk.
Steven A JuliousMedical Statistics Group, ScHARR, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK.
William SonesCentre for Statistics in Medicine, Nuffield Department of Orthopaedics, Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal Sciences, University of Oxford, Botnar Research Centre, Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre, Oxford OX3 7LD, UK.
Lisa V HampsonStatistical Methodology and Consulting, Novartis, Basel, Switzerland.
Catherine HewittDepartment of Health Sciences, University of York, Heslington, York, UK.
Jesse A BerlinJohnson & Johnson, Titusville, NJ, USA.
Deborah AshbyImperial Clinical Trials Unit, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, UK.
Richard EmsleyDepartment of Biostatistics and Health Informatics, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London, London, UK.
Dean A FergussonClinical Epidemiology Programme, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Ottawa, ON, Canada.
Stephen J WaltersMedical Statistics Group, ScHARR, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK.
Edward C F WilsonCambridge Centre for Health Services Research and Cambridge Clinical Trials Unit, University of Cambridge, Institute of Public Health, Cambridge, UK.
Graeme MacLennanCentre for Healthcare Randomised Trials (CHaRT), University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK.
Nigel StallardWarwick Medical School-Statistics and Epidemiology, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK.
Joanne C RothwellMedical Statistics Group, ScHARR, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK.
Martin BlandDepartment of Health Sciences, University of York, Heslington, York, UK.
Louise BrownMRC Clinical Trials Unit at University College London, Institute of Clinical Trials and Methodology, London, UK.
Craig R RamsayHealth Services Research Unit, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK.
Andrew CookWessex Institute, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK jonathan.cook@ndorms.ox.ac.uk.
David ArmstrongSchool of Population Health and Environmental Sciences, Faculty of Life Sciences and Medicine, King's College London, London, UK.
Doug AltmanCentre for Statistics in Medicine, Nuffield Department of Orthopaedics, Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal Sciences, University of Oxford, Botnar Research Centre, Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre, Oxford OX3 7LD, UK.
Luke D ValeHealth Economics Group, Institute of Health and Society, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK.

Funding

Medical Research Council MC_PC_16101Medical Research Council MC_UU_12023/29
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

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Identifiers

PMID30560792
PMCPMC6216070

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