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ArticleTrials2020

Letter on: "An analysis of deficiencies in the data of interventional drug trials registered with Clinical Trials Registry - India".

Mohua Maulik, Jyotsna Gupta, Atul Juneja, Tulsi Adhikari, Saurabh Sharma, Yashmin Panchal, Neha Yadav, Mendu Vishnu Vardhana Rao

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Article in Trials, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
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.

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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

8 authors.

Mohua MaulikClinical Trials Registry - India, ICMR-National Institute of Medical Statistics, New Delhi, Delhi, 110029, India.
Jyotsna GuptaClinical Trials Registry - India, ICMR-National Institute of Medical Statistics, New Delhi, Delhi, 110029, India.
Atul JunejaICMR-National Institute of Medical Statistics, New Delhi, Delhi, 110029, India.
Tulsi AdhikariICMR-National Institute of Medical Statistics, New Delhi, Delhi, 110029, India.
Saurabh SharmaICMR-National Institute of Medical Statistics, New Delhi, Delhi, 110029, India.
Yashmin PanchalClinical Trials Registry - India, ICMR-National Institute of Medical Statistics, New Delhi, Delhi, 110029, India.
Neha YadavClinical Trials Registry - India, ICMR-National Institute of Medical Statistics, New Delhi, Delhi, 110029, India.
Mendu Vishnu Vardhana RaoICMR-National Institute of Medical Statistics, New Delhi, Delhi, 110029, India. dr_vishnurao@yahoo.com.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8033-4710

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

An article published in this journal analyses the deficiencies in the data of interventional drug trials registered with Clinical Trials Registry - India. We wish to rebut some of the inferences and highlight the pitfalls of a purely automated analysis of registry data as posited by the authors.

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Clinical Trials as TopicData ManagementRegistriesHumansIndiaAutomated analysisClinical Trials RegistryCTRIIndia

Identifiers

PMID31910886
PMCPMC6947893

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