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ArticleEuropean journal of cardio-thoracic surgery : official journal of the European Association for Cardio-thoracic Surgery2020

Transatlantic editorial: Institutional investigations of ethically flawed reports in cardiothoracic surgery journals.

Robert M Sade, Bartosz Rylski, Julie A Swain, John W C Entwistle, DuyKhanh P Ceppa, Members of the Cardiothoracic Ethics Forum who contributed to this work

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Article in European journal of cardio-thoracic surgery : official journal of the European Association for Cardio-thoracic Surgery, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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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

2 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Why Universities Should Make Misconduct Reports Public.The Journal of law, medicine & ethics : a journal of the American Society of Law, Medicine & Ethics · 2025
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  2. Omentum support for cardiac regeneration in ischaemic cardiomyopathy models: a systematic scoping review.European journal of cardio-thoracic surgery : official journal of the European Association for Cardio-thoracic Surgery · 2020
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Robert M SadeDivision of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Institute of Human Values in Health Care, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, USA.
Bartosz RylskiDepartment of Cardiovascular Surgery, University Heart Center Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany.
Julie A SwainDepartment of Cardiovascular Surgery, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA.
John W C EntwistleDivision of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
DuyKhanh P CeppaDivision of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, USA.
Members of the Cardiothoracic Ethics Forum who contributed to this work

Funding

South Carolina Clinical & Translational Research Institute (SCTR)UL1TR001450 · NCATS · MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA · PI BRADY, KATHLEEN T., FLUME, PATRICK A · 2015 to 2024
$41.1M
NCATS NIH HHS UL1 TR001450
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

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Periodicals as TopicThoracic SurgeryEditorial PoliciesHumansEthicsHealth policyProfessional affairs

Identifiers

PMID31995167
PMCPMC7078853

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