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SynthesisThyroid : official journal of the American Thyroid Association2020

Patient-Reported Quality-of-Life Outcome Measures in the Thyroid Cancer Population.

Eve M Roth, Carrie C Lubitz, John Shannon Swan, Benjamin C James

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In one paragraph

Synthesis in Thyroid : official journal of the American Thyroid Association, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 25 papers, 4 of them syntheses that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
25citing papers in PubMed, 4 pooled it
3.8field-weighted citation impact, top 5% of its field
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

25 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 48 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Cost-Effectiveness of Radiofrequency Ablation for Benign Non-Functioning Thyroid Nodules: A Systematic Review.Clinical otolaryngology : official journal of ENT-UK ; official journal of Netherlands Society for Oto-Rhino-Laryngology & Cervico-Facial Surgery · 2026
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  5. Machine learning-based random forest for predicting decreased quality of life in thyroid cancer patients after thyroidectomy.Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer · 2022
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  6. Validation for use in Colombia of the EORTC QLQ-THY34 questionnaire to measure quality of life in patients with thyroid cancer.Quality of life research : an international journal of quality of life aspects of treatment, care and rehabilitation · 2026
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  15. Methodological quality of 100 recent systematic reviews of health-related outcome measurement instruments: an overview of reviews.Quality of life research : an international journal of quality of life aspects of treatment, care and rehabilitation · 2024
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  18. The challenges of returning to work for differentiated thyroid cancer survivors in china: a qualitative study.Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer · 2023
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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

4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Eve M RothHarvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
Carrie C LubitzHarvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
John Shannon SwanHarvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
Benjamin C JamesHarvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
Harvard University · USBeth Israel Deaconess Medical Center · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Quality of LifeCancer SurvivorsFemaleHealth StatusHumansMaleNeoplasm Recurrence, LocalPatient Reported Outcome MeasuresPsychometricsSurveys and QuestionnairesThyroid NeoplasmsTreatment Outcomepatient-reported outcomesquality of lifethyroid cancer

Identifiers

PMID32292128
PMCPMC7583324
OpenAlexW3015822984

What OpenQuestion holds

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Registered trials

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Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.