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SynthesisFrontiers in neuroscience2020

The Pathophysiology of Degenerative Cervical Myelopathy and the Physiology of Recovery Following Decompression.

Farhana Akter, Xinming Yu, Xingping Qin, Shun Yao, Parisa Nikrouz, Yasir Ahmed Syed, Mark Kotter

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Synthesis in Frontiers in neuroscience, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 38 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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38citing papers in PubMed, 2 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

38 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 67 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 5 institutions in 2 countries.

Farhana AkterDepartment of Clinical Neuroscience, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom.
Xinming YuDepartment of Clinical Neuroscience, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom.
Xingping QinMassachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States.
Shun YaoDepartment of Neurosurgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States.
Parisa NikrouzMaidstone and Tunbridge Wells Trust, Maidstone, United Kingdom.
Yasir Ahmed SyedNeuroscience and Mental Health Research Institute (NMHRI), Cathays, United Kingdom.
Mark KotterDepartment of Clinical Neuroscience, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom.
University of Cambridge · GBCardiff University · GBHarvard University · USMaidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust · GBMassachusetts General Hospital · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

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Identifiers

PMID32425740
PMCPMC7203415
OpenAlexW4244226636

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