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ReviewMedical journal of the Islamic Republic of Iran2020

Assessing the quality of meta-analyses in systematic reviews in pharmaceutical research in Iran by 2016: A systematic review.

Alireza Amanollahi, Maziar Moradi-Lakeh, Farhad Shokraneh, Yousef Bashiri, Leily Mahmudi

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Review in Medical journal of the Islamic Republic of Iran, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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0cells of the map it votes in
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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

1 citing paper in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

  1. Pooled it
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

5 authors.

Alireza AmanollahiDepartment of Epidemiology, School of Public Health and Safety, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
Maziar Moradi-LakehPreventive Medicine and Public Health Research Center, Department of Community Medicine, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
Farhad ShokranehCochrane Schizophrenia Group, The Institute of Mental Health, A Partnership Between the University of Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust, Nottingham, UK.
Yousef BashiriDepartment of Biostatistics, School of Allied Medical Sciences, Shahid Bebeshti Univercity of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
Leily MahmudiDepartment of Community Medicine, Dezful University of Medical Sciences, Dezful, Iran.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8711-0568

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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PMID32617269
PMCPMC7320979

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