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ArticleArthritis & rheumatology (Hoboken, N.J.)2020

Challenges in Systematic Reviews That Include Observational Studies: Comment on the Article by Karmacharya et al.

Yan Luo, Satoshi Funada, Takashi Yoshioka, Toshi A Furukawa

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Article in Arthritis & rheumatology (Hoboken, N.J.), 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited 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

0 citing papers in PubMed.

No citing paper in PubMed yet.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Yan LuoKyoto University Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan.ORCID 0000-0002-5271-5126
Satoshi FunadaKyoto University Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan.
Takashi YoshiokaFukushima Medical University, Fukushima, Japan and Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan.
Toshi A FurukawaKyoto University Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan.

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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SpondylarthritisHumans

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PMID32686909

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