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ArticleChiropractic & manual therapies2020

More published full-time researchers, early career researchers, clinician-researchers and graduate students unite to call for actions against the pseudoscientific claim that chiropractic care boosts immunity.

Pierre Côté, André Bussières, J David Cassidy, Jan Hartvigsen, Greg N Kawchuk, Charlotte Leboeuf-Yde, Silvano Mior, Michael Schneider

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Article in Chiropractic & manual therapies, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
3citing papers in PubMed
3.5field-weighted citation impact, top 6% 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

3 citing papers in PubMed, 3 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors at 7 institutions in 3 countries.

Pierre CôtéFaculty of Health Sciences, Ontario Tech University, Oshawa, Canada. pierre.cote@uoit.ca.ORCID 0000-0002-6986-6676
André BussièresDépartement chiropratique, Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, Trois-Rivières, Canada.
J David CassidyDivision of Epidemiology, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada.
Jan HartvigsenDepartment of Sports Science and Clinical Biomechanics, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark.
Greg N KawchukFaculty of Rehabilitation Medicine, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada.
Charlotte Leboeuf-YdeInstitute for Regional Health Research, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark.
Silvano MiorCentre for Disability Prevention and Rehabilitation at Ontario Tech University and CMCC, Oshawa, Canada.
Michael SchneiderSchool of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, USA.
University of Southern Denmark · DKCanadian Memorial Chiropractic College · CAMcGill University · CAOntario Tech University · CAUniversity of Alberta · CAUniversity of Pittsburgh · USUniversity of Toronto · CA

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

PMID32690049
PMCPMC7370257
OpenAlexW3043333057

What OpenQuestion holds

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Registered trials

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