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ArticleNature biotechnology2020

Early experience with the FDA's Breakthrough Devices program.

James L Johnston, Sanket S Dhruva, Joseph S Ross, Vinay K Rathi

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Article in Nature biotechnology, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers.

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13citing papers 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

13 citing papers in PubMed.

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  3. Physician-Patient Communication about Novel Drugs and High-Risk Medical Devices.Medical decision making : an international journal of the Society for Medical Decision Making · 2025
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  7. PreclinicalFrontiers in bioengineering and biotechnology · 2023
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  12. Device Therapy in Chronic Heart Failure: JACC State-of-the-Art Review.Journal of the American College of Cardiology · 2021
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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.

James L JohnstonYale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1359-2485
Sanket S DhruvaSan Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center, San Francisco, CA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0674-2032
Joseph S RossCenter for Outcomes Research and Evaluation (CORE), Yale-New Haven Hospital, New Haven, CT, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9218-3320
Vinay K RathiDepartment of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery, Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, Boston, MA, USA. vinay_rathi@meei.harvard.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9763-9075

Funding

Short-Term Reserch Training: Students in Health SchoolsT35HL007649 · NHLBI · YALE UNIVERSITY · PI Sarwat I Chaudhry, Erica L Herzog · 1987 to 2026
$5.7M
NHLBI NIH HHS T35 HL007649
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Device ApprovalEquipment and SuppliesMedical Device LegislationHumansProduct Surveillance, PostmarketingUnited StatesUnited States Food and Drug Administration

Identifiers

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Registered trials

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