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ArticleHealthcare (Basel, Switzerland)2020

The Evidence-Based Practice Silent Enemy: Retracted Articles and Their Use in Systematic Reviews.

Ivan Herrera-Peco, Azucena Santillán-García, José María Morán, Jessica Marian Goodman-Casanova, Daniel Cuesta-Lozano

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Article in Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland), 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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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. Improving the Reliability of Literature Reviews: Detection of Retracted Articles through Academic Search Engines.European journal of investigation in health, psychology and education · 2022
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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

5 authors.

Ivan Herrera-PecoNursing Department, Faculty of Health Sciences, Alfonso X El Sabio University, Villanueva de la Cañada, 28691 Madrid, Spain.ORCID 0000-0002-5183-5679
Azucena Santillán-GarcíaUniversity Hospital of Burgos, 09006 Burgos, Spain.ORCID 0000-0002-7376-4170
José María MoránNursing Department, Nursing and Occupational Therapy College, Universidad de Extremadura, 10003 Cáceres, Spain.ORCID 0000-0002-5538-182X
Jessica Marian Goodman-CasanovaDepartment of Mental Health, Regional University Hospital of Málaga, Biomedical Research Institute of Malaga (IBIMA), 29010 Málaga, Spain.ORCID 0000-0002-8598-594X
Daniel Cuesta-LozanoNurse Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Nursing and Physiotherapy Department, University of Alcalá, 28805 Madrid, Spain.ORCID 0000-0001-6589-1439

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Today, evidence-based nursing practice strives to improve health care, ensure adherence to treatment, improve health outcomes, and guarantee patient safety. The main scientific documents that nurses should consult, to obtain the best possible evidence, are systematic reviews and meta-analyses. However, this type of scientific document has a major issue if it uses retracted articles that could directly affect the consistency of the results shown in the reviews. The aim of this commentary is to present the current issue represented by the use of retracted articles in meta-analyses of systematic reviews and how researchers could detect them, through the use of different instruments, avoiding them, and providing a reliable SR or meta-analysis that could be useful for day-to-day clinical and research activities.

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evidence-based practicenursesresearch methodologyretracted articles

Identifiers

PMID33172213
PMCPMC7711589

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