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ArticleNPJ digital medicine2020

Characteristics and challenges of the clinical pipeline of digital therapeutics.

Nisarg A Patel, Atul J Butte

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Article in NPJ digital medicine, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 81 papers, 7 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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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

81 citing papers in PubMed, 7 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

  1. Digital Therapeutics in China: Comprehensive Review.Journal of medical Internet research · 2025
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21 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

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

2 authors.

Nisarg A PatelDepartment of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA. nisarg.patel@ucsf.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1697-6481
Atul J ButteBakar Computational Health Sciences Institute, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7433-2740

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Identifiers

PMID33311567
PMCPMC7733514

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