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ArticleBritish journal of anaesthesia2021

Variability in experimental pain studies: nuisance or opportunity?

Victoria J Madden, Peter R Kamerman, Mark J Catley, Valeria Bellan, Leslie N Russek, Danny Camfferman, G Lorimer Moseley

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Article in British journal of anaesthesia, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers, 1 of them a synthesis 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

15 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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  11. Treating persistent pain after breast cancer: practice gaps and future directions.Journal of cancer survivorship : research and practice · 2023
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors.

Victoria J MaddenDepartment of Anaesthesia and Perioperative Medicine, Neuroscience Institute, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa; Department of Psychiatry and Mental Health, Neuroscience Institute, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa; IIMPACT in Health, University of South Australia, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia. Electronic address: torymadden@gmail.com.
Peter R KamermanSchool of Physiology, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa; School of Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Health Sciences, Curtin University, Perth, Western Australia, Australia.
Mark J CatleyIIMPACT in Health, University of South Australia, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia.
Valeria BellanIIMPACT in Health, University of South Australia, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia; Cognitive and Systems Neuroscience Research Hub (CSN-RH), University of South Australia, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia.
Leslie N RussekIIMPACT in Health, University of South Australia, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia; Department of Physical Therapy, Clarkson University, Potsdam, NY, USA.
Danny CamffermanIIMPACT in Health, University of South Australia, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia.
G Lorimer MoseleyIIMPACT in Health, University of South Australia, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia.

Funding

Psychosocial distress, inflammatory reactivity and central sensitization in the pathway to HIV-related pain: characterizing the associations and developing a pragmatic, coping-focused intervention.K43TW011442 · FIC · UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN · PI MADDEN, VICTORIA JOY · 2019 to 2023
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FIC NIH HHS K43 TW011442
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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Indexed as

Biological Variation, PopulationPain MeasurementPain PerceptionPain ThresholdBiomedical ResearchHumansPainPredictive Value of TestsReproducibility of Resultsanalgesiapainstatisticsstudy designvariability

Identifiers

PMID33341221
PMCPMC8014940

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