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ArticleF1000Research2020

The use of 'PICO for synthesis' and methods for synthesis without meta-analysis: protocol for a survey of current practice in systematic reviews of health interventions.

Miranda S Cumpston, Joanne E McKenzie, James Thomas, Sue E Brennan

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Article in F1000Research, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 45 papers, 25 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

45 citing papers in PubMed, 25 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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  14. Systematic review and meta‑analysis of factors predicting postoperative lung function after lung cancer resection.Wideochirurgia i inne techniki maloinwazyjne = Videosurgery and other miniinvasive techniques · 2024
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  20. Phase angle and COVID-19: A systematic review with meta-analysis.Reviews in endocrine & metabolic disorders · 2023
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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.

Miranda S CumpstonSchool of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, Melbourne, VIC, 3004, Australia.ORCID 0000-0001-6564-8615
Joanne E McKenzieSchool of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, Melbourne, VIC, 3004, Australia.ORCID 0000-0003-3534-1641
James ThomasEPPI-Centre, UCL Social Research Institute, University College London, London, WC1H 0NR, UK.ORCID 0000-0003-4805-4190
Sue E BrennanSchool of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, Melbourne, VIC, 3004, Australia.ORCID 0000-0003-1789-8809

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Cross-Sectional StudiesPublic HealthResearch DesignSystematic Reviews as TopicMeta-Analysis as Topicmeta-analysisnarrative synthesisPICOsubgroup analysissynthesissynthesis without meta-analysisSystematic reviews

Identifiers

PMID33728041
PMCPMC7919603

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