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ReviewEvidence-based complementary and alternative medicine : eCAM2021

Quality Evaluation of Randomized Controlled Trials of

Xiuzhu Li, Weijie Chen, Yingqi Xu, Zuanji Liang, Hao Hu, Shengpeng Wang, Yitao Wang

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Review in Evidence-based complementary and alternative medicine : eCAM, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
5citing 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

5 citing papers in PubMed.

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  5. Challenges in phytotherapy research.Frontiers in pharmacology · 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

7 authors.

Xiuzhu LiInstitute of Chinese Medical Sciences, State Key Laboratory of Quality Research in Chinese Medicine, University of Macau, Macao, China.
Weijie ChenInstitute of Chinese Medical Sciences, State Key Laboratory of Quality Research in Chinese Medicine, University of Macau, Macao, China.
Yingqi XuDepartment of Pharmacy, Faculty of Science, National University of Singapore, Singapore.
Zuanji LiangInstitute of Chinese Medical Sciences, State Key Laboratory of Quality Research in Chinese Medicine, University of Macau, Macao, China.
Hao HuInstitute of Chinese Medical Sciences, State Key Laboratory of Quality Research in Chinese Medicine, University of Macau, Macao, China.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9441-106X
Shengpeng WangInstitute of Chinese Medical Sciences, State Key Laboratory of Quality Research in Chinese Medicine, University of Macau, Macao, China.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3575-9212
Yitao WangInstitute of Chinese Medical Sciences, State Key Laboratory of Quality Research in Chinese Medicine, University of Macau, Macao, China.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4355-6490

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

background

methodsSix databases including Embase, PubMed, Web of Science, the Cochrane Library, ClinicalTrial.gov, and China National Knowledge Infrastructure were searched to identify RCTs that used

resultsA total of 39 RCTs were included in this study, including 23 RCTs of

conclusionsThere is inadequate reporting among the included RCTs of different

Identifiers

PMID34306163
PMCPMC8266448

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