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ArticleThe Journal of law, medicine & ethics : a journal of the American Society of Law, Medicine & Ethics2021

A Just Standard: The Ethical Management of Incidental Findings in Brain Imaging Research.

Mackenzie Graham, Nina Hallowell, Julian Savulescu

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Article in The Journal of law, medicine & ethics : a journal of the American Society of Law, Medicine & Ethics, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
11citing papers in PubMed
2.4field-weighted citation impact, top 12% of its field
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

11 citing papers in PubMed, 16 citations in OpenAlex.

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  4. Reporting checklists in neuroimaging: promoting transparency, replicability, and reproducibility.Neuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology · 2024
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  7. Far from Home: Managing Incidental Findings in Field Research with Portable MRI.The Journal of law, medicine & ethics : a journal of the American Society of Law, Medicine & Ethics · 2024
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Mackenzie Graham
Nina Hallowell
Julian Savulescu
University of Melbourne · AUUniversity of Oxford · GB

Funding

Wellcome Trust 203132
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Neuroimaging research regularly yields "incidental findings": observations of potential clinical significance in healthy volunteers or patients, but which are unrelated to the purpose or variables of the study.

Indexed as

Incidental FindingsNeuroimagingBrainEthics, ResearchHumansMoral ObligationsBrain ImagingDistributive JusticeEthicsIncidental FindingsResearch Results

Identifiers

PMID34924060
PMCPMC8242825
OpenAlexW3095188347

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Registered trials

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