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ArticleBone & joint research2021

Osteoporosis: current screening methods, novel techniques, and preoperative assessment of bone mineral density.

Khalid Al-Hourani, Shao-Ting Jerry Tsang, A Hamish R W Simpson

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Article in Bone & joint research, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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8citing papers in PubMed, 3 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

8 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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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

3 authors.

Khalid Al-HouraniDepartment of Trauma and Orthopaedics, Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.
Shao-Ting Jerry TsangDepartment of Trauma and Orthopaedics, Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-9862-8503
A Hamish R W SimpsonDepartment of Trauma and Orthopaedics, Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

bone mineral density (BMD)Bone qualityCortical bonedistal radiusforearmsFragility fracturefragility fractureship fracturesImagingOsteoporosisosteoporotic fracturesplain radiographs

Identifiers

PMID34928173
PMCPMC8696546

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