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SynthesisFrontiers in medicine2021

Pain Management in Acute Pancreatitis: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Randomised Controlled Trials.

Wenhao Cai, Fei Liu, Yongjian Wen, Chenxia Han, Manya Prasad, Qing Xia, Vikesh K Singh, Robert Sutton, Wei Huang

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In one paragraph

Synthesis in Frontiers in medicine, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 38 papers, 4 of them syntheses that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
38citing papers in PubMed, 4 pooled it
8.8field-weighted citation impact, top 1% 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

38 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 66 citations in OpenAlex.

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  9. Acute pancreatitis: mechanisms and therapeutic approaches.Signal transduction and targeted therapy · 2026
    Review
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  15. Management of acute pancreatitis in the "no man's land".Internal and emergency medicine · 2025
    Review
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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

9 authors at 4 institutions in 4 countries.

Wenhao CaiDepartment of Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine, Sichuan Provincial Pancreatitis Centre and West China-Liverpool Biomedical Research Centre, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China.
Fei LiuDepartment of Anaesthesiology, Laboratory of Anaesthesia and Critical Care Medicine, National-Local Joint Engineering Research Centre of Translational Medicine of Anaesthesiology, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China.
Yongjian WenDepartment of Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine, Sichuan Provincial Pancreatitis Centre and West China-Liverpool Biomedical Research Centre, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China.
Chenxia HanDepartment of Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine, Sichuan Provincial Pancreatitis Centre and West China-Liverpool Biomedical Research Centre, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China.
Manya PrasadClinical Research and Epidemiology, Institute of Liver and Biliary Sciences, New Delhi, India.
Qing XiaDepartment of Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine, Sichuan Provincial Pancreatitis Centre and West China-Liverpool Biomedical Research Centre, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China.
Vikesh K SinghDivision of Gastroenterology, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, MD, United States.
Robert SuttonLiverpool Pancreatitis Research Group, Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and Institute of Systems, Molecular and Integrative Biology, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom.
Wei HuangDepartment of Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine, Sichuan Provincial Pancreatitis Centre and West China-Liverpool Biomedical Research Centre, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China.
Sichuan University · CNUniversity of Liverpool · GBInstitute of Liver and Biliary Sciences · INJohns Hopkins University · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

acute pancreatitisanalgesicsmeta-analysispain managementrandomised-controlled trial

Identifiers

PMID34977084
PMCPMC8718672
OpenAlexW4200349630

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Registered trials

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