Rigour and transparency in the family of systematic reviews: The International Journal of Health Planning and Management encourages prospective protocol registration.

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.

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.

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 4 citations in OpenAlex.

1. Shining light on knee osteoarthritis: an overview of vitamin D supplementation studies.Frontiers in medicine · 2024
   Pooled it
2. Understanding the Mechanisms that Operate within CHIME: A Realist Review Protocol.HRB open research · 2025
   Article

Corrections and comments

• Comment on
  The PRISMA 2020 statement: an updated guideline for reporting systematic reviews.2021

Authors and funding

1 author at 1 institution in 1 country.

Funding

Abstract

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