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ArticlePain practice : the official journal of World Institute of Pain2023

Limitations of the Cochrane review of spinal cord stimulation for low back pain.

Peter S Staats, Rod S Taylor, Christopher Gilligan, Samir Sheth, Kiran V Patel, Rui V Duarte, Sam Eldabe

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Article in Pain practice : the official journal of World Institute of Pain, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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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

3 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors.

Peter S StaatsNational Spine and Pain Centers, Shrewsbury, New Jersey, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-4079-5165
Rod S TaylorMRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit & Robertson Centre for Biostatistics, Institute of Health and Well Being, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK.
Christopher GilliganDivision of Pain Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-4769-9907
Samir ShethSutter Health System, Roseville, California, USA.
Kiran V PatelThe Spine & Pain Institute of New York, New York, New York, USA.
Rui V DuarteSaluda Medical Pty Ltd., Artarmon, New South Wales, Australia.ORCID 0000-0001-6485-7415
Sam EldabeDepartment of Pain Medicine, The James Cook University Hospital, Middlesbrough, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-9250-1886

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Chronic PainFailed Back Surgery SyndromeLow Back PainSpinal Cord StimulationHumansSpinal CordTreatment Outcome

Identifiers

PMID37427805

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