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ArticleFrontiers in pharmacology2023

Treating acute exacerbations of COPD with Chinese herbal medicine to aid antibiotic use reduction (Excalibur): a randomised double-blind, placebo-controlled feasibility trial.

Merlin L Willcox, Xiao-Yang Hu, Tom Oliver, Kerensa Thorne, Cherish Boxall, George He, Catherine Simpson, Becci Brotherwood, Alice O'Neil, Robert Waugh and 10 more

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Article in Frontiers in pharmacology, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
1citing papers in PubMed
0.8field-weighted citation impact, top 24% 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

1 citing paper in PubMed, 3 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Editorial: Clinical phytopharmacology.Frontiers in pharmacology · 2023
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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

20 authors at 4 institutions in 2 countries.

Merlin L WillcoxSouthampton Clinical Trials Unit, University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom.
Xiao-Yang HuSouthampton Clinical Trials Unit, University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom.
Tom OliverSouthampton Clinical Trials Unit, University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom.
Kerensa ThorneSouthampton Clinical Trials Unit, University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom.
Cherish BoxallSouthampton Clinical Trials Unit, University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom.
George HePhoenix Medical Ltd, Chelmsford, United Kingdom.
Catherine SimpsonSouthampton Clinical Trials Unit, University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom.
Becci BrotherwoodSouthampton Clinical Trials Unit, University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom.
Alice O'NeilSouthampton Clinical Trials Unit, University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom.
Robert WaughSouthampton Clinical Trials Unit, University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom.
Emma TiltSouthampton Clinical Trials Unit, University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom.
Jeanne TrillSouthampton Clinical Trials Unit, University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom.
Neville GowardPatient and Public Representative, Southampton, United Kingdom.
Nick FrancisSouthampton Clinical Trials Unit, University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom.
Michael ThomasSouthampton Clinical Trials Unit, University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom.
Paul LittleSouthampton Clinical Trials Unit, University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom.
Tom WilkinsonSchool of Clinical and Experimental Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom.
Jian-Ping LiuCentre for Evidence-based Chinese Medicine, Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, Beijing, China.
Gareth GriffithsSouthampton Clinical Trials Unit, University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom.
Michael MooreSouthampton Clinical Trials Unit, University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom.
University of Southampton · GBBeijing University of Chinese Medicine · CNPhoenix Hospital Chelmsford · GBSouthampton City Council · GB

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

acute exacerbation of chronic obstructive pulmonary diseaseChinese herbal medicineCOPDfeasibility clinical trialShufeng Jiedu capsule

Identifiers

PMID37818189
PMCPMC10561384
OpenAlexW4387056850

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