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ArticleBMJ (Clinical research ed.)2023

Maternal and neonatal trauma during forceps and vacuum delivery must not be overlooked.

Giulia M Muraca, Laura E Ralph, Penny Christensen, Rohan D'Souza, Roxana Geoffrion, Sarka Lisonkova, K S Joseph

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Article in BMJ (Clinical research ed.), 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that 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

12 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

  1. Efficacy of obstetrics forceps and vacuum extractor to assist during vaginal delivery: systematic review and meta-analysis.Revista brasileira de ginecologia e obstetricia : revista da Federacao Brasileira das Sociedades de Ginecologia e Obstetricia · 2025
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors.

Giulia M MuracaDepartments of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact, Faculty of Health Sciences, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
Laura E RalphPatient author, Canada.
Penny ChristensenPublic representative, Birth Trauma Canada, Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada.
Rohan D'SouzaDepartments of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact, Faculty of Health Sciences, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
Roxana GeoffrionDepartment of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
Sarka LisonkovaDepartment of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
K S JosephDepartment of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Birth InjuriesInfant, Newborn, DiseasesDelivery, ObstetricExtraction, ObstetricalFamilyFemaleHumansInfant, NewbornObstetrical ForcepsPregnancyRetrospective StudiesSurgical InstrumentsVacuum Extraction, Obstetrical

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PMID37857419
PMCPMC10585424

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