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ArticleEuropean journal of cancer (Oxford, England : 1990)2024

Clinical trials that leverage external data: Do we need more transparent protocols and statistical plans?

Daniel Evan Schwartz, Hanna Essaouabi, Lorenzo Trippa

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Article in European journal of cancer (Oxford, England : 1990), 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Daniel Evan SchwartzDepartment of Biostatistics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, United States; Department of Data Science, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA, United States. Electronic address: daniels@ds.dfci.harvard.edu.
Hanna EssaouabiNortheastern University, Boston, MA, United States.
Lorenzo TrippaDepartment of Biostatistics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, United States; Department of Data Science, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA, United States.

Funding

Training Grant in Quantitative Sciences for Cancer ResearchT32CA009337 · NCI · HARVARD UNIVERSITY (SCH OF PUBLIC HLTH) · PI QUACKENBUSH, JOHN, TRIPPA, LORENZO · 1986 to 2025
$12.3M
Statistical Methods and Validation Analyses for the Integration of External Data in Clinical TrialsR01LM013352 · NLM · DANA-FARBER CANCER INST · PI TRIPPA, LORENZO · 2021 to 2024
$1.5M
NCI NIH HHS T32 CA009337NLM NIH HHS R01 LM013352
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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Clinical Trials as TopicResearch DesignHumans

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PMID38008030
PMCPMC12419539

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