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ArticlePediatric rheumatology online journal2024

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Fabrizio de Benedetti, Alexei A Grom, Hermine Brunner

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Article in Pediatric rheumatology online journal, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
2citing papers in PubMed
0.9field-weighted citation impact, top 27% 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

2 citing papers in PubMed, 2 citations in OpenAlex.

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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

3 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Fabrizio de BenedettiDivision of Rheumatology, Ospedale Pediatrico Bambino Gesù, Rome, Italy. fabrizio.debenedetti@opbg.net.
Alexei A GromDivision of Rheumatology, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, USA.
Hermine BrunnerDivision of Rheumatology, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, USA.
Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center · USBambino Gesù Children's Hospital · IT

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The substantial morbidity and mortality associated with refractory systemic JIA underlies the need for new treatment approaches. However, progress in this area has been limited by the difficulty of enrolling these patients in clinical trials with traditional designs, particularly in patients presenting with the life-threatening macrophage activation syndrome. At the NextGen 2022 conference, there was group consensus that using historical cohorts as a control group to avoid the need for a placebo-arm or drug withdrawal was highly desirable and might be acceptable for clinical trials in MAS to support medication efficacy and safety. However, if historic controls were used in a trial, it would be important to ensure that the historic cohort matches the study group in terms of clinical characteristics (such as disease severity and exposure to other medications), and that disease outcome in both groups is assessed using the same outcome measures. The discussions at the NextGen 2022 conference focused on the potential strategies to achieve these goals.

Indexed as

Arthritis, JuvenileMacrophage Activation SyndromeClinical Trials as TopicHumansHistorical controlsMASRefractory SJIARefractory SJIA trial design

Identifiers

PMID38172909
PMCPMC10762807
OpenAlexW4390547855

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Registered trials

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