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Trial reportNeurodegenerative disease management2024

Patient-reported benefits from nabiximols treatment in multiple sclerosis-related spasticity exceed conventional measures.

Michael R Haupts, Ute Essner, Mathias Mäurer

Open access · hybridAbstract readClinical TrialMulticenter Study
In one paragraph

Trial report in Neurodegenerative disease management, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
5citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
2.1field-weighted citation impact, top 14% 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

5 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 5 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Pooled it
  2. Health-related quality of life in patients receiving medicinal cannabis: systematic review and meta-analysis of primary research findings 2015-2025.Quality of life research : an international journal of quality of life aspects of treatment, care and rehabilitation · 2026
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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 1 country.

Michael R HauptsDepartment of Neurology, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, 40225, Germany.
Ute EssnerO. Meany Consultancy GmbH, Hamburg, 22339, Germany.
Mathias MäurerKlinik für Neurologie, Juliusspital Würzburg Klinikum Würzburg Mitte gGmbH, Würzburg, 97070, Germany.
Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf · DEKlinikum Würzburg Mitte · DE

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

CannabidiolMultiple SclerosisAdultDronabinolDrug CombinationsHumansMuscle SpasticityPatient Reported Outcome MeasuresPlant ExtractsProspective StudiesTreatment OutcomeCannabidiolDronabinolDrug CombinationsnabiximolsPlant Extractsgoal attainment scalemultiple sclerosisnabiximols oromucosal spraypatient-reported outcomesspasticity

Identifiers

PMID38318862
PMCPMC11238742
OpenAlexW4391576137

What OpenQuestion holds

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Registered trials

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Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.