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ReviewSpinal cord2024

Ethics and accountability for clinical trials.

Tanya A Barretto, Wolfram Tetzlaff, Judy Illes

Abstract readReview
In one paragraph

Review in Spinal cord, 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
–field-weighted citation impact
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.

  1. Article
  2. Article
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.

Tanya A BarrettoNeuroethics Canada, Division of Neurology, Department of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada. tanya.barretto@ubc.ca.ORCID 0009-0006-4663-5601
Wolfram TetzlaffInternational Collaboration on Repair Discoveries (ICORD), University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada.ORCID 0000-0003-3462-1676
Judy IllesNeuroethics Canada, Division of Neurology, Department of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada.ORCID 0000-0002-4791-8084

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In May 2023, a disclaimer posted on ClinicalTrials.gov dismisses accountability for the accuracy of registered information. For spinal cord injury, inconsistencies in intervention classification, phase designation, and lack of study protocols and results threaten the integrity of the database and put users at risk. An investment in what the resource should be rather than what it is not will give it the authority commensurate with the requirements for its regulatory use and informed decision-making for prospective trial participants.

Indexed as

Spinal Cord InjuriesHumansProspective StudiesSocial Responsibility

Identifiers

PMID38499760
PMCPMC11003861

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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.