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ArticleThe European respiratory journal2025

Viewpoint: a white paper for a greener design, conduct and reporting of clinical trials in respiratory medicine.

Simon Couillard, Dominic L Sykes, Mustafa Abdo, Freda Yang, Sanjay Ramakrishnan, James D Chalmers, Christina S Thornton

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Article in The European respiratory journal, 2025. 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

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

1 citing paper in PubMed.

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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

7 authors.

Simon CouillardFaculté de médecine et des sciences de la santé, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, QC, Canada s.couillard@usherbrooke.ca.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4057-6886
Dominic L SykesRespiratory Research Group, Hull York Medical School, Hull, UK.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0925-7772
Mustafa AbdoDepartment of Pneumology and Critical Care Medicine, Thoraxklinik at Heidelberg University Hospital, Translational Lung Research Center Heidelberg, German Center for Lung Research (DZL), Heidelberg, Germany.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3300-1398
Freda YangNational Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London, London, UK.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2858-1559
Sanjay RamakrishnanInstitute for Respiratory Health, University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3003-7918
James D ChalmersDivision of Respiratory Medicine and Gastroenterology, University of Dundee, Dundee, UK.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5514-7868
Christina S ThorntonDivision of Respiratory Medicine, Departments of Medicine and Microbiology, Immunology and Infectious Diseases, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6820-6211

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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Identifiers

PMID39947669
PMCPMC11965956

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