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ArticleGeriatrics & gerontology international2025

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Yu Sun, Nobuo Sakata, Masao Iwagami, Satoru Yoshie, Ryota Inokuchi, Tomoko Ito, Naoaki Kuroda, Jun Hamano, Nanako Tamiya

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Article in Geriatrics & gerontology international, 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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0cells of the map it votes in
1citing papers in PubMed
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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

9 authors.

Yu SunDepartment of Health Services Research, Institute of Medicine, University of Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3784-4333
Nobuo SakataHeisei Medical Welfare Group Research Institute, Tokyo, Japan.
Masao IwagamiDepartment of Health Services Research, Institute of Medicine, University of Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan.
Satoru YoshieHealth Services Research and Development Center, University of Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan.
Ryota InokuchiDepartment of Health Services Research, Institute of Medicine, University of Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6343-2298
Tomoko ItoHealth Services Research and Development Center, University of Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan.
Naoaki KurodaDepartment of Public Mental Health Research, National Institute of Mental Health, National Center of Neurology and Psychiatry, Tokyo, Japan.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0407-0228
Jun HamanoInstitute of Medicine, University of Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0304-9881
Nanako TamiyaDepartment of Health Services Research, Institute of Medicine, University of Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan.

Funding

Institute for Health Economics and Policy
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Identifiers

PMID40000024
PMCPMC11973023

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