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Trial reportPain research & management2025

The Effect of EX-B8 Acupressure on Labor Pain: A Randomized, Single-Blind, Sham-Controlled Trial.

Hannaneh Azadeh, Reza Heshmat, Malihe Nasiri, Fatemeh Azarkish, Sedigheh Sedigh Mobarakabadi

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Trial report in Pain research & management, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 4 papers.

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4citing 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

4 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Hannaneh AzadehDepartment of Midwifery and Reproductive Health, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Student Research Committee, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
Reza HeshmatAcupuncture, International School of Lyon, Lyon, France.
Malihe NasiriDepartment of Biostatistics, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.ORCID 0000-0003-1496-7442
Fatemeh AzarkishDepartment of Midwifery, Tropical and Communicable Diseases Research Center, Iranshahr University of Medical Sciences, Iranshahr, Sistan and Baluchistan, Iran.ORCID 0000-0003-4496-172X
Sedigheh Sedigh MobarakabadiDepartment of Midwifery and Reproductive Health, Midwifery and Reproductive Health Research Center, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.ORCID 0000-0002-7330-1037

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

AcupressureLabor PainAcupuncture PointsAdultFemaleHumansPain MeasurementPregnancySingle-Blind MethodTreatment OutcomeYoung AdultacupressureEX-B8 pointlabor painprimiparous womensham point

Identifiers

PMID40040748
PMCPMC11876523

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