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ArticleDiagnostics (Basel, Switzerland)2025

Preprocedural Imaging Review Before Performing Epidural Steroid Injections: Analysis of Physician Practice Parameters.

Jamal Hasoon, Aila Malik, Christopher L Robinson, Grant H Chen, Jatinder Gill

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Article in Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland), 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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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

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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.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Jamal HasoonDepartment of Anesthesiology, Critical Care, and Pain Medicine, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX 77030, USA.
Aila MalikDepartment of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX 77030, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-1043-7084
Christopher L RobinsonDepartment of Anesthesiology, Perioperative, and Pain Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA 02115, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-6276-9056
Grant H ChenDepartment of Anesthesiology, Critical Care, and Pain Medicine, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX 77030, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-2819-4751
Jatinder GillDepartment of Anesthesiology, Critical Care, and Pain Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA 02215, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-0812-5356

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

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chronic painepidural steroid injectioninterventional pain managementradiculopathysafety

Identifiers

PMID40150072
PMCPMC11941027

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