In response to "Letter to the editor regarding "Assessing ChatGPT responses to patient questions on epidural steroid injections: A comparative study of general vs specific queries"".

Timothy Olivier, Ankit Patel, Weibin Shi, Zilin Ma, Thiru M Annaswamy

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Article in Interventional pain medicine, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited 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

0 citing papers in PubMed.

No citing paper in PubMed yet.

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

5 authors.

Timothy OlivierCenter for Integrative Pain Management, West Virginia University, USA.

Ankit PatelUT Southwestern Medical Center, Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, USA.

Weibin ShiDepartment of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Penn State Health Milton S Hershey Medical Center, Penn State College of Medicine, Hershey, PA, USA.

Zilin MaIntelligent Interactive Systems Group, Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, USA.

Thiru M AnnaswamyDepartment of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Penn State Health Milton S Hershey Medical Center, Penn State College of Medicine, Hershey, PA, USA.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Identifiers

PMID40746361

DOI10.1016/j.inpm.2025.100621

PMCPMC12312022

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