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ArticleJournal of clinical medicine2025

Comparing Non-Invasive and Fluorescein Tear Break-Up Time in a Pre-Operative Refractive Surgery Population: Implications for Clinical Diagnosis.

Rebecca Cairns, Richard N McNeely, Mark C M Dunne, Raquel Gil-Cazorla, Shehzad A Naroo, Jonathan E Moore

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Article in Journal of clinical medicine, 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.

  1. Agreement Between Tear Film Tests Performed by Novice Examiners.Ophthalmic & physiological optics : the journal of the British College of Ophthalmic Opticians (Optometrists) · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Rebecca CairnsCathedral Eye Clinic, Belfast BT1 2LS, UK.
Richard N McNeelyCathedral Eye Clinic, Belfast BT1 2LS, UK.
Mark C M DunneOptometry & Vision Science Research Group (OVSRG), College of Health and Life Sciences, Aston University, Birmingham B4 7ET, UK.ORCID 0000-0001-9126-0702
Raquel Gil-CazorlaOptometry & Vision Science Research Group (OVSRG), College of Health and Life Sciences, Aston University, Birmingham B4 7ET, UK.ORCID 0000-0003-0855-8554
Shehzad A NarooOptometry & Vision Science Research Group (OVSRG), College of Health and Life Sciences, Aston University, Birmingham B4 7ET, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-6373-7187
Jonathan E MooreCathedral Eye Clinic, Belfast BT1 2LS, UK.

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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dry eye disease (DED)fluorescein break-up time (FBUT)non-invasive break-up time (NIBUT)

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PMID40869620
PMCPMC12387831

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