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Who is in your trial? Improving the reporting of participant characteristics in trial protocols and results.

Shaun Treweek, Shoba Dawson, Kamlesh Khunti, Murat Akand, Matthias Briel, Bruno da Costa, Cheney Drew, Sara Elias, Hossein Fatemian, Kiranpreet Gill and 16 more

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Article in Trials, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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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

6 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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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

26 authors.

Shaun TreweekAberdeen Centre for Evaluation, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, AB25 2ZD, Aberdeen, UK. streweek@mac.com.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7239-7241
Shoba DawsonUniversity of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK.
Kamlesh KhuntiUniversity of Leicester, Leicester, UK.
Murat AkandUniversitair Ziekenhuizen Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.
Matthias BrielUniversity of Basel, Basel, Switzerland.
Bruno da CostaUniversity of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
Cheney DrewCardiff University, Cardiff, UK.
Sara EliasUniversity College London, London,, UK.
Hossein FatemianShiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran.
Kiranpreet GillUniversity of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK.
Alexander GoughUniversity of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK.
Sophie GreenwoodAberdeen Centre for Evaluation, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, AB25 2ZD, Aberdeen, UK.
Jack HallUniversity of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK.
Sayeed Haque, Birmingham, UK.
Karla HemmingUniversity of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK.
Mona KanaanUniversity of York, York, UK.
William MeurerUniversity of Michigan, Michigan, USA.
Lisasha PoudelInstitute for Implementation Science and Health, Kathmandu, Nepal.
Riaz QureshiJohns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA.
Kate RobertsUniversity College London, London,, UK.
Aldana RossoRigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Francesca SchiavoneUniversity College London, London,, UK.
Matthew R SydesData for R&D, Transformation Directorate, National Health Service England, Leeds, UK.
Muslim SyedUniversity of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK.
Victoria VickerstaffQueen Mary University College London, London, UK.
Tianjing LiUniversity of Colorado Denver, Denver, USA.

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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PMID40926250
PMCPMC12421759

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