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ReviewDiagnostics (Basel, Switzerland)2025

A Mixed Scoping and Narrative Review of Immersive Technologies Applied to Patients for Pain, Anxiety, and Distress in Radiology and Radiotherapy.

Andrea Lastrucci, Nicola Iosca, Giorgio Busto, Yannick Wandael, Angelo Barra, Mirko Rossi, Ilaria Morelli, Antonia Pirrera, Isacco Desideri, Renzo Ricci and 2 more

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Review 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 4 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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0cells of the map it votes in
4citing papers in PubMed, 2 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

4 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines 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

12 authors.

Andrea LastrucciDepartment of Allied Health Professions, Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria Careggi, 50134 Florence, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-3600-9213
Nicola IoscaDepartment of Allied Health Professions, Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria Careggi, 50134 Florence, Italy.
Giorgio BustoNeuroradiology Unit, Department of Radiology, Careggi University Hospital, 50134 Florence, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-7007-6030
Yannick WandaelDepartment of Allied Health Professions, Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria Careggi, 50134 Florence, Italy.
Angelo BarraDepartment of Allied Health Professions, Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria Careggi, 50134 Florence, Italy.ORCID 0009-0007-6798-4576
Mirko RossiCentro TISP, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, via Regina Elena 299, 00161 Rome, Italy.
Ilaria MorelliMedical Oncology, Santa Maria delle Croci Hospital, Ravenna AUSL, 48121 Rome, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-4787-6902
Antonia PirreraCentro TISP, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, via Regina Elena 299, 00161 Rome, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-0215-4842
Isacco DesideriDepartment of Experimental and Clinical Biomedical Sciences "M. Serio", University of Florence, 50134 Florence, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-9880-8387
Renzo RicciDepartment of Allied Health Professions, Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria Careggi, 50134 Florence, Italy.
Lorenzo LiviDepartment of Experimental and Clinical Biomedical Sciences "M. Serio", University of Florence, 50134 Florence, Italy.
Daniele GiansantiCentro TISP, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, via Regina Elena 299, 00161 Rome, Italy.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

anxietyaugmented realitydistressextended realitymixed realitypainradiologyradiotherapyvirtual reality

Identifiers

PMID40941661
PMCPMC12428699

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