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ArticleNPJ digital medicine2025

If a therapy bot walks like a duck and talks like a duck then it is a medically regulated duck.

Max Ostermann, Oscar Freyer, F Gerrik Verhees, Jakob Nikolas Kather, Stephen Gilbert

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Article in NPJ digital medicine, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3citing papers 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

3 citing papers in PubMed.

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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

5 authors.

Max OstermannElse Kröner Fresenius Center for Digital Health, TUD Dresden University of Technology, Dresden, Germany.
Oscar FreyerElse Kröner Fresenius Center for Digital Health, TUD Dresden University of Technology, Dresden, Germany.
F Gerrik VerheesDepartment of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Hospital Dresden, Dresden, Germany.
Jakob Nikolas Kather *Else Kröner Fresenius Center for Digital Health, TUD Dresden University of Technology, Dresden, Germany.
Stephen Gilbert *Else Kröner Fresenius Center for Digital Health, TUD Dresden University of Technology, Dresden, Germany. stephen.gilbert@ukdd.de.

Funding

Integration of epidemiology, pathology, immunology and outcomes in colorectal cancerR01CA263318 · NCI · BECKMAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE/CITY OF HOPE · PI STEPHEN B GRUBER · 2022 to 2026
$3.4M
BMFTR 16KISA100kDeutsche Krebshilfe 70115166European Commission under the Horizon Europe Program 101094218European Research Council 101114631European Union's Horizon Europe research and innovation programme 101096312Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space 03ZU1210BAGerman Academic Exchange Service 57616814German Federal Joint Committee 01VSF21048German Federal Ministry of Education and Research 01KD2104CGerman Federal Ministry of Education and Research ( 01ZU2402AGerman Federal Ministry of Education and Research through ERA-NET 01KT2302Horizon Europe Program 101094218National Institute for Health and Care Research NIHR203331NCI NIH HHS R01 CA263318NIH HHS R01 CA263318uropean Union's Horizon Europe research and innovation programme ODELIA
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Identifiers

PMID41350404
PMCPMC12680717

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