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ArticleNursing reports (Pavia, Italy)2026

The Prospective Registration of Clinical Trial Protocols: When Is a Health-Related Intervention Study Not a 'Clinical Trial'?

Daniel Bressington, Wachira Suriyawong, Noppamas Pipatpiboon, Richard Gray

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Article in Nursing reports (Pavia, Italy), 2026. 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

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Daniel BressingtonFaculty of Nursing, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai 50200, Thailand.ORCID 0000-0003-0951-2208
Wachira SuriyawongFaculty of Nursing, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai 50200, Thailand.
Noppamas PipatpiboonFaculty of Nursing, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai 50200, Thailand.
Richard GraySchool of Nursing, La Trobe University, Melbourne, VIC 3086, Australia.ORCID 0000-0001-9694-4206

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

According to the WHO, a clinical trial is defined as "any research study that prospectively assigns human participants or groups of humans to one or more health-related interventions to evaluate the effects on health outcomes" [...].

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PMID41591131
PMCPMC12845228

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