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ArticleFrontiers in veterinary science2026

Veterinarians' brief guide to confidence intervals, standardized effect size, and number needed to treat: understanding the impact of treatments and disease.

Brenna R Pugliese, Kimberly L Hallowell, Aditi Vigneshwar, Earl G Ford Iv, Shannon S Connard, Kim Love, B Duncan X Lascelles

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Article in Frontiers in veterinary science, 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

0 citing papers in PubMed.

No citing paper in PubMed yet.

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

7 authors.

Brenna R PuglieseComparative Biomedical Sciences Graduate Program, College of Veterinary Medicine, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, United States.
Kimberly L HallowellComparative Biomedical Sciences Graduate Program, College of Veterinary Medicine, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, United States.
Aditi VigneshwarComparative Biomedical Sciences Graduate Program, College of Veterinary Medicine, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, United States.
Earl G Ford IvComparative Biomedical Sciences Graduate Program, College of Veterinary Medicine, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, United States.
Shannon S ConnardComparative Biomedical Sciences Graduate Program, College of Veterinary Medicine, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, United States.
Kim Love *K. R. Love Quantitative Consulting and Collaboration, Athens, GA, United States.
B Duncan X Lascelles *Comparative Biomedical Sciences Graduate Program, College of Veterinary Medicine, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, United States.

Funding

Comparative Medicine and Translational Research Training ProgramT32OD011130 · OD · NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY RALEIGH · PI Lauren Virginia Schnabel · 2012 to 2026
$7.8M
NIH HHS T32 OD011130
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Veterinarians in all settings strive to practice evidence-based medicine, but current methods of reporting scientific study results create barriers to clinical translation of findings. The

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PMID41938766
PMCPMC13046478

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