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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.

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.

Who cites it

30 citing papers in PubMed, 7 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

1. Small Study Effects in Diagnostic Imaging Accuracy: A Meta-Analysis.JAMA network open · 2022
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2. The effects of acupuncture on pregnancy outcomes of in vitro fertilization: a systematic review and meta-analysis.BMC complementary and alternative medicine · 2019
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3. Efficacy of Chondroitin Sulfate in Patients with Knee Osteoarthritis: A Comprehensive Meta-Analysis Exploring Inconsistencies in Randomized, Placebo-Controlled Trials.Advances in therapy · 2019
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4. Prevention of contrast-induced acute kidney injury: is simple oral hydration similar to intravenous? A systematic review of the evidence.PloS one · 2013
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5. Multiple risk factor interventions for primary prevention of coronary heart disease.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2011
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6. Three-armed trials including placebo and no-treatment groups may be subject to publication bias: systematic review.PloS one · 2011
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7. Multiple risk factor interventions for primary prevention of coronary heart disease.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2006
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8. Transporting: What Is It and How Do You Do It?Current epidemiology reports · 2025
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9. Using group data to treat individuals: understanding heterogeneous treatment effects in the age of precision medicine and patient-centred evidence.International journal of epidemiology · 2016
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10. CONSORT 2010 explanation and elaboration: updated guidelines for reporting parallel group randomised trials.BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · 2010
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11. Explaining the social gradient in coronary heart disease: comparing relative and absolute risk approaches.Journal of epidemiology and community health · 2006
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12. Aspirin use for the prevention of cardiovascular disease: the British Women's Heart and Health Study.The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners · 2001
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13. The relation between questions indicating transient ischaemic attack and stroke in 20 years of follow up in men and women in the Renfrew/Paisley Study.Journal of epidemiology and community health · 2001
    Article
14. Systematic reviews in health care: Investigating and dealing with publication and other biases in meta-analysis.BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · 2001
    Review
15. Patients' responses to risk information about the benefits of treating hypertension.The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners · 2001
    Article
16. Disease impact number and population impact number: population perspectives to measures of risk and benefit.BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · 2000
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17. Tackling health inequalities in primary care. Exploring possible solutions to a problem is more important than describing the problem.BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · 1999
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18. Knowledge of cardiothoracic ratio adds to cardiovascular risk stratification.BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · 1998
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19. Getting research findings into practice. When to act on the evidence.BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · 1998
    Review
20. Applying the results of clinical trials to patients to general practice: perceived problems, strengths, assumptions, and challenges for the future.The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners · 1998
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Corrections and comments

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  Collaborative overview of randomised trials of antiplatelet therapy--I: Prevention of death, myocardial infarction, and stroke by prolonged antiplatelet therapy in various categories of patients. Antiplatelet Trialists' Collaboration.1994

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